I’ve long given up on trying to recall or understand the mythology behind the John Wick movies. I kind of remember that the 2014 original was the decidedly simple story […]
The Chicago European Union Film Festival screens throughout March at downtown’s Siskel Film Center. Third Coast Review staff bring you capsule reviews of select premieres and special screenings each week. […]
For reasons I’ll never understand, I have a deep affection for bad disaster movies, and in any given month, there are an assortment to choose from. Because I know I […]
From director Matt Smukler comes an unusual coming-of-age drama about a teenage girl named Bea Johnson (real first name: Bambi, played by Kiernan Shipka), who opens the film in a […]
Netflix had a banner year for animated films in 2022, including the Oscar-nominated The Sea Beast and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, which ended up with the Academy Award for Best […]
If you needed me to give you an accurate, detailed summary of the plot for the Shazam! sequel, Fury of the Gods, well I’d probably die of old age and […]
With the rampant popularity of true-crime stories in all possible mediums, it’s no surprise that the tale of the so-called Boston Strangler finally makes it to a movie screen, loaded […]
The Chicago European Union Film Festival screens throughout March at downtown’s Siskel Film Center. Third Coast Review staff bring you capsule reviews of select premieres and special screenings each week. […]
From Bobby Farrelly (Kingpin, There’s Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber), the co-filmmaker of massive comedies that weren’t always sensitive to the developmentally disabled, the new film Champions feels like […]
As much as I adore most of the films of the late master of horror Wes Craven, I fully admit to being less than enthused about the Scream movies beyond […]
The Chicago European Union Film Festival screens throughout March at downtown’s Siskel Film Center. Third Coast Review staff bring you capsule reviews of select premieres and special screenings each week. […]
With so much content to consume on any given platform on any given day, releasing movies these days is more a labor of love than a business endeavor. Some of […]