There are three kinds of transportation that dominate cinema: the horse, the car, and the train. Each of these has its romance and its…
Is there anything new to say about The Godfather? This might have been a worthwhile question even very shortly after it came out. The…
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 difficult to think of a more cynical, creatively stagnant genre than the celebrity musical biopic. Seriously, even the comic book movies will produce…
“Like all history,” says an updated Damian (Jaquel Spivey) to the refreshed Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) and Janis (Auliʻi Cravalho), “this story is emotionally…
Last year, Nathan Fielder’s self-named character in his semi-fictional show The Rehearsal built an ever-expanding fake world around himself as insulation from anything outside…
Who owns America? The most cynical answer is likely the correct one: the highest bidders, the ones most willing to relinquish from themselves the…
An indie horror film about a young woman trying to keep her inner beast at bay, it’s a testament to Jacqueline Castel’s My Animal…
Since the last Mission: Impossible movie, Fallout, was released in 2018, Tom Cruise has seemingly forced his superhero status into the real world by…
Appropriate for a film set in and around Boston, Peter Yates’ 1973 crime-drama The Friends of Eddie Coyle is about a man who mistakenly…
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts marks the seventh film in the long-running series based on the Hasbro toy line, and the second not directed…
Tucked deep in the uncanny valley of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, is a street of towering, decaying Dutch Elm trees. Probe deeper, and beneath the…
There is no winning in Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) — not really. You can reach the end of a campaign or defeat something very…
What started more than two decades ago as a completely unexpected shot in the arm for a mostly dead subgenre has steadily declined into…
There’s a contradiction at the heart of James Cameron’s work, and the reason he’s such a quintessential Hollywood figure is because of, not despite,…
Let it be said that indie writer-director John Swab is currently the hardest working man in show business, with his second film of the…
The ’60s and ’70s were a highly politically-charged time for Italian cinema. The country’s neorealism movement chronicled working class lives in a post-WWII Italy — a…
Tucked into the lap of the tributaries of the Euphrates River, the city of Babylon once towered. Hammurabi, who conquered the entirety of Southern…