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Why did the filmmakers make M3GAN a good guy for this sequel entitled M3GAN 2.0? Perhaps the filmmakers realized that a lot of the first film’s appeal had to do with the AI villain’s [...]

You can practically set your watch (okay, stop watch) by the “lone hero” tropes and clichés at play in F1® THE MOVIE, but damn if they don’t work like gangbusters. In a summer movie season that [...]

In the seminal 2002 horror film 28 DAYS LATER, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland turned the tired zombie film on its rotting head. The zombification of the population of England [...]

For centuries, people have been trying to ascertain certainties about God, the Universe, and why we’ve all been plopped down here on Planet Earth. Many of those same queries sear through the new [...]

Celine Song is a writer/director I want to see a film from every year. Her films may be modestly budgeted and somewhat niche, but her storytelling ability, technical acumen, and ability with [...]

It has become popular of late to criticize writer/director Wes Anderson for his predilection for balanced framing, deadpan delivery by his cast of all-stars, and stories that are as odd as the [...]

Remember in SUPERMAN (1978) when Lex Luthor described how “some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it’s a simple adventure story” whereas others can “read the ingredients on a [...]