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It’s 2023, and while movies barely exist anymore, franchises certainly do. Hence John Wick: Chapter 4, a film that brings the whole John Wick…
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Real heads know that the truly exciting martial arts movie sequel coming out this week is not Keanu Reeves vehicle John Wick 4, but…
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The otherworldly entities featured so prominently in the title of superhero sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods certainly seem to be doing quite a…
The numbers aren’t wrong: the most successful film of 2023 to date, and the most successful film of Zhang Yimou’s career, is also one…
If any company does brand recognition right, it’s Pornhub, launched in 2007 and now one of the largest purveyors of Internet pornography. Whether you’ve…
A boogeyman from a time that predates 24-hour news cycles, podcasts, and true crime docuseries, the Boston Strangler represents something of an unsolvable problem…
Sara Cwynar’s new film Glass Life ends with halting credits that scroll up and down, then back up and back down, over and over,…
Alberto Vázquez is the sleeper MVP of the film animation world. Japanese auteurs like Makato Shinkai, Masaaki Yuasa, and Mamoru Hosoda have comfortably slid…
Alternative music was serious business in the 1980s and ’90s. Fed up with not just stale, bombastic radio rock but hardcore punk’s stylistic blinders,…
Filmmaking duo and brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly have received more than their fair share of vitriol over the years for their particular brand…
It’s the mark of a truly lazy and amateur writer to begin any piece with a dictionary definition, specifically one which relates back to…
One of the most accomplished actors of his generation, equally adept at conveying volcanic rage and soft-spoken humility, Adam Driver’s greatest gift arguably is…
What started more than two decades ago as a completely unexpected shot in the arm for a mostly dead subgenre has steadily declined into…