[Get the exclusive video  version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber on Patreon !] 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, October 31st, 2025. 1) SELF-HELP Self-Help  is one of those small, surprising little horror movies that sneaks up on you. It's not a franchise spin-off, not a studio-backed IP cash grab, not somethi

Get your Nick's Pix tix for Body Double HERE ($9 regular price, $7 for seniors!) Okay, buckle up, people. This is going to be a very special  night. On Wednesday, November 12th at 7:00 p.m. , I’m hosting another Brian De Palma masterpiece at the Lake Theater in Oak Park . And we’re going full-blown bonkers with his gloriously insane 1984 sex thriller masterpiece: Body Double . But wait, there’s more. This screening is also doubling as an official launch party for my new bo

Kathryn Bigelow is one of my favorite filmmakers of all time. Period. I think her work is stunning. She’s an artist, a technician, a visual stylist, and a total badass who has worked in the kinetic, muscular, testosterone-heavy world of action and thriller cinema for most of her career, a genre long dominated by male directors, and she didn’t just step into it, she detonated it. This is not the kind of career you’d normally associate with a female filmmaker, which is of cour

[Get the exclusive video  version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber on Patreon !] My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review seven new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, October 24, 2025. 1) BUGONIA There's a line that keeps getting thrown around whenever Yorgos Lanthimos  releases something new: you either get him or you don't.  And that's exactly right. Because L

It’s no secret that horror is my favorite genre. I am obsessed with horror films. They are by far my favorite kind of movies ever since I was a very, very small child. October is my favorite month of the year, and Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year, and I love the fact that everyone really loves to watch horror movies during the month of October, especially as we get closer to Halloween. So, as a celebration of Halloween (my favorite time of year, my favorite holida

Oh man…Keanu. I am not embarrassed to say that I absolutely love Keanu Reeves . There was a long, snarky period where it was hip to hate...