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Reacher returns to form in its third season. The first season, based on the novel Killing Floor, was a perfect introduction because it...
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Reacher returns to form in its third season. The first season, based on the novel Killing Floor, was a perfect introduction because it...
Dan Curtis’s Scream of the Wolf belongs to a cycle of 1970s television horror where the Dark Shadows creator collaborated with the great pulp...
Queen of the Ring tells the story of Mildred Burke’s rise through the male-controlled world of midwestern carnival and pro wrestling in the 1930’s,...
Deep Water (2026) is an unapologetically silly survival thriller that knows exactly who is going to see it. The film was directed by...
For years, Jackie Chan’s defining Hong Kong classics have enjoyed excellent boutique releases, but his blockbuster run through the mid-to-late 1990s has remained...
Introduction: It’s The First Light of Day For most of its five year development cycle, First Light looked like an interesting side project from...
It’s a cliche, but Fight Club is a film even more alive now, in the age of men’s influencers and culture wars, than...
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! feels labored over. It is a gothic romance, an art-deco fable, and a feminist revenge picture. It is the...
Sleepers is a great studio drama for adults: part memoir, part drama, part thriller. Director Barry Levinson adapted Lorenzo Carcaterra’s autobiography and assembled an...
In 1980 Goldie Hawn was looking for a project that allowed her to move beyond the light comic persona that had defined her...
For those who may not know, the “slasher film” has its direct roots in the Italian giallos of the 60’s and 70’s. Those...
Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is like watching a man find the joy in directing films again, even if I...
I’ve never been more pleasantly surprised by a movie I watched for this site than I have been for Zak Hilditch’s We Bury the...
Not Without Hope is a film I’ve of two minds about: on the one hand, it’s a harrowing survival story, made all the more...
From the moment Send Help opens it’s clear which Sam Raimi we’re getting. The opening sequences of Rachel McAdams navigating American corpo-hell as a...
Ella McCay, the latest film written and directed by James L. Brooks, is a warm comedy about balancing ambition and personality from one...
It’s hard to imagine two films coming out in less than a year’s time from the same director that are as different as...
Since the announcement that Shout Factory had acquired the Golden Princess library (which I was fortunate enough to cover for this very website)...
For as popular as epic fantasy has become in our current phase of cinema, few films have actually tried to render myth with...
Each year it arrives with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season. The great European film festivals: Cannes, Venice, and Berlin designate a number...
Icefall is the kind of mid-budget action-thriller Hollywood made its bread and butter through the 1990s, but it’s staged on a micro budget because...
From the moment Send Help opens it’s clear which Sam Raimi we’re getting. The opening sequences of Rachel McAdams navigating American corpo-hell as a...
Edgar Wright needs an intervention. The Cornetto trilogy and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World combined a refined genre sensibility with brilliant editing and stylistic...
Is Scarface still a film, or have the rap samples, video game sequels, merchandise, parodies and references reduced it to a mere cultural touchstone?...