The Alien franchise has touched upon many genres in its 45 years of chest-bursting glory. From its humble beginnings as a single-location, claustrophobic horror flick,
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Cuckoo is…cuckoo
Writer/director Tilman Singer is not interested in holding your hand. He’ll give you every piece of information you need to crack the narrative code of
It Ends with Us is a movie for moms (who deserve a night out, dammit!)
If you have a “mom’s night out” in your near future, it’s likely you’ve already made plans to see It Ends With Us, the adaptation
TRAP is both absurd and absurdly thrilling
Trap is a patently ridiculous movie. An absurd concept milked with such ferocious thoroughness that it cannot help but to enter into wildly far-fetched territories.
Coup! is a lively comic tale of class warfare
While not necessarily a new subgenre, the moniker “eat the rich” has been applied to quite a few movies lately, likely as a result of
Deadpool & Wolverine pokes fun at the boss, but remains a dutiful employee
A fun aspect of the past quarter century of superhero cinema is how the live-action films have retroactively affected the comic book source material. Prior
Twisters is an old fashioned blockbuster with shiny new parts
I have a theory as to why the special effects of ‘90s blockbusters tend to hold up in 2024, and furthermore, why they quite frequently
MaXXXine is a stylish finish to an excellent horror trilogy
Back when X hit theaters in 2022, no one knew it was going to be anything more than the latest stylish throwback from low-budget horror-meister,
A Quiet Place: Day One isn’t bad, but it sure is disappointing
One of the reasons A Quiet Place is so special is that no one saw it coming. A novelty creature feature directed by that dude
Kinds of Kindness is a bizarre and hilarious anthology from a prestige weirdo
I love an anthology film, and the best anthologies typically feel similar to their literary counterpart: the short story collection. This is commonly tied to