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...

[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 17th, 2025. 1) AFTER THE HUNT After the Hunt  is Luca Guadagnino  doing Woody Allen . Or, more accurately, Luca Guadagnino dismantling Woody Allen. Because what this movie really is, at its

John Candy . Just saying his name makes me smile. One of the greatest comedy performers of all time. One of the sweetest, most lovable...

October in Chicago is a special time. The leaves turn, the wind gets meaner, the Bears still look lost, and, thankfully, the Chicago International Film Festival  rolls into town to remind us that this city is more than just Italian beefs, potholes, and politicians who should probably be in jail. This year marks the 61st edition of North America’s longest-running competitive film festival , and the lineup is pretty amazing. We’re talking 111 feature films, 70 shorts, 39 premie

[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 six new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, October 10th, 2025. 1) TRON: ARES I'm going to start by saying something that might get me kicked out of a certain nostalgic corner of sci-fi fandom: I am not a Tron  fan. When the original came out

Dogs have been a part of movies forever. You name it, every genre has had its iconic pooches. Lassie , Rin Tin Tin , Asta from The Thin...