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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...
Darren Aronofsky has somehow directed his most commercially-friendly and straightforward film while simultaneously paying homage to his career and all of his influences. Such is the compelling paradox of Caught Stealing, a crime-comedy that...
Ethan Coen should just direct a TV anthology. If there’s anything that Honey Don’t and his prior solo effort Drive-Away Dolls elucidate, Coen’s strengths lie in funny little scenes and moments, not in a...
Director Zach Cregger surprised the world when he emerged from a career in a comedy troupe to direct an indie horror called Barbarian. That film took the horror scene by storm with its unexpected...
This week brings an interesting clash of new releases. On one hand, an original body horror starring real-life married couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie distributed by indie company Neon. In other words, the...
It’s been a while since the Stephen King Book to Screen series came knocking, but we’re glad to be back! We covered Misery in our last entry, and this time aren’t skipping any books....
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…