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Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and a host of other writers and artists who made Marvel Comics what it is today owe a debt of gratitude to Robert Louis Stevenson. The famed 19th-century author [...]

I cringe to imagine what tonight’s Oscar telecast will be like, and I wrote about those feelings here at pipelineartists.com: https://bit.ly/3JJnwMd However, as is the tradition of critics [...]

  Does any actress play “uptight” on-screen better than Sandra Bullock? Trying to walk in beauty pageant heels, tripping all over Ryan Reynolds while starkers, driving an LA bus hooked up to [...]

One of the strengths of Ti West’s horror films is that they treat the genre seriously. Too often, newer filmmakers inject condescension into their frighteners, as if they’re snickering at the [...]

It’s rare when a film settles into a single setting, focusing on the characters within it, and eschews the razzle-dazzle of special effects or a self-conscious camera. One can count such movies [...]

There’s a reason the buzz has been so controversial around the new movie DEEP WATER starring Ben Affleck and Ana De Armas. The thriller, which debuts on Hulu this Friday, has been plagued by [...]

Pixar continues to push the animated cinema envelope with its new feature about a middle-schooler’s maturation and the start of her menstrual cycle. Even the title of this audacious new film is [...]

There is a line in horror, where the storytelling can go from tense to traumatic and engrossing to grotesque, and filmmakers cross such a line at their own peril. Once done, it can be very [...]

In the decades of Batman lore, the Caped Crusader has often been described as “half ninja, half Sherlock Holmes.” Outside of the animated series from the early 90s and its cartoon off-shoots, [...]