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Yes, gentle readers, I know I’m behind the curve on this. I deliberately waited until the movie was free to watch on Disney+, for a multitude of reasons I already…

I come to bury the longest-running continuous superhero franchise in cinema history, not merely to review its unwitting final entry.

Let’s begin with a brief overview of writer/director/producer David E. Talbert. His first film was apparently something called A Woman Like That, an indie film from 1997 that doesn’t seem to…

Does anyone out there remember Abominable? It was nothing groundbreaking, but it was nonetheless a sweet little collaboration between DreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studios of China. In fact, it was the…

This, gentle readers, may very well be the hardest review I’ve ever had to write.

What are you up to this time, Robert Zemeckis?

With any new adaptation of a work that’s already been adapted, there’s always an important question that must be addressed: “Why now?” What can a new cast and crew bring…

Kajillionaire is the latest from writer/director Miranda July. So right off the bat, you know we’re getting something aggressively quirky and pretentious to the point of avant garde. This particular case…

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” –William Faulkner Antebellum opens with that quotation. If you want an explanation for the title, the setting, and all the anachronistic batshit…

On a recent interview with Seth Meyers, Jessica Chastain got to talking about an upcoming spy thriller she conceived, produced, and starred in. The 355 is set for release next January, a female-driven…

“The Boys in the Band” made its debut off-Broadway back in 1968. Believe it or not, a dramatic comedy about the lives of nine gay men was a hard sell…

It’s surprisingly easy to forget that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle didn’t really give a shit about Sherlock Holmes. The man was a medical doctor and a prolific author in the…