Hellboy starts off great. From the first scene, it’s clear that this reboot isn’t taking itself too seriously: it kicks off in the Dark Ages (in black and white because…
The 2010s may seem like the renaissance of Stephen King adaptations, but in reality, they never really stopped. Starting with Brian De Palma’s Carrie in 1976, there have been at…
I’m convinced that the DC Extended Universe has given moviegoers Stockholm syndrome. The appeal of the Marvel Cinematic Universe at least makes sense: its movies are, more often than not,…
Here’s a little piece of film history: the animated Dumbo came out in 1941, and it was the fourth Disney movie ever made. Here’s another piece of film history: Disney…
What a difference a year can make! At the beginning of 2016, Jordan Peele was primarily known for being one half of sketch comedy duo Key & Peele. At the…
Director John Lee Hancock has a perspective problem. In 2009, he directed The Blind Side, which was widely denounced as a white savior film—and rightly so. It told the story…
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with John Lee Hancock and John Fusco, the director and writer of The Highwaymen. Their new movie tells the story of Frank…
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been around for eleven years, resulted in twenty-one movies, and made a grand total of—let me crunch the numbers—eleventy trillion dollars. Marvel Studios has enough…
Greta is a strange chimera of a movie. It’s written and directed by the mind behind cinematic classic The Crying Game, a movie that brilliantly melded the genres of thriller…
The How to Train Your Dragon series has shaped up to be quite the crowning jewel for DreamWorks Animation. The studio swivels between successful franchises and ludicrous disasters—for every Shrek…
America doesn’t have a great track record when it comes to live-action adaptations of manga. We cast Scarlett Johansson in an inferior version of Ghost in the Shell, ruined Oldboy…
On Halloween of 2017, one brave movie asked a question that could change slashers forever: instead of watching a killer stab people to death over and over, what if we…
