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Critics often use the word “Hitchcockian” to describe scenes that evoke Psycho or Frenzy: long knives, killers stalking, deep psychological torment. This isn’t necessarily...
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With the release of Tron: Ares, there is no better time to revisit the groundbreaking 1982 grandfather of CGI, Tron, and its 2010...
Somewhere in the special features 60th anniversary release of The Sound of Music (you can also find it on across all physical and digital...
On television, series like ER, The Pitt, 9-1-1, and Grey’s Anatomy have made emergency medical attention must-see programming for millions of viewers. But a...
Critics often use the word “Hitchcockian” to describe scenes that evoke Psycho or Frenzy: long knives, killers stalking, deep psychological torment. This isn’t necessarily...
I have seen the film, The Exorcist: Believer AND it’s actually not bad. I liked it, go figure. Now calm down hold on hear...
Following the sequel trilogy, Star Wars fans like myself had all but given up on Star Wars. The Prequels and Sequels were fine,...
(Warning: plot twists discussed in explicit detail) Get this out of the way: Christopher Nolan is the 2023 box office savior of modern American...
When author Neil Gaiman was challenged to give a one-line summary to his famously sprawling The Sandman, he offered the following: “The King of...
The Equalizer series has been one of the most interesting and dramatically fruitful adaptations of a classic television series in recent memory. The property...
The Expendables series is an unfulfilled promise, an unpaid bill, a workaholic father’s promise to finally take his children to Disneyland. What ought to...
Sure, parody has always been an element of the entertainment industry, but what makes Yankovic’s efforts stand out is how he consistently has managed...
Gareth Edwards’ The Creator begins with a prologue updating us on recent history: an AI detonates a nuclear device in Los Angeles and Western...
During the second hour of Maestro, there’s a scene where Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein comforts his dying wife Felicia, then draws all three of...
There should be a warning at the start of A Disturbance in the Force documentary: DO NOT WATCH the Star Wars Holiday Special. It’s...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
Silent Night represents John Woo’s return to Hollywood after a twenty year absence. Trailers breathlessly proclaim him to be “the Michelangelo of the Action...
Godzilla Minus One sees the titular King of the Monsters simultaneously taken back to basics and pushed forward to reflect the anxiety of contemporary...
To say that Hayao Miyazaki is a brilliant filmmaker and probably the greatest animated film director of all time is a foregone conclusion. It...
Concrete Utopia, South Korea’s nomination for Best Foreign Feature at the upcoming Academy Awards, is a tense thriller, a particularly honest class commentary, a...
Author’s Note: This essay contains minor spoilers for The Man From Nowhere. In The Man From Nowhere, Won Ban plays Cha Tae-sik, a pawnbroker...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
The Expendables has always been a series that was better in concept than execution. Stallone envisioned it as both a reunion tour for the...
Taika Waititi is known for his goofy, manic, offbeat style of writing and directing. In Next Goal Wins, he applies this lens to the...
Showdown at the Grand is about the power of movies to give our lives mythological meaning and the joy of finding your niche of...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
If ever a movie could be said to be “of its time,” it’s Love Virtually. This movie is a satire of all-consuming modern technology....
The Kill Room has a clever and largely original plot. If only they had made a better movie out of it. My problem with...