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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 […]

adNicolas Cage must know that he’s on our minds. Between GIFs, memes, and the more than 100 films in which he’s starred over the past 40 years, it can be […]

Academy Award-winning writer/director Emerald Fennell follows up her provocative breakout Promising Young Woman with another button-pusher in the new stately and seductive psychological dramedy Saltburn.  Where Fennell’s previous effort targeted […]