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It was the start of a fairly quiet year, a hundred years ago today. In 1926, explorers achieved the first non-reindeer-powered flight over the North Pole. The first liquid-fuel rocket hit the skies, too....
Since the divisive reception to Star Wars: The Last Jedi, director Rian Johnson has dedicated his creative endeavors to crime, the genre his feature career has more or less centered around outside of his...
Prior to 2018, only once in Walt Disney Feature Animation‘s history had the illustrious studio created a sequel (ignoring the straight-to-video, non-theatrical films). The first attempt, the less-than-well-received The Rescuers Down Under, seemed to...
My son is a fan of the Five Nights at Freddy’s lore. He’s young — the games are older than he is — but YouTube videos, posters, and the fanciful, creepy mythology of these...
Rental Family is elegantly absurdist, and beautifully banal in scope. The premise is eyebrow raising, focusing on a minor American actor (Brendan Fraser) living in Tokyo who starts working for a rental family service...
Wicked: For Good exemplifies why it is hard to split a complete story into multiple parts and expect those parts to stand alone. The sequel to last year’s immensely popular movie musical Wicked, it...
The directorial debut from acclaimed TV writer and producer Bryan Fuller, Dust Bunny brings his unique sensibilities to the big screen. At times, his storytelling doesn’t quite translate to the confines of a feature...
Keeper (2025) My Flickscore: 31 Keeper marks Osgood Perkins’ second release of the year, following the splatter-horror-comedy chaos of The Monkey. Where that film reveled in crimson excess, Keeper trades gore for mood —...
Reviewer Flickscore: 51 Die My Love (2025) Die My Love is the latest feel-good romp from Lynne Ramsay, director of past crowd-pleasers You Were Never Really Here (2017) and We Need to Talk About...
For better and worse, Predator: Badlands feels like the Marvelization of the Predator series. While director Dan Trachtenberg has had a good “tracht” record with the IP in the last few years, having directed...
We covered The Running Man in our Stephen King Book to Screen series back in 2019 where we declared that a better book-accurate adaptation of the film was needed. Its always nice when Hollywood...
I don't know that anything has been uniformly one way or the other across all superhero films. That said, I…
Do you think this is a return to the Reeve-style moral simplicity and fresh-and-fun superhero films? Or was this a…
It should be on there! I linked it to rank if you click on the film title!
been wanting to rank this for a couple weeks now and this hasn't shown up on the site yet
Everything satire these days. When was the last time a slasher movie or any movie played it straight? They've been…