There have been entire documentaries made about screen adaptations of Stephen King’s writing. We’re up to something like 80 or 90 individual movies and…
Wolfs is so confident that it can entirely coast on the incredible chemistry between its two leads, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, that it…
Sometimes there’s pleasure to be taken in genre familiarity if the muscles are appropriately and well-flexed. An effectively written voiceover, haunted protagonist, seductive femme…
Zoya Lowe (Mary-Louise Parker) has a problem, but it might be sort of a familiar one, which is a little symptomatic of just what’s…
Don’t look now, but there’s a new action comedy about a hitman! No one should be surprised, as it one of them seems to…
Jeremy Saulnier’s new thriller Rebel Ridge doesn’t waste a moment of time getting wound up. Immediately, Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre, in a terrific performance…
On the heels of this past spring’s I.S.S., the summer season brings us another lower-budget, space-bound indie thriller, Slingshot, starring Casey Affleck in what’s…
First things first: it will be important to remember, going forward, that John Woo’s 2024 movie The Killer, despite being a remake of his…
Genre films — especially horror films — tend to let you do a lot with a little. If you can sell a novel idea…
Ridley Scott’s original 1979 Alien was simultaneously a landmark science fiction film and a landmark horror film, one that married slasher and haunted house…
M. Night Shyamalan’s proudly idiosyncratic career continues unabated with Trap, a profoundly silly and extremely entertaining little thriller that only becomes more of a…
Have you ever watched one of Roland Emmerich’s appreciably bonkers epics and thought to yourself: “What if this had way less action, looked even…
Seemingly willed into existence by hungry fans, the Deadpool movies may not have been great action films or even superhero installments, but at their…
Released the same summer as Independence Day, Jan de Bont’s 1996 special effects bonanza Twister helped kick off the late-’90s/early-2000s disaster movie glut. It’s…
Ti West’s 2022 slasher pastiche X was somewhat of a return to form for a guy who keeps trying to make horror films that…
The first Beverly Hills Cop movie turns 40 this year, and it’s hard to overstate just how electric that movie is even today, a…
John Krasinski’s previous two A Quiet Place movies featured a family of refugees trying to survive after alien monsters — who attack anything that…
It’s hard to find much at all to say about Thelma, an agreeably light, mostly affectionate comedy that basically seems calculated to make you…