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The endless barrage of horror films in 2024 isn’t ending in December. Debut director Kyle Mooney, most known for his work on SNL and Brigsby Bear, was finally handed the reigns to direct. Y2K...
Werewolves (2024) Reviewer Flickchart ranking: 4,106 / 5,622 (27%) A supermoon causes one billion people to turn into werewolves until dawn. Werewolves places us one year after, when another supermoon is to appear. Lou...
Moana 2 (2024) 3,011 / 5,623 (46%) Moana captured audiences with the tale of a young island woman journeying across the sea to restore the heart of Te Fiti. Her adventure with the cocky...
Gladiator II (2024) 2,692 / 5,610 (52%) The legend and legacy of Maximus Decimus Meridius grows 24 years after his final breathe in the great coliseum. After nearly a quarter of a century, Ridley...
Wicked (2024) 2,141 (62%) In 1995 Gregory Maguire’s Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West landed on bookshelves (back when such things existed). Less than a decade later it...
A Real Pain is not Jesse Eisenberg‘s directorial debut, but it will likely be the film to loudly announce his prowess as a writer and director. For any person to write, direct, and star...
Sean Baker has hit the big-time. Relatively speaking, anyway; Anora is his highest-grossing film yet, but has only hit a little over $20 million at the time of this writing. Baker’s film is hardly...
In the relentless modern Hollywood machine, nothing is safe. Not even Christmas. As it consumes IP after IP and turns them into generic action blockbusters, now it seems even holidays will be consumed and...
Nine years ago, A24 exploded onto the horror film scene with the contemplative and prescient sci-fi horror Ex Machina and hasn’t looked back. While A24 produces and distributes many genres of film, horror has...
A film like Conclave arriving as a wide theatrical release in October is something of a miracle these days. Mid-budget dramas are increasingly rare outside of awards season. And while one can view this...
Listen to them, Flickcharters of the night! What ranking they make! Yes, it’s that day again: the ninth annual Halloween Flickchart Horror Franchise ranking is here. Last year we began a sub-project of working...
That the film focuses more on Kong surprises me not at all. He more closely approximates an actual character, while…
Absolutely loved "Insidious: The Red Door"! The emotional depth and intense storytelling took this franchise to a whole new level.
I liked Guardians 3. It was a good ending to the trilogy. Gunn is one of the few filmmakers who…
Top Gun and Banshees deserve all the good awards.
North Dallas Forty might be appearing an article to come ;)