Hadoken! When Legendary Entertainment purchased the live-action film and television rights to the Street Fighter video game series by Capcom, the low bar they had to clear to produce a decent adaptati...

Are we f*cked? Shit, probably. Hopefully not. In Na Hong-jin's colossal science-fiction epic HOPE (Hopeu, 2026), one of the most expensive Korean films ever, and his first film in a decade, the title ...

“In horror movies, you’re always looking for places that are safe and unperverted and then twisting them into something sinister and terrifying,” director Rob Savage says in an interview. His career s...

Lance Oppenheim's PRIMETIME (2026) comes out at an interesting time where the subject of pedophiles and media manipulation are once more at an all-time high in awareness. His version of Chris Hansen (...

Why are there so many padlocks? After six prior Paul W.S. Anderson films (2002-2016), a 2021 reboot (my review), some CG-animated films, and a failed TV series on Netflix, what's left to mine from the...

Beep, beep! Based on a 1990 article from The New Yorker magazine by Ian Frazier, this adaptation and subsequent celebration, COYOTE VS. ACME (2026), is everything right about the Looney Tunes brand an...

In what could surely ruin going to the dentist and building a pillow fort, INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER (2026) injects a sense of carnival funhouse nightmarish fun to a long-running series, a jump-sc...

Believe again. That's an interesting tag line for the second of the X-Files feature films as THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE (2008) had to be placed on a bit of a production hiatus, coming five years a...

Nothing like a little prehistoric misadventure to save a marriage. It wouldn't come as a surprise if writer-director David Robert Mitchell used Daniel Defoe's legendary English novel Robinson Crusoe (...

Imagine all the things we could do together. While the distribution woes of this in-universe M3GAN (2022 – my review) spin-off in an AI erotic thriller SOULM8TE (2026) has been the subject as of late,...

I'm sorry. Much like the comic story arc SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY (2026) is based on, The Amazing Spider-Man issues #546–564 (January – July 2008), a storyline called, obviously, “Brand New Day”, the...

When Walt Disney was trying to adapt Carlo Collodi’s 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio), some of the early drafts of the script he felt the screenwriters kept the novel...

Defy the gods. One of the oldest surviving works of literature, The Odyssey by Homer is also one of the defining works of civilization, which has been read and adapted over the centuries, but with Chr...

I would do anything for us to be together again. Burning lies. But that's the morbid twist of the bleakest and darkest of comedy just simmering and hiding under the surface of EVIL DEAD BURN (2026), a...

“Milly Alcock might be the best bit of casting I’ve done in my entire life,” James Gunn exclaims and she's the gravitational pull within the film, who was first introduced as a party girl at the end o...

It's comically ironic that JACKASS: BEST AND LAST (2026) features the typical big production ending stunt that has Johnny Knoxville and crew in a giant shopping cart going downhill, surviving obstacle...

As the plastic characters keep saying in Pixar’s TOY STORY 5 (2026), “the age of toys is over”. In a recent article by Janise Robinson-Celeste for The Fulcrum, she analyzed the paradigm shift in kids’...

THE FURIOUS (Huo zhe yan, 2025) is so chaotic and hard-hitting, the audience might be in concussion protocol after its 113-minutes. It's also easy to see why this martial arts actioner is receiving su...

Steven Spielberg's DISCLOSURE DAY (2026) certainly comes at an unfortunate time and moment. It's not like that he's lost any of his wonderment in filmmaking that really only a very special few have do...

Ahhh, shhiiittt son [hehehehahaha] SCARY MOVIE (aka Scary Movie 6, 2026) is a pretty funny return for the Wayans, who, if you're as dense as Doofy (Dave Sheridan) is, reclaim the franchise and take pl...

I hate Daryl. The long road back to the land of Eternia was just as hard for the many studios that tried to over the years as it is for Adam (Nicholas Galitzine) in the glorified massive budgeted recr...

“If you’re not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you’ll end up in the Backrooms” – Anonymous There's a negative association with the color yellow that invokes frustration or ir...