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Werner Herzog Towers Over Miscast ‘Jack Reacher’ Star Tom Cruise in Five Mere...
Rating: 2.5/5.0CHICAGO– While normally I’d never think the date I screened a film was newsworthy, being subjected to “Jack Reacher” on Dec. 13, 2012 turned out to put even a therapist into therapy. The...
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‘A Good Day to Die Hard’ Makes For Bad Movie Night
Rating: 0.5/5.0CHICAGO– The franchise has been in steady decline since the original “Die Hard,” quite simply one of the best action films of all time, but that still doesn’t prepare one for the truly...
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‘Divergent’ Wastes Talented Cast on Joyless Adaptation
Rating: 1.5/5.0CHICAGO– Despite the best efforts of a game Shailene Woodley and likely future star Theo James, Neil Burger’s “Divergent,” based on the hit book by Veronica Roth, is a joyless, soulless,...
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Familiarity of ‘Terminator Genisys’ Also its Flaw
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– The “Terminator” series means so much to so many film fans. What began as a modest sci-fi “what if?” morphed into now four sequels, billions of box office dollars, and the...
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Freaky Villains is Where ‘Suicide Squad’ Works Best
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– DC Entertainment, feeling the heat from Marvel Studios and the tepid response from “Batman v Superman,” comes back stronger with “Suicide Squad,” an overblown yet psychological...
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Taken in by Liam! On-Air Review of ‘Honest Thief’
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on The Eddie Volkman Show on WSSR-FM (Star 96.7 Joliet, Illinois) on October 16th, 2020, reviewing the new Liam Neeson action...
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