Movie Reviews

The 78th annual Primetime Emmy Awards are set for Sunday, and some of the biggest television shows of the past 12 months are looking to take home the ...

There will be thick times and there will be thin times, but there will always be Looney Tunes — or so we thought. Since their origins in the 1930s, th...

Other superhero movie series may come and go, but somehow, Spider-Man endures. With its third — and longest-reigning — live-action Hollywood portrayal...

Christopher Nolan is a salesman. More than a highly acclaimed director and storyteller, he’s able to sell audiences his movies by making it seem like ...

In the seminal 1977 sci-fi/fantasy film “Star Wars,” an early scene depicts a young farm boy and an old retired warrior entering a seedy saloon with a...

No one was asking for a fifth “Toy Story” film. There certainly was a need for one to keep the franchise going. But now that it’s here, “Toy Story 5” ...

A favorite directorial trademark among film fans is the Spielberg oner — a medium-length shot of maybe 30 seconds to two minutes that tells a scene in...

The history of movies based on toys is a fascinating, albeit comparatively short, one. The very first was Richard Williams’ animated feature “Raggedy ...

It’s been over 80 years since World War II came to an end, and we’re still finding new and different stories about it to tell. Stories about unknown h...

A new movie in the “Star Wars” saga used to be an event. With the original films, you got three with three years between them and that’s it and you li...

There are two types of Guy Ritchie movies. Well, three if you count the big-budget studio slop of the “Aladdin” live-action remake and “King Arthur” r...

When did “family movie” become synonymous with “kids movie”? And when did “kids movie” become synonymous with a mindless collection of flashy images a...

Whether going for a walk along a trail in a nearby park or an excursion deep in the Australian bush, the number one rule of doing outdoor activities i...

The big-budget, highly commercialized and overly ambitious Hollywood movies known as blockbusters are on their way. It seems like every year, the summ...

An adage in storytelling that was popularized by “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker recommends that each plot point and story beat can b...

The subgenre of near-future, hard sci-fi movies had a big bump in the 2010s with the critical and commercial successes of “Gravity” in 2013, “Interste...

Mary Shelley was just 19 years old when she finished writing “Frankenstein,” inventing the genre of science fiction in 1817, something we as a culture...

One time after seeing a trailer for a new Michael Bay movie, I remember my dad saying you can’t trust a preview for an action movie that shows more th...