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Belle, the latest offering from Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda, posits a world where a social…
Reboots, sequels and ‘requels’, as Scream (2022) dubs them, are certainly commonplace in Hollywood these…
The Spider-Man film franchise is one of the most beloved and successful series of all…
National Champions, from director Ric Roman Waugh, takes a thoughtful, unflinching look at the complex…
West Side Story wasn’t exactly crying out for a remake. Indeed, the 1961 Oscar winner…
Nearly two decades after becoming the first Black woman to win the Oscar for Best…
The universally maligned Ghostbusters (2016) reboot was proof to the studios of one thing: if…
Allow me to open this review of Red Notice by saying that I’m a huge…
Boasting a roster introducing the most new superhero characters ever in the same MCU movie,…
Much in the way Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood hearkened back to the…
Denis Villeneuve’s most ambitious project to date finds the director shepherding Frank Herbert’s impossibly dense…
Adam Randall’s Night Teeth, premiering this week on Netflix, offers a sleek and stylish riff…
When it comes to staging eye-popping historical action, few are as adept as Ridley Scott.…
Venom wasn’t a slam dunk with either critics or fans, but it left audiences clamoring…
Director Michael Showalter is best known for comedic efforts like Wet Hot American Summer and…
After an all-digital rendition due to the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the Toronto International Film…
Just three years after Gustav Möller’s taut low-budget Danish thriller The Guilty, Antoine Fuqua helms…
Michael McGowan’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’ acclaimed novel All My Puny Sorrows seeks to explore…
Vampires and filmmaking have been intertwined since the earliest days of cinema, when F. W.…
The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival is officially underway, kicking things off last night with…
On paper, Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly’s Queenpins sounds like a surefire comedic premise: two…
Playwright John Pollono makes his directorial debut with Small Engine Repair, adapting his acclaimed 2011…
Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s charmingly awkward portrayal of the assassin Huntress was one of the highlights…
The 2021 Fantasia International Film Festival has come to a close, and after experiencing heart-pounding…
Musclebound WWE superstar John Cena may not have the box office drawing power of fellow…
If you were a teen in the 90s, there’s a good chance you and your…
In the infamous Cabrini-Green housing project in 1977, Sherman Fields (Michael Hargrove) was known throughout…
A wickedly funny but wildly uneven riff on office politics, Kazuaki Seki’s Office Royale –…
Edoardo Vitaletti’s feature-length debut, The Last Thing Mary Saw, is a somber horror tale set…
Revenge thrillers are rarely in short supply, particularly at genre-heavy affairs like the 2021 Fantasia…
The exploration of grief through the horror genre isn’t exactly a new concept — examples…
CODA is the story of Ruby (Emilia Jones), the child of deaf adults (aka “CODA”),…
In the opening moments of Leos Carax’s Annette, fingers bang out a punchy piano riff…
Despite the enduring popularity of the legends, there’s never been a truly great cinematic depiction…