“To infinity and beyond,” the spiffy new space soldier action figure Buzz Lightyear declares to a room full of enraptured playthings at the ou…

It’s been four years since white supremacist and terrorist Dylann Roof murdered nine black churchgoers during a Bible study at Emanuel AME Chu…

In director Dexter Fletcher’s Rocketman, Taron Egerton is masterful as Elton John. But the film isn’t exactly a biopic.

Hollywood loves a trend. If something works at the box office, you can bet your bottom dollar that studios will soon rush in with various copy…

While Disney has spent the last several years mining its animated archives for live-action box office gold, the results have been somewhat une…

The last half decade has been good to action fans. Along with 2018’s excellent Mission Impossible: Fallout, the John Wick series has delivered…

There's been many movies and TV shows that concerned female presidents, from 1964's Kisses for My President to TV's 2014 State of Affairs, but…

As a child, I remember sneaking out to see Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, the director’s breakout film that tackled race relations in America…

Avengers: Endgame is the most spoilable movie I’ve ever seen.

In fantasy stories, like any stories, the stakes matter.

“I’d appreciate a prophecy with more relatable stakes.” — Hellboy (David Harbour).

They say women are living longer now, but in my childhood, which was sometime around the middle of the last century, I was surrounded by femal…

As the lights came up at the finish of a Thursday night showing of the new Pet Sematary remake, I took notice as a familiar tune began to play…

Disney has rampantly rehashed its beloved animated classics as live-action films of late. Alice in Wonderland, The Jungle Book, Beauty and the…

Actor-turned-director Jordan Peele scored a hit with 2017’s Get Out. Now he’s back with Us, a not dissimilar metaphor that probes the depths o…

Just because something is cheap doesn’t mean it has to be overly simple.

We’ve all known people whose clinginess has made them an annoyance, but hopefully few of us have known any of those hangers-on whose yearning …

Once upon a time, I had the privilege to meet Mary Lillian Ellison, aka The Fabulous Moolah, and shoot a couple of pictures of her lady wrestl…

If you were to take 1993's Groundhog Day and 1996's Scream and mix them up in a big bowl, you would get something resembling 2017's Happy Deat…

I was going to take the kids to see Alita: Battle Angel last weekend, but a tremor in the Force diverted me to Isn't It Romantic. Perhaps need…

Horror — like metal and punk, its musical kissing cousins — is built on subgenres.

When it comes to gangs, the Hells Angels must have a great PR team. At least, that’s Killer Mike’s take.

Warning: This review contains spoilers for some years-old M. Night Shyamalan films. It does not contain spoilers for Glass.

In 1968, James Baldwin was commissioned to write a screenplay based on the autobiography of Malcolm X. The effort, which frightened then-FBI d…

The idea of the theatrical re-release isn’t a new one.

“I think we can all agree, Mowgli, that you are something the jungle has never seen before,” hisses the Python, Kaa (Cate Blanchett). But the …

Who releases a full-out horror movie in the middle of the holiday season? Apparently Sony-Screen Gems in partnership with Broken Road Productions.

Viggo Mortensen has enjoyed a varied career, but will always be remembered, at least by my kids’ generation, as Aragorn in the Lord of the Rin…

The Rocky film series has gone the distance, and then some.

Nothing I say should be confused with an assessment or opinion of Queen’s impact on popular music. I’d defer that to current and former Free T…

In the AMC’s series Mad Men, head ad man Donald Draper tells a room full of clients, “Nostalgia is delicate, but potent. ... In Greek it liter…

Few would question the pedigree of director John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic Halloween.

Drew Goddard is one of my favorite writers. He started early writing for series such as Alias and Lost, and developed Netflix’s Daredevil, alo…

If anybody's counting, this is the third American remake of 1937's A Star Is Born (there are several more in other languages), followed by ver…

Sometimes, change is good. Other times, it is necessary.

All I remember about my first viewing of John McTiernan’s 1987 science-fiction thriller Predator is hating it. Five years later, a friend made…

As it turns out, not all films in the Conjuringverse are created equal.

Sometimes simple plots are the most emotionally hard-hitting, and nothing could be simpler — some might say primal — than a single father conf…

Fall is for horror films. Always has been, always will be. 

It's been a while since I was in eighth grade, but I remember it as both awkward and unpleasant, as I'm certain it is for the majority of — he…

"'Your mission, should you choose to accept it ...' I wonder, did you ever choose not to?" — Solomon Lane (Sean Harris)

“Let me give you a tip. You want to make some money here? Use your white voice.” — Langston (Danny Glover)

Like Thor: Ragnarok, director Peyton Reed's 2015 Ant-Man is a less fatalistic visit to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, perhaps partly because t…

It’s really difficult to make an effective fictionalized, scripted movie or television series about professional wrestling.