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Kinds of Kindness is an anthology of moods. Director Yorgos Lanthimos calls it “an absurdist anthology” but this is as misleading as it...
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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...
Kinds of Kindness is an anthology of moods. Director Yorgos Lanthimos calls it “an absurdist anthology” but this is as misleading as it...
Pixar should keep doing what it’s been doing all along: sequels to previous big hits, less personal projects and more crowd-pleasing merchandise-friendly corporate...
It’s been nearly twenty years since the comic Watchmen was first recommended to me. I was blown away by its storytelling and artistic style....
Are you looking for a post-feminism film that deconstructs the toxic beauty standard of society but found the Barbie movie too glammed-up in a...
Movies that require comedians to carry them with their acting skills are always a dicey proposition and one would be forgiven for regarding a...
Back in 1992, the BBC was inundated with complaints after the fictional paranormal investigation program Ghostwatch was broadcast during prime time on October 31st,...
In film criticism, we use “epic” as a shorthand for a long form film with a large cast and sprawling story, but the classical...
A mere two years after Christian Tafdrup’s Speak No Evil made its debut, his unpleasant, eerie thriller has been remade by English filmmaker James...
The Sixth Sense was a cultural touchstone in 1999: endlessly referenced, parodied, and discussed by America at large. The film’s catchphrase, “I see...
M. Night Shyamalan has been a household name for decades thanks to the Pennsylvania-based filmmaker carving out a niche for himself in the world...
Even if you have never seen the original, you know to stop at two. Beetlejuice is so firmly locked into the cultural landscape that...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
Set 300 years on from the conclusion of Caesar’s saga, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a soft reboot of sorts of...
Very few films portray male friendship with the energy of Doug Liman’s 1996 breakout hit Swingers. What is so rewarding about the film nearly...
Pixar, you heartstring tuggers, you… ugh, you’ve done it again. It’s funny. My children have aged out of Disney/Pixar movies so they aren’t...
Class is a fascinating relic of 1980s cinema, serving as both a typical teen comedy of the era and a precursor to the...
Disappointing but still worthwhile documentary on the extraordinary makeup artists – led by John Chambers and Tom Burman – who created the revolutionary...
Oy vey… I used to really like this movie. Now it’s a novelty remembrance to bygone times, cultural appropriation, casual homophobia, misogyny and unrequited...
This is the final part of the Crisis on Infinite Earths animated films that DC has been releasing in the last few years. I...
The 1990 television series The Flash, created by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, was a groundbreaking adaptation of the DC Comics character...
Money Talks is a buddy action-comedy that pairs Charlie Sheen and Chris Tucker in a wild ride of high-octane chases, slapstick humor, and...
It’s always a blessing to review a new John Woo film, and to get two in less than a year makes this Year of...
Sequels, prequels, and reboots of both the hard and soft variety have long since become a cornerstone of Hollywood productions, as the money-making prospects...
There’s been a deluge of Hong Kong action from boutique Blu-ray labels in the past few years, but one area which has been...