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American Graffiti is one of my favorite films of all time made by one of my most favorite filmmakers of all time. It is...
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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...
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...
American Graffiti is one of my favorite films of all time made by one of my most favorite filmmakers of all time. It is...
The Abyss was James Cameron’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind: a non-traditional passion project dealing with weightier science-fiction themes than normal for a...
It’s getting hard out there for The Boys. Not just the lads themselves, nor for boys in general —although a season that begins with...
A woman’s husband commits suicide. When faced with the financial realities he has been hiding from her, she turns to the cultivation of an...
James Cameron gave two speeches on the night that Titanic won eleven Academy Awards. The first one for Best Director began with his declaration...
Fargo is one of the greatest American films of all time. Like Hannah and Her Sisters, it has the feeling of a great novel...
My big Christmas movie this season was 2003’s Love Actually. Surprisingly, especially considering I’m an Anglophile from way back and this film stars...
Since The Questor Tapes was one of Gene Roddenberry’s several attempts at following up on Star Trek, a lot has been written about it...
1. AMERICAN FICTION Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, writer/director Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction is a quietly angry, laugh-out-loud goof on...
What is it with vomiting scenes in movies these days? I hate it in real life and I hate it in the movies. Violent...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
Note: This does not reflect the current health diagnosis of Bruce Willis. Whether or not he was already suffering from dementia when the...
The words tragedy and triumph famously encompass the story of the legendary Von Erich family within pro wrestling circles. Sean Durkin wrote and directed...
I don’t normally discuss marketing in these reviews but I must make an exception here: there is no more representative aspect of the strange...
Is there any more perfect combination on paper than Bill Murray’s cinematic persona of “jerk who learns the value of his fellow man” and...
Critics often use the word “Hitchcockian” to describe scenes that evoke Psycho or Frenzy: long knives, killers stalking, deep psychological torment. This isn’t necessarily...
I have seen the film, The Exorcist: Believer AND it’s actually not bad. I liked it, go figure. Now calm down hold on hear...
Following the sequel trilogy, Star Wars fans like myself had all but given up on Star Wars. The Prequels and Sequels were fine,...
(Warning: plot twists discussed in explicit detail) Get this out of the way: Christopher Nolan is the 2023 box office savior of modern American...
When author Neil Gaiman was challenged to give a one-line summary to his famously sprawling The Sandman, he offered the following: “The King of...
The Equalizer series has been one of the most interesting and dramatically fruitful adaptations of a classic television series in recent memory. The property...
The Expendables series is an unfulfilled promise, an unpaid bill, a workaholic father’s promise to finally take his children to Disneyland. What ought to...
Sure, parody has always been an element of the entertainment industry, but what makes Yankovic’s efforts stand out is how he consistently has managed...
Gareth Edwards’ The Creator begins with a prologue updating us on recent history: an AI detonates a nuclear device in Los Angeles and Western...