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Despite being released in 1998, Blade is the transitional point for genre film in the 21st century. Before Blade, the action movie was the...
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Lethal Weapon was one of my dad’s favorite movies. He didn’t have many, and another one was Curly Sue, so I don’t know what...
Before Dangerous Minds, Freedom Writers, or whatever the latest “tough teacher saves troubled teens” movie is, there was Lean on Me—a no-nonsense, bat-wielding,...
Simply, Murder, She Wrote is the TV equivalent of a warm cup of tea on a rainy day—or maybe more like a cup...
Despite being released in 1998, Blade is the transitional point for genre film in the 21st century. Before Blade, the action movie was the...
Before Rob Cohen launched Vin Diesel into his forever franchises of The Fast and the Furious and XXX, he gave us the physics-defying...
Career Opportunities, or “How I Learned To Stop Whalleying and Love Jennifer Connelly” is a fascinating study of a film. I would love...
The advent of streaming television over the last several years has marked a small-screen renaissance for the iconic Star Trek franchise. Under the guidance...
When I watched 2018’s Batman Ninja, I was pleasantly surprised to find that what seemed like tone deaf corporate synergy, was a loving homage...
Until I saw The Informant!, all I knew about lysine was that it’s an amino acid, there’s a lot of it in chickens, and...
As this film nears its thirtieth anniversary, all I could really remember about it was I liked it a lot and it had an...
It has been 11 years since The Babadook was released, and what has followed in the decade since has been a significant increase in...
Oxymoronic as the term may be, mature screwball comedies used to be a standard fixture on release slates in any given year. Unfortunately,...
“ …in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.” – Graham Greene, May We Borrow Your Husband?...
Two brilliant idealists hover over a computer screen, white hat hacking. College friends Martin Brice (Robert Redford) and Cosmo (Ben Kingsley) are conspiring to...
There have been a lot of good Santa Clauses in movies over the years. From Edmund Gwenn, Sebastian Cabot, and Sir Richard Attenborough in...
The Accountant 2 is a quality sequel to a perfectly good original outing. I hadn’t seen the first The Accountant until last month...
The Legend of Ochi is a breath of fresh air in a market flooded with saccharine, spoonfed-plots, and unnaturally colorful family films. A24’s new...
Over a single beautiful day that turns into a scream-filled night, Sinners gives us folk, family, fear, and one of the creepiest forms of...
Magilla Gorilla: The Complete Series is a delightful blast from the past—a classic slice of Hanna-Barbera whimsy that ran from 1964 to 1967....
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
Reminiscing about her first encounter with Jack Quaid’s Josh, the film opens with Sophie Thatcher’s Iris wistfully recounting how it was seemingly love...
The Greek philosopher Aristotle defined tragedy as an action “that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude.” But in the United States, there...
Often confused with Gene Roddenberry’s unsold 1973 TV pilot movie Genesis II, which co-starred actress Mariette Hartley, Earth II was a 1971 unsold TV...
The jungle drums are pounding once more—The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935) has swung onto Blu-ray, freshly restored in HD by Film Masters as...
I grew up in a lower middle-class household in an upper middle-class neighborhood in Northern Kentucky but spent quite a bit of my teenage...
Full disclosure: while running an Olympic-themed movie competition in 2024, your humble FOG! correspondent was pleased (and a bit confused) to discover the surprisingly...
The unsolicited misadventures of the average American just trying to go through life was a favorite formula for 80s Hollywood comedies, resulting in many...