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The best biopics focus on a short and specific time period in a famous person’s life, setting up a lesson or incident that will help shape the personality or the work they are known for. Such is [...]

The wildly successful Prime Video series REACHER is essentially a modern-day western. Jack Reacher is a stoic, lone hero who wanders into an unfamiliar town. He gets caught up in some trouble [...]

Filmmaker Eli Roth has always been a mixed bag for me. I found the body horrors utterly disturbing in his feature debut, CABIN FEVER, but recoiled from the numbing brutality of his HOSTEL films. [...]

Those who’ve interpreted Batman comics for the big or small screen have often twisted themselves into pretzels with a desire to reinvent the mythos. We’ve seen tongue-in-cheek parody (the 1966 [...]

Does any other superhero have a motto like Spider-Man? As Peter Parker’s late, great Uncle Ben cautioned him, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Yep, being a superhero is a lot to [...]

Christopher Nolan’s films have long distinguished themselves through technical brilliance, grand ambition, and a fearless sense of scale. His command of image, sound, size, and setting remains [...]

Anya Taylor-Joy may be the closest thing we have today to one of the great silent film actresses who could hold the camera so demonstrably without ever speaking a word. Think about how little she [...]

Bryce Hirschberg would probably be well off just being an actor. He has an easy charm, looks good on camera, and holds it with his emotions too. But Hirsch is more ambitious than that. That’s why [...]

For the second time in two months, Hollywood has opened an R-rated sex comedy that mostly skirts the issue of sex. First, THE INVITE took a snickering, almost junior high attitude towards [...]

Director Olivia Wilde’s new comedy THE INVITE is supposed to be a stark examination of two marriages and how they act and react when the possibility of switching partners for sex arises at a [...]