"I suspect foul play. I have eliminated no suspects." — Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig)

"Anything that is mentionable is manageable." — Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks)

I have a few bones to pick with Steven Mnuchin, the U.S. secretary of the treasury. I'll spare the laundry list and just focus on the missed o…

If you’re not first, you’re last. 

When Disney spent more than $4 billion to acquire Lucasfilm — and thus, the rights to the Star Wars franchise — in 2012, you knew the media gi…

"The world's a hungry place, a dark place. I've only met two or three people like us. They died." — Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor)

"You may have changed the future, but you didn't change our fate." — Grace (Mackenzie Davis)

One sign that I’m getting older is how often I try to explain the greatest of heroes from yesteryear.

It’s been 10 years since director Ruben Fleischer’s tour of Zombieland, and little has changed in this sequel. Zombie killers Tallahassee (Woo…

Gemini Man has kicked around for a couple of decades, with people like Nic Cage attached, but producers always backed off because the software…

When, as a kid, I read Batman comics or saw the 1960s TV series, my child's mind didn't question anything. Batman was good and his arch-nemesi…

Once upon a time, when a TV series came to an end, you would never see those characters again, and certainly a canceled show would never be re…

Once upon a time, I used to have to go into strip joints — yes, had to — in order to find ladies who had figures similar enough to actresses w…

The way in which audiences interact with horror films — and what we expect from them — has always been fascinating.

Since LAPD detective Jack Radcliff's (David Oyelowo) brother is a low-level druggie in and out of the slammer, Jack's spent the last several y…

The waning days of August are traditionally a time for briefly releasing of films that distributors view as second stringers, titles unfit to …

"Someone like you must create. If you don't, you become a menace to society." — Peter Jellenik (Laurence Fishburne).

When I saw the trailer for director Andrea Berloff's The Kitchen, about a trio of housewives who take over their husbands' mob operation after…

Extended film franchises may have become de rigueur at American cinemas, but, as Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, illustrates, f…

Wikipedia isn’t a reliable source of historical information. If someone changes an entry, and enough people co-sign it, the false information …

"While others search for what they can take, a true king searches for what he can give." — Mufasa (James Earl Jones)

A friend recently asked me what I love most about my family. Without any thought, my response was simply that they’re mine. Regardless of the …

It's been a couple of years since I've seen an example of that perennial favorite among horror movies: "Big hungry monster chases cast." In fa…

When Ari Aster told The Verge last year that he didn’t “necessarily consider [himself] a horror filmmaker,” it was a telling humblebrag for As…

“A world without The Beatles would be an infinitely worse place.” 

I never much liked the 1988 Child’s Play, which probably says more about me than about the movie, as screenwriter Don Mancini’s homicidal livi…

“Hotter than Bond, Cooler than Bullitt.”

“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…