Our minds have been busy over here coming up with election-themed posts. But we have a lot of station resources at our disposal, including our resident film critic Jonathan Miller. Miller has been reviewing independent and foreign films on Eight Forty-Eight for years so we came to him with an idea.

We pitched him on writing up some reviews for the best campaign commercials this primary season.You’ve got Andy McKenna’s hair commercial, some great Hynes/Quinn back and forth and a couple instant classics in the Cook County board race. Jonathan jumped on the idea to watch and critique.

We reviewed a few and we’ll release them all before election day. Our first is a doozy – Toni Preckwinkle’s ad with a cameo from Ben Franklin.

Mr. Miller – the box-office is now open: