If LAIKA’s Wildwood was an absolute travesty in every other way, its floor would remain high because simply just looking at it, regardless of plot…
It was only a matter of time until the superhero machine sank its teeth into body horror. With Clayface, the DCU makes good on a…
Sacha Baron Cohen must have depleted the water supply of approximately 17 townships to present us with all of the following: AI-generated Hitler and Greta…
“The odds of being swallowed by a whale are not zero.” That little factoid is from a promotional tweet by the distributor of Whalefall, a…
Aaron Sorkin began his directing career at the tender age of 56, decidedly later than most. As one of Hollywood’s most widely celebrated screenwriters, he…
Partway through Verity, Dakota Johnson’s protagonist, well on her way to seducing her employer’s husband (played by Josh Hartnett), takes a bite out of a…
Aficionados of the Dog Movie will tell you that there are several distinct strains therein. You’ve got your broad comedies, usually involving a large and…
Watching Resident Evil, I thought about choice, the force that presents differently in video games and video game adaptations. In the former, a spectator-player chooses…
The magic is gone. That much is impossible to ignore. Practical Magic 2 is little more than reheated nostalgia bait, though Warner Bros. would like…
Summer is closing. The weather remains warm, but the chill of autumn whispers its hello with a breeze that reminds us of time’s passing. It…
Coyote vs. Acme’s journey from Warner Bros. tax write-off to Ketchup Entertainment theatrical release is well-documented. What the three-year-plus saga illuminated, more than anything, is…
A nasty, ruthlessly streamlined throwback to the sleepover staples of the Reagan administration, David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street (unofficially) brings the curtain…
Relative to its paltry budget, 2001’s Super Troopers, the second film from American comedy troupe Broken Lizard (consisting of Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme,…
Many of us can agree that 2026 has been a dark year, and the sights ahead only look dimmer. War, starvation, deportation, rising cost of…
Thomas Kail’s live-action Moana retains the 2016 animated film’s narrative and musical architecture so faithfully that the change of medium amounts largely to a substitution…
It seems like there are only two certain things nowadays: death and new Spider-Man movies. Audiences apparently just love the character, so much so that…
Christopher Nolan is the movies now. For good or ill, he has been anointed as the ultimate modern filmmaker, a Spielbergian master pushing the medium…
Spilling over with indeterminate parody-cum-reenactments of ’20s, ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s motion picture nostalgia, this first real effort in galvanizing the slapstick potential of the…
One of the funny little indignities of life is that as men hit their 50s, reaching a stage when many are arguably at their peak…
Immediately obvious in Supergirl is that it seems determined not to be seen as merely a sequel to, or a full spinoff of, James Gunn’s…
Back so soon, Mr. Stanton? Following the unmitigated, off-the-rails trainwreck of In the Blink of an Eye in February, one might expect the director to…