There’s a reason romantic comedies don’t have sequels. The entire point is the phrase “happily ever after” – no one wants to get into the nitty gritty of real life. In fact, only a handful of films have even dared to try it, most recently Father...
There are few directors working today as iconic – or as infuriating – as Christopher Nolan. After the unstoppable success of The Dark Knight, Nolan’s films have gotten bigger and bolder in size and scope. Yet the more grandiose his films have...
It’s hard to think of a bigger summer movie this year – indeed, since before the pandemic, perhaps – than Barbie. With Greta Gerwig coming off the critically and commercially beloved Lady Bird and Little Women, an all-star cast, and one of the...
There has been much scuttlebutt in recent years over the so-called death of the erotic thriller. While there has certainly been a decline in the subgenre (defined by its intense action surrounding sex and sexuality, like Body Heat or Basic...
Are there movie stars anymore? I don’t mean recognizable faces or performers – I mean true blue stars that can carry a movie on sheer charisma alone. We once had an entire system devised around these titans of the screen, capable of leading a...
Parody filmmaking is a dying art form, and that’s probably for the best. While films like Airplane! and most Mel Brooks films break the mold, most others range from average (despite some memorable scenes and breakout stars, most Scary Movie films...
Has cinema reached its nadir? This is a question critics and film lovers have been asking for years, as the industry shifted towards an infantilizing obsession with nostalgia and remakes and reboots. Long before AI was sentient enough for...
How does one follow up a once-in-a-generation film? That’s the question that Across the Spider-Verse poses, a follow-up to the 2018 masterpiece (I don’t use this word lightly) Into the Spider-Verse. The first film was rightly hailed as one of the...
What is it that makes the Guardians of the Galaxy movies arguably the only successfully entertaining franchise within the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Whereas most of the sequels and spinoffs to premiere as part of the waning franchise’s Fourth and...
Should there be a rule surrounding sequels requiring the first film to be in any way, shape, or form to be memorable? Walking into Book Club: The Next Chapter, I realized that I had no idea what the first film was about. I knew I’d seen it, and I...
It is hard to overstate how truly magical the Evil Dead saga has become. What started as a bunch of drunk college kids trying to make a cheap movie to prove their skills as filmmakers has erupted into a worldwide sensation. While the original...
Five films into his career, it has become shockingly clear that Ben Affleck is the epitome of a journeyman director. Seen as a dirty word in recent years due to the popularity of auteur theory, the journeyman has long been one of the most...
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