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Writer/director Jacob Estes should be commended for making an earnest attempt to turn the mystery genre on its ear. For starters, he grounds his new film DON’T LET GO in the middle-class [...]

Original caricature by Jeff York of Jillian Bell in the title role of BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON. (copyright 2019) Some movie comedies play as minor miracles. Those are the ones whose scripts zig [...]

Time was, straight-up, modest actioners like ANGEL HAS FALLEN were quite common. They thrived in the ’80s and ’90s especially and turned Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, [...]

  Comedically inclined horror movies are rare on the big screen, so when one as fun and accomplished as READY OR NOT comes along, it’s cause for celebration. This new “comedy of terrors” [...]

  In the new horror movie GWEN, an evil entity is laying waste to a 19th century South Wales town where people are dying, crops are rotting, and animals are being slaughtered. What’s causing such [...]

The freshman finale of HBO’s EUPHORIA ended over a week ago, and I’m still thinking about it. Not only did creator and showrunner Sam Levinson leave several story threads dangling to tease [...]