“In the Heights” is based on the 2008 Tony winner for Best Musical that put Lin-Manuel Miranda on the map. It is not to be confused with “Hami…
NOTE: One reason why I didn’t find this movie very scary is that I was on vacation this past weekend and had to settle for watching this movie…
Marta Hansen’s first original album is sure to draw out some emotion.
For over a year, “A Quiet Place Part II” was just out of reach. The film was originally supposed to open on March 20, 2020. The weekend of Mar…
Children know how Santa Claus spends Dec. 24, but what does the man in the red suit do after all the gifts are delivered? It’s a question Kayl…
We sure have been getting a lot of these “broken adult goes on the run with endangered youth” movies lately.
“Spiral” comes to us “from the Book of ‘Saw,’” meaning that it’s a spinoff of the popular mostly-2000’s horror series. The Jigsaw Killer is re…
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Strawberry Fest will have reserved seating at its June 19—a new twist to keep people safe during the pandemic.
The chronology of “Wrath of Man” is all out of whack and it’s hard to know what is and isn’t a spoiler.
Here’s a movie I didn’t expect to be reviewing two weeks ago. I didn’t know how this anime movie from a franchise unknown to me had managed to…
I remember when the first “Mortal Kombat” movie came out in 1995. That’s not to say I remember “seeing” the first “Mortal Kombat” movie, becau…
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The first death in the “Mortal Kombat” reboot occurs less than three minutes in, which is actually pretty coy. This is a movie, after all, bas…
Prairie Music & Arts, a nonprofit 501©(3) community school of the arts is hosting a Spring Virtual Concert on Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 6 pm.
Before I get into trashing 6th place weekend box office finisher “Voyagers,” I want to take some time to say some nice things about 8th place …
Jazz and glamour lay behind the curtain in Sun Prairie’s production of Smokey Joe’s Cafe, performed at Sun Prairie High School, under the awar…
Some time back I wrote about how Oscar season got pushed back a few months, which was why we were getting movies like “Nomadland” and “Judas a…
“Godzilla vs Kong” is a follow-up to “Godzilla” (2014), “Kong: Skull Island” (2017), and “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” (2019). Those films …
NOTE: This review is coming from a person who loves a good violent action movie. If the genre isn’t for you, this movie isn’t for you.
The Courier would have done well to open last month, before the cutoff date to qualify for the Academy Awards.
It was weird two weekends ago when the movie theaters in NYC reopened and this movie was playing on all the IMAX screens. I thought the dazzli…
“Raya and the Last Dragon” was the first movie I saw in a New York City theater in nearly a year. No testing the waters with small-scale relea…
I didn’t really grow up with the “Tom and Jerry” cartoon. I was more into Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, but I understand the two pairs h…
David Benjamin, prolific author and founder of the oft-honored Last Kid Books, has lived all over the world, creating richly detailed stories …
Since September of last year when the film won top prizes at both the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals, it has been clear that …
It’s often the case that movies based on true stories offer a glimpse of the real-life characters at the end. In “The Mauritanian,” the story …
One good thing about the year 2021 in movies is that we might get two Oscar seasons. Usually the deadline to qualify for a year’s Oscar race i…
We all know that 2020 was a weird time for the movie business (as well as every other business), but the weirdness started back in January, be…
