I’ve long feared that the Conjuring series wouldn’t work with a different team behind it. The first two—written by Chad and Carey Hayes and directed by James Wan—are horror par…
An undine is a mythological water spirit, usually female, that doesn’t have a soul unless it marries a human on land. If the husband is unfaithful, however, the undine has…
How do you endear the audience to a woman who’s infamous for wanting to skin puppies? You Disneyfy her, it turns out—which is ridiculous to say about a character that’s…
Zack Snyder’s directorial debut was Dawn of the Dead, the 2004 remake of George A. Romero’s 1978 classic. Romero’s original is one of the best horror films ever made—a perfect…
A Quiet Place was almost a great movie. The first 80 minutes are solid, but the final scene contains one of the dumbest twists this side of late-period Shyamalan. Turns…
With Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck back together for the first time since 2004, the occult powers ruling Hollywood brought back something awful from 17 years ago to balance the…
In French Exit, a cynical heiress plans to kill herself once all her husband’s money runs out, and this woman is—thank god—played by Michelle Pfeiffer. After a brief hiatus from…
Warner Bros. made the big monster fight the big ape and spent $200 million doing it, so the brawl better be good. We’ve been surrounded by the smallness of our…
It’s easy to see what initially attracted Charlie Kaufman to Chaos Walking. The filmmaker behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and I’m Thinking of Ending Things wrote the original…
Did you know Anna and Elsa aren’t technically considered “Disney Princesses”? The Frozen franchise is so bankable on its own that Disney Animation separated it from the overall Princess brand.…
Reviewing Minari is like explaining the sunset. I could explain at length how molecules and particles in the atmosphere affect the direction of light rays, scattering colors across the sky…
Saint Maud was one of the most promising films of early 2020. A grim, psychological horror where the evil is coming from inside the godly, à la the terrifying religious…
