[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

It’s kind of blowing my mind a little bit that the Chicago Critics Film Festival is now in its 13th year. Thirteen. That’s not nothing. That’s not some fly-by-night thing anymore, that’s a tradition. And I remember the beginning of this thing like it was yesterday. Back in 2013, a bunch of my friends and colleagues from the Chicago Film Critics Association (Erik Childress, Steve Prokopy, Peter Sobczynski, Collin Souter, Brian Tallerico, and a whole crew of incredibly passiona

You know, it’s funny, every time a new movie gets announced now, your first reaction is, “Oh, great…what are they rebooting this time?” Because that’s where we are. Everything is a reboot, a sequel, a reimagining, a “new take,” and originality in Hollywood is, let’s just say…not exactly thriving. I’ve complained about it a million times (on the podcast, on the socials, on this very site) but every once in a while, every once in a while, one of these reboots or revivals or wha

[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 17th, 2026. 1) LEE CRONIN'S THE MUMMY I’m still kind of baffled that Warner Bros. and New Line decided this was a good idea as a title: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy . Because let’s be honest, most people are