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I cannot imagine that any film will be more outrageous this year than James Morosini’s I LOVE MY DAD. For his sophomore effort, the young filmmaker wrote, directed, and stars in a film based on [...]

There’s something very sly going on in the new whodunnit entitled BODIES BODIES BODIES. It’s being marketed as a Generation Z whodunnit, almost like the cast of EUPHORIA walked into a reboot of [...]

If you’re going to make a prequel to the PREDATOR franchise, it’s a clever notion to precede the time frame of the original 1987 story by some 300 years. Going way, way back would make the battle [...]

The new action/comedy BULLET TRAIN is a terrific film for 90 minutes. Unfortunately, the story goes on for another half hour after that, losing momentum and its focus. Still, up until the [...]

Rebecca Hall is one of our great, underrated actresses. She holds the screen like few others and is unafraid to play seriously flawed characters. Is anyone better at showcasing stubbornness, [...]

It’s hard to imagine just how the talented B.J. Novak pitched VENGEANCE to the money guys. The project he wrote and directed is a neo-noir thriller about a dead girl, but that’s where the [...]

When it comes to translating DC Comics superheroes from the page to the screen, the true masters are those working in the Warner Bros animation department. (Sorry, Christopher Nolan.) Ever since [...]

Writer/director Jordan Peele has set out in his film career to truly elevate the genre of horror, make it more intelligent, and use it to comment on society’s ills. He did so successfully in both [...]

It has been said that Bond movies are only as good as their villains. Generally, that’s accurate as the better ones (GOLDFINGER, CASINO ROYALE) had distinctive baddies. The same could be said [...]

It’s high time that Juliette Binoche is acknowledged as one of cinema’s all-time greatest actresses, an equal peer to Hepburn, Davis, Streep, or Blanchett. She may not don wigs and accents, but [...]