Still creepy after all these years, Village of the Damned epitomizes the type of top-notch, low-budget horror film that unnerved audiences in the 1950s and ’60s. It’s just disturbing enough to give us nightmares today… and tonight...
Travis Knight, lead animator for Laika Entertainment, turns out to be an inspired choice to tackle the Transformers prequel, Bumblebee. Where Michael Bay’s vision expanded this toy-to-TV franchise to increasingly over-the-top prop...
The title of Mary Poppins Returns perfectly encapsulates just what you’re going to get from this sequel to Disney’s live-action/animation classic. Unapologetically nostalgic, Rob Marshall’s new musical feels like a film out of tim...
Having recently subjected myself to Exorcist II again, I felt it important to watch a good John Boorman movie afterwards. The 1967 crime thriller Point Blank is a refreshing reminder that, despite a couple of notorious flops, the ...
James Wan’s Aquaman benefits greatly from lowered expectations. The very notion of this character getting a big-screen solo effort always seemed kind of silly. Entourage took the piss out of the watery superhero years ago, and the...
When it comes down to it, Dumplin’ doesn’t do anything we haven’t seen before. It’s a tale of self-acceptance and growing up through the framework of competition and community. However, it still manages to be a solid coming-of-age...
After finishing up one of the most acclaimed TV series of recent years, Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner no doubt had his pick of next project on any number of cable or broadcast networks. Ultimately, Amazon Prime streaming offered ...
This week marks the last big retail push before Christmas, and the home video slate is jam-packed with lots of new Blu-ray and Ultra HD releases. Not too many of them feel very festive, strangely.
This week’s Once Upon a Deadpool opens up an exciting marketing opportunity for all manner of adult-oriented movies to provide re-edited, cleaned-up versions safe for family consumption. It’s like everything those Cleanflix weirdo...
Ben Is Back is the latest film to tackle the losing battle this country is waging with the opioid crisis. However, rather than showing the effects of addiction and the long road to recovery, it instead focuses on the criminal elem...
For about two-thirds of its running time, The Mule feels what it should be – an affable, briskly-directed tale of an old white dude who finds himself running copious amounts of narcotics for a Mexican cartel. The film has elements...
As that token non-comic book guy, the thought of some metaverse with oodles of differing Spidey-people seemed more tedious than thrilling to me. Within moments, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse does what so few comic book movies ...
