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THE CREATOR is proof that you can have a ginormous budget, an accomplished lead, and a director who knows his way around special effects, and you can still have a misbegotten movie if the script [...]

Sometimes the best film experiences are those that sneak up on you. The new monster movie NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU dropped on Hulu this past Friday and I knew little about it except that it starred [...]

The third time’s the charm for actor/director Kenneth Branagh in delivering a terrific adaptation of Agatha Christie. A HAUNTING IN VENICE is based on the author’s 1969 novel Hallowe’en Party and [...]

Who’d have thought that the funniest Adam Sandler film in recent years would be one that he didn’t star in alongside Jennifer Aniston, Kevin James, or Chris Rock but rather, his real-life family? [...]

It has been said that the threat of violence rules the world. It’s a scary thought, though the threat of mayhem often makes for delicious suspense in the entertainment world. That’s particularly [...]

A funny thing happened on the way to the Cineplex this summer movie season… While Warner Bros. was making great hay out of the big screen version of THE FLASH and crowning James Gunn (GUARDIANS [...]

It’s rare, but sometimes a horror film comes down the pike that tells its tale with such confidence and craftmanship, it almost feels like a miracle. IT FOLLOWS was one in 2014. So was  THE [...]

The first rule of screenwriting? “Show, don’t tell.” And yet, from the moment that the new Netflix spy thriller HEART OF STONE starring Gal Gadot begins, that rule is broken. Indeed, for almost [...]

Our modern world is filled with the inexplicable, including the fact that Rose Byrne was overlooked in the Emmy race for the first two seasons of the Apple TV + series PHYSICAL. As the third [...]

Sometimes, a really good horror story can be conjured from the simplest of elements. A supernatural object. Oblivious teens. And a dangerous setting. This lethal mix drives the new frightener [...]