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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...
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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...
I had never seen this one before, so I had NO idea that this is where the phrase “ice ice baby” came from. Vanilla...
This movie is nuts. Let us get that out of the way immediately. It is completely nuts. Yet, it is also extremely charming. I...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
In 1972, my very first experience with a copy machine involved Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan. My buddy had a copy of Gabe Essoe’s book Tarzan...
Holiday-themed horror is nothing new, and some of the early entries in the sub genre such as the original versions of Black Christmas, Halloween...
I described the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as “the Star Trek of my imagination” upon its debut in 2022. Following...
Taika Waititi is known for his goofy, manic, offbeat style of writing and directing. In Next Goal Wins, he applies this lens to 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...
We’re awash in multiverses! The appeal of the multiverse, an escape to another world, another you, another everything, sounds really good after a doomscrolling...
Point Break is a cult classic: the film occupies a space that was uncommon in 1991, and unheard of now: the action-thriller with A-list...
Alice Walker’s book The Color Purple has become an important part of American literary culture. Its impact at the time of its release was...
“Science is real, monsters are not…” Fortunately for us, they are definitely real in this movie! Years before the kids from Stranger Things ventured...
The only way to watch Ridley Scott’s 2001 war epic, Black Hawk Down is to watch the extended cut. Only seven and a half...