(Image: facebook.com) A SISTERHOOD OF SIGNATURES— 3 STARS One does not need millions of dollars to create an expression of personal passion. They need patience to see…… Read more “New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: SHORT FILM REVIEW: A Sisterhood of Signatures”

(Image: musicboxtheatre.com) Chicago’s famed Music Box Theatre, located near Wrigley Field in the Lakeview neighborhood, is nearly as old as its nearby ballpark neighbor. The historic venue…… Read more “New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: EVENT: Special 90th anniversary festivities for the Music Box Theatre”

Notable and notorious IndieWire film critic David Ehrlich recently put out a social media call for film critic peers to join a weekly survey to discuss movie topics,…… Read more “New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: MEDIA APPEARANCE: David Ehrlich’s IndieWire Critics Survey on August 19, 2019”

Rosemont’s Donald E. Stephens Convention Centers hosts the eighth Wizard World Chicago Comic-Con.  The four-day event highlights all the pop culture fun possible from stages, big screens,…… Read more “New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: SPECIAL EVENT: Previewing 2019’s Wizard World Chicago Comic-Con”

(Image by Wilson Webb for Annapurna Pictures) Nearly three-and-a-half years ago when reviewing Everybody Wants Some!!, this writer identified two parallels between which filmmaker Richard Linklater always seems…… Read more “New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: MOVIE REVIEW: Where’d You Go, Bernadette”

(Image: washingtonpost.com) THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON— 5 STARS In helping a fellow man on the lam, Shia LeBeouf’s criminal character Tyler preaches to his runaway tag-along Zak,…… Read more “New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: MOVIE REVIEW: The Peanut Butter Falcon”

(Image by Nick Wall and courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment) Official selection of the 7th Chicago Critics Film Festival BLINDED BY THE LIGHT— 4 STARS A person’s…… Read more “New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: MOVIE REVIEW: Blinded by the Light”