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
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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
Tuesday is an imaginative story that goes to surprising places
Tuesday is not at all the movie being advertised. This, of course, is not the result of a dishonest campaign or a willingness to hoodwink
The Bikeriders handsomely embraces a novel setting, but fails to find a new story
Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders features an odd setting that, when you think about it, actually makes perfect sense. Many of us, when we conjure the