When I was a kid, I used to make a game out of seeing as many adaptations of A Christmas Carol as I could find on cable. Over the years, I’ve probably seen more than a dozen. There are some things that Ebenezer gets remarkably right, and others that genuinely disturbed me.
With a rumored $420 million budget and the distinction of being the most expensive Bollywood film ever made, the Ramayana: Rise of a Legend will either be majorly impressive or impressively bad. There’s little doubt that it will be a massive hit in India. Whether this...
Can a psychological thriller and meta-documentary starring Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes really be one of the year’s best films? The premise sounds absurd, yet You Can See Everything makes a strong case that it can. The film follows Elizabeth “Liz” Holmes, the...
In its 21-year history, LAIKA has released only six films. That restraint is the entire point. While most studios chase volume, quarterly targets, and half-baked sequels, LAIKA has operated like a true atelier: willing to labor for years in pursuit of something truly...
Earlier this year, a campy Masters of the Universe won over fans of the beloved ‘80s toy franchise but still bombed at the box office. Now Street Fighter (2026) is following a similar path: another affectionate, over-the-top ‘80s throwback that fans are eating up, yet...
Tom Cruise is typically known for his action flicks, but he occasionally takes on more serious roles to prove himself a true thespian. Teaming up with Birdman director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, he fully commits by plastering himself in prosthetics for the avant-garde...
With seven series, one short, and now three feature-length films under its belt, the Shaun the Sheep franchise is no stranger to the limelight. But is Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, a worthy successor in the iconic Aardman franchise? Or is it perhaps time...
With the release of Coyote vs. Acme, it appears that life imitates art yet again as the film finally accomplished the Sisyphean task of rolling the boulder over the hill. There’s been much hullabaloo about the unfortunate 2023 shelving as a tax write-off, but the...
Set in 1990s Philippines, Forgotten Island tells the story of two lifelong best friends, the goofy rascal Jo (H.E.R.) and the straight-laced overachiever Raissa (Liza Soberano). Growing up, the girls listened to Jo’s grandma Lola (Dolly de Leon) tell stories of a...
From the opening scene of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, two things become unmistakably clear. First, Sam Raimi’s films still define how the character is brought to the screen. Peter Parker’s reflective opening monologues place the audience inside the hero’s current mindset. This particular sequence includes the devastating line, “Sometimes Spider-Man has to do the hard thing, even if it breaks Peter Parker’s heart. Maybe that’s my responsibility: to live alone with the truth.”
Over the past two weeks, to prepare for this review, I've made a point of becoming something of a student of The Odyssey. I read Homer's poem, watched more than nine hours of previous adaptations of the story (right up to the adaption for the Wishbone show), and read...
After finishing Supergirl, the first conclusion I reached was simple: this isn’t a Supergirl movie. Instead, it feels like an original young adult science-fiction adventure that eventually decided to put on a Supergirl costume. There are moments where the film...
I recently took the time to watch and review Masters of the Universe, and as someone who would probably be considered a casual fan rather than a hardcore He-Man enthusiast, I left the theater with a lot of conflicting thoughts. I grew up in the 1980s watching the...