Stephen King, America’s most popular horror writer, is back in fashion. He’s got four big movies this year. In April, Pet Sematary was remade profitably. In October, Netflix is releasing In The Tall Grass. His […]
Quentin Tarantino has spent the last decade rewriting American history. His business is now poetic justice: the oppressed return in time, through Hollywood, to punish their historical oppressors. Inglorious Basterds (2009) had Jews kill Hitler, […]
It used to seem vulgar that something like Shakespeare in Love (1998) could win the Best Picture Oscar. It didn’t have anything to do with Shakespeare, really, and was essentially just another romantic comedy, with […]
“You’re a monster!” screams Madison Russell (played by Millie Bobby Brown) in Godzilla: King of the Monsters. She screams this at her mother, Dr. Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga), who has just made the decision to […]
In an age when teenage fantasies of the kind Marvel produces have taken over Hollywood, it’s not surprising to see the resurgence in popularity of Pokemon, which doesn’t even aspire to the level of teenage […]
The one impressive action-movie idea of recent times—the John Wick franchise starring Keanu Reeves—is drawing to a conclusion with John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, in theaters this weekend. The action is the best the […]
This weekend, American movie theaters will feature the first-ever biopic of J.R.R. Tolkien, the most important fantasy writer, and the most popular writer to have thought through the moral and political changes Christianity brought into […]
Leading up to Avengers: Endgame, Marvel movies were fairly bad at characterization. A few villains were sophisticated characters you could understand—above all Thanos, who is tragic—but not so the beloved heroes. This tendency to create […]
MPAA Rating: R USCCB Rating: A-III Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 My mother gave me the book Unplanned a few years ago, saying she heard Abby Johnson speak and immediately bought me a signed […]
An Average Jane gets into trouble, realizes she has been living an inauthentic life and tries to find out the truth about her past, whereupon she develops superhuman powers, and her hair turns blonde. Samuel […]
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