Indiana Film Journalists Association
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Established in 2009 by a dedicated group of six Indiana journalists — and now including 25 members — the Indiana Film Journalists Association (IFJA) endeavors to promote quality film criticism in the Hoosier state & support Indiana’s growing film industry
"The Sea Chase," a forgettable John Wayne WWII vehicle, attempts to graft a romance onto a grim adventure on the high seas, and the result is a movie dizzy with wayward narrative navigation. #ClassicFilm #moviereview by Christopher Lloyd #filmsky 📽️
Reeling Backward: The Sea Chase (1955)
This forgettable John Wayne vehicle attempts to graft a romance onto a grim adventure on the high seas, and the result is a movie dizzy with wayward narrative navigation.
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January 19, 2026 at 2:31 PM
"The Sea Chase," a forgettable John Wayne WWII vehicle, attempts to graft a romance onto a grim adventure on the high seas, and the result is a movie dizzy with wayward narrative navigation. #ClassicFilm #moviereview by Christopher Lloyd #filmsky 📽️
This week on Indy Now, Christopher Lloyd reviews what's new in theaters and streaming: "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple," "Rebuilding," "Charlie the Wonderdog," "Dead Man's Wire" and "The Rip."
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#moviereview #filmsky 📽️
The AV Room: Indy Now -- January 16
This week on Indy Now, Christopher Lloyd reviews what's new in theaters and streaming: "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple," "Rebuilding," "Charlie the Wonderdog," "Dead Man's Wire" and "The Rip."
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January 17, 2026 at 4:21 PM
This week on Indy Now, Christopher Lloyd reviews what's new in theaters and streaming: "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple," "Rebuilding," "Charlie the Wonderdog," "Dead Man's Wire" and "The Rip."
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#moviereview #filmsky 📽️
#IFJA member Nick Rogers kicks off his 2026 installments of "Class of ... " — in which he reflects on a film celebrating its 20th, 30th or 40th anniversary — with an essay on 1986's "Iron Eagle" at Midwest Film Journal. #filmsky 📽️
Class of 1986: Iron Eagle
“Class of … ” — Nick Rogers’ monthly series that looks at films celebrating 20th, 30th or 40th anniversaries — kicks off for 2026 with a look at 1986’s “Iron Eagle.”…
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January 16, 2026 at 4:36 PM
At Midwest Film Journal, #IFJA member Nick Rogers says there's little that's novel about "The Rip," but Ben Affleck and Matt Damon entertainingly dance around the depth and dimension of their real-world friendship. #filmsky 📽️
The Rip (2026)
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck entertainingly dance around the depth and dedication of their legendary real-world friendship in a way that elevates this cop thriller above genre routine.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:21 AM
In episode 500 of The Obsessive Viewer Podcast, Matt Hurt and cohosts Mike and Tiny discuss their 2025 movie viewing stats, favorite movies of the year, and crown The Obsessive Viewer Movie of the Year! #filmsky 📽️
The Obsessive Viewer Podcast – Ep 500 – 2025 Year in Review – Best Movies of the Year and Viewing Stats
Welcome to The Obsessive Viewer’s 2025 Year in Review episode! Mike and Tiny join me for our 13th year sharing our movie viewing stats for the year and our top ten favorite movies lists. We also sh…
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January 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM
In episode 500 of The Obsessive Viewer Podcast, Matt Hurt and cohosts Mike and Tiny discuss their 2025 movie viewing stats, favorite movies of the year, and crown The Obsessive Viewer Movie of the Year! #filmsky 📽️
Solid animation and voice acting can't save "Charlie the Wonderdog," a poorly written story about a superpooch that's probably only fit for the very youngest audiences.
Charlie the Wonderdog
Solid animation and voice acting can't save this poorly written story about a superpooch that's probably only fit for the very youngest audiences.
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January 14, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Solid animation and voice acting can't save "Charlie the Wonderdog," a poorly written story about a superpooch that's probably only fit for the very youngest audiences.
At Midwest Film Journal, #IFJA member Nick Rogers says that the Hollywood spin on an iconic Indianapolis story in "Dead Man's Wire" offers a winter's tale with no more heat than you'd find in umpteen, better-told variations. #filmsky 📽️
Dead Man’s Wire
The Hollywood spin on an iconic Indianapolis story offers a winter’s tale with no more heat than you’d find in umpteen, better-told variations.
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January 13, 2026 at 10:29 PM
#Rebuilding, available for digital streaming Jan. 13, is a lovely cinematic hymn about a lonely rancher who loses everything in a wildfire, but finds a community and a connection to his estranged daughter in the bargain.
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#moviereview by Christopher Lloyd #filmsky 📽️
Rebuilding
A lovely cinematic hymn about a lonely rancher who loses everything in a wildfire, but finds a community and a connection to his estranged daughter in the bargain.
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January 12, 2026 at 11:14 PM
#Rebuilding, available for digital streaming Jan. 13, is a lovely cinematic hymn about a lonely rancher who loses everything in a wildfire, but finds a community and a connection to his estranged daughter in the bargain.
#moviereview by Christopher Lloyd #filmsky 📽️
#moviereview by Christopher Lloyd #filmsky 📽️
This week on Indy Now, critic Christopher Lloyd checks out new theatrical releases "Is This Thing On?", "Primate," "I Was a Stranger," "Greenland 2: Migration" and "Father Mother Sister Brother."
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#moviereview #filmsky 📽️
The AV Room: Indy Now -- January 9
This week on Indy Now, Christopher Lloyd checks out new theatrical releases "Is This Thing On?", "Primate," "I Was a Stranger," "Greenland 2: Migration" and "Father Mother Sister Brother."
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January 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
This week on Indy Now, critic Christopher Lloyd checks out new theatrical releases "Is This Thing On?", "Primate," "I Was a Stranger," "Greenland 2: Migration" and "Father Mother Sister Brother."
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#moviereview #filmsky 📽️
Christopher Lloyd says Jim Jarmusch's latest, "Father Mother Sister Brother," is an eclectic anthology approach to dysfunctional families that makes for a moody study of manners.
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#moviereview #filmsky 📽️
Father Mother Sister Brother
Though it may not be for everyone, Jim Jarmusch's eclectic anthology approach to dysfunctional families makes for a moody study of manners.
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January 9, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Christopher Lloyd says Jim Jarmusch's latest, "Father Mother Sister Brother," is an eclectic anthology approach to dysfunctional families that makes for a moody study of manners.
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#moviereview #filmsky 📽️
"I Was a Stranger" is an anthology of connected stories about Syrian refugees. In his #moviereview, critic Christopher Lloyd calls it a searing tale that shows both the depravity and grace of humanity in crisis. #filmsky 📽️
I Was a Stranger
This anthology of connected stories about Syrian refugees is a searing tale that shows both the depravity and grace of humanity in crisis.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:12 PM
"I Was a Stranger" is an anthology of connected stories about Syrian refugees. In his #moviereview, critic Christopher Lloyd calls it a searing tale that shows both the depravity and grace of humanity in crisis. #filmsky 📽️
#IFJA members Ben Sears and Christopher Lloyd get together for a podcast comparing their favorite films of 2025 and looking ahead to the most anticipated releases of 2026. #filmsky 📽️
Favorite flicks & lookahead to 2026
Ben Sears of The Movie State joins Christopher Lloyd to hash out their favorite movies from 2025 and look forward in anticipation to the coming year in film.
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January 8, 2026 at 1:19 PM
"My Neighbor Adolf" is a little gem of a movie about a Holocaust survivor who suspects his new neighbor is the Führer; it starts out as a comedy caper, edges into tragic lament and somehow lands in sweet sentiment.
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#moviereview by Christopher Lloyd #filmsky 📽️
My Neighbor Adolf
A little gem of a movie about a Holocaust survivor who suspects his new neighbor is the Führer; it starts out as a comedy caper, edges into tragic lament and somehow lands in sweet sentiment.
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January 7, 2026 at 2:16 PM
"My Neighbor Adolf" is a little gem of a movie about a Holocaust survivor who suspects his new neighbor is the Führer; it starts out as a comedy caper, edges into tragic lament and somehow lands in sweet sentiment.
#moviereview by Christopher Lloyd #filmsky 📽️
#moviereview by Christopher Lloyd #filmsky 📽️
At Midwest Film Journal, #IFJA member Nick Rogers says that despite a few missteps and crutches, Bradley Cooper fills small rooms with emotion in "Is This Thing On?" almost as well as he did stadiums.
Is This Thing On?
Despite a few iffy crutches and choices, Bradley Cooper’s smaller-scale dramedy shows he can fill a small room with emotions as shrewdly as stadiums.
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January 6, 2026 at 8:11 PM
At Midwest Film Journal, #IFJA member Nick Rogers says that despite a few missteps and crutches, Bradley Cooper fills small rooms with emotion in "Is This Thing On?" almost as well as he did stadiums.
In his latest #classicfilm column, Christopher Lloyd calls "Hot Rod" a schmaltzy B-movie that's enjoyable for its piping Ford roadsters and "Reefer Madness"-style treatment of the scourge of teens armed with high-compression engines. #filmsky 📽️
Reeling Backward: Hot Rod (1950)
This schmaltzy B-movie is enjoyable for its piping Ford roadsters and "Reefer Madness"-style treatment of the scourge of teens armed with high-compression engines.
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January 5, 2026 at 2:38 PM
In his latest #classicfilm column, Christopher Lloyd calls "Hot Rod" a schmaltzy B-movie that's enjoyable for its piping Ford roadsters and "Reefer Madness"-style treatment of the scourge of teens armed with high-compression engines. #filmsky 📽️
Critic Christopher Lloyd offers his annual list of the best films of the year, and once again diverges from the consensus, finding little value in favorites like "One Battle After Another" or "Marty Supreme," but cherishing smaller flicks. #filmsky 📽️
Chris' Top 10 Films of 2025
Yet again, your friendly neighborhood film critic diverges from the consensus, finding little value in favorites like "One Battle After Another" or "Marty Supreme," but cherishing smaller flicks.
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January 1, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Critic Christopher Lloyd offers his annual list of the best films of the year, and once again diverges from the consensus, finding little value in favorites like "One Battle After Another" or "Marty Supreme," but cherishing smaller flicks. #filmsky 📽️
In the last Obsessive Viewer episode of 2025, Matt Hurt is joined by Andy and Logan from Odd Trilogies to discuss the IFJA's Ten Best Films of 2025 list! #filmsky
The Obsessive Viewer Podcast – Ep 498 – IFJA Ten Best Films of 2025 – Guests: Andy Carr and Logan Sowash
In this final episode of 2025, I welcome my friends and IFJA colleagues Andy Carr and Logan Sowash from Odd Trilogies to the show to help me close out the year with a breakdown of the Indiana Film …
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January 1, 2026 at 12:05 AM
In the last Obsessive Viewer episode of 2025, Matt Hurt is joined by Andy and Logan from Odd Trilogies to discuss the IFJA's Ten Best Films of 2025 list! #filmsky
"The Plague," Charlie Polinger's drama about tweenager peer pressure, is a disturbingly accurate meditation on social conformity, with Everett Blunck in one of the best child performances, ever.
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#moviereview by Christopher Lloyd #filmsky 📽️
The Plague
Charlie Polinger's drama about tweenager peer pressure is a disturbingly accurate meditation on social conformity, with Everett Blunck in one of the best child performances, ever.
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December 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"The Plague," Charlie Polinger's drama about tweenager peer pressure, is a disturbingly accurate meditation on social conformity, with Everett Blunck in one of the best child performances, ever.
#moviereview by Christopher Lloyd #filmsky 📽️
#moviereview by Christopher Lloyd #filmsky 📽️
In this episode of The Obsessive Viewer, Matt Hurt and guest Joe Shearer review The Long Walk in a feature review and The Plague in a secondary review. They also pay tribute to Rob Reiner and James Ransone. #filmsky 📽️
The Obsessive Viewer Podcast – Ep 497 – The Long Walk (2025) & The Plague (2025) – Guest: Joe Shearer
This week, Joe Shearer joins me to review Francis Lawrence’s Stephen King adaptation, The Long Walk in a feature review and then, in this week’s secondary review, we share our thoughts on Charlie P…
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December 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
In this episode of The Obsessive Viewer, Matt Hurt and guest Joe Shearer review The Long Walk in a feature review and The Plague in a secondary review. They also pay tribute to Rob Reiner and James Ransone. #filmsky 📽️
Ben Sears wraps up the year by sharing his top 10 movies of 2025 #filmsky 📽️
Ben Sears’ Top 10 Movies of 2025
Period dramas, studio comedies, and deep character studies highlight Ben Sears’ top 10 films of 2025
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December 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Ben Sears wraps up the year by sharing his top 10 movies of 2025 #filmsky 📽️
IFJA member Nick Rogers takes a comprehensive look at the year in film — from most- and least-favorite to needle-drops and more — in his 2025 year in review at Midwest Film Journal. #filmsky 📽️
Nick’s 2025 Year in Review
Nick Rogers looks back at the year in film that was 2025 — with highlights and lowlights, as well as favorite scenes, performances, soundtrack needle-drops and more.
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December 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
IFJA member Nick Rogers takes a comprehensive look at the year in film — from most- and least-favorite to needle-drops and more — in his 2025 year in review at Midwest Film Journal. #filmsky 📽️
At Midwest Film Journal, #IFJA member Nick Rogers concludes his 2025 "Class of ... " series — looking at films celebrating 20th, 30th or 40th anniversaries — with 2005's "The Matador." #filmsky 📽️
Class of 2005: The Matador
“Class of … ” — Nick Rogers’ monthly look back at films celebrating 20th, 30th or 40th anniversaries — concludes for 2025 with a look back at 2005’s “The Matador.”…
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December 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"The Choral" is a heartwarming entry in the "communal English village do-goodism" genre, with Ralph Fiennes as the prickly conductor brought in to stage an ambitious production during World War I. #Moviereview by Christopher Lloyd.
The Choral
A heartwarming entry in the "communal English village do-goodism" genre, with Ralph Fiennes as the prickly conductor brought in to stage an ambitious production during World War I.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"The Choral" is a heartwarming entry in the "communal English village do-goodism" genre, with Ralph Fiennes as the prickly conductor brought in to stage an ambitious production during World War I. #Moviereview by Christopher Lloyd.
At Midwest Film Journal, #IFJA member Nick Rogers says "Song Sung Blue" — a new biopic about a Neil Diamond tribute act — is so bad, so bad, so bad. #filmsky 📽️
Song Sung Blue
So bad, so bad, so bad!
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December 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Al Pacino and Gene Hackman did not get along during the making of "Scarecrows," a typical '70s rambling road picture, though their characters found a certain harmony as castoffs who each gain a partner.
#classicfilm #moviereview by Christopher Lloyd:
#classicfilm #moviereview by Christopher Lloyd:
Reeling Backward: Scarecrow (1973)
Al Pacino and Gene Hackman did not get along during the making of this rambling road picture, though their characters found a certain harmony as castoffs who each gain a partner.
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December 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Al Pacino and Gene Hackman did not get along during the making of "Scarecrows," a typical '70s rambling road picture, though their characters found a certain harmony as castoffs who each gain a partner.
#classicfilm #moviereview by Christopher Lloyd:
#classicfilm #moviereview by Christopher Lloyd: