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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 [...]

Are we having fun yet? James Gunn, the filmmaker who made the Marvel Cinematic Universe hilarious with his take on GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, was given the keys to the kingdom to reboot the [...]

Those in creative fields have been pushing back against A.I. for years now, rightly lambasting it for taking away jobs, creating inaccurate characters in TikTok videos with six fingers, and being [...]

To convey my problems with Steven Spielberg’s new film DISCLOSURE DAY presents a difficult review to write, as I’m not only a fan of the brilliant filmmaker, but I also don’t like to give away [...]

It would probably be easier to just go with the nightmare vibe throughout the new horror movie BACKROOMS and enjoy how unsettling almost every visual is in this frightener from the 20-year-old [...]

Ever since her breakout role in the BBC American TV series ORPHAN BLACK, Tatiana Maslany has excelled at bringing neurosis to the forefront of narrative. She played multiple clones in the show [...]

There are various constants in the STAR WARS universe that vary little from project to project. All of the films, books, and streaming series are world-building. The production values are always [...]

Screenplays have storytelling beats that almost every film follows slavishly. An inciting incident happens in the first 10 minutes to get the plot rolling. At the half-hour mark, the hero’s goal [...]