If you’re looking for a supposed “fresh set of eyes” in your criticism, I am the ideal audience for Mortal Kombat II. I haven’t seen…
Jorma Taccone’s Over Your Dead Body, a remake of violent Norwegian comedy The Trip, concerns a married couple (Jason Segel and Samara Weaving) who each…
No, it’s not the Brendan Fraser vehicle, nor is Boris Karloff back from the dead; Tom Cruise, mercifully, is nowhere to be found. An original…
Two things can be true at once — a simple fact of life many folks still struggle to accept. Even with his reputation perpetually tarnished…
It wasn’t too surprising to watch Bob Odenkirk transition from a comedian to a sturdy dramatic actor; that kind of thing happens all the time.…
The Super Mario Galaxy movie, a further collaboration between Nintendo and Illumination Studios, after 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie, is bound to be another…
There’s something immensely refreshing about a skillfully put together piece of pop pastiche like Project Hail Mary. It’s almost entirely made up of parts from…
The mainstream romantic drama matters. Movies on the artier end of the spectrum — Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless…
Given the franchise’s downward trajectory since its requel resurrection, reasonable hopes were never bound to be high for Scream 7. But then came the reprehensible…
Hoppers, the latest animation project from Pixar/Disney, exceeds according to at least one important metric: it’s a familiar product, offering easily consumable family-fare and realizing…
The title of Bart Layton’s Crime 101 is a play on the film’s plot primarily transpiring on and around the 101 Freeway — a major interstate highway…
A spiritual cousin to 2009’s financial crisis-set Drag Me to Hell, the new film Send Help announces the much anticipated return of Sam Raimi, horror…
Most even casual moviegoers are probably already familiar with the Screenlife subgenre, but for those who aren’t hip to the terminology, it’s made up of…
28 Years Later pushed the blockbuster forward by just as many years, shaking off the ubiquitous flat and sterile look forced down our throats by…
In recent years, viewers have been treated to a consistent wave of music biopics, including films like Elvis or A Complete Unknown or just this…
In a moment in history increasingly submerged in a swill of irony and pessimism, James L. Brooks’ insistence on goodness feels like the last burst…
Adapted from Freida McFadden’s BookTok sensation and starring two of Hollywood’s most in-demand blonde actresses in Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried (both of whom also…
We’re back on Pandora, which according to multiple credible reports, still ain’t Kansas. 2022’s The Way of Water proved that James Cameron’s richly imagined and…
Of film history’s lost White Whales — the complete Magnificent Ambersons, for example, or The Day the Clown Cried — the eventual release of The…
Perhaps we’ve been sold an overly literal version of heaven when we jump at the chance to live forever. While theologians balk at how transactional…
Sequel naming conventions can be a funny thing. The majority will opt for merely adding the next sequential numeral — Roman or otherwise — while…