Todd Gilchrist
Todd Gilchrist is a Los Angeles-based film critic and entertainment journalist with more than 20 years’ experience for dozens of print and online outlets, including Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly and Fangoria. An obsessive soundtrack collector, sneaker aficionado and member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Todd currently lives in Silverlake, California with his amazing wife Julie, two cats Beatrix and Biscuit, and several thousand books, vinyl records and Blu-rays.
Latest articles by Todd Gilchrist
'Resident Alien' 1.08 Review: End of the World as We Know It
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'Resident Alien,' Harry Vanderspiegle cannot decide what's a worse fate — being discovered as an alien, failing to complete his mission, or dying.
'Zack Snyder’s Justice League' Review: The best version of a bad movie
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'Zack Snyder's Justice League,' Batman and Wonder Woman race to assemble a team of superheroes in order to stop Steppenwolf's evil forces from overrunning Earth.
'Resident Alien' 1.07 Review: The Green Glow
By Todd Gilchrist published
Harry (Alan Tudyk) discovers the mood-altering effects of marijuana, and works with Max (Judah Prehn) to find the final piece of a device that may destroy Earth.
'Coming 2 America' Review: Zamunda for two more hours, but not forever
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'Coming 2 America,' Eddie Murphy's Prince Akeem returns to America to find his sole male heir and prepare him for inheriting Zamunda's throne.
'Resident Alien' 1.06 Review: Sexy Beast
By Todd Gilchrist published
In the new 'Resident Alien,' Harry (Alan Tudyk) gets closer than ever to finishing his mission, even as government agents threaten to apprehend him before he carries it out.
'Boogie' Review: A fresh face for familiar hoop dreams
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'Boogie,' an Asian-American teenager has to fight his parents' dueling plans for him — and his own ego — to achieve dreams of basketball stardom.
'Land' Review: Wide open spaces, with nowhere to go
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'Land,' Robin Wright plays a woman who moves to a cabin in the mountains in order to escape the pain of an unimaginable loss.
'Resident Alien' 1.05 Review: Love Language
By Todd Gilchrist published
The arrival of the real Harry's wife Isabelle causes new complications for this extraterrestrial's smalltown life.
John Hughes and the cultural shorthand of 1980s American adolescence
By Todd Gilchrist published
The 'John Hughes 5-Movie Collection' assembles films from the writer-director's Paramount catalog for a fun, eclectic set.
'Crisis' Review: This pill story isn't popping
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'Crisis,' three people's lives are impacted by the opioid epidemic — in boardrooms, the streets, and the suburbs.
'Resident Alien' 1.04 Review: Birds of a Feather
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'Birds of a Feather,' Harry reluctantly agrees to have dinner with Mayor Hawthorne, giving Hawthorne's son Max an opportunity to snoop around his cabin.
'Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar' Review: A comedy where Austin Powers meets Tommy Bahama
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar,' two jobless midwesterners (Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig) take a vacation in Florida to rekindle their appetite for life.
'Resident Alien' 1.03 Review: Secrets
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'Secrets,' Harry tries to prevent the local authorities from recovering the body of his human alter ego before he can dispose of it.
'The Map of Tiny Perfect Things' Review: Time stands still — and sometimes that's good
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'The Map of Tiny Perfect Things,' two teenagers discover they're stuck together in a time loop forcing them to relive the same day over and over.
‘Resident Alien’ 1.02 Review: Homesick
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'Homesick,' Harry Vanderspiegle has his first day on the job as town physician, while continuing his campaign against Max (Judah Prehn), the only human who knows what he really is.
'Bliss' Review: Real empathy shouldn't be engineered virtually
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'Bliss,' a dissatisfied man (Owen Wilson) encounters a mysterious woman (Salma Hayek) who claims that they're living in a computer simulation.
'Falling' Review: Turning the other cheek never felt so tough — or necessary
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'Falling,' Viggo Mortensen plays a gay man struggling to help his bigoted father (Lance Henriksen) as he begins to succumb to dementia.
'Resident Alien' 1.01 Review: Pilot
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'Resident Alien,' Alan Tudyk plays an extraterrestrial who disguises himself to live among humans in a small town after his ship crashes on Earth.
‘Resident Alien’ star Alan Tudyk on killing himself on screen, and his first sex scene
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'Resident Alien,' Alan Tudyk plays an extraterrestrial pretending to be a doctor in a remote Colorado town after his ships crashes on Earth.
'The Little Things' Review: Denzel Washington in charge of an obsession, not an investigation
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'The Little Things,' a disgraced cop (Washington) and an ambitious detective (Malek) races to find a serial killer before he strikes again.
‘No Man’s Land’ Review: Finding a new place for young men
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'No Man's Land,' a promising young athlete ventures into Mexico to make amends after accidentally killing a young immigrant on the Texas border.
'One Night in Miami' star Aldis Hodge on running forward the political football kicked off by his real-life character Jim Brown
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'One Night in Miami,' Aldis Hodge plays football star Jim Brown, who in 1964 was coming to terms with his future both as an actor and a leader within the black community.
‘Locked Down’ Review: A welcome escape from pandemic life
By Todd Gilchrist published
In 'Locked Down,' a husband and wife put aside their pandemic estrangement to mount a heist to librate themselves from their collective restlessness.
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