Babylon (2022)
“Welcome to the wonderful world of sound.” Years ago, during my stint as a barfly, I remember my older brother once taking our local haunt’s last call special: everything that […]
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First Man (2018)
“We need to fail down here so we don’t fail up there.” You don’t fall in love with a picture like First Man. It’s a cold, hostile, largely introspective endeavor, the […]
La La Land (2016)
[This is a review from the 2016 Chicago International Film Festival. La La Land opens nationwide December 16th.] “I’m a phoenix rising from the ashes.” Perhaps the best way to describe the […]
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
“I’m going to keep you alive.” In most respects, or at least for the majority of its runtime, 10 Cloverfield Lane is a guessing game of cat and mouse. Tinges of murder […]
Whiplash (2014)
“Not my tempo.” How do you define greatness? Semantics presumes that there are three key steps. Denotatively Merriam-Webster would say, “exceptionally high quality.” Then you take its connotation – the idea […]
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