Grow Omaha Flicks

★ ★ ★ Reminders of Him stars Maika Monroe as Kenna Rowan, a young woman just released from prison after serving a seven-year sentence for manslaughter. She was driving when her car crashed, injuring herself and killing her boyfriend, Scotty (Rudy Pankow). To make matters worse, she’s accused of fleeing the scene of the accident. The film is based on the novel of the same name by bestselling author Colleen Hoover, whose recent film adaptations include It Ends With Us and Regretting You…

★ ★ ★ War Machine is a sci-fi action thriller about a group of Army recruits in the final stage of a special ops boot camp. Their final test is a simulated op in the forests of the Colorado Rockies. They quickly find themselves in an impossible battle with a virtually indestructible machine that’s really good at killing. To make matters worse , because it’s supposed to be a training mission, they’re not carrying live ammunition. The machine is one of the most formidable foes I’ve seen on screen in some time…

★ ★ ½ Hoppers is the latest Pixar animated adventure, following young animal lover Mabel (Piper Curda) as she does everything she can to save the glade by her grandmother’s (Karen Huie) house from Mayor Jerry Generazzo (Jon Hamm), whose city beltway project threatens to destroy it. Pixar has a strong history of emotionally charged animated masterpieces that entertain and grab you by the feels. Unfortunately, Hoppers swaps…

★ The Bride! is directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and attempts to put a new twist on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The film opens in black and white, with Mary Shelley lamenting from some kind of spiritual limbo—tortured, tormented and angry. She wrote Frankenstein when she was 18, after a challenge by Lord Byron, the poet and former member of the House of Lords. He wanted to see if she could create a scary ghost story. The book was based on one of her nightmares…

★ ½ Scream 7 begins with Sidney Evans (Neve Campbell) living in a small town with her husband Mark (Joel McHale), a cop, and their teenage daughter Tatum (Isabel May). Sidney is constantly at odds with Tatum, and Mark does his best to mediate. This film starts off decently and quickly disintegrates under the weight of its own plot, relying too heavily on the nostalgia built into the series. It’s like a bottle of 12-year-old Chivas Regal. At first sip, it’s not completely awful. But the more you drink it, the more offensive it…

★ ★ ½ How to Make a Killing is a loose remake of the 1947 British dark comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. Both films are adapted from the novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal by Roy Horniman. In each version, a man becomes a killer in order to climb the family tree and claim the wealth waiting at the top. In this version, the story doesn’t live up to the high-stakes drama promised by its premise. Whitelaw Redfellow (Ed Harris) is the head of the Redfellow family. The Redfellows are a family of…

★ ★ ★ Crime 101 is a witty diamond caper that tells a simple story in a convoluted way. It weaves intrigue with characters so well developed you’d swear you know—or at least know of—someone just like them. What they do may be over-the-top, but they’re grounded in motivations to which audiences can relate. This kind of character chemistry is rarely done so well, even if a couple don’t fully land…

★ ★ ★ ½ Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is as fun a movie as its title is quirky. Like the film, it’s intentionally over-the-top. This is a dark comedy sci-fi thriller that’s more than just an adequate popcorn muncher. It’s a darkly profound commentary on our reliance on technology, especially our ever-growing dependence on AI. It even pokes at one of the most disturbing…

★ ★ ★ ½ I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not comes from his line during the Saturday Night Live sketch Weekend Update. It’s a perfect title for this documentary, a look back on Chevy Chase’s life and career. It’s nostalgic at times, often controversial and almost always tumultuous. Here, we’re given a peek inside a man who was more than a punchline. He was a husband, father and a tough guy…

★ ★ ½ Iron Lung is a film made by YouTube star Markiplier (aka Mark Fischbach) based on an indie video game of the same name. The premise of both is that “The Quiet Rapture” has unleashed an apocalyptic event on Earth. Most stars and planets have vanished from the night sky, and the oceans are no longer water. They’re entirely made of blood. Fishbach plays Simon, a convicted felon…