“Our daddies are our mirrors that we reflect back on when we decide about what type of man we deserve and how they see us…
Films like Booksmart, Mean Girls (the 2024 musical version), and other more recent entries into the teen movie canon have proven that it’s an increasingly…
If anything is to be said of Zack Snyder, it’s that he has never met a director’s cut he didn’t like, with films such as…
People tend to fall into two camps when asked about Everest: those who want to climb it, whether that be a serious goal or more…
Without further context, one could be forgiven for conflating Skywalkers: A Love Story with yet another Star Wars spinoff. Donning the Jedi’s patronymic and draped…
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 then-mostly-novel…
Richard LaGravenese’s (P.S. I Love You) new Netflix rom-com A Family Affair — which offers viewers an easy-sell reunion for A-listers Nicole Kidman and Zac…
If you watch Trigger Warning, Netflix’s latest big-budget action movie, with captions turned on, you may notice the phrase “terrorist, in Arabic” in the film’s…
Given the baffling and total absence of any marketing from Netflix, the fact that cult movie mainstay Takashi Miike made his return to the genre…
A good animal attack movie doesn’t need to overstuff its checklist. Basically, all the film needs to do is trap a bunch of folks in…
Adapted from a 2001 article published in Texas Monthly and very loosely inspired by the life of law enforcement personnel Gary Johnson, Richard Linklater’s Hit…
The latest movie star to fight the machines is Jennifer Lopez, the title character in the extremely generic Atlas. It’s the future, of course, and…
It must be stated that Jerry Seinfeld’s hugely popular, eponymous sitcom about four superficial and self-involved New Yorkers, Seinfeld (perhaps you’ve heard of it) remains…
Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon: Part 2 – The Scargiver is less the conclusion to the director’s epic two-part techno-fantasy than a post-mortem. If it’s the…
Imtiaz Ali, classified as an auteur for skewering the conventional (in)sensibility of Bollywood’s melodramatic romances, is actually somewhat unclassifiable. He began his career in the…
Does pop culture really need another Tom Ripley adaptation? That’s a fair question, considering just a couple of summers ago the fashion world was ablaze…
Netflix’s royal cash cow moos again with Scoop, a film so snugly nestled in The Crown’s shadow that it feels more like a Prince Edward…
Georges Arnaud’s novel The Wages of Fear has, of course, been adapted for the screen twice: Henri-Georges Clouzot directed his film of the same title…
Irish Wish marks the second collaboration between Janeen Damian and Lindsay Lohan, after their lukewarm yet distinctly feel-good Falling for Christmas. Far from the wintry…
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People are increasingly alarmed at the prospect of AI infiltrating creative work, turning humans into unnecessary appendages in the process of making movies, art, music,…