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The story of Frankenstein has been reanimated so many times it was perhaps inevitable that we would eventually get a 1980s-tinged variation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel. Fittingly, Lisa Frankenstein […]

With a couple of exceptions, Matthew Vaughn is a director whose appeal largely eludes me. Twenty years ago, his Guy Ritchie-esque Layer Cake was a sort of test run for […]

At first glance, the latest DreamWorks animated movie Orion and the Dark does not seem to stand out much from the legion of streaming kids movies.  Orion and the Dark […]

The sci-fi nail-biter I.S.S. opens, fittingly, with text about how the International Space Station serves as a symbol of alliance between the United States and Russia post-Cold War.  In the […]

An adaptation of a Broadway musical which was based on a movie that was adapted from a book, the 2024 version of Mean Girls can’t help but feel intrinsically derivative.  […]

Jason Statham starred in four action projects last year alone (most recently in last September’s bomb Expend4bles), and he doesn’t show any signs of stopping this year either.  Everyone’s favorite […]

Undoubtedly, the 2023 year in film was defined by “Barbenheimer,” the simultaneous release of Barbie and Oppenheimer in the middle of the summer that generated almost a billion dollars at […]

Poor Things, the recent recipient of a record-setting seven awards from the Indiana Film Journalists Association, is a lot. Then again, it never pretends it isn’t. The opening shot is […]

Early on in the new thriller Eileen, we’re tipped off to the fact that something about the title character may be a little off. Played with tremulous longing by Thomasin […]