Being a Chicago Indie Critics (CIC) member, I get the privilege to vote for The Windie Awards. This is the CICs awards that we collectively vote on to celebrate the incredible movies that came out. It ...

Friends, the Chicago International Film Festival has wrapped up and we were engulfed in movies for two amazing weeks. During the festival, we could not see all of the movies we wanted to see but did ...

There is a moment in Sinners, when the audience is transported through the use of the music. It is a scene that will be greatly talked about due to it’s use of camera work and the feelings it evokes.

The movie Nosferatu starts with a haunting image of Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp). The young woman is lost in her thoughts and is calling for a guardian angel to protect her. What she does not realize ...

As parents, we always want our children to be ready for the world they live in. In Sovereign, we see two fathers who are preparing their children for the world, but with different styles. Jerry Kane ...

I remember seeing Wicked: The Musical many years ago. I remember seeing the commercials on the television almost every day and my wife wanting to go see the show. My wife is a big Wizard of Oz fan and ...

Tron: Ares starts with the familiar Disney logo in hues of red as opposed to the blues that transformed the castle at the beginning of Tron: Legacy. The similarities do not end here. The first few ...

Mature themes have always been a part of Marvel Comics. From Daredevil: Yellow, Spider-Man: Blue, Old Man Logan, and 1 Month 2 Live, we have been told stories beyond heroes fighting physical villains.

Sometimes you watch a movie that makes you step away from the screen for a while and say, “What the hell did I just watch!” Succubus is a horror movie from the mind of RJ Daniel Hanna that tackles ...

Fantastic Fest has come across our radar a few times, thanks to other film critics that we know. It is one of the festivals that we would love to attend one day. From witnessing the world premiere of ...

Ever since Super Mario Bros, the first live-action adaptation of a video game, video game movies have been hit or miss. With the recent success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie & the Sonic franchise, ...

Mufasa: The Lion King tells the story of how Mufasa came to be the Lion King and how Scar became an outcast within the pride. While this seems like an amazing premise for a movie somewhere along the ...