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This article contains spoilers for Superman. For decades creators across various media, and even many audiences, have had the same opinion about Superman: “He’s just too powerful.” Creators couldn’t figure out how to write compelling stories about a man who cannot be hurt. Audiences couldn’t figure out how to relate to a guy who lifts […]

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Fantastic Fest is back! Ever since 2005, horror and genre enthusiasts have pilgrimaged to Texas to take in the latest in the latest in horror, sci-fi, and just plain weird movies. And for its 20th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is going further than ever, with a packed festival lineup that includes more than a few gems. […]

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Ask most Paul Verhoeven fans, and they’ll tell you that the Dutch provocateur’s Hollywood career came to a disappointing end. After a 15-year stretch that included classics such as RoboCop, Total Recall, and Basic Instinct, Verhoeven finished out his American movie run with 2000’s Hollow Man, a remake of The Invisible Man that featured incredible […]

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Even all these years later, Star Wars fans still haven’t come to a consensus on The Last Jedi. But we are all agreed that The Force Awakens is a solid reboot movie and that The Rise of Skywalker is a travesty, right? What remains in question is how, exactly, J.J. Abrams got it so wrong […]

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This article contains spoilers for Weapons. Those who saw Weapons in the theater experienced something shocking in the movie’s final moments. Admittedly most of us went into Weapons expecting to be shocked. After all, director Zach Cregger certainly unnerved us with his twisty solo debut feature, Barbarian. But Weapons fills audiences with an unexpected emotion […]

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A few weeks before Liam Neeson‘s Frank Drebin Jr. bumbled onto movie screens, IndieWire critic David Ehrlich published an essay with the audacious title, “The Naked Gun Is the Most Important Movie of the Summer.” Beyond just the hopes that Neeson and director Akiva Scheffer could recreate bizarre energy of the Leslie Nielsen originals, the […]

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Not even the most snobby, most contrarian cineaste would seriously argue that Steven Spielberg is not one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Likewise not even the biggest fan of wacky comedies would argue that Jerry Zucker, who co-wrote and co-directed Airplane!, and co-wrote and produced The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police […]

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By this point, it’s not unusual for movies based on comic books to attract top-level names. Legends like Harry Dean Stanton and Robert Redford have appeared in Marvel movies. Heath Ledger, Joaquin Phoenix, and Angela Bassett all earned Academy Award nominations for their parts in superhero films, with Ledger taking home the Best Supporting Actor […]

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Twenty-five years ago, Marvel brought its mutants to the big screen for the first time in X-Men. Though the movie eschewed the brightly colored spandex costumes of the comics, it remained largely true to the source material, complete with fantastic displays of superpowers and addamantium claws. Yet the most exciting part of the movie happens […]

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This article contains spoilers for Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Even before they released, just two weeks apart from one another, we knew that Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps would have a lot in common. Both movies feature founding characters from the comics, both embrace the qualities that made their characters […]

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This article contains The Fantastic Four: First Steps spoilers. Late in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, a quiet moment between father and son takes a brief and despairing, turn. Ever since the world-devourer Galactus expressed interest in the boy, Reed had been monitoring Franklin for signs of powers, not unlike the irradiated abilities he shares […]

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This article contains The Fantastic Four: First Steps spoilers. For fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the coming of The Fantastic Four: First Steps is as anticipated as the arrival of Galactus, the world-devourer himself. It’s not just that MCU fans have longed to see Marvel’s First Family done right, with a respect to the […]

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War of the Worlds is unquestionably a big sci-fi movie about aliens invading the Earth. It begins with Morgan Freeman narration about observers jealously watching our planet from afar and it is filled with the big thrilling sequences that made director Steven Spielberg‘s reputation. Yet for the film’s first viewers in 2005, War of the […]

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With an MCU’s take on the Fantastic Four looming over cinemas like a hungry, hungry Galactus, some superhero fans are revisiting past iterations. And, to be frank, too many of these folks are getting it wrong when they defend 2005’s Fantastic Four or the 2007 follow-up Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. In case […]

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This article contains spoilers for all of Ari Aster’s movies. What do we make of Ari Aster? Is he one of the most compelling filmmakers of our era? Or, as his detractors cry out on social media, a one-trick pony who got hot at the right time? (An interesting argument considering among his admirers is […]

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