Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

In 2023, the staff here at CinemaBlend watched a lot of movies. Between us all, we screened over 270 titles – with over 1,500 screenings/streams counted. We all have individual favorites from a wide ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Is this the year theatrical events finally returned? Hard to argue that they didn’t, what with Barbenheimer (the portmanteau of Barbie and Oppenheimer) dominating ...

From atomic bombs (Oppenheimer, Asteroid City) to atomic blondes (Barbie, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour), 2023 was a year when cinema looked ahead by going back to the past. With reliable franchises ...