[Get the exclusive video version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber!] My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review three new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, May 8th, 2026. 1) MORTAL KOMBAT II With every review I do of a movie based on a video game, I feel compelled to repeat the same disclaimer over and over again: I do not play video games. I’m not a gamer. Never

It is once again time for my monthly 'Nick’s Pix' screening at the beautiful Lake Theater in Oak Park, and this one…this one is a big one for me. It’s May, summer is right around the corner, and I wanted to kick things off early with something fun, something loud, something nostalgic, something that absolutely kills with an audience. So I went back 45 years (to the summer of 1981) and picked one of my all-time favorite comedies. We are celebrating the 45th anniversary of Stri

Anne Hathaway is one of those actresses I will defend forever. I am an unapologetic, enthusiastic, full-on Anne Hathaway fan, and I have been from the beginning. She has been working now for over 25 years, which is insane because I still think of her as the fresh-faced kid from The Princess Diaries, even though she is now an Oscar-winning, hugely successful, incredibly versatile actress who has basically done every kind of movie you can do. Anne Jacqueline Hathaway, born Nove

[Get the exclusive video version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber!] My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review five new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, May 1st, 2026. 1) THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 It’s kind of wild to think that The Devil Wears Prada is now a 20-year-old movie. I mean, seriously…where the hell did that time go? I remember seeing it in the theater,

Hey, I have an idea! Let's watch people with way more money, way more fame, and way bigger egos than any of us could ever imagine just absolutely go at each other. I gotta tell you, sometimes I love it. I really do. There’s something endlessly entertaining about rivalries in show business. Always has been. And part of that is because entertainment, at its core, is built on ego. Let’s be honest. You don’t become a movie star or a rock god or a legendary TV personality without

[Get the exclusive video version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber!] My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review five new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, April 24th, 2026. 1) MICHAEL There are bad music biopics… and then there are movies like Michael. And I mean that in the worst possible way. This thing is a train wreck. An absolute, jaw-dropping, almost fascina