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Sometimes an animated film’s story is so absorbing that you almost forget you’re watching a cartoon. Other times, such films remind you of their artistry every second through the vividly rendered [...]

Multi-hyphenate Ryan Murphy is getting all kinds of blowback for some facts and fiction he’s blended in writing/directing/producing his new Netflix miniseries MONSTERS: THE LYLE AND ERIK MENENDEZ [...]

Very few horror films knock my socks off. I used to joke when I wrote horror reviews for the Examiner online that the scariest thing about the genre was how few of such movies actually frightened [...]

Coralie Fargeat’s dark new comedy THE SUBSTANCE takes a lot of chances and succeeds with most of them. It’s a horror film really, showcasing the vicious sexism permeating show business and the [...]

A film editor once told me that it’s harder to cut a scene with dialogue versus an action scene because the action just needs to be clear to be exciting. A conversation between two people, on the [...]

Film adaptations are generally best viewed on their own without the book, play, or previous versions of the story living rent-free in one’s head. However, that’s especially difficult when it [...]

When I saw the original BEETLEJUICE film in the theater at a sneak preview 36 years ago, I found it be a wonderfully imaginative and well-produced funhouse of a movie. It may have been unwieldy [...]