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Sunlight still lasts until late into the evening, and temperatures on the east coast of the U.S. remain reliably sweltering. The dog days of summer are definitely here. Even so, the summer movie season is winding down. Indeed, the biggest superhero film of the season is already on streaming as of press time, and studios […]

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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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Jeffrey Wright and Spike Lee are only nine years apart in age. They have also known each other since near the beginning of their careers, with the Tony and Emmy-winning actor telling us that he first met Lee when he was still a young thespian on the make in New York City. It was 1989 […]

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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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When making the first Nobody back in the pre-COVID days of 2019, Bob Odenkirk refused to let himself think about the project as the start of a potential action franchise. Despite spending more than a year training for the gig, he viewed it first and foremost as a creative gamble. Even so, he confides to […]

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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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Late in the back half of director Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans’ new Netflix sensation, KPop Demon Hunters, musical icon Rumi (Arden Cho) takes a break from her side hustle as a late-night monster-slayer in order to simply slay above an arena stage. Before thousands of screaming fans and a lighting scheme that matches the […]

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Bob Odenkirk is aware that taking a punch to the face and being able to convincingly throw one in return onscreen is a little bit like doing comedy. Having gone through the learning process once for the former in 2021’s Nobody—a film for which Odenkirk spent more than a year training and preparing—the actor sees […]

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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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Next spring Matt Reeves’ long-anticipated The Batman Part II is expected to finally go in front of cameras at Warner Brothers’ Leavesden studios in London. When that happens it will mark nearly four years to the day since Reeves’ previous DC crime epic opened in cinemas in March 2022. Both this time gap and fans’ […]

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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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Adult animation is hitting a new high on Netflix, but Genndy Tartakovsky’s Fixed goes fully off-leash in the best way possible. This feature-length, raunchy animated film follows Bull (Adam Devine), a scrappy mutt who finds out his freedom is about to be permanently cut short. With the clock ticking on his manhood, Bull rallies his […]

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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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This article contains massive Weapons spoilers. It’s been three years since Zach Cregger burst onto the horror stage with Barbarian, his shocking pivot into stunning genre filmmaking. That word of mouth hit would go on to make 10 times its $4.5 million budget, setting Cregger up as the newest horror director to watch. Now The […]

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Zach Cregger’s Weapons does not always feel like a horror movie, and for large stretches it isn’t one. The enigmatic genre piece begins and ends with a mystery: Why would 17 elementary schoolers, all from the same class, wake up  in their disparate childhood bedrooms at 2:17 in the morning and then vanish into the […]

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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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