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Join me for Mad Max: Fury Road,  a very Special Nick's Pix Screening  on Wednesday, May 14th, at 7 p.m. in Oak Park! Tickets are only $9 ($7 for seniors!) Get your tix HERE! I am unbelievably excited and honored to be hosting a screening of what I think is truly One of the Greatest Films Of All Time, the extraordinary Mad Max: Fury Road , a masterpiece of modern cinema and perhaps The Best Action Film Ever Made. Getting this film made is almost as much of a miracle as the mov

Decided to bust out my old-school, classic Film Critics pants to review four new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, January 24, 2025. 1) PRESENCE Steven Soderbergh  is an Academy Award-winning director who has been making films for over 35 years, and most of them are actually quite good. Watching his labyrinthian career unfold has been a fun, fascinating, and undeniably entertaining ride. Over the years, he has been known to switch back and forth

Film Critic pants, ON! It's time for some capsule (short) movie reviews, so here are my thoughts on five New Releases for the week of Friday, October 4, 2024. I must warn you; it is a pretty bad week...two of the very worst major releases of the year came out on the same day. 1) JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX Todd Phillips  is a terrible filmmaker who makes terrible films, his gifts to the world include absolute worthless trash like, "Road Trip,"   "Starsky and Hutch,"   "Due Date,"  "W

So, it's no secret that I adore the "Mad Max" film series more than most humans adore things like their children, and food, and breathing. They are quite simply five of the greatest films ever made, and examples of the finest that cinema has to offer, made by George Miller , one of the most extraordinarily gifted directors to ever step behind a camera. One of the people who is quite aware of my love for these movies is fellow film critic and podcast host Jim Laczkowski , th