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The almighty sequel. What happens when a movie makes so much money that when a follow-up is forced into production it’s literally for...
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Let me say right here up front that I’ve only ever read a handful of Deadpool comics and I had my fill of Wolverine...
Robin Williams was an utterly fascinating individual. I recently re-watched his early pre-Mork TV appearances on the second iteration of Laugh-In. I remember watching...
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 almighty sequel. What happens when a movie makes so much money that when a follow-up is forced into production it’s literally for...
A few weeks ago, Godzilla Minus One made history when the 70-year-old kaiju won its first Academy Award, celebrating the visual effects of Takashi...
Who is Darkman? In the summer of 1989, I had only been working in the marketing department of Universal Pictures for a few weeks...
While the historical-clips-plus-talking-heads style of this documentary may be conventional, its subject was anything but: namely FLOTUS Lady Bird Johnson’s indomitable press secretary, Mary...
What would you say if you could have a conversation with a loved one after they had passed? All of Us Strangers follows London-based...
“You can’t stop the production just because somebody dies.” So says Pinny Grylls, co-director of the singular (and 2024 SXSW Documentary Feature Competition Jury...
Honestly, I was skeptical when I heard that The Color Purple had been made into a musical. The Steven Spielberg/Quincy Jones version from 1985...
As most horror fans will attest to, quality horrors in mainstream English language cinema can be few and far between, and any gore hound...
To many, 1984’s Ghostbusters was lightning in a bottle, and to some, it became a cornerstone of a lifelong dedication to the franchise that...
Religious and occult horror has always fascinated audiences, and this horror sub-genre has indeed delivered many classics such as Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen and...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
Let me begin this review by saying that It had been about 12 years since I had seen Paprika before this current watch and...
I’ll start by sharing, I am a fan of the Hunger Games Trilogy books. While I was well into my 30s when the...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest has an early scene of Bella (Emma Stone) holding a scalpel at an alarming angle and stabbing a corpse’s eyeballs multiple times...
From the earliest Gen Con wargaming clubs in the 1960s to the Freaks and Geeks and Stranger Things kids rolling 20-sided dice in suburban...
Though not technically a musical, writer/director Fawzia Mirza’s The Queen of My Dreams is peppered with engaging song and dance numbers (both in the...
As one of the most celebrated works of science fiction of all time, Frank Herbert’s magnum opus Dune is a dizzyingly expansive narrative, and...
I know, I know, I am a baker’s dozen number of years late in watching this insane action film. So sue me. Better late...
That Girl, the groundbreaking television series that premiered in 1966, stands as a cultural artifact of its time, with both commendable and questionable aspects....
Kingdom of the Spiders is a fun thrill ride of a movie that doesn’t get enough credit. In this man vs. nature run amok...
You may have heard that The Marvels seems to have developed a poor reputation. In fact, word of mouth was against it even before...
Disney has been celebrating 100 years of its particular brand of storytelling magic. Children and adults alike have been delighted by their versions of...
John Woo’s latest brings to mind Norma Desmond’s immortal lines: “There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of...