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Fantastic Four: First Steps Learned an Important Lesson from the 1994 Roger Corman Movie

Part of the excitement surrounding the release of The Fantastic Four: First Steps earlier this year was the expectation of seeing Marvel’s First Family done right. Versions of the Fantastic Four appeared on screen before Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach suited up as the quartet, but they never got it quite […]

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Doctor Who Spinoff Is Changing the Name of the Classic Sea Devils

In tragic news for those of us who’ve been determinedly calling the forthcoming (questionable) Doctor Who spinoff The War Between the Land and the Sea “that Sea Devils show” or something vaguely similar, we’re going to have to update our terminology. Because in the world of this series, that term is actually kind of offensive. […]

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Sylvester Stallone Considered Backing Off of Rocky IV’s Big Death

It takes only a few minutes for the first big bout in 1985’s Rocky IV to go horribly wrong. What began with pomp and pagentry, as former heavyweight champion Apollo Creed descended from the rafters while James Brown and his band performed “Living in America,” ended in bloodshed. Apollo’s Russian challenger Ivan Drago makes short […]

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Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus to Reunite for Gremlins 3

Five years ago, deep within the pandemic, songwriter Nick Lutsko shared on YouTube a song that captured America’s frustrations. “Paralyzed nation, sick and depressed,” he sang. “Gotta keep myself together / Gotta take a deep breath,” he steeled himself before getting to the heart of the matter: “All because there may never be a Gremlins […]

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Jennifer Lawrence, Rose Byrne and the Rise of Mom Trauma Cinema

On a front porch in a decrepit Appalachian home, a new father and his infant son idle away the afternoon. The proud papa, Jackson (Robert Pattinson), beams while his child giggles at the sky. Neither seems particularly observant of Jackson’s wife, and the baby’s mother, is approaching on all fours—and in tall grass that Jackson […]

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Frankenstein Review: Guillermo del Toro Reconstructs a Classic Monster in His Own Image

No Frankenstein adaptation happens in a vacuum. It’s not just Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel which precdes any new telling of the story Victor Frankenstein and his monster. Filmmakers must also contend with the 1931 James Whale movie and its superior 1935 sequel. Even the Mel Brooks spoof Young Frankenstein looms larger over any update. So […]

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Ghostbusters Gave Us Cinema’s Best New York City Mayor

As the son of filmmaker Mira Nair, New York’s newest mayor Zohran Mamdani knows the difference between Hollywood and reality. He knows that he’ll have a hard time living up to the expectations that have built up in the minds of New Yorkers after seeing their city’s politics depicted again and again. But does he […]

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Requiem for the Kelvinverse: 5 Things the J.J. Abrams Star Trek Movies Did Right

The Kelvinverse has come to an end. The universe that J.J. Abrams inaugurated with his 2009 reboot film Star Trek has now been officially shelved, as Paramount seeks a new direction. Now, it is time to remember the fallen franchise. And of the Kelvinverse, we can only say this: of all the movies I have […]

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Deadpool Star Pitches a ’90s Extreme X-Men Movie

We live in strange times, pop culturally speaking. Deep cut comic book characters who, just twenty years ago, would be discussed only in hushed tones in lunchroom corners are now household names played by A-listers. Suddenly, everyone knows who Bucky Barnes and the Peacemaker are. So it’s not the craziest thing in the world that […]

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