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Richard Roeper

‘Hail, Caesar!’ is a movie to celebrate

Here is a movie to celebrate. Here is a movie to celebrate our love of the movies – even the kitschy fare, like the corny Westerns and the unintentionally campy biblical epics and the dancin...

DATE: Feb 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘The Finest Hours’ brings the sap

Props to the cast of “The Finest Hours,” most of whom spend about three-quarters of their onscreen time soaking wet. Yeah yeah yeah – they’re pampered actors and they’re really no...

DATE: Jan 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Ride Along 2

Straddling the line between flat-out farce and buddy-cop action movie, “Ride Along 2” is a slick, good-looking, fast-paced and profoundly unoriginal piece of work. This is 100 min...

DATE: Jan 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movie: Truth

It wouldn’t be accurate to say “Truth” is stranger than fiction because “Truth” is fiction – a dramatization of the infamous and spectacularly flawed “60 Minutes II” report in 2004 about Geo...

DATE: Jan 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

All hail ‘The Hateful Eight’

Leave it to Quentin Tarantino to give us a three-hour, 70mm, roadshow Western, complete with overture and intermission – with much of the movie set indoors in one spacious room, as if we’re ...

DATE: Jan 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

The 10 best movies of 2015

10. At No. 10, the rousing, gritty, thoroughly entertaining “Straight Outta Compton.” Director F. Gary Gray and the stellar cast remind us of NWA’s legacy as groundbreaking rappe...

DATE: Dec 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

The 10 worst films of 2015

We go from bad to worse with this list, starting with the 10th lousiest film and ending with the most odious of them all. 10. At No. 10, “Hot Tub Time Machine 2,” whic...

DATE: Dec 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Trumbo

“Trumbo” is a corny, well-made B-movie about an A-list screenwriter who had to take jobs writing B-movies after he was blacklisted, but eventually worked his way back to writing A-movies wit...

DATE: Dec 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Daddy’s Home

Even though “Daddy’s Home” is set in the New Orleans area and “Sisters” is set in Orlando, it feels as if they’re next-door neighbors on Mediocre Boulevard. Like the Amy Poehler-T...

DATE: Dec 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Concussion

The Chicago Sun-Times In the mid-2000s, the “Monday Night Countdown” pregame show on ESPN featured a segment called “Jacked Up,” celebrating the most vicious hits of the week. ...

DATE: Dec 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Sisters

Starting with Chicago’s ImprovOlympic in the early 1990s and continuing through “Saturday Night Live” and films and even hosting the Golden Globes with terrific style, Tina Fey and Amy Poehl...

DATE: Dec 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘The Force Awakens’: A return to greatness

It’s a return to greatness. Nearly 40 years after “Star Wars” exploded the pop culture universe and practically became a religion for generations of fans, and a full decade after ...

DATE: Dec 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

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