Nicolas Roacho Archives - The Daily Illini

[Photo] Ebertfest connects film lovers, celebrates Roger Ebert’s legacy

By Annisyn Krebs-Carr and Calissa Stevens • April 24, 2025

Review | ‘Drop’ plays around its first date nightmare

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • April 12, 2025

Nintendo Switch 2: Playing with power comes at an expense

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • April 4, 2025

‘Top Gun’ and ‘Batman Forever’ actor Val Kilmer dead at 65

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • April 2, 2025

Review | ‘Opus’ fumbles cult-ish melody

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • March 20, 2025

Review | ‘Mickey 17’ unsubtly does a great job

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • March 15, 2025

Best of CU ’25 | Best Japanese Food: Sakanaya

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • March 6, 2025

‘Anora’ sweeps 97th annual Academy Awards

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • March 3, 2025

buzz predicts 2025 Academy Award winners

By Gibson Asselmeier, Park Mitchell, Nicolas Roacho and Thomas O’Sullivan • February 23, 2025

Review | ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ is neither brave nor new

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • February 20, 2025

Review | ‘Heart Eyes’ kills audiences with laughter

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • February 15, 2025

Review | ‘Companion’ brings life to bigger AI issue

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • February 9, 2025

Column | ‘The Brutalist’ serves as reminder that AI in movies isn’t okay

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • February 4, 2025

‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Wicked’ lead the 97th annual Academy Award nominations

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • January 23, 2025

Review | ‘The Brutalist’ architects powerful narrative

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • January 18, 2025

Review | ‘Nosferatu’ sinks its teeth into viewers

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • January 3, 2025

Review | buzz picks worst films of 2024

By Nicolas Roacho and Gibson Asselmeier • December 31, 2024

Review | buzz picks best films of 2024

By Gibson Asselmeier and Nicolas Roacho • December 31, 2024

Review | ‘Marvel Rivals’ excels for Marvel’s true believers

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • December 24, 2024

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin creeps its way into The Canopy Club

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • December 16, 2024

‘ASTRO BOT,’ ‘Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’ lead Game Awards nominations

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • November 20, 2024

Column | Who’s up having a ‘Wonderful Christmastime?’

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • November 19, 2024

Review | ‘Venom: The Last Dance’ has 2 left feet

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • November 2, 2024

6 movies to ‘en-frighten’ your Halloween season

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • October 31, 2024

Column | How ‘Saw’ redefined the horror genre

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • October 30, 2024

Column | Why Talking Heads will never ‘Stop Making Sense’

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • October 25, 2024

Review | ‘Terrifier 3’ brings holiday cheers, fears

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • October 21, 2024

Review | The joke’s on whoever watches ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • October 14, 2024

Review | ‘Megalopolis’ is a beautiful mess

By Park Mitchell and Nicolas Roacho • October 4, 2024

Review | ‘The Substance’ is grossly important

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • October 2, 2024

Review | ‘Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection Arcade Classics’ brings classic arcade games to modern audiences

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • September 24, 2024

Review | Epic Burger is not quite ‘epic’

By Nicolas Roacho and Park Mitchell • September 24, 2024

Review | ‘Speak No Evil’ doesn’t have anything new to say

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • September 20, 2024

UI announces record enrollment, largest ever freshmen class

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • September 12, 2024

Review | ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ is a fun successor to the classic film

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • September 9, 2024

Atomic Wings blows past most expectations

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • September 7, 2024

Illinois to take submissions for flag redesign

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • August 29, 2024

Midwestern rabbis discuss campus antisemitism, community issues at UI

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • August 12, 2024

Review | ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ brings back fan-favorite characters, but at what cost?

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • July 31, 2024

Armed robbery occurs at Third, Clark streets

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • May 30, 2024

Column | ‘Avengers: Endgame’; 5 years since the MCU changed forever

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • April 27, 2024

Review | ‘Invincible’ returns with a powerful second season

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • April 16, 2024

‘50 years of Kansas’ and they still electrify the audience at Virginia Theatre

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • April 15, 2024

O.J. Simpson dead at 76

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • April 11, 2024

Review | Not so ‘Immaculate’ after all

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • April 10, 2024

Review | ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire;’ When is nostalgia too much?

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • April 5, 2024

Review | ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ is mind-numbing, monster sized fun

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • April 3, 2024

Review | ‘Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth’ breaks all of its limits

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • March 30, 2024

‘Oppenheimer’ director Christopher Nolan to receive knighthood

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • March 28, 2024

Best of CU | Best Mexican Food: Maize Mexican Grill

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • March 28, 2024

Best of CU | Best Off-Campus Entertainment: AMC Champaign 13

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • March 28, 2024

Review | ‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ plays it safe with disappointing sequel

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • March 12, 2024

96th Academy Awards: ‘Oppenheimer’ drops the bomb, takes Best Picture

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • March 11, 2024

Review | ‘Dune: Part Two’: A modern sci-fi classic unlike anything else

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • February 29, 2024

Review | ‘Madame Web’: $10 and 116 minutes I’ll never get back

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • February 20, 2024

Review | ‘Argylle’ is a lazy, muddled mess

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • February 5, 2024

Review | Billy Joel returns with emotional ballad ‘Turn the Lights Back Onʼ

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • February 4, 2024

Carl Weathers dies at 76

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • February 2, 2024

Review | The Last of Us Part II Remastered is a great upgrade for a not-so-great price

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • January 30, 2024

96th Oscar nominations see ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Poor Things’ dominate

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • January 23, 2024

Review | buzz picks the best films of 2023

By Dhruv Baronia, Saagar Kolachina and Nicolas Roacho • January 9, 2024

buzz picks the most anticipated video games of 2024

By Pratim Vasireddy and Nicolas Roacho • January 3, 2024

Review | buzz picks the worst films of 2023

By Nicolas Roacho and Saagar Kolachina • December 30, 2023

Column | Is ‘The Exorcist’ still the ‘scariest movie of all time’ 50 years later?

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • December 26, 2023

Review | ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ is a disappointing farewell to the DCEU

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • December 24, 2023

Jonathan Majors found guilty for harassment, assault, dropped by Marvel

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • December 18, 2023

The fifth day of buzzmas | Is ‘Die Hard’ a Christmas movie?

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • December 18, 2023

Review | ‘Wonka’ excels musically, brings fun addition to original story

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • December 18, 2023

The Game Awards 2023: ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ awarded Game of the Year

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • December 8, 2023

Review | ‘Godzilla Minus One’ contains awesome carnage, humanizes characters well

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • December 3, 2023

Review | ‘The Marvelsʼ shows that the MCU continues to decline in quality

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • November 15, 2023

‘Alan Wake 2,’ ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ lead The Game Awards nominations

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • November 13, 2023

Review | ‘Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’ swings its way to greatness on PS5

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • November 13, 2023

Column | Billy Joel’s ‘Piano Man’ is still perfect 50 years later

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • November 9, 2023

SAG-AFTRA reaches deal with entertainment companies, ending 118-day strike

By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • November 8, 2023

Review | ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ tries to please hardcore fans, fails to please general audiences

By Nicolas Roacho and Kiran Bond • October 29, 2023

‘Friends’ actor Matthew Perry dies at 54

By Lillie Salas, Nicolas Roacho and Kiran Bond • October 28, 2023

Column | ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is a triumph, stays true to Osage culture

By Nicolas Roacho, Contributing Writer • October 22, 2023

Review | ‘The Boys’ spinoff ‘Gen V‘ starts super-strong

By Nicolas Roacho, Contributing Writer • October 2, 2023

Review | What to know about ‘Saw Xʼ before watching

By Nicolas Roacho, Contributing Writer • September 30, 2023