non-illustrated

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 [...]

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? [...]

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 [...]

Disney’s track record of adapting their properties to the big screen, be it animated classics or beloved theme park attractions, is mixed at best. For every CNDERELLA or PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN [...]

Rare is the out-and-out sex comedy these days, and NO HARD FEELINGS is just that. The movie is an unabashedly bawdy film whose plot concerns the efforts of a 32-year-old woman to take the [...]

ELEMENTAL is the 27th feature film from Pixar, and in many ways, it’s the most ambitious. Trying to tell a story with fire and water as your key characters would challenge any animator, even [...]