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Though Universal’s attempt at a cinematic universe—a horror equivalent of the MCU—was buried with 2017’s The Mummy , the studio has been...
It’s reductive to refer to every big-budget TV adaptation of a popular video game as “[studio]’s answer to The Last of Us .” But there is...
Star Trek: Discovery occupies an interesting place in the celebrated franchise. It was the first Trek series of the streaming era, the first to...
This past winter, writer/director Takashi Yamazaki and Japanese studio Toho unveiled Godzilla Minus One , a rich, character-driven parable about...
Watch the trailer for Sugar and you’ll see what appears to be a fairly ordinary neo-noir set in present day Los Angeles centered around a...
The Internet at large is very weird about sydney sweeney. For a while, she merely attracted the typical scrutiny and fixation of a magnetic young...
There’s an episode of 30 Rock in which comedy writer Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) decides to play hardball when negotiating a talk show development deal...
Back in January, Road House director Doug Liman announced that he would be boycotting his own film’s SXSW premiere to protest Amazon’s...
Five years after their goal-line fumble of the massively popular HBO series Game of Thrones , writer-producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are...
In 2009, producers Robert and Michelle King brought us The Good Wife , one of the last great broadcast network dramas. Launching under the guise of...
In some ways, Lisa Frankenstein feels like it arrived on a time machine from the year 1989. To begin with, it seems like a movie that began as a...
Early in Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi thriller Tenet , a scientist (Clémence Poésy) demonstrates the film’s bizarre time travel gimmick for...
What does it mean for an episode of The Sopranos to be “underrated?” David Chase’s generation-defining drama is one of the most immaculate...
There’s something exciting about deliberately small science fiction stories. Sci-fi, after all, can be as much an intellectual exercise as an...
True Detective , the anthology mystery series that captivated HBO viewers back in 2014, returns this weekend for its first new season in five years....
Are there still casual Marvel Studios fans? If you believe the doomsayers in the press ( I’m one of them ), the superhero movie boom has finally...
January is an infamous Hollywood dumping ground for movies the studios don’t expect to draw big money or awards attention. Horror, however, is...
As a teenage comic book fan coming of age as superheroes were breaking into the mainstream, I always approached any conversation about Batman with a...
It may be too soon to declare that the superhero movie bubble has burst. After all, adaptations of Marvel comics still comprise three of this year’s...
I’ll admit to having a soft spot for Zack Snyder. I’m not sure I’d go so far as to call him a good director, but he is an interesting one,...
It’s hard to measure the year in television. The deluge of content makes it difficult for any one moment to stick in our cultural memory as in years...
Twenty years ago, writer-producer Ronald D. Moore refused to give a crowd of angry, disappointed sci-fi nerds what they wanted. This was Galacticon in...
Early in Leave the World Behind , media studies professor Clay Sandford (Ethan Hawke) brags to his wife Amanda (Julia Roberts) that one of his...
During the crushing months of the COVID-19 pandemic, sketch comedy group Please Don’t Destroy provided much-needed relief with a string of endlessly...
Despite underperforming in theaters back in 2010, the Edgar Wright film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World instantly amassed a cult following through its...
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is grown-up, character-driven television wrapped in a monster-movie shell. There’s a chance that the film franchise...
The year is 2003. More and more consumers are carrying phones in their pockets, the Strokes are leading a garage rock revival, and President Al Gore...
While the boom of movies and shows based on video games has only hit a fever pitch in the past year or two, the phenomenon of watching...
In the theater world, it can take years to compose and stage a musical. For “Subspace Rhapsody,” the musical episode of the Paramount (PARA) ...
Even for me, a lifelong superhero comics fan for whom frequent big budget live-action adaptations was once a far-fetched dream, Marvel Fatigue is a...
Call me The Exorcist: Skeptic , but I had a lot of doubts going into The Exorcist: Believer . I’m a fan of what director David Gordon Green...
It feels strange to frame The Creator as an underdog. A science fiction war movie from director Gareth Edwards ( Rogue One , the 2014 ...
Even fans of John Wick had reason to be skeptical of studio Lionsgate’s attempts to expand the film series into an ongoing multi-media franchise....
There are few performers in Hollywood whose description requires more hyphens than actor-writer-director-producer-martial artist Michael Jai White....