Midway through Joker, Joaquin Phoenix dances as he traipses down a New York staircase, and the soundtrack pounds to “Rock and Roll Part 2,” an anthem played at almost every sports arena for decades. The song’s performer, Gary Glit...
At one level, Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit is a fable about horror and redemption. On the other, it’s a coming-of-age story, where tales of monsters and villains, the basis of most literature aimed at children, are twisted to creat...
Viewers who’ve felt that Fear the Walking Dead has lacked a compelling villain this season may be pleasantly surprised this week. Following several obvious filler entries, it’s nice to have a fairly eventful episode again.
Dolemite Is My Name is a delightful deep dive into the world of indie film production and the Blaxploitation genre. The movie feels like a spiritual sequel to Tim Burton’s Ed Wood (also scripted by screenwriters Scott Alexander an...
Not content to own just about every major blockbuster franchise, Disney makes a big play to drain every last penny out of our wallets by re-releasing seemingly half of its animation catalog onto Blu-ray and 4k Ultra HD this week. ...
The sequel to the 2017 horror smash It arrives this weekend, and we can hope for the best that it will live up to the original. Sadly, many horror sequels don’t. In fact, a lot of them are just plain awful. Like some of these, for...
A clown, especially an ancient evil one, is a grand central character for any horror film. However, it takes more than Pennywise to keep It: Chapter Two rolling.
Netflix’s new epic event series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is what happens when you give Jim Henson’s gentle 1982 fantasy parable to the director of Transporter 2 with instructions to Game of Thrones the hell out of it. I...
Hmmm, how best to succinctly describe the central conflict in Billy the Kid vs. Dracula…?
Fear the Walking Dead finds religion this week in an episode heavy with themes of faith and purpose. Surprisingly, it’s not the worst episode of the season. Of course, it’s also certainly not the best.
Beautiful and devastating, Le quai des brumes (Port of Shadows) stands as one of the prime examples of poetic realism and remains a classic of French cinema.
Summer may not officially end for a couple more weeks according to the calendar, but the week after Labor Day marks the start of the school season for most American kids. For our purposes here, it also means that more summer movie...
