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Filmmaker James Gunn may be a creative wunderkind and the man who made GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY into a multimillion-dollar franchise, but it’s shocking how so many of his ideas about the Man of [...]

I used to say that the most frightening part of writing Examiner horror movie reviews a decade ago was how so few films were genuinely scary. Despite a genre entry opening almost every weekend, [...]

The filmmakers behind the JURASSIC WORLD franchise give up the ghost in the first 10 minutes of this new sequel with the narrative telling us that dinosaurs are now passé in the modern world. It [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Critics and audiences may be taken by the hooey that is BRING HER BACK, but it’s a poseur of a film, one that ignores its own internal logic and the logic of the real world, for that matter. It’s [...]

I’m on the record stating that for my money, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE is the best movie franchise because there isn’t a dog in the bunch (https://bit.ly/47gogF2). That cannot be said of [...]

FIGHT OR FLIGHT is a movie for audiences who thought BULLET TRAIN was too demure. Director James Madigan, who transitioned from heading up second units to helming the whole shebang, knows action [...]

The first rule for actors in a comedy? Don’t act like you’re in a comedy. That simple advice is lost on the cast in ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR. They run around, bellowing every utterance, [...]