Making Something New: Tracing the Complex Brilliance of ‘Annihilation’
“Where to begin?” These words tumble out of my mouth each time someone asks what there is to celebrate about Alex Garland’s Annihilation. Dumbfounded and overwhelmed, a thousand responses knotting in...
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Shot by Shot with the ‘Candyman’ Trailer
While almost every beloved horror classic has received the reboot treatment, Candyman is the type of story that could realistically be reinterpreted every few years and still feel relevant. The...
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Unmasking the Death’s Head Reveal of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’
Welcome to How’d They Do That? — a bi-monthly column that unpacks moments of movie magic and celebrates the technical wizards who pulled them off. This entire column is based around the celebration of...
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‘The Invisible Man’ Franchise, Ranked
Flight or Invisibility? Pick your superpower. After working your way through the Invisible Man franchise, you’ll never trust anyone who chooses the latter over the former. Invisible Men are not just...
View Article‘Picard’ Explained: ‘The Impossible Box’ Exposes the Fear, Hatred, and Anger...
This article is part of our ongoing Picard Explained series, featuring the insights of our resident Starfleet officer Brad Gullickson. After spending nearly half its run time assembling its cast of...
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Watch ‘The Invisible Man,’ Then Watch These Movies
If you’ve never seen James Whale’s 1933 adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, that’s definitely a must-see before or after the new version (as I’d recommended at the start of the year). Other...
View Article‘The Clone Wars’ Explained: Sins Remembered in ‘A Distant Echo’
Clones are born to die. Bred in labs, from cells sold by the bounty hunter Jango Fett, clones wake up to a life of service. Here’s your armor. Here’s your blaster. Go get them droids, and we’ll sit...
View Article‘The Carpenter’ Might Just Be the Most Bizarre Movie on Amazon Prime
Welcome to The Prime Sublime, a 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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The 50 Best Coming of Age Movies Ever
Growing up: we all do it. No two people have exactly the same coming-of-age story, yet more often than not, we’re drawn to many the same youth-centered stories on screen, deeming them classics and...
View ArticleThe Wilderness of ‘Wendy’: A Conversation with Benh Zeitlin
Writer-director Benh Zeitlin has made quite the name for himself considering he’s only directed one film up until now. Most of that attention came in 2012 after the beauty of Beasts of the Southern...
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The Dread Lurking In The Shadows Of ‘The Strangers’
As a couple is in the midst of being violently murdered, they ask the three masked strangers standing over them why they’re doing this. The answer? “Because you were home.” Bryan Bertino’s 2008 horror...
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Fast Fashion Meets Murder in ‘She’s Dressed to Kill’
Welcome to 4:3 & Forgotten — a weekly column in which 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....
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What’s New to Stream on Netflix for March 2020, and What’s Leaving
Some people spend their days arguing over the merits of Netflix, but the rest of us are too busy enjoying new movies, engaging series, and fun specials. It’s just one more way to re-watch the movies we...
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From Scotland With Force: Reflections On Connery‘s Bond Era
The name’s Bond. Bondathon. With 24 official James Bond films to conquer before ‘No Time To Die’ hits theaters, Bond fan Anna Swanson and Bond newbie Meg Shields are diving deep on 007. Martinis shaken...
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What’s New to Stream on Amazon Prime for March 2020
Amazon Prime is the only streaming service with a cost that also gets you free shipping, and that my friends is a deal. They’re in the original programming game, but their biggest offering remains the...
View Article‘My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising’ Breaks Anime Box Office Record
Anime isn’t known for having huge box office success in America, and when there are hits they tend to be Studio Ghibli fare, Pokemon movies, and other family-friendly features. More mature anime tends...
View ArticleThe Ending of ‘I Am Not Okay With This’ Explained
Jonathan Entwistle seems to be drawn to Charles Forsman’s work. Following on from the success of The End of the F***ing World, he knocks it out of the park with his adaptation of I Am Not Okay With...
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What’s New to Stream on Hulu for March 2020
Hulu has been stuck in the third-place position when it comes to movie streaming behind Netflix and Amazon Prime because most people still see them strictly as a home for next-day television. They have...
View Article37 Things We Learned from Rian Johnson’s ‘Knives Out’ Commentary
One of 2019’s more positive success stories was the arrival of a Rian Johnson‘s premiere Whodunit, Knives Out. He and a fantastic team of creatives both behind and in front of the camera delivered a...
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The Daughter of Fay Wray Explains the Grip of ‘King Kong’ on Cinema
Movies are not the product of the gods. Movies are made by people. The confusion occurs when a film plunges into your heart and seems to fill your entire being. We find so much of ourselves in the...
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