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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...
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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...
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...
During the second hour of Maestro, there’s a scene where Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein comforts his dying wife Felicia, then draws all three of...
There should be a warning at the start of A Disturbance in the Force documentary: DO NOT WATCH the Star Wars Holiday Special. It’s...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
Silent Night represents John Woo’s return to Hollywood after a twenty year absence. Trailers breathlessly proclaim him to be “the Michelangelo of the Action...
Godzilla Minus One sees the titular King of the Monsters simultaneously taken back to basics and pushed forward to reflect the anxiety of contemporary...
To say that Hayao Miyazaki is a brilliant filmmaker and probably the greatest animated film director of all time is a foregone conclusion. It...
Concrete Utopia, South Korea’s nomination for Best Foreign Feature at the upcoming Academy Awards, is a tense thriller, a particularly honest class commentary, a...
Author’s Note: This essay contains minor spoilers for The Man From Nowhere. In The Man From Nowhere, Won Ban plays Cha Tae-sik, a pawnbroker...