Using 40 hours of new, raw interview material from its subject as framework, the two-part documentary Pee-wee As Himself explores the complex and conflicted life of Paul Reubens, who somehow comes […]
Adapted from yet another one of author R.L. Stine’s Fear Street books (specifically The Prom Queen) and following up the 2021 trilogy of films directed by Leigh Janiak, Fear Street: […]
I believe it’s safe to add yet another film to the growing pantheon of horror titles that are actually family dramas in disguise. From writer/director Julia Max (helming her feature […]
Tom Cruise has been playing Ethan Hunt for 30 years; let that sink in. Sure, he’s taken on close to 20 non-Mission: Impossible roles since the first film in 1996, […]
Unlike many other issue-oriented documentaries that capitalize on the controversy of the moment and round up a group of talking-head “experts” on a subject to expound on the extremes of […]
From directors Nyle DiMarco (a Deaf activist making his directing debut) and Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for “Superman,” Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie) comes a lesser-known chapter […]
Two things have always separated the Final Destination films from other horror franchises. First, the villain (Death) is never seen, only experienced—there are no clever quips or certain types of […]
The title of Jake Johnson’s latest book—Unstaged Grief: Musicals and Mourning in Midcentury America—is more than a bit jarring. It’s that part about “Musicals and Mourning” that seems so odd. […]
Although it didn’t take quite as long as it did The Accountant to get to its recent sequel (nine years), Another Simple Favor takes place in the aftermath of 2018’s […]
Not since the original Guardians of the Galaxy movie has Marvel so successfully forged a team that worked so convincingly together and resulted in so much emotion by the end […]
In Havoc, the latest absolutely chaotic, utterly brutal actioner from writer/director Gareth Evans (The Raid), Tom Hardy plays Walker, a beaten-down, taken-out-with-the-trash detective who starts out like that even before […]
Considering the pedigree of the horror video game adaptation Until Dawn, I admittedly expected something better. From director David F. Sandberg (Lights Out, Annabelle: Creation, both Shazam! movies) and writers […]