Well, it’s April, which means it’s springtime. And around here, that can only mean one thing: Springtime for Hitler . Yes, I am unbelievably excited to be hosting one of my favorite comedies of all time, one of Mel Brooks ’ greatest movies, and one of the most outrageous directorial debuts in film history, The Producers , on Wednesday, April 8th at 7:00 p.m. at the Lake Theater in Oak Park as part of my 'Nick’s Pix' series. And believe me, if there was ever a movie built to

[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, March 27th, 2026. 1) THEY WILL KILL YOU I had a serious case of déjà vu watching They Will Kill You . And not the good kind, it's the kind where you feel like you’ve already sat through this exact same movie a

There are certain movie concepts that just never go away. They pop up again and again, decade after decade, in different styles, different tones, different budgets. Sometimes they’re classy prestige pictures, sometimes they’re grindhouse exploitation flicks playing at two in the morning at a drive-in, and sometimes they’re giant blockbuster franchises that make a billion dollars. One of those concepts (one of the weirdest, most entertaining, and most durable ideas in movie hi

[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 six new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, March 20th, 2026. 1) PROJECT HAIL MARY There are certain movies that work so well that you almost sit there wondering how the hell they pulled it off. Not because the filmmaking isn’t impressive (it absolutely i

Michelle Pfeiffer . Just saying her name makes me smile. I’m not even kidding. Let me start right there, because I don’t want to ease into this one. Michelle Pfeiffer is one of my favorite actresses on the planet, and I’ve been in love with her work since 1980 when I saw her in The Hollywood Knights , that ridiculous, kind of wonderful, kind of trashy, kind of awesome knockoff of American Graffiti with Tony Danza and Robert Wuhl and Fran Drescher and Stuart Pankin . She’s

Well, another Academy Awards ceremony has come and gone. The 98th annual Academy Awards are now officially in the books, and like I do every single year, I watched the whole thing, had a great time, yelled at the TV, complained, laughed, rolled my eyes, filled out my ballot, played a little Oscar bingo, and at the end of the night had a lot of mixed feelings, which is pretty much how I feel every single year about the Oscars. Let me just say this right up front: the Academy