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For better and worse, Predator: Badlands feels like the Marvelization of the Predator series. While director Dan Trachtenberg has had a good “tracht” record with the IP in the last few years, having directed...
We covered The Running Man in our Stephen King Book to Screen series back in 2019 where we declared that a better book-accurate adaptation of the film was needed. Its always nice when Hollywood...
Flickcharters might have loved this franchise once, but now it belongs with the dead. It’s that time of year where we rank a horror franchise to bring an end to the spooky season. It’s...
Katheryn Bigelow‘s A House of Dynamite is one of the most taut and tensely-directed films of the year with excellent performances, pulse-pounding handheld camera work, and a realistic depiction of the avalanching nature of...
Luca Guadagnino is no stranger to making dichotomous films. He’s tackled a romantic relationship between cannibals, a teased tryst in Challengers, and a questionable age gap in Call Me By Your Name, showing no...
Roofman is an exemplar of the bizarre discord that can exist between Hollywood’s marketing of films, and films as they actually are. Despite trailers promising a wacky hijinks comedy with Channing Tatum starring as...
Sure, these aren’t original properties, but it’s still pretty exciting: a new, previously-undone Stephen King adaptation, a hit anime film, and a sequel to a classic cult comedy all vied for dominance in a...
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) The international sensation that spanned six seasons, 52 episodes, annual Christmas specials, and now a film trilogy reaches its closing chapter. The question is: how did creator and...
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) Ed and Lorraine Warren return for the fourth entry in the Conjuring franchise. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga have embodied these roles for over a decade, serving as the...
Splitsville comes courtesy of the pair of Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin. Both wrote and starred in the film, with Covino directing as well. After the success of their debut, The Climb, they...
The Toxic Avenger An old Troma hero finally received a 21st-century fan-filmmaker treatment. Peter Dinklage voices and embodies Winston, the doomed janitor who plunges into toxic rebirth, with Luisa Guerreiro handling the mutant hero’s...
I don't know that anything has been uniformly one way or the other across all superhero films. That said, I…
Do you think this is a return to the Reeve-style moral simplicity and fresh-and-fun superhero films? Or was this a…
It should be on there! I linked it to rank if you click on the film title!
been wanting to rank this for a couple weeks now and this hasn't shown up on the site yet
Everything satire these days. When was the last time a slasher movie or any movie played it straight? They've been…