Grow Omaha Flicks

★ 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…

★ The Strangers: Chapter 3 caps off what might go down as one of the worst movie trilogies of all time. Chapter 1 was so mind-numbingly dumb it doesn’t even cross into ‘so-bad-it’s-good’ territory. Chapter 2 was the most entertaining of the three, still not good, but passable horror. Now in Chapter 3 we’re given the worst, and by far most boring, of the series. After an opening scene…

★ ★ ★ Melania is a documentary that follows Melania Trump in January 2025 through President Donald Trump’s second inauguration. It gives us a glimpse of what it takes to be Melania as FLOTUS while she makes design decisions for the events and precise, custom fashion choices. We’re given a peek behind the scenes in the penthouse apartment at Trump Tower in New York. In Trump fashion, nothing in the penthouse…

★ ★ ★ ½ Solo Mio stars Kevin James as Matt Taylor, a fourth grade art teacher who falls in love with a fellow teacher, Heather (Julie Ann Emery). As the film opens, we get a glimpse of their picturesque, late-in-life romance. They seem perfect for each other, destined for happily ever after. Matt gets his students to arrange an art project… that assembles into a written marriage proposal…