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
In this week's episode of The Obsessive Viewer, Matt Hurt and his cohost Tiny review Wicked: For Good. They also discuss ScarJo in The Exorcist, and Indianapolis film events. Matt also reviews Good Boy and Keeper. #filmsky 📽️
The Obsessive Viewer Podcast – Ep 495 – Wicked: For Good (2025) & Good Boy (2025)
This week, Tiny and I review the new Jon M. Chu movie, Wicked: For Good in a feature review and then, in this week’s secondary review, I share my thoughts on Ben Leonberg’s Good Boy. Tiny and I als…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
In this week's episode of The Obsessive Viewer, Matt Hurt and his cohost Tiny review Wicked: For Good. They also discuss ScarJo in The Exorcist, and Indianapolis film events. Matt also reviews Good Boy and Keeper. #filmsky 📽️
#Eternity is an indecently good premise about a dead woman having to choose which husband to spend eternity with is curiously lacking in emotional punch or belly laughs. #moviereview by Christopher Lloyd. #filmsky 📽️
Eternity
An indecently good premise about a dead woman having to choose which husband to spend eternity with is curiously lacking in emotional punch or belly laughs.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
#Eternity is an indecently good premise about a dead woman having to choose which husband to spend eternity with is curiously lacking in emotional punch or belly laughs. #moviereview by Christopher Lloyd. #filmsky 📽️
Christopher Lloyd says #Zootopia2 is not terribly ambitious as a sequel, but is at least entertaining and fast-paced. Kids will love it and there's enough in-jokes and sly references to keep adults engaged, too.
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Zootopia 2
Not terribly ambitious as a sequel, but thoroughly entertaining and fast-paced. Kids will love it and there's enough in-jokes and sly references to keep adults engaged, too.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Christopher Lloyd says #Zootopia2 is not terribly ambitious as a sequel, but is at least entertaining and fast-paced. Kids will love it and there's enough in-jokes and sly references to keep adults engaged, too.
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#moviereview #filmsky 📽️
#IFJA member Brent Leuthold has thoughts on the fantasy romcom Eternity, which opens in theaters tomorrow #filmsky 📽️
Eternity
Joan is in a tricky place. To begin with: she's dead. When she wakes up in the afterlife, she's on a train headed for a terminal where recently departed souls choose where to spend their eternity. Thi...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
#IFJA member Nick Rogers says that while the lead trio of actors gives their all, there's not much to rejoicify about in "Wicked: For Good." Find his review at Midwest Film Journal. #filmsky 📽️
Wicked: For Good
The lead trio of actors are giving it their all, but there’s simply not much to rejoicify about in “Wicked: For Good.”…
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November 24, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This week on Indy Now, Christopher Lloyd offers his #moviereviews of new theatrical releases "Wicked: For Good," "Rental Family," "Jay Kelly," "Sentimental Value" and "Sisu: Road to Revenge." #filmsky 📽️
The AV Room: Indy Now -- November 21
This week on Indy Now, Christopher Lloyd reviews new theatrical releases "Wicked: For Good," "Rental Family," "Jay Kelly," "Sentimental Value" and "Sisu: Road to Revenge."
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November 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This week on Indy Now, Christopher Lloyd offers his #moviereviews of new theatrical releases "Wicked: For Good," "Rental Family," "Jay Kelly," "Sentimental Value" and "Sisu: Road to Revenge." #filmsky 📽️
#IFJA member Nick Rogers continues his "Class of ... " series at Midwest Film Journal — looking back at films celebrating 20th, 30th or 40th anniversaries — with an essay on 1985's "To Live and Die in L.A." #filmsky 📽️
Class of 1985: To Live and Die in L.A.
“Class of … ” — Nick Rogers’ monthly look back at films celebrating 20th, 30th or 40th anniversaries — continues with a reflection on 1985’s “To Live and Die in L.A.”…
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November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
At Midwest Film Journal, #IFJA member Nick Rogers contributes to a monthlong celebration of actor Ed Harris's 75th birthday with a look back at his turn in the 1996 blockbuster "The Rock."
Higher Ed: The Rock (1996)
Higher Ed — Midwest Film Journal’s monthlong celebration of Ed Harris’s 75th birthday — continues with Nick Rogers’ reflection on how Harris’s show of force makes “The Rock” such a great show of farce...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
At Midwest Film Journal, #IFJA member Nick Rogers contributes to a monthlong celebration of actor Ed Harris's 75th birthday with a look back at his turn in the 1996 blockbuster "The Rock."
In #JayKelly, George Clooney and Noah Baumbach team up for a wistful, self-referential portrait of an aging Hollywood star looking back on a life of wild success and bitter regret. #moviereview by Christopher Lloyd. #filmsky 📽️
Jay Kelly
George Clooney and Noah Baumbach team up for a wistful, self-referential portrait of an aging Hollywood star looking back on a life of wild success and bitter regret.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
In #JayKelly, George Clooney and Noah Baumbach team up for a wistful, self-referential portrait of an aging Hollywood star looking back on a life of wild success and bitter regret. #moviereview by Christopher Lloyd. #filmsky 📽️
#IFJA member Nick Rogers says "Jay Kelly" is a coming-of-age-at-old-age film that shrewdly avoids treacly sentiment and achieves resonance without resorting to a redemptive arc. Find his review at Midwest Film Journal. #filmsky 📽️
Jay Kelly
A coming-of-age-at-old-age film that shrewdly avoids treacly sentiment and achieves resonance without resorting to a redemptive arc.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
At Midwest Film Journal, #IFJA member Nick Rogers continues the site's Higher Ed series — celebrating Ed Harris's 75th birthday — with a look at Harris's work as a menacing mobster in 2005's "A History of Violence." #filmsky 📽️
Higher Ed: A History of Violence
Higher Ed — Midwest Film Journal’s monthlong celebration of Ed Harris’s 75th birthday — continues with Nick Rogers’ look at Harris’s turn as menacing mobster Carl Fogarty in “A History of Violence.”…
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November 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Christopher Lloyd checks out the week's new theatrical releases on Indy Now: #TheRunningMan, #Trifole, #Keeper, #TrapHouse and #nowyouseemenowyoudont.
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The AV Room: Indy Now -- November 14
This week on Indy Now, Christopher Lloyd checks out new releases "The Running Man," "Trap House," "Keeper," "Trifole" and "Now You See Me: Now You Don't."
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November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Christopher Lloyd checks out the week's new theatrical releases on Indy Now: #TheRunningMan, #Trifole, #Keeper, #TrapHouse and #nowyouseemenowyoudont.
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#moviereview #filmsky 📽️
Screwy storytelling and muddled political messaging make #TheRunningMan, based on the same book as the Schwarzenegger movie, an unnecessary reboot that can't decide which way to go. #MovieReview by Christopher Lloyd. #filmsky 📽️
The Running Man
Screwy storytelling and muddled political messaging make for an update of the Schwarzenegger action sci-fi that can't decide which way to go.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Screwy storytelling and muddled political messaging make #TheRunningMan, based on the same book as the Schwarzenegger movie, an unnecessary reboot that can't decide which way to go. #MovieReview by Christopher Lloyd. #filmsky 📽️
In this week's episode of The Obsessive Viewer, host Matt Hurt and guest Sam Watermeier review Predator: Badlands and Predator: Killer of Killers. They also discuss Mass Effect TV news, the DC Crime announcement and more. #filmsky 📽️
The Obsessive Viewer Podcast – Ep 494 – Predator: Badlands (2025) & Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) – Guest: Sam Watermeier
This week, Sam Watermeier joins me to review the new Dan Trachtenberg movie, Predator: Badlands in a feature review and then, in this week’s secondary review, we talk about the Hulu animated anthol…
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November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In this week's episode of The Obsessive Viewer, host Matt Hurt and guest Sam Watermeier review Predator: Badlands and Predator: Killer of Killers. They also discuss Mass Effect TV news, the DC Crime announcement and more. #filmsky 📽️
At Midwest Film Journal, #IFJA member Nick Rogers continues the site's Higher Ed series — celebrating Ed Harris's 75th birthday — with a look at Harris's scene-stealing turn in 1995's otherwise forgettable "Just Cause." #filmsky 📽️
Higher Ed: Just Cause (1995)
Higher Ed — Midwest Film Journal’s monthlong celebration of Ed Harris’s 75h birthday — continues with Nick Rogers’ reflection on his scene-stealing turn in 1995’s otherwise forgettable “Just Cause.”…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Critic Christopher Lloyd says #Trifole is a bittersweet, evocative Italian drama about a young woman who has come to help her truffle-hunting grandfather that unfortunately gets lost in the weeds of a strange third act interlude. #Moviereview #filmsky 📽️
Trifole
An bittersweet, evocative Italian drama about a young woman who has come to help her truffle-hunting grandfather gets lost in the weeds of a strange third act interlude.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Critic Christopher Lloyd says #Trifole is a bittersweet, evocative Italian drama about a young woman who has come to help her truffle-hunting grandfather that unfortunately gets lost in the weeds of a strange third act interlude. #Moviereview #filmsky 📽️
The presentation of porridge is all over the place and certainly never just right, but "Trap House" gets some points for an absurdly audacious premise. At Midwest Film Journal, #IFJA member Nick Rogers reviews the film in limited theatrical release Friday. #filmsky 📽️
Trap House
The presentation of porridge is all over the place and certainly never just right, but “Trap House” gets points for an absurdly audacious premise.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
#36Hours has a great premise if not the best execution: a spy/POW thriller starring James Garner as a WWII intelligence officer kidnapped by Germans and made to think the war is over. #classicfilm column by Christopher Lloyd. #filmsky 📽️
Reeling Backward: 36 Hours (1964)
A great premise if not the best execution: a spy/POW thriller starring James Garner as a WWII intelligence officer kidnapped by Germans and made to think the war is over.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
#36Hours has a great premise if not the best execution: a spy/POW thriller starring James Garner as a WWII intelligence officer kidnapped by Germans and made to think the war is over. #classicfilm column by Christopher Lloyd. #filmsky 📽️
Though derivative of other animated flicks, Christopher Lloyd says #InYourDreams is solidly entertaining and full of feels. It's about two siblings at cross ends coming together to save their family.
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In Your Dreams
Though derivative of other animated flicks, this Netflixer about two siblings at cross ends coming together to save their family is solidly entertaining and full of feels.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Though derivative of other animated flicks, Christopher Lloyd says #InYourDreams is solidly entertaining and full of feels. It's about two siblings at cross ends coming together to save their family.
#moviereview #filmsky 📽️
#moviereview #filmsky 📽️
Russell Crowe's inimitably growly gravitas cannot counter inelegant writing, bad pacing and a disastrously terrible performance from Rami Malek in "Nuremberg." IFJA member Nick Rogers reviews the film at Midwest Film Journal. #filmsky📽️
Nuremberg (2025)
From a substantial slab of docudrama meat, writer-director James Vanderbilt carves only gristly, thin and unsatisfying portions, with a disastrously bad turn from Rami Malek.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Russell Crowe's inimitably growly gravitas cannot counter inelegant writing, bad pacing and a disastrously terrible performance from Rami Malek in "Nuremberg." IFJA member Nick Rogers reviews the film at Midwest Film Journal. #filmsky📽️
In this week's ep of The Obsessive Viewer, Matt Hurt and his guest Keegan review Bugonia in a feature review and Black Phone 2 in a non-spoiler secondary review. #filmsky 📽️
The Obsessive Viewer Podcast – Ep 493 – Bugonia (2025) & Black Phone 2 (2025) – Guest: Keegan King
This week, Keegan King joins me to review the new Yorgos Lanthimos movie, Bugonia in a feature review and then, in this week’s secondary review, we talk about Scott Derrickson’s Black Phone 2. We a…
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November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
In this week's ep of The Obsessive Viewer, Matt Hurt and his guest Keegan review Bugonia in a feature review and Black Phone 2 in a non-spoiler secondary review. #filmsky 📽️
"Die My Love" is proof of life for fans of big-swinging, esoteric-but-empathetic character studies as dramatically revealing as they are raucously funny. IFJA member Nick Rogers reviews the film at Midwest Film Journal. #filmsky 📽️
Die My Love
Sure to suffer a quick demise commercially, “Die My Love” is proof of life for fans of big-swinging, esoteric-but-empathetic character studies as dramatically revealing as they are raucously funny.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"Die My Love" is proof of life for fans of big-swinging, esoteric-but-empathetic character studies as dramatically revealing as they are raucously funny. IFJA member Nick Rogers reviews the film at Midwest Film Journal. #filmsky 📽️
At Midwest Film Journal, IFJA member Nick Rogers calls "Christy" the sort of boring, by-the-numbers biopic you've gone 12 rounds with many times despite a solid turn from Sydney Sweeney. #filmsky 📽️
Christy (2025)
Sydney Sweeney delivers a solid, if unsurprising, turn as a boxer in the sort of boring, by-the-numbers biopic you’ve gone 12 rounds with many times before.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
At Midwest Film Journal, IFJA member Nick Rogers calls "Christy" the sort of boring, by-the-numbers biopic you've gone 12 rounds with many times despite a solid turn from Sydney Sweeney. #filmsky 📽️
Ben Sears writes that Netflix’s Train Dreams is that rare film of quiet magnitude, where every character and development invites deeper reflection and discussion. #filmsky 📽️
Train Dreams Review
Train Dreams is that rare film of quiet magnitude, where every character and development invites deeper reflection and discussion.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Ben Sears writes that Netflix’s Train Dreams is that rare film of quiet magnitude, where every character and development invites deeper reflection and discussion. #filmsky 📽️
Give Jennifer Lawrence credit for fiercely tackling a deeply unsympathetic character in #DieMyLove, an ultra-black comedy about a mother whose postpartum depression translates as projecting abuse.
#moviereview by Christopher Lloyd. #filmsky 📽️
#moviereview by Christopher Lloyd. #filmsky 📽️
Die My Love
Give Jennifer Lawrence credit for fiercely tackling a deeply unsympathetic character in this ultra-black comedy about a mother whose postpartum depression translates as projecting abuse.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Give Jennifer Lawrence credit for fiercely tackling a deeply unsympathetic character in #DieMyLove, an ultra-black comedy about a mother whose postpartum depression translates as projecting abuse.
#moviereview by Christopher Lloyd. #filmsky 📽️
#moviereview by Christopher Lloyd. #filmsky 📽️