A conversation with Zac Cooper, the director, writer, and star of Indiana feature God I Want You, ahead of its premiere at the Heartland Film Festival.

An unnecessary remake of the John Wayne/Harey Carey cowboy classic, as an infamous bandit tries to go straight for the love of a good woman. With Zachary Levi and Tommy Lee Jones.

The comeback season ends on a very huggy note, as conflicts are resolved with the show’s signature mix of empathy and puckish humor, and a path forward to future seasons is unveiled.

A dreary, dreamy quasi-Western starring Johnny Flynn and John C. Reilly as a small-town sheriff and doctor trying to contain an outbreak; more surrealist jaunt than shoot-out.

This week, Sam Watermeier joins me to review Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime in a feature review. Then we review the new Zach Cregger movie, Resident Evil in this week’s secondary review. We also discu…

Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Tom Cruise’s ambitious satire is a fascinating mess of a movie.

Listen now (6 mins) | FOX59’s Christopher Lloyd gives his take on new theatrical releases “Digger,” “Verity,” “The Influencer Project” and “Beware Boiúna,” plus Landmark Theatre’s John Carpenter Octob...

Although it tries and sometimes fails to walk the line between laughing at and lauding “Exorcist II: The Heretic,” the documentary “Boorman and the Devil” finds what works in its details.

A grand, audacious muddle -- part Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil,” part Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove,” desperately flailing and screeching in trying to reach a profound conclusion about... something.

Woo!, Midwest Film Journal’s monthlong celebration of John Woo’s 80th birthday, continues with Nick Rogers’ look back at his World War II epic, “Windtalkers.”…

A “Blair Witch” descendant set for the modern day as a Brit influencer is stalked across Copenhagen by a potential killer.

One of the oddest pictures produced under the Golden Age of Hollywood studio system, this Kirk Douglas swords-and-fur-boots epic scores points for authentic levels of blood and lust.

This week on FOX59’s “Indy Now,” critic Christopher Lloyd checks out theatrical releases “Primetime,” “The Weight,” “Forgotten Island,” “The Stunt Driver” and “Heart of the Beast.”

Strident, self-serious and rambling, this moralistic muddle takes aim at schlock TV merchants but fails to distinguish between the bad guys and those looking to sensationalize them.

Kelley and Roy’s romantic dance moves along some important steps and an injury to a key player threatens the team’s success -- and a new off-field challenge emerges.

Nick Rogers combines his “Class of … ” and “Coming Around Again” series for September with a look at Walter Hill’s 1996 film “Last Man Standing.”…

Critics Nate Richard and Ben Sears are back with their EARLY early take on where the film awards race stands and what's looking to generate a lot of buzz in the coming weeks and months.

Like an excellent cut of meat drowned in bland sauce you can’t entirely scrape off, “The Weight” suffices but doesn’t stun.

The Aardman stop-motion animation machine is still hitting on all cylinders as the Buster Keaton-esque sheep tries out his Frankenstein skills in a Halloween-y romp.

John Wilson's The History of Concrete will make you laugh and see the world a little differently, but it will still teach you about concrete.

We finally get more of a peek into the off-field lives of the Lady Greyhounds, and Coach Chilton learns to chill out a bit and say yes.

A young midwife’s desire to live beyond her community’s hidebound traditions sets up a generational rift in this evocative, sumptuously photographed story from Bolivia.

Full predictions for the 99th Oscar nominations, honoring the best films of 2026.

One of Alfred Hitchcock's most remembered thrillers, it boasts a killer premise about two men "crisscrossing" murders but devolves into standard MacGuffin-chasing and gay panic.

In this special interview episode, I chat with filmmaker Aaron Strand whose debut feature, Withdrawal is playing at the Kan-Kan on September 16th at 7:30pm with a live Q&A to follow. We discuss…

Critic Christopher Lloyd checks out new releases “Practical Magic 2,” “Hope,” “The Uprising,” “The Fix” and “Runner” on FOX59’s “Indy Now.”

A gorgeously grimy if empty-headed twist-up of history starring Andrew Garfield as a suffering plowman who help leads a rebellion against the high taxes and brutality of the English king.

Rogue CIA operatives stage a caper in Iran for loot but find themselves pulled to do the right thing in this tense but scattered spy thriller starring Zachary Levi and Liam Neeson.

It’s New Year’s Eve in the Lasso world, so get ready for a fabulous boat party, more romantic misadventures, a little gunplay and a special appearance by an old series friend.

This week, Sam Watermeier joins me to review the new Jane Schoenbrun film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma in a feature review. Then I review the Casper Kelly horror movie, Buddy in this week’…

A Brit couple loses everything and decides to just walk away from their problems, leading to harsh challenges but also self-discovery and renewal. Starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs.

This week on FOX59’s “Indy Now,” critic Christopher Lloyd offers his take on “By Any Means,” “The Sun Never Sets,” “Onslaught,” “The Salt Path” and “LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian.”

“Mayday” is a genial and good-natured action-comedy, but it’s the sort of single-serving entertainment you won’t return to often to reinforce its lessons.

The expected clash between coaches finally happens, as Rebecca’s relationship hits some bumps and Coach Beard finally confronts the specter of his loony ex.

An unexpectedly engaging romantic triangle story as a woman with baby urges is encouraged by her single dad boyfriend to take a break, and then an old ex turns up.

In what may be one of the first iterations of a true anti-Western, Glenn Ford plays a bundle-of-nerves quickdraw artist hiding out as a pacifist shopkeeper, driven by egotism and fear.

FOX59 movie critic Christopher Lloyd checks out the week’s new releases: “Coyote vs. Acme,” “The Dog Stars,” “Colony,” “Idiots” and “Buddy.”

The secrets Netflix wants to keep about “The Whisper Man” are solid, but it’s the relatable truths that make it worth watching.

The Lady Greyhounds form cliques and the coaches want to break it up, while Tracy Ullman debuts as a new agent of chaos and Keeley instructs Roy on how to win her heart back.

Setting aside some feints at straight-ahead horror, “It Ends” offers a compelling consideration of the connection we crave but often take for granted.

A silver medal is the highest-possible honor for any zombie film set (largely) inside a shopping mall. But “Colony’ easily takes it.

The Looney Tunes gang teams up with some largely unnecessary humans as the desert dog takes a very modern tactic in his pursuit of the Road Runner: suing the company that makes his defective gadgets.

Buddy is a frequently hilarious, tonally perfect pastiche of children’s entertainment filtered through Casper Kelly’s deranged sensibilities.

A busy week of new theatrical releases: Film Yap/FOX59 critic reviews “Mutiny,” “The Magic Faraway Tree,” “Franz,” “Tony” and “Teenage Sex and Death in Camp Miasma.”

Jane Schoenbrun’s latest film captures the essence of the debate between adolescent coming of age and being stabbed to death by a masked psycho better than any film of the past 20 years or so.

An interesting but curiously flat biopic of Franz Kafka, whose name became an adjective for disjointedness and excessive complexity -- an apt description for this film.

A family gives up the big city for the countryside and the children discover an enchanted forest filled with magic creatures and adventure in this delightful book adaptation.

The Lady Greyhounds finally get onto the pitch as Ted & the crew get ready for their first match, resorting to open tryouts to fill out their roster.

A stirring portrait of food maestro Anthony Bourdain's young life as a Holden Caulfield-like twerp, a wannabe writer always putting up a front -- until someone finally takes his temperature.

Adapted from the first couple chapters of Anthony Bourdain's incendiary memoir Kitchen Confidential, the new biopic Tony, about the culinary iconoclast's early years, could've been titled A Portrait O...