Entering Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, one is immediately faced with a decision. It’s a decision of considerable importance. Standing in the rotunda, one may either go forward,…
For a particular contingent of American moviegoer — one born in the mid-to-late 1980s, say — Happy Gilmore is something of a sacred cow. Its…
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There are two popular theories about the etymology of Prvić, a Croatian island in the Šibenik archipelago. The first theory relates to its closest proximity…
There probably isn’t a company on earth better associated with immediacy than Amazon. Unless one lives in the remotest regions of Canada or Alaska, there…
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Without raising too much of a film culture racket, the Predator films have endured for nearly four decades, steadily turning out a new entry every…
For over three decades, British documentarian Adam Curtis has ferreted around the BBC archives, utilizing its resources to dissect, interpret, and otherwise obsess over a…
Grieving widow Kate Garrett (Julianne Moore) hides her struggles. She’s hard up financially, and relies on the dwindling generosity of her ex-husband, Richard (Kyle MacLachlan),…
It’s somewhat fitting that Andrew Dominik’s second documentary subject, after multiple projects with English musician Nick Cave, is Bono. Cave and the U2 frontman certainly…
Do you have two hours to kill and enjoy, say, breezy, brazenly derivative adventure movies? Well then, buckle up, because your prime weekend streaming content…
Fear Street began life as a series of novels written by R.L. Stine, the Goosebumps mastermind and Juvenile Fiction equivalent of Stephen King. With the…
The opening sequence of Gareth Evans’ new Netflix original Havoc — a hotly anticipated action epic from the director of the modern classic The Raid…
It’s been eight years since The Raid director Gareth Evans served as the man behind the camera on a feature film (that would be 2018’s…
While the title gives the impression that this is an Asylum-style mockbuster ripping off the little-loved Brad Pitt-starring Bullet Train, the new Bullet Train Explosion…
Much has been written about the veritable glut of garbage films put out by the various streaming services in the post-COVID landscape, to the point…
In 1984, Jeffrey Katzenberg was appointed chairman of The Walt Disney Studios during the final production stages of The Black Cauldron, meaning at a time…
After Stephen Cognetti injected some much needed life into the largely sterile and drab Hell House franchise with his previous film Hell House LLC Origins:…