Looking For More?Filter - AllreviewInter-Review The Life of Chuck This sci-fi-esque movie begins at the end…with people in a town wondering why the same message is posted on billboards and media everywhere they look.... READ MORE How To Train Your Dragon We were apprehensive about seeing another live action version of an animated classic, but with Oscar nominated Writer/Director Dean DeBlois at the helm, this film... READ MORE Materialists This film, billed as a RomCom, is more of a Romantic Dramedy with a serious story about a woman wrestling with an old love versus... READ MORE Ballerina This Wick replay has Ana de Armas as Eve getting incessantly pounded, while managing to find inventive ways to inflict gruesome pain and death on... READ MORE The Phoenician Scheme It’s another head scratcher from the Salvador Dali of film, Writer/Director Wes Anderson who created this story with Roman Coppola. Basically, it’s about an ultra-rich... READ MORE White With Fear Emmy Award winning documentary Writer/Director Andrew Goldberg shows that the dog whistle of White Fear in place since before Richard Nixon has raised its ugly... READ MORE Lilo and Stitch This latest live-action version of Lilo and Stitch has a promising pedigree. And there was enough confidence to open in theaters the same weekend as... READ MORE Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning Worth the wait? Should Tom Cruise be committed for doing these death defying stunts, or is he just so committed he can’t or won’t stop.... READ MORE Murderbot The Murderbot is a security android played gleefully with unemotional sarcasm by Alexander Skarsgård. Set in a semi-dystopian future, This human-faced machine has found the... READ MORE Friendship Tim Robinson is known for over-the-top rants that are on the edge and here he delivers royally just what his fans expect and want. But... READ MORE Brother Verses Brother Inspired by Francis Coppola’s concept of Live Cinema, Brother Verses Brother is an incredible undertaking. Twin brothers, Ari and Ethan Gold, show remarkable creativity, planning,... READ MORE Thunderbolts* Does Marvel get its mojo back with this unconventional team of antiheroes from the past? We think they may be on their way. The MCU... READ MORE Étoile Creators Amy Sherman Palladino and Daniel Palladino use their Emmy Award winning talent to write and direct a fictional comedy series with attitude. They have... READ MORE Chicago Critics Film Festival - May 2nd - 8th, 2025 Yes! We will be back again covering the Chicago Critics Film Festival at The Music Box Theatre Friday May 2nd through May 8th. We can... READ MORE The Accountant 2 It took nearly a decade for these two crazy guys to fight with each other and everybody else again. But this film exceeded our expectations.... READ MORE Sinners Ryan Coogler’s epic film lives up to the buzz. It grabs and holds you with two Michael B. Jordans, amazing Blues, blatant racism, love stories,... READ MORE The Uninvited Writer/Director Nadia Conners writes with a sharp, biting wit that is funny, piercing, poignant and ultimately soulful. What starts as a couple’s full out argument... READ MORE Freaky Tales This is one wacky movie that puts out a lot of messages based on what was going on in Oakland, California in 1987. The film... READ MORE Eric Larue Michael Shannon tackles a most serious subject for his directorial debut with a very restrained, and often uncomfortable approach to a school shooting. He takes... READ MORE The Penguin Lessons Penguins almost always bring a smile and this is no exception. Director Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty) dives in with both comedy and drama in... READ MORE Bob Trevino Likes It We didn’t just like Bob Trevino, we loved it. Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo play Lily and Bob, damaged characters who form a family of... READ MORE The Studio Hilarious! Chaotic! Creative. This outrageous satire pokes fun with an inside view of what’s makes Hollywood tick! Producing partners Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, along... READ MORE The Alto Knights It’s fun to watch Robert De Niro times 2. Respect for his taking on the challenge of playing, not one, but two historic 1950’s NYC... READ MORE Snow White This first live-action Snow White is not as magical as we were hoping to see.There have been other live-action remakes of beloved Disney animated films,... READ MORE Black Bag Smart, sophisticated, intricate and riveting, plus a tight script, all in an hour and a half. Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett are evenly matched as... READ MORE Mickey 17 Parasite Director Bong Joon Ho blasts off with another dark comic sci-if satire that asks some big questions about life, and especially, death. Robert Pattinson,... READ MORE My Dead Friend Zoe This dark comedy is a running conversation between two female Army buddies, one of which, is dead. Merit, (Sonequa Martin-Green- TV’s Star Trek Discovery, The... READ MORE Riff Raff Settling scores of all kinds is what keeps the blood flowing and the comedy going in this drawing-room-style crime comedy with a solid A-list cast.... READ MORE SXSW 2025 March 7th - March 15th Yes! MoviesandShakers’ Linda and Al Lerner are going back to Austin again to cover SXSW 2025 in person and we’ll be adding capsule reviews as... READ MORE No Other Land This Academy Award nominated film was created by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists. The used cell phones to take raw video to help... READ MORE
