George Miller’s 2015 return to the Mad Max series he created all the way back in 1979, Fury Road, came a whopping 30 years after…
With 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong, director Adam Wingard became one of the few Western filmmakers to realize that the kaiju movie is more a graphic…
In his lifetime, Johann Sebastian Bach was not considered one of the great composers. He was known for his virtuosic ability, but his vast oeuvre…
We return to the year 10,191 for Dune: Part Two, the cleverly named second half of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal, beloved work…
The entire notion of turning The Color Purple into a musical has always felt a little unseemly. Based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer-winning novel, the book…
Someday, now that it’s all over, someone’s going to write a big fat tell-all about just what exactly happened to the DCEU, a project with…
We live in cynical, hyperconnected times, and one remedy we rely on our cultural products to deliver now and again is genuine, unabashed sincerity. Feel-good…
The modern live-action superhero flick often suffers from a weightlessness problem. These spectacular behemoths dazzle with their cornucopia of digital pleasures, yet the further our…
Long serving as a fun bit of Internet trivia to stoke the engagement machine, fervently celebrated actor/writer/director Greta Gerwig’s canceled 2014 CBS pilot — a…
Surviving the turnover of multiple directors, literal years of delays and reshoots, endless public troubles centered around its star, and even the wholesale scrapping of…
The latest installment of the Evil Dead franchise, Evil Dead Rise, opens with a sequence that will be instantly recognizable to longtime fans of the…
The otherworldly entities featured so prominently in the title of superhero sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods certainly seem to be doing quite a number…
Bill Forsyth may have to bear the reductive, buzzy distinction of having “put Scottish cinema on the map,” but he at least did so with…
“What are your plans for Act Three?” asks one character of Channing Tatum’s Mike about the show he’s directing in Magic Mike’s Last Dance, the…
When Malcolm X, the epic biographical drama about the titular civil rights figure, hit theaters in November 1992, it came off the heels of a…
Black Adam entertains, but only if you view it on autopilot and disregard its lack of thematic subtlety. As Black Adam crash-lands into theaters this Friday,…
Don’t Worry Darling fails to deliver even as much intrigue as its publicity tour, its shallow, ridiculous script resulting in a film that lands with…
Like the best fiction for young children, the secret to Roald Dahl’s bibliography is its sensory qualities, that it can unlock new pathways in the…
“Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. Don’t put limitations on yourself. Others will do that for you.” — James Cameron When…
In the 25 years since Robert Zemeckis released Contact, the search for extraterrestrials has moved from fringe conspiracy theory to a matter of national security.…