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‘VFW’ Set Visit: Making Our Last Stand With the Cast of Fangoria’s Latest...
Chat with some critics and you soon realize that most set visits are anything but a marquee event. That is not exactly the case for Fangoria’s latest production, VFW. In the latest by filmmaker Joe...
View ArticleFans of ‘Mad Max,’ Young Love, and Greek Mythology Should Watch ‘Highway to...
Welcome to The Prime Sublime, a weekly column dedicated to the underseen and underloved films buried beneath page after page of far more popular fare on Amazon’s Prime Video collection. We’re not just...
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Watch ‘To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You,’ Then Watch These Movies
fTo Netflix: thank you for another adaptation of the YA novels of Jenny Han. With To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, the sequel to 2018’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, we have another movie...
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‘The Horror at 37,000 Feet’ Sees WIlliam Shatner Collecting Unexpected Die Miles
Welcome to 4:3 & Forgotten — a column where Kieran Fisher and I get to look back at TV terrors that scared adults (and the kids they let watch) across the limited airwaves of the 70s. This week’s...
View Article‘VFW’ Is the ‘Assault on Precinct 13’ Meets ‘Cheers’ Mash-Up You Never Knew...
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name and they’re always glad you came, but it doesn’t hurt if they’re also ready to maim… That’s the predicament Fred (Stephen Lang) finds himself in...
View ArticleForget Narnia, ‘The Closet’ Holds a World Far More Realistic and Frightening
Sometimes a film’s title is the lure that draws you in, and sometimes it’s an obstacle that you might not get past without a gentle push. Well consider this the push you might need to seek out the new...
View Article‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Box Office is Up, Over, and Gone
Paramount’s gamble paid off. Following negative buzz from the first trailer, they delayed the release of Sonic the Hedgehog, spent millions to rework the title character’s look, and in the end, the...
View ArticleThe ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Ending Explained
There are two kinds of adaptations: the suffocatingly reverential (Sin City, 300); and the loosey-goosey that hope to capture the spirit of the piece if not the actual piece (Coraline, Apocalypse Now)....
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Strangers with Portals: A Fish Out of Water Subgenre
Fish out of water stories are a cornerstone of fiction, applicable to all kinds of genres including romantic comedies and superhero blockbusters. They’re especially a staple of science fiction and...
View ArticleWhat to Expect from Taika Waititi’s ‘The Auteur’
Taika Waititi has yet to experience the pitfalls of commercial or artistic failure. The Thor: Ragnarok director’s output has been profitable and critically acclaimed, with his latest hit, Jojo Rabbit,...
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You Really Shouldn’t Miss the Point of Our Pick of the Week
Welcome to this week in home video! Pick of the Week The Point What is it? A round-headed boy is banished from The Land of the Point. Why see it? The 70s were a wild time, and that means animated films...
View Article22 Things We Learned from Taika Waititi’s ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Commentary
Taika Waititi entered the big leagues a few years back with his first blockbuster, Thor: Ragnarok (2017), and he followed it up in 2019 with his sixth feature film, Jojo Rabbit, which went on to be...
View ArticleBreaking Down with ‘Broadcast News’
After hanging up her telephone, Jane Craig (Holly Hunter) unplugs her phone, checks her watch, and sits quietly in her hotel room for a moment. Jane then bursts into chesty, heaving sobs. Her phone...
View ArticleMartin McDonagh Is Finally Making ‘The Banshees of Inisheer’
Good news: Martin McDonagh is reteaming with his In Bruges cohorts Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell for a brand new movie. According to Deadline, The Banshees of Inisheer will start shooting this...
View ArticleTalking the Speed Metal Blitzkrieg of Shooting ‘VFW’ with the Director and Cast
Twenty days. No, scratch that. Eighteen Days. Two were lost to rain. VFW was a blitz of a shoot. Joe Begos practically walked off the set of his last feature, Bliss, and right onto the set of this...
View Article‘Picard’ Explained: Grief Continues to Spread Throughout ‘Stardust City Rag’
The one-two punch of the Romulan supernova and the Synthetic attack on Mars did more than damage Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart)’s ego and transform Starfleet into a xenophobic pack of provincials....
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‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and ‘Hush’s’ Silent Call to Attention
This essay is part of our new series Episodes, a bi-weekly column in which senior contributor Valerie Ettenhofer digs into the singular chapters of television that make the medium great. Television is...
View ArticleWhat Critics Said About ‘Hollow Man’
They Said What?! is a biweekly column in which we explore the highs and lows of film criticism through history. How did critics feel about it at the time, and do we see it differently now? Chris Coffel...
View Article‘I Am Not Okay With This’ Remixes the Hits and Makes a Great Original
Too many things are compared to John Hughes’s movies. Does your high school flick have young people with real desires and opinions in it? Let’s slap a John Hughes label on it. Does your teen show have...
View Article‘The Clone Wars’ Explained: Stuck in the Trenches with ‘The Bad Batch’
War! We’re right in the thick of it for the seventh, resurrected, and final season of The Clone Wars. Knowledge of Emperor Palpatine’s traitorous machinations remains in shadow, as does Anakin...
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