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The hour has grown late, and the sun’s drawn low. Such ominous tidings definitely apply to the denizens of Earth in The Fantastic Four: First Steps. For it is in this movie that Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds, has come. However, it also applies to many longtime Marvel Comics fans in the audience. Despite four […]

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Wedding Crashers just turned 20. That seems hard to believe because of how relatively recent the movie might feel to anyone who was at least in high or secondary school in 2005. Yet unto itself, the movie has long since transformed into a relic of a bygone age. In one sense, the humor 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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Whenever you think of Waterworld, the Kevin Costner-starring dystopian action movie that turns 30 this summer, chances are you immediately think of the world “flop.” There are few films in Hollywood history that carry the stink of failure as potently as the movie where they gave Wyatt Earp gills behind the ears. Indeed, Waterworld may […]

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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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Ari Aster started writing the film that would become Eddington in 2020 as COVID19 halted the world. Five years later, COVID19 is still killing thousands of people monthly around the world, and the political landscape has changed in ways that people in the 2010s could never imagine. It’s a stark backdrop for Eddington to set […]

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This article contains major spoilers for Ari Aster’s Eddington. People are finally treating Joaquin Phoenix‘s Sheriff Joe Cross with the kindness, and more importantly the respect, he thinks he deserves. “We need to find each other’s hearts,” he previously pleaded in that Facebook video which became a surprise announcement for his mayoral candidacy. Well, a […]

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Out of all the Y2K-era R-rated horrors, it was only a matter of time before I Know What You Did Last Summer handed its hook over to the next generation—now in the shape of the boilerplate legacy sequel movie, as opposed to the short-lived and already forgotten 2021 Prime Video series. Despite the commercial success […]

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This article contains spoilers for Superman. Even if the two filmmakers admire one another much more than their respective fans would like to admit, there’s no question that James Gunn and Zack Snyder have very different approaches to Superman. These differences go beyond Snyder’s predilection for shooting muscular men as epic gods or Gunn’s habit […]

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Most folks do not want to remember the COVID-19 pandemic. Even when we were living through it, snapshot films from filmmakers as varied as Steven Knight and Judd Apatow were roundly rejected by streaming audiences, who could neither laugh at the absurdities of that moment or bask in paeans to essential workers (workers who, we […]

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In the 1990s, Disney was untouchable. After a low period in the ‘80s that almost saw the animation studio shutter, they experienced a legendary comeback with a slew of critical and commercial smash hits that became known as the Disney Renaissance. Films like Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, and The Lion King cemented […]

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Warning! This piece contains spoilers for Superman!  Superhero stories are often filled with idiosyncrasies that inspire deep conversations among those who gobble them up. From whether or not you believe Superman could really disguise himself with nothing more than a pair of snazzy glasses to the collateral damage of superhero showdowns, suspension of disbelief is […]

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I Know What You Did Last Summer might be the most fascinating of the late 1990s slasher movies that followed Scream. Not necessarily because it also comes from Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson, nor because it features a cast of hot young ’90s stars (including Scream 2‘s Sarah Michelle Gellar). Rather it’s fascinating because of the […]

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