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‘The Mandalorian’ Enters Epic Territory With The First Female ‘Star Wars’ Director [Episode 3 Review]

November 22, 2019 10:47 am

So far, while not everyone agrees with whether or not "The Mandalorian" is a great show (especially in this era of Peak TV), it has been a blast watching brand-new live-action "Star Wars" content delivered each...

‘Frozen 2:’ Head Into The Unknown With This Surprisingly Mature Sequel [Review]

Drew Taylor

November 15, 2019 2:04 pm

Features, News, Reviews

Nothing short of a phenomenon, 2013's animated "Frozen" was a runaway Disney blockbuster that captured the zeitgeist with startling power, inspiring Broadway musicals, Christmas specials, short films, theme par...

‘The Mandalorian:’ A Dormant Morality Begins To Awaken Thanks To A Special Child [Episode 2 Review]

Drew Taylor

November 15, 2019 12:43 pm

Features, News, Reviews

As detailed in our first episode review of Lucasfilm's "The Mandalorian," the first-ever live-action "Star Wars" television series currently streaming on Disney+, the series embraces much of the dusty aesthetic...

‘The Mandalorian’: A Promising Start & Crossroads Negotiates The Past & Future Of ‘Star Wars’ [Review]

Drew Taylor

November 14, 2019 4:46 pm

Features, News, Reviews, Television

Lucasfilm has long been obsessed with doing something set in the criminal underbelly of a galaxy far, far away. Before George Lucas decided to sell Lucasfilm and “Star Wars” to Disney, the creator had been work...

Best Performances In Horror Movies Best of decade 2010s

The Best Horror Movie Performances Of The Decade [2010s]

Drew Taylor

October 31, 2019 1:26 pm

Features, News

Often regarded as "less than" when it comes to cinema, the horror genre isn't just a place to find scares and thrills. Buried under buckets of blood, scary masks, and supernatural mishaps are some truly great p...

‘Teen Titans Go! To the Movies’ Review: DC’s Animated Movie Is Truly Super

Drew Taylor

July 20, 2018 8:06 pm

News, Reviews

It’s no secret that this year’s cinematic landscape has been littered with superhero movies. Between “Black Panther,” “Avengers: Infinity War,” “Deadpool 2,” “Ant-Man and the Wasp” and “Incredibles 2,” we’ve ab...

‘Star Wars: Rebels’ Won’t End With The Final ‘Rogue One’ Battle [‘Star Wars’ Celebration Panel]

Drew Taylor

April 17, 2017 9:00 am

News

One of the more interesting components of the newly Disney-owned "Star Wars" universe is its animated output and that output's relationship with the former "expanded universe" of material. The "expanded univers...

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’: 13 Things We Learned At The Star Wars Celebration Panel

Drew Taylor

April 14, 2017 2:25 pm

Features, News

After a surprising (and surprisingly emotional) 40th anniversary panel yesterday, today Disney looked to the future — specifically "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," the second "saga film" since Disney bought Lucasfil...

‘Star Wars’ Celebration: 16 Things We Learned During the 40th Anniversary Panel With George Lucas & More

Drew Taylor

April 13, 2017 4:11 pm

News

Earlier today at Star Wars Celebration, the weekend-long celebration of all things intergalactic, Warwick Davis (who played Ewok Wicket in "Return of the Jedi" and assorted characters ever since) hosted a panel...

David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal) in Columbia Pictures' LIFE.

‘Life’ With Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson & Ryan Reynolds Is A Pleasurably Old Fashioned Sci-Fi Thriller [SXSW Review]

Drew Taylor

March 19, 2017 11:16 am

News, Reviews

The whole murderous-alien-aboard-a-spaceship trope has been around since at least 1958's "It! The Terror From Beyond Space," which was initially viewed as a typical, below-average drive-in movie about a doomed ...

The Best & The Rest: Ranking The Complete Brian De Palma

Oliver Lyttelton, Rodrigo Perez, Jessica Kiang and Drew Taylor

June 6, 2016 2:29 pm

Features

One of the greatest treats of the summer movie season this year for any serious cinephile is “De Palma,” the documentary by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow. Premiering at the Venice Film Festival last year to ra...

The 25 Best Buddy Cop Movies Ever

Oliver Lyttelton, Jessica Kiang, Nicholas Laskin and Drew Taylor

May 18, 2016 2:00 pm

Features

If our review is anything to go by, this week’s “The Nice Guys,” which sees Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe as a P.I. and an enforcer trying to find a missing girl in 1970s L.A, is going to be one of the purest ...

20 Movies That Were Booed At The Cannes Film Festival

Jessica Kiang, Nicholas Laskin and Drew Taylor

May 12, 2016 2:16 pm

Features

The Cannes Film Festival gets underway in earnest today, which almost inevitably means that some boos will cascade through some of theaters in a few days. The culture of booing in Cannes, while not quite as pre...

5 Scripts That Made Shane Black Hollywood’s Hottest Writer In The 1990s

Drew Taylor

May 3, 2013 11:53 am

News

“Iron Man 3” has already amassed more than $300 million worldwide and is on target to become the highest grossing opening weekend in the United States ever (outdoing even last summer’s “The Avengers”). This is ...

The 10 Best Music Moments In Danny Boyle’s Movies

Rodrigo Perez and Drew Taylor

April 3, 2013 1:31 pm

Features

The 10 Best Music Moments In Danny Boyle's Movies

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