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Let's celebrate Valentine's Day early with a night of laughter, tears, and great cinema with a movie that captures the messy, beautiful chaos of love and life at my next Classic Cinemas Nick's Pix screening  on Wednesday, February 12th, at 7 PM at the Lake Theater in Oak Park! My good friend Monica Eng  from Axios Chicago  will join me as a co-host, sharing her unique connection to the film. Trust me, you don't want to miss this. "Away We Go" (2009) with John Krasinski and Ma

Awards Season officially kicked off with the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards , which took place this past Sunday night. The Globes are widely considered a joke because the Hollywood Foreign Press  has such a moronic reputation, and the awards have been given to some questionable winners in the past. Because of past controversy, the HFP nearly disbanded a few years back, and the awards were almost completely canceled. But they made some huge alterations in the organization, an

I am currently sporting my Film Critic pants which means it's time for some capsule (short) movie reviews of four New Releases for the week of Friday, September 6th, 2024 1) BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE Taken a few minutes before the press screening of "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" began. It's kind of hard to believe that it's been 36 years since Tim Burton 's macabre comedy "Beetlejuice" was released, and even harder to believe it took this long for a sequel.   When the first film c