Due to scheduling issues, we won’t have a review of the new live-action remake of Aladdin in the blog this week. Assuming that it’s anywhere near as awful as it looks (because it looks really awful), this makes us wonder how badly...
Like his 2015 film The Witch, Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse feels more like a lost artifact than something newly produced. Where The Witch explored the darkness of Salem paranoia and demonic possession, the director’s latest dives...
Awwww, “parasite” is such a nasty word. How many parasites do you know with a voice this velvety smooth? Can they articulately debate? Do they croon? Can they inject a hallucinatory chemical directly into your gray matter so you d...
The first Hollywood film to seriously address the nature of mental illness, The Snake Pit paved the way for other harrowing portraits like The Three Faces of Eve and Sybil. It also features a raw, riveting performance from Olivia ...
Earlier this year, the IMAX Corporation and DTS introduced the new IMAX Enhanced variant of the DTS:X sound format, and I wrote a few articles trying to get to the bottom of what it really is or does. Just as I thought I understoo...
The fable-like title (an obvious allusion to Leone) and Quentin Tarantino’s track record of toying with history should give you a pretty good hint about what’s in store with his latest film. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is set in...
In addition to all the space travel, it looks like the big theme on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. this season is going to be alternate dimensions. I’ll give the show some credit; those are pretty ambitious sci-fi concepts for a series th...
For the last few decades, Romanian directors have been at the forefront of what’s been dubbed “slow cinema,” a kind of overtly anti-Hollywood dialing down of editorial pace and narrative precision. Corneliu Porumboiu (Police, Adje...
Game of Thrones is over, and I’m sure no one’s happy about it. Those fans who still like the show are sad that it’s over, and the series finale was never likely to change the minds of those who’ve complained all season about how m...
The rise of Elton John to superstardom is indicative of much of the 1970s music industry. Rocketman is a tale of raunchiness and excess, hubris and humiliation, told many times before about many artists.
Already feeling the loss of Game of Thrones and need a little more fiery dragon action in your life? DreamWorks has you covered on Blu-ray and UHD this week, albeit with a kids’ cartoon. On the upside, this version probably has le...
Game of Thrones may be ending this weekend, but the story in Westeros is certainly not done. HBO already has a prequel series in development, though the details of it are still under wraps. What spinoffs would you like to pitch th...
