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RED ONE Review: Short on Christmas Cheer, Long on Holiday Schmear
If there was a Guinness World Record for the most jacked-up Santa in a big-budget, Hollywood-financed, holiday-themed action-comedy, Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) would win hands down and biceps curled for his committed portrayal of Father Christmas (aka, St. Nick,...
STAR WARS: SKELETON CREW: Watch The New Trailer
Anticipation for the next Star Wars series, Skeleton Crew, is growing and this new trailer builds on top of that. By all appearances it looks like things are back on track, getting ready to deliver some good old fashioned, rollicking...
HERE Review: Tom Hanks, Robert Zemeckis Reunion Disappoints, Underwhelms
As a commercially oriented, artistically ambitious, innovation-embracing filmmaker, Robert Zemeckis (Death Becomes Her, the Back to the Future trilogy, Romancing the Stone) enjoyed an unparalleled pre-21st century career where box-office, critic-approved hits far outweighed the occasional misses or missteps. Awards...
F*** MARRY KILL Official Trailer: Lucy Hale Might be Dating a Serial Killer, or Three, in Comedy Thriller
Laucy Hale stars in Laura Murphy's (Awkwafina is Nora From Queens) upcoming comedy thriller, F*** Marry Kill. Released by Lionsgate and produced by BuzzFeed Studios you can catch the flick in select theaters and on VOD/digital on December 6th....
DISCLAIMER Review: A Rare Misstep From Alfonso CuarĂ³n
The series is now streaming on Apple TV+.
DON'T MOVE Review: Filler Thriller Doesn't Overstay Its Welcome
If you hike or bike in city, state, or federal parks regularly, you're likely familiar with a simple, potentially life-saving rule: Always, and we do mean always, leave information behind as to where you're hiking or biking and when you're...
LOVE HURTS Official Trailer: A Big Warm And Punchy Hug For Our New Action Star, Ke Huy Quan
Stunt Coordinator JoJo Eusebio is making the move to the big chair and beloved actor Ke Huy Quan will be there to help! Eusebio is directing their first feature film, a new action film called Love Hurts, with Quan...
SMILE 2 Review: Effective, But Overlong and Obvious Horror Spectacle
Smile 2 picks up right where Smile left off. Well, "six days later," as onscreen text tells us. It's a bold move from writer/director Parker Finn that combines with a bravura long-take opening sequence to announce that Smile 2 is...
Friday One Sheet: MICKEY 17
Who needs credit blocks anymore? The new poster for Bong Joon Ho's science fiction cloning comedy Mickey 17 sees Robert Pattinson framed in ochre and rust. The numbers 1 through 16 are cleverly hiding in plain sight, anchored by the...
PIECE BY PIECE Review: Colorful, Engaging, Surface-Deep Bio-Doc
As a music producer, singer-songwriter/rapper, and serial entrepreneur with a career spanning three decades and two centuries, Pharrell Williams's genre-redefining contributions to American pop culture can't be fully explored, evaluated, or even quantified in a standard ninety-minute documentary. The bio-doc...
SATURDAY NIGHT Review: Jason Reitman Gives SNL the Hagiographic Treatment
For pre-cable or Internet audiences of a certain vintage and generation, the arrival of a late-night, weekly sketch comedy show, Saturday Night (Live), represented keenly subversive, self-aware, comically absurdist counter-cultural programming. It was the last, sustained gasp of one generation’s...
Vancouver Horror Show 2024: Justin Harding's CARVED to Have Canadian Premiere During 7th Edition
Can we just take a moment to give a shoutout to Captain George Vancouver? For it is because of the British explorer by which the city I grew up outside of is named. So when you have a festival called...
JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX Review: Sweet Psycho Romance Stuck in an Edgelord's Mess
Whether she's loved the character since she was a child or is making a calculated attempt at winning an acting Oscar, Lady Gaga's performance as the Joker universe's Harley Quinn is by far the best thing to come out of...
SALEM'S LOT Review: King Adaptation Leans Heavily Into Greatest Hits Territory
For Stephen King’s Constant Readers, adaptations of his novels or short stories into film, TV movies, cable/streaming miniseries, or comics are almost as plentiful as King’s prolific output over the last 50 years. His first published novel, Carrie, became an...
BEFORE Trailer: Billy Crystal Stars in Apple TV+ Psychological Thriller Series
Apple TV+ revealed the trailer for Before, a pyschological thriller series starring and executive produced by comedy legend Billy Crystal. Yes, Billy Crystal. For the life of me I cannot recall if Crystal has ever done anything like this...
NOSFERATU Trailer: We Are, Apparently, Succumbing to the Darkness
While there are no end of variations on the vampire story, and indeed we've been able to dive into the lore of this particular monster and its incarntions across a multitude of cultures, there is something about the image of...
New York 2024 Review: In NICKEL BOYS, the POV Conceit Disappoints
RaMell Ross directed. For a subject this weighty, though, the aesthetics in 'Nickel Boys' don't work.
WOLFS Review: Clooney and Pitt Renew Their Onscreen Bromance in Breezy, Disposable Action-Comedy
Closer to the end of their feted, award-winning careers than the beginning, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, longtime, if not lifelong, friends, Oscar winners (Syriana and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood …, respectively), reunite once again for writer-director Jon...
HYSTERIA! Trailer: Satanic Panic Horror Comedy Series From Peacock Drops on October 18th
When a beloved varsity quarterback disappears during the “Satanic Panic” of the late 1980s, a struggling high school heavy metal band of outcasts realize they can capitalize on the town’s sudden interest in the occult by building a reputation as...
THUNDERBOLTS* Teaser Trailer: Marvel's Attempt at The Rag-Tag Action Ensemble
Today the teaser trailer for Marvel Studios released the trailer for Thunderbolts*, their go at the rag-tag band of misfits action adventure film to which they once held the crown for with the GotG films before that trilogy's director left...