MOVIE REVIEW: Parasite

(Image courtesy of NEON CJ Entertainment via EPK.tv) PARASITE-- 5 STARS This may seem a touch slight for what is easily the most cunning film of 2019, but the title says it all when it comes to Parasite. In that one word, a premise is generated that blindly and automatically...

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GUEST ESSAY: Halliday's Golden Ticket in "Ready Player One"

Halliday's Golden Ticket in Ready Player One By Janelle Dixon Ready Player One depicts a world where people constantly escape their reality. Every person is no longer living in reality. Instead their distraction from reality, the virtual, has become their reality. Urban decay...

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SPECIAL: Fourth annual CIC Award Nominations

The recently rebranded Chicago Indie Critics have announced their nominees for the fourth annual film awards. The voting members completed ballots to compile five nominees for 23 categories. I am one of the founders and directors of the CIC since its start in 2016. The CIC...

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20 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE: The best of the rest of 1999

(Background image: twitter.com) In an annual series, Every Movie Has a Lesson is going to look back twenty years to revisit, relearn, and reexamine a year of cinema history to share favorites, lists, and experiences from the films of that year. As I was saying one column earlier...

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20 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE: The 10 Best Films of 1999

(Background image: twitter.com) In an annual series, Every Movie Has a Lesson is going to look back twenty years to revisit, relearn, and reexamine a year of cinema history to share favorites, lists, and experiences from the films of that year. 1999! Man, what a time it was...

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