Princess Cyd uses quiet grace and astute observation to transcend dramatic tropes we’ve seen countless times. Typically, a story about two very different people from disparate Read More

Sometimes, the best cinematic advice is to leave well enough alone. Sure, some can make a go of revamping previous classics, but for the most part, Read More

It’s seems like a cinematic no-brainer. George Clooney, directing a script by his buddies in off-kilter crime, Joel and Ethan Coen, and featuring Matt Damon as Read More

We stand and salute them, placing hand over heart and getting teary eyed whenever they are mentioned or the National Anthem blares across a sports stadium. Read More

In a still relatively young career, Yorgos Lanthimos has carved out an inimitable auteurist space. His films are instantly recognizable: brazenly bizarre concepts presented with deceptive Read More

Let’s face it. Ever since Irwin Allen passed from this mortal coil and took his terrifically tacky disaster films with him (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Read More

It’s time to stop raking Tyler Perry and his urban melodramatics over the critic coals. Granted, he’s not a terrific filmmaker and his plotting can best Read More

A serial killer drama set in a snowy, scary Scandinavian outback, directed by the man who made the brilliant vampire reimagining, Let the Right One In. Read More

It’s tough for horror-comedies to sustain a sharp wit with cutting commentary on genre and what it represents. Tragedy Girls maintains its edge and incisiveness throughout. Read More

It sounds like the kind of high concept claptrap that left a massive stain on the ’80s. Back before superheroes and shared universes became the thing Read More

They say that if you find the right moment, the circumstance or the situation that set the tone for their entire life, you can learn a Read More

It was only a matter of time before Jackie Chan was forced into one of the familiar Hollywood action tropes. His entire career has been built Read More

Sean Baker shot one of the best films of 2015, Tangerine, on an iPhone. His follow-up, The Florida Project, was made somewhat more conventionally but it Read More

If books (and adaptations) like Alive have taught us anything, it’s that plane crash victims, especially ones trapped in the snow covered mountains of remote regions, Read More

Science fiction can be divided along two distinct lines–call it the Star Trek vs. Star Wars ideal. The former focuses on ideas. The latter is all Read More

It is a strange cinematic world indeed when someone decides to remake a Joel Schumacher film. The man responsible for such onscreen mediocrity as D.C. Cab, Read More

What is it with Tom Cruise? Sure, his adoration of Scientology certainly rubs people the wrong way, but he’s been in so many memorable movies and Read More

The legendary “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs was, to be sure, a circus and a spectacle. But it Read More

Woodshock is like a bad head trip – fuzzy, interminable, with fleeting moments of supposed clarity that ultimately amount to nothing. We follow along as the Read More

Matthew Vaughn clearly missed his calling. His style would have perfectly meshed with the insane Looney Tunes from the ‘40s and ‘50s. Put another way, if Read More