‘Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’: A Slight Improvement But Still Soulless, Unfunny Junk [Review]
The 2017 original wasn't exactly a fresh bouquet of roses to begin with, and unsurprisingly, there's little new ground to cover in its sequel.
‘Loki’: Marvel’s Mischief-Maker Reckons With His Glorious Purpose In The TVA Afterlife [Review]
If, “How does it feel? Like it's someone else's,” was the starting point for the character exploration in “The Falcon & The Winter Soldier”— Steve Rodgers passing the shield to Sam Wilson, but the Falcon h...
2021 Tribeca Film Festival Preview: 15 Must-See Films To Watch & More
It's been essentially over a year without in-person film festivals. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, the SXSW, Cannes Film Festival, and Tribeca Film Festivals were all canceled last year. Venice and T...
11 Movies to Watch in June: ‘Zola,’ ‘Sparks Brothers,’ ‘Luca’ & More
After a year that changed our relationship with movie-going, it would seem that things are trying to inch back into a semblance of “normalcy.” Theaters are reopening, and as people continue to receive their va...
10 TV Shows To Watch In June: ‘Lisey’s Story,’ ‘Loki, ‘Physical’ & More
With the finale of “Mare of Easttown” behind us, it will be curious to see which series becomes the next hotly anticipated and picked apart weekly series. While “Loki” will undoubtedly stir up the Marvel crowd...
Sean Baker, Andrea Arnold, Mia Hanson-Love, Asghar Farhadi New Films Announced For 2021 Cannes Film Festival
After a pandemic-induced delay of 14 months, cinema is returning to la Croisette. The 74th Festival de Cannes will finally take place this July, and we now know what films will join the previously announced ti...
‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’ Commits The Horror Cardinal Sin Of Being Boring [Review]
If asked to name successful non-comic book movie franchises, you’d probably think of “Mission: Impossible,” “Saw,” or “Jurassic Park.” It’d take a while before you landed on “The Conjuring.” Having spawned spi...
Paul Bettany Has No Clue When ‘WandaVision’s’ White Vision Will Return & Has Mixed Feelings Over That Big Cameo Tease [Interview]
When Paul Bettany started doing press for "WandaVision," it was a very different experience than his previous Marvel Studios publicity tours. First off, he promoted a limited series that would release one epis...
Brad Ingelsby Gives A ‘Mare Of Easttown’ PostMortem & Reveals Whether A Second Season Is Possible [Spoilers]
At this point in the history of television, there is no network that has mastered the word of mouth limited series like HBO. In the past eight months alone, they have released two of the most buzzworthy progra...
“Can’t You Just Act Like A Human Boy?” Reappreciating The Exasperated Comedic Horror Of ‘Clifford’
While the nightmare child from hell genre has received its due (“Problem Child” and “Dennis The Menace” being two prominent troublemakers), perhaps none is as demented and strangely twisted like 1994’s Orion P...
‘Cruella’: Emma Stone Struggles To Redesign This Unfashionable Origin Story [Review]
“People need a villain to believe in,” says the snarky two-toned haired Cruella (Emma Stone). Based on the Dalmatian thieving megalomaniac fashion designer that first cackled her way through a 1961 Disney anim...
Barry Jenkins Hasn’t Let Go Of ‘Underground Railroad’ Yet [Interview]
Barry Jenkins spent four years of his life bringing Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Underground Railroad" to the screen. In point of fact, he began working on the adaption before his Best...
‘Lisey’s Story’: Pablo Larrain, Julianne Moore & Clive Owen Try To Sift Through The Fog Of Stephen King’s Surreal Nightmare [Review]
“Lisey’s Story” is unmistakably a writer’s miniseries, so much that it romances a rough draft. It has immense range, touching upon every shade of darkness within the human spirit. But it has little tact in how...
‘In The Heights’ Is A Joyous Celebration Of The Latinx Diaspora [Review]
There’s an uncontainable joy that’s threatening to burst out of most Latinxs when they hear someone shout ¿bendición? in a movie. Even more so when it happens in a movie like “In the Heights,” one of the bigge...
Zack Snyder Talks ‘Army Of The Dead,’ ‘300 Part III,’ His King Arthur Idea & More [Fourth Wall Podcast]
Whether you love his films or not, there's no denying that Zack Snyder is one of the boldest, most unashamedly stylistic filmmakers of all time. His resume speaks for itself. From “Dawn of the Dead,” to “Watch...