Film

By Bob Grimm There have been a lot of good or even excellent movies this year that have garnered my admiration—yet I am in no rush to see them again. Bring Her Back was one of […]

Local actor and editor return for a special showing of their project on Sept. 24 By Ken Magri The horror film McCurdy Point is coming to Chico with a simple storyline. It follows four men […]

By Bob Grimm I was part of the generation who watched the legendary, purposely bad Troma Entertainment films like The Toxic Avenger upon their initial release. I remember renting the original one on a Friday night back […]

By Bob Grimm Bob Odenkirk takes—and throws—a lot of punches again as Hutch Mansell in Nobody 2, a fun follow-up to his surprise turn as an action star in the 2021 original. Until he let the fists […]

By Bob Grimm Some film/TV franchises never die, and a few actually get some new life and energy with the passing of the decades. In the case of the hallowed xenomorph, things are going strong […]

Silent era films shows the power of music in creating the atmosphere By Ken Magri The historic Oroville State Theater was filled last Sunday for a special showing of old silent movies accompanied by live […]

By Bob Grimm The summer of 2025 should be remembered as the time when both the DC and Marvel universes gave themselves much-needed resets. Superman got things back on the right track for DC, while The Fantastic Four: […]

By Bob Grimm I’ve made no secret of my disdain for the handling of the Superman film franchise in the hands of Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan. Henry Cavill could’ve been a decent Supes, but Man […]

By Bob Grimm The summer of 2025 is upon us, and the summer movie season is under way, with the likes of Mission Impossible: Tom Cruise Is a Freaking Maniac Running and Smiling in My Spicy […]

By Juan-Carlos Selznick Good PitchEephus is a baseball movie unlike any other. Its entire action is an account of a single game played by two rec-league teams somewhere in New England. It’s the last game […]

By Bob Grimm Much of the gang from Ben Affleck’s 2016 film about a high-functioning autistic ninja accountant returns for a very different take on the crazy premise that delivered a dark, decent vehicle for […]

By Bob Grimm The third season of The White Lotus concluded on Sunday, April 6, and all eight episodes are available on HBO’s Max for your visual binging pleasure. As with past seasons, it does not disappoint. […]

By Bob Grimm Director Alex Garland follows up last year’s chilling Civil War with another violent, visceral experience in Warfare, his account of a real-life event that happened in 2006 during the Iraq War. Garland and co-director Ray […]