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My Film Critic pants are on, pressed, and ironed, and I'm ready to review five new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, April 4th, 2025. 1) A MINECRAFT MOVIE Movies based on video games have a long and storied history… of being terrible. I've said it before and I'll say it again: any movie that begins with "based on the popular video game" should come with a warning label — "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." And A Minecraft Movie , based on the

Coming up next for my monthly Nick's Pix series is the 1982 American drama "Shoot the Moon," directed by Alan Parker and starring Diane Keaton and Albert Finney. This one-night-only screening scheduled for Wed, Sept 11th at the Lake Theater in Oak Park is one of the most devastating movies about marriage and divorce ever made; it's also one of my favorite films of all time. The opening title of one of my favorite movies of all time. I was 16 years old when I first saw Alan P