Rinko Kikuchi is so good in Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! , that it may be easy to overlook how messy the film around her is. Kikuchi (who was an Oscar nominee for her role in Babel) stars as Haru, an a...

As someone who has never seen a Resident Evil movie or played any of the video games on which they are based, I am coming to Zach Cregger’s new film with something of a blank slate. I don't know if ...

Practical Magic, the 1998 film starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, seems a strange candidate for a legacy sequel. It wasn’t a particularly big hit at the time, although the strength of the che...

When was the last time you were genuinely surprised by a movie? I don’t mean in a twist ending sort of way, I mean truly having no idea where a film is going to go next, when a film has gone totally o...

I'm a sucker for a good serial killer procedural. The 90s and early 2000s were rife with them, both good and bad, and having grown up in that era there's something oddly comforting about that genre an...

When The Mandalorian debuted on Disney+ in 2019, Grogu, the pint-sized Force-sensitive critter popularly known as “Baby Yoda” became a runaway hit with audiences. Teamed up with the titular bounty h...

Watching Ridley Scott’s  The Dog Stars,  I couldn’t help but be reminded of Steven Spielberg’s  Disclosure Day.   On the surface, the two films may appear to share little in common...

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Jane Schoenbrun’s films have spent a lot of time examining the impact of horror in media and pop culture, both as an influence on and an escape from a world that is somehow full of even more incompreh...

Siobhan McCarthy’s debut feature, She’s the He , is a trans-themed coming-of-age comedy that walks such a fine line of tastelessness that it could only have been successfully executed by a trans film...

Siobhan McCarthy’s debut feature, She’s the He , is a trans-themed coming-of-age comedy that walks such a fine line of tastelessness that it could only have been successfully executed by a trans film...

Jane Schoenbrun’s films have spent a lot of time examining the impact of horror in media and pop culture, both as an influence on and an escape from a world that is somehow full of even more incompreh...

Jurassic Park so fully cornered the market on dinosaurs that you’d be hard pressed to name another successful dinosaur movie since 1993 that isn’t a part of the JP franchise. Spielberg’s film cast su...