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The unsolicited misadventures of the average American just trying to go through life was a favorite formula for 80s Hollywood comedies, resulting in many...
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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...
The unsolicited misadventures of the average American just trying to go through life was a favorite formula for 80s Hollywood comedies, resulting in many...
As Steven Spielberg broke through the mainstream and truly made a name for himself with 1975’s Jaws, the film’s success not only made people...
Any time you watch, read, or listen to a vampire story, you must ask: What is this story really about? Monsters, we must remember,...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
What’s that? You’re looking for a charming and slightly bizarre animated movie about a young girl abandoned by her deadbeat, gambling dad that now...
Constantine has undergone a strong fan reappraisal in recent years. When it was announced in 2005, the transposing of Alan Moore’s working class con-artist...
With the notable exceptions of Witness and Kingpin (and, more recently, Sarah Polley’s Women Talking), big screen depictions of the stubbornly old school, modernity-eschewing...
For as long as there have been celebrities, there have been superfans – those that take their love of the art to levels...
Here’s the thing. I went into the screening of the new Jack Quaid film, Novocaine, completely unaware of what the film was about. All...
It kills me to type these next few words: Bong Joon Ho’s long delayed and eagerly anticipated, Mickey 17, is sadly, in my...
Tom and Jerry: The Complete CinemaScope Collection compiles all 23 widescreen shorts produced between 1954 and 1958, marking the final phase of Hanna-Barbera’s...
Long ago in the distant shores of Oceania, there was a movie called Moana about a girl who discovers the dangers of meeting...
With the turn of the millennium on the horizon, 90s blockbusters increasingly became preoccupied with grandiose disaster scenarios, and Dante’s Peak became one...
There are two ways one can review a biographical motion picture. The first is to compare what’s onscreen with what you know (or...
Anticipation has always been a double-edged sword in cinema. Even a fairly decent movie will have studios hoping that a second crack at...
The Disney live-action remake has become the butt of many a joke about Hollywood’s inability to nurture originality, with viewers often left wondering...
In the early 1970s, I was a budding film buff and the Humphrey Bogart cult was booming in the college dorms with books,...
The Blu-ray release of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: The Complete Series brings back a curious relic of 1970s animation—a Hanna-Barbera experiment...
Uncle Buck is probably the film that the late John Candy is best remembered for, and with good reason. The comedy boom of...
When I was a kid, I never imagined that we would one day have a Spider-Man movie. Heck, I remembered buying Comics Scene...
Oh, Werewolves, where do I even begin with this howling disaster? Directed by Steven C. Miller, the story, if you can call it...
The Batman (2022), Matthew Reeves’ rain-soaked and idiosyncratic take on the Caped Crusader’s adventures, wasn’t universally loved, but the film’s version of The...
A veritable genre of its own, the Stephen King adaptation has been a mainstay of eerie entertainment on screens big and small for...
This release of Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles from the Warner Archive marks the first time this classic 1966-1967 Hanna-Barbera animated series has...