‘The Bride!’ Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Goes For Baroque in Messy, Misguided Post-Modern Monster Movie [D]
When the opening frames of The Bride! displays introductory text establishing that Mary Shelley wrote her classic Gothic tragedy, Frankenstein, on a dare, it feels... Read More
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Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol on the Unlikely, Legally-Challenged Journey of Getting ‘Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie’ to the Big Screen [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol desperately want to play the Rivoli in Toronto. That’s been the ongoing premise for the two creatives’ web series-turned-TV show-turned-movie... Read More
‘Return to Silent Hill’ Review: Christophe Gans’s Belated Sequel Gets Lost in the Fog of Lackluster Video Game Movies [C-]
Fans of Silent Hill—legendary Japanese game developer Konami’s landmark psychological horror series (typically) about the terrors lurking within a quiet, Midwestern American hamlet—have had a... Read More
‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Review: Nia DaCosta Charts the Middle Chapter of a UK Post-Apocalypse That Remains Appreciably Weird [B]
Anyone who saw 28 Years Later would likely pinpoint the last two minutes of the film as a source of serious excitement, bewilderment, or some... Read More
‘Zootopia 2’ Review: The Fast and the Furriest [B-]
During our precarious social moment in America—where wealth inequality continues to skyrocket, federal police forces are taking to the streets to strip vulnerable people of... Read More
Interview: Wunmi Mosaku on Finding the Grounded Spirituality of Annie in Ryan Coogler’s Emotionally Charged Vampire Epic ‘Sinners’
The wildly tight tonal balance of Ryan Coogler’s surprise 2025 hit Sinners, the 1930s-set Southern period drama turned survive-the-night pulpy vampire genre thriller, is not... Read More
‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ Review: A Few New Magicians, the Same Old Tricks [D]
I’d say it’s some kind of magic trick that has allowed the Now You See Me movies to have sustained enough of a fandom to... Read More
‘Tron: Ares’ Review: What Kind of Legacy Is This? [C+]
As the world marches ever forward into an AI and virtual reality-driven era—one tech moguls and corporations desperately seek to define on their own terms... Read More
Nick Corirossi, Armen Weitzman, Jamar Neighbors, and Mike Mitchell Talk Willing a Franchise into Existence with ‘The Napa Boys’ [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
The Napa Boys are back! That’s the central premise for the new niche as hell comedy from co-writers and stars Nick Corirossi (who also directs)... Read More
‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ Review: Kogonada’s Grounded Perspective Is at Odds with Flighty and Sentimental Metaphysical Romance [C]
The only thing more ridiculous than the title A Big Bold Beautiful Journey may be the fact that the title is said out loud in... Read More
FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED FEATURE, DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM 
Predictions for Sound (CAS, MPSE), Cinematography (ASC) and Writers Guilds (WGA) Awards 
Interview: Shawn Hatosy on Directing ‘The Pitt,’ Camera Choreography, and Being Online 
Director Watch Ep. 142 ‘The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp’ (Powell and Pressburger, 1943) with Special Guest Bilge Ebiri