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With only three features under his belt, writer/director Ari Aster has made quite a name for himself with back-to-back nervy horror hits Hereditary and Midsommar.  He returns after a four-year […]

The new horror-comedy Renfield begins with a fantastic premise for a five-minute sketch. After hearing a couple people in a self-help group share details of their toxic relationships, the titular […]

Thirty years after the nightmare vision of a live-action adaptation, the world’s most popular video game franchise finds new cinematic life through Illumination with The Super Mario Bros. Movie.  As […]

Michael Jordan is such an enduring cultural figure that even the finer details of his unparalleled legacy can be the focus point for a sports biopic.  Enter Air, which recounts […]

Despite being based on a role-playing game that’s been around almost 50 years that is more popular now than ever, Dungeons & Dragons hasn’t been well-served in the realm of […]

Let’s start with a confession: I was wrong about 2019’s Shazam! After rewatching the movie last weekend, I stand by some of the quibbles from my original two-star review — […]

In 1968, there was the release of The Boston Strangler, a crime film loosely based on the real-life serial killer at the center of 13 still-unresolved slayings that decade. The […]

When Ryan Coogler rebooted the Rocky series in 2015 with Creed, it brought a much-needed level of excitement to the stalled franchise and introduced a formidable new pugilist protagonist to […]

Australian actress Frances O’Connor makes her directorial and writing debut with Emily, a pseudo-biopic about revered writer Emily Brontë that intentionally fudges the facts surrounding the 19th century author.  Though […]