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Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill are pitted batwing vs cape in what is the beginning of a new DC comics franchise. Director Zack Snyder already got his wings making Man of Steel with eternal optimist [...]

The original My Big Fat Greek Wedding was a sleeper in 2002. No one knew what to expect. Chicagoan Nia Vardalos wrote and starred in the film based on growing up Greek with her close extended [...]

Chimes at Midnight, the 1965 film Orson Welles wrote, directed and stars in as Falstaff has been classically restored! Welles used pieces from several Shakespearean plays; Henry IV, Parts 1 and [...]

Shailene Woodley and Theo James are back as Tris and Four and they go over the wall in this installment of this third installment of the Quadilogy. There’s a lot of action, but not a whole lot of [...]

Don’t think you can be entertained watching life and death moral issues? Think again, and see EYE IN THE SKY. Director Gavin Hood (TSOTSI, RENDITION) and writer Guy Hibbert put us in the [...]

Here is a film with a great cast in a franchise that many think is unnecessary to continue. And there may be another one coming! This may be Gerard Butler’s best action film yet. He’s bulked up [...]

Zootopia isn’t just about Judy Hopps. She a cute bunny who wants to serve and protect as the first bunny rookie on the police force in a fantasy world that’s a big city where humans have been [...]

Think “Bridesmaids meets the Hurt Locker.” That’s what former Chicago Tribune reporter, Kim Barker said about the movie based on her book, The Taliban Shuffle, when she was reporting in [...]