From South Korea, where genre mash-ups are frequently the biggest box office success of the year, comes Extreme Job, a combination of cop drama, broad comedy, and food porn that’s one of the most madcap films you’ll ev...
Capturing mental health issues on screen without victimization or exploitation may feel like a fool’s errand. Swallow is not a foolish film, and its gamble pays off handsomely.
As the world continues to react in horror to that Cats trailer that dropped late last week, another Uncanny Valley abomination from earlier this year hits home video. This is a tough time to be a CGI or mo-cap artist in Hollywood.
While The Lion King, Pulp Fiction, and Forrest Gump dominated the conversation in 1994, the year also had a number of movies that were unfairly undervalued or have been largely forgotten over time. This Roundtable makes a case for...
The new remake affords me an excuse to pull another Disney classic off my Laserdisc shelf. People seemed to enjoy looking at my Toy Story LD box set, so here’s a peek at how The Lion King was treated on the big, shiny discs.
With its confusing and frankly meaningless title, cable TV origins, and mostly B-level stars, The Last Seduction largely flew under viewers’ radars back in 1994. Fortunately, the movie holds up remarkably well as a darkly co...
When The Lion King came out in 1994, it helped solidify the Disney renaissance of that era. The film felt fresh, original, and entirely engaging. Decades on, that sense of wonder and experimentation is mostly erased in Jon Favreau...
It’s probably too soon to tell for sure, and I wouldn’t put it past the show’s writers to ret-con a BS explanation later to get out of it, but Fear the Walking Dead appears to have done something pretty shocking ...
In what is proving to be a very expensive July, this week’s selection of new Blu-rays and Ultra HD discs have to compete not just with each other, but against all the other bargains being unleashed as part of Amazon’s ...
A couple weeks ago, we asked what movie you wish could be erased from all memory of its existence. For the flip side, what one single movie would you save if all other examples of the cinema art form were wiped out?
Putting a new twist on a classic setup, Trespassers asks you to wonder how you would react if your Airbnb was the setting for a home invasion horror thriller. The movie walks a well trodden path, but a few enhancements in lighting...
On paper, Riley Stearns’ quirky, sinister dark comedy The Art of Self-Defense hits all its marks. It’s a bleak yet at times delightfully silly twist on rom-com tropes, with some kung-fu shenanigans thrown in for color....
