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In the wake of Clint Eastwood’s ridiculous appearance at the 2012 Republican National Convention, the actor’s personal politics became recontextualized as entirely regressive by...
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Fredrick Forsyth’s 1971 debut thriller The Day of the Jackal is one of the greatest works of “airport literature” ever made. The book’s...
“Make the bad thing OK, and there’s no guilt…” Love hurts. Especially when you are thrown through a designer table and smashed into an aquarium! ...
Tackling one of Stephen King’s tales penned under his Richard Bachmann pseudonym, Edgar Wright seeks to update the story with a new adaptation nearly...
In the wake of Clint Eastwood’s ridiculous appearance at the 2012 Republican National Convention, the actor’s personal politics became recontextualized as entirely regressive by...
Some films are so significant in the American cinematic memory that it’s difficult to say anything about them. The Godfather springs to mind as...
Filmmaker Bong Joon-ho made history with 2019’s Parasite, as his critically acclaimed and pitch black social satire became the first non-English language film to...
Clint Eastwood’s 1980’s were a boom and bust period oscillating between smaller, complex pictures that often challenged the audience’s perception of his persona and...
“I need you to trust me. One last time.” – Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is possibly the...
Taylor Sheridan’s Lioness returns for a second season and continues to fuse military drama with undercover espionage and emotional intensity. The ingredients are...
Director Jack Arnold’s The Glass Web is a 1953 B movie that was completely new to me. I had never before heard of it...
The Long Kiss Goodnight is a transitional film, both for the talented cast and crew that made it and for the American film industry...
Rewatching Love Hurts for this review, I completely stand by my original stance that Love Hurts is just what I need right now....
They probably should have stopped with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. That would have been the right note for John Ford and John...
I fell into the Paddington Movie franchise completely by accident as the result of a joke. I hadn’t seen any of the Paddington movies...
Once upon a time there was an animation studio that loved cartoons very, very much. So much that, in 1937, it made its very...
Of the Western revival in American cinema in the 1990’s, two films primarily remain in the public consciousness: Clint Eastwood’s 1992 elegy, Unforgiven and...
When I was growing up, much of my generation seemed to always want to know about who and what had come before. We embraced...
Back in the studio days, there was a contractual requirement that if your movie was shot in Technicolor, there had to be a Technicolor...
”I woke up one morning, and when I looked in the mirror I noticed my nose was bent over entirely onto one side of...
As spoiled for choice as we have been with the amount of well-executed, R-rated elevated horror in recent years, sometimes, all you want is...
Where do I begin? Marvel films used to be an event in my family. The family group chat would blow up as we decided...
Hanna-Barbera’s riotous road rally from 1968, Wacky Races gets the high-definition treatment it deserves. If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if The...
The future isn’t what it used to be. With Star Trek: Section 31, the franchise gets its first full-length movie since 2016’s Star...
Set in the fictional suburb of Happy Hollow, Michigan, circa 1989, Hysteria! taps into the Satanic Panic of the ‘80s with a mix...
When they write about the great Films Noir, the 1949 movie Side Street rarely makes the list, but perhaps it should. Side Street,...
Sonic the Hedgehog’s foray into the world of film has certainly come a long way since that fateful first trailer in the spring of...
Heroes is an unusually heartfelt story about a Vietnam veteran who hides his PTSD under a quirky mask of positivity that’s incredibly thought-provoking in...