Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann counts as an acquired taste when it comes to cinema. To his fans, few directors can match his lavish showmanship that bleeds through…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Cinephile Hissy Fit and Guest Cati Glidewell Are Bedazzled by Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis”

The list of standup comedians who successfully made the jump to movies is long and distinguished. From George Burns to Jamie Foxx and many in between, you…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Jo Koy Leaps From the Stage to the Screen with Easter Sunday”

ReedPop’s Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, better known as C2E2, returns to Chicago this coming weekend. The event runs August 5-7 at McCormick Place. Tickets are still…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: ReedPop’s Jam-Packed C2E2 Returns to Chicago August 5-7”

One of the highlights from the first year of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast, sponsored and supported by the Ruminations Radio Network, was when our hosts Will and…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Our Cinephile Hissy Fit Hosts Reunite In-Person for Jordan Peele’s Nope”

With a guarantee that this line of thinking is probably digging too deep for an animated family movie, DC League of Super-Pets calls to mind the logic…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: DC League of Super-Pets is the Treat We Deserve From WB.”

Somewhere, the hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast, sponsored and supported by the Ruminations Radio Network, read that “elevated horror” is just a horror movie critics aren’t…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: The Cinephile Hissy Fit Talks on The Black Phone with Guest Cati Glidewell”

As admittedly peculiar as it is to say, the most dependable places of comprehension and safety, as it were, for a viewer to latch onto in Jordan…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Nope Pushes Buttons and Raises Pulses”

Maybe it’s a moment played up more in movies and television, but who had a frustrated high school teacher in their day who laid down the challenge…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: My Old School Bends the Charming Sympathy Within a Scandal”

Establishing a very pleasing attitude in the opening credits hopping through Manhattan, writer-director Katie Holmes uses a willowy cover of the Great American Songbook staple “Blue Moon.”…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Alone Together Celebrates Lockdown Companionship With Grace”

Our two hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast, sponsored and supported by the Ruminations Radio Network, fashion themselves as pretty level-headed film critics. Compared to some bigwigs,…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: The Cinephile Hissy Fit Question Critics Who Forgot How to Have Fun With The Gray Man”