Last minute gift ideas? How about a vote for The Chicago Critics Film Festival for Best Film Festival in Chicago? Please and thank you. chicagoreader.com/best-of-chic...

Cutting through all the noise to look at where the 2025 Oscar race stands before SAG, BAFTA and the Guilds start having their say. erikthemovieman.substack.com/p/where-the-...

Upcoming films in the Critic's Classics Series at Classic Cinemas - Elk Grove: Jan. 7 - ANNIE HALL Jan. 21 - BLUE VELVET Feb. 4 - ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

You can vote for The Chicago Critics Film Festival for Best Film Festival in the Chicago Reader poll up until Dec. 31. We would really appreciate your support. chicagoreader.com/best-of-chic...

My box office report for @RottenTomatoes this weekend looks at Avatar's numbers and the potential for this weekend's other newbies to reach $100 million. editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/week...

The most profound moviegoing experiences I‘ve had @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social have been thanks to the great work @erikthemovieman.bsky.social and @briantallerico.bsky.social do with the Chicago Film Critics and the Chicago Critics Film Festival. Vote them up!

The Chicago Critics Film Festival returns to the Music Box Theatre May 1-7, 2026. You can vote for both of us as part of the Best of Chicago. We would appreciate your vote for Best Film Festival. chicagoreader.com/best-of-chic...

One of the most embarrassing questions I've ever seen.

The Critic's Classics Series at Classic Cinemas - Elk Grove honors the late, great Diane Keaton with a screening of ANNIE HALL, her Oscar-winning role on Weds, Jan. 7. Tickets are available now. www.classiccinemas.com/f/annie-hall...

Nine movie reviews for the holidays on the #MovieMadnessPodcast as Steve Prokopy and I look at #AvatarFireAndAsh, #TheHousemaid, #MartySupreme, #NoOtherChoice, #SongSungBlue, #IsThisThingOn, #ThePlague, #TheSecretAgent & #CoverUp erikthemovieman.substack.com/p/episode-62...

If you are thinking of last minute Christmas gifts how about a vote for The Chicago Critics Film Festival for Best Film Festival in Chicago? chicagoreader.com/best-of-chic...

Critic's Classics Series Classic Cinemas - Elk Grove Feb. 4 TICKETS: www.classiccinemas.com/f/eternal-su...

I agree. Either he didn't disclose it to his editors either and this is a colossal violation of conflict-of-interest rules, or he did, in which case someone has a monumental amount of explaining to do.

We closed out the Critic's Classics Series at Classic Cinemas - Elk Grove for the year last night. But we'll be back on Jan. 7 & 21 and here is what we will be screening next month.

On this date 2 extraordinary movies opened. In 1987 it was James L. Brooks' BROADCAST NEWS. In 2013 it was Spike Jonze's HER. Morgan Gire & I covered these films on The Friendship Dilemma. BROADCAST NEWS: erikthemovieman.substack.com/p/episode-25... HER: erikthemovieman.substack.com/p/episode-19...

The Chicago Critics Film Festival would certainly appreciate your support and vote as the Best Film Festival in the city. We return to the Music Box Theatre May 1-7, 2026. chicagoreader.com/best-of-chic...

This is the funniest film I saw this year. It will probably be the funniest film I see next year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKlf...

Today's the day. At 1 & 7 PM the Critic's Classics Series is showing LETHAL WEAPON at Classic Cinemas - Elk Grove. I will be hosting the evening show and discussing the film with the audience. Get your tickets for our final screening of 2025. www.classiccinemas.com/f/lethal-wea...

Can The Chicago Critics Film Festival get your vote for the Best Film Festival in Chicago? chicagoreader.com/best-of-chic...

Tomorrow night at Classic Cinemas - Elk Grove and I'll be hosting. www.classiccinemas.com/f/lethal-wea...

Chicago's Theatrical (and Streaming) Release Schedule has been updated www.chicagofilmcritics.org/releases

Vote for The Chicago Critics Film Festival for Best Film Festival in Chicago. chicagoreader.com/best-of-chic...

The #MovieMadnessPodcast wraps up the year in physical media as @petersob13 and I look at the Babe films, the Pink Panther films, the original TMNT films, Boogie Nights, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Leaving Las Vegas, The Movie Orgy and more! erikthemovieman.substack.com/p/episode-61...

In two days the Critic's Classics Series will screen Richard Donner's original LETHAL WEAPON at Classic Cinemas - Elk Grove. I will be hosting and discussing with the audience afterwards. Get your tickets and join us for some Christmas action! www.classiccinemas.com/f/lethal-wea...

Devastated by all the awful news this weekend. Capped off by the potential homicide of Rob Reiner and his wife. His run as director between 1984-1995 is one of the great streaks of all-time. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Please God may this not turn out to be the worst scenarios my mind has thought of.

The Chicago Critics Film Festival will return May 1-7, 2026 at the Music Box Theatre. In the meantime if you wouldn't mind giving us your vote for Best Film Festival in Chicago, we would certainly appreciate it. chicagoreader.com/best-of-chic...

This Wednesday, Dec. 17, I'll be hosting one of the great (Christmas) action films of the 1980s at Classic Cinemas - Elk Grove. It is our final screening in the Critic's Classics Series for 2025. We shall return in January. www.classiccinemas.com/f/lethal-wea...

Don't forget this Wednesday!

If you make one vote for Best Film Festival in Chicago, make it The Chicago Critics Film Festival. We would certainly appreciate it. chicagoreader.com/best-of-chic...

Six film reviews on the #MovieMadnessPodcast this week as Steve Prokopy and I look at #EllaMcCay, #DustBunny, #SilentNightDeadlyNight, #Influencers, #Scarlet & #TheKingofColor. erikthemovieman.substack.com/p/episode-61...

Thanks to everyone who came to see THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR last night. Come next week (Weds, Dec. 17) to our final Critic's Classics Series of 2025 at Elk Grove Cinema and celebrate Christmas with Riggs & Murtaugh. Patrick Bromley hosts. www.classiccinemas.com/f/lethal-wea...

The Chicago Critics Film Festival would really appreciate your vote as the Best Film Festival in Chicago. We return to the Music Box Theatre May 1-7, 2026. Just scroll down and give us a little love. chicagoreader.com/best-of-chic...

Let's celebrate Christmas with Robert Redford tonight on the big screen at Elk Grove Cinema as the Critic's Classics series presents THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR. The 7 PM show is hosted by @petersob13.bsky.social. www.classiccinemas.com/f/three-days...

Call it the beast in me but one thing I cannot stand is a TV show or miniseries taking you up to a peak in drama and then doing a full-on flashback episode, especially as the penultimate one.

Don't forget tomorrow night the Critic's Classics Series honors Robert Redford with a screening of THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR at Classic Cinemas - Elk Grove. Peter Sobczynski hosts the event. www.classiccinemas.com/f/three-days...

This week in physical media on the #MovieMadnessPodcast, @petersob13 and I talk you through Spielberg '02, Oscar nominees from Mira Nair & Penny Marshall, the making of Apocalypse Now, Kevin Smith's Dogma, Dan Curtis, Powell, Pressburger and Emmanuelle. erikthemovieman.substack.com/p/episode-61...

The Chicago Film Critics Association have announced their nominations for this year's awards. chicagofilmcritics.org

The Chicago Film Critics Association announce our nominees tomorrow. Stay tuned!

Chicago's Theatrical (and Streaming) Release Schedule has been updated www.chicagofilmcritics.org/releases

This week on the #MovieMadnessPodcast, 11 reviews with myself & @SteveProkopy including #FiveNightsAtFreddys2, #JayKelly, #KillBill, #MerrilyWeRollAlong, #OhWhatFun, #100NightsofHero, #ManFindsTape, #TheMerchantsofJoy & MORE erikthemovieman.substack.com/p/episode-61...

Netflix bought Warner Bros and apparently there is an 8-episode remake of The ‘Burbs with Keke Palmer on Peacock. I am going back to bed.

Next week at Classic Cinemas - Lake, Nick Digilio will be hosting a screening of BATMAN RETURNS. Merry Christmas, Alfred. Get your tickets now. www.classiccinemas.com/f/batman-ret...

Thank you to everyone who came out to experience KISS KISS BANG BANG on the big screen, many for the first time, at Classic Cinemas - Elk Grove. Next Weds, Dec. 10 the Critic's Classics Series will be showing THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR. Get your tickets now. www.classiccinemas.com/f/three-days...

Awful news. Feel like I've known Tammie as long as I've been in this business. #RIP www.indiewire.com/news/obituar...

TONIGHT at Classic Cinemas - Elk Grove - Shane Black's KISS KISS BANG BANG with Robert Downey Jr. & Val Kilmer on the big screen. Morgan Eliza Gire and I are hosting and will talk about the film with the audience afterwards. www.classiccinemas.com/f/kiss-kiss-...

Tomorrow night at Classic Cinemas - Elk Grove, Morgan Gire and I will be hosting the Critic's Classics Series screening of KISS KISS BANG BANG at 7 PM. Come out, see a movie you have probably never seen and let's talk movies afterwards. www.classiccinemas.com/f/kiss-kiss-...

Chicago's Theatrical (and Streaming) Release Schedule has been updated www.chicagofilmcritics.org/releases

Dont forget this Wednesday at Classic Cinemas - Elk Grove. I'll be hosting this screening with Morgan Gire.

By Wednesday the snow should have stopped and the Critic's Classics Series will be playing part of our Shane Black Christmas with KISS KISS BANG BANG. It will be hosted by myself and Morgan Gire who will tell you why this is one of her favorite movies. www.classiccinemas.com/f/kiss-kiss-...