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With each new popular trend, technological advancement or changing of the guard in Hollywood, the same observation crops up from each successive gener...

When trying to decide if a movie was good or not, there is an eternal tug of war between the final presentation and what the film is trying to say thr...

Do you remember the first Nicolas Cage movie you saw in theaters? I do. When I was 11 years old, my aunt took me to see “National Treasurer,” an adven...

Some movies leave you feeling exhausted after watching them. Not tired because they were so boring, but physically drained from how intense and unforg...

As with the survival of our world, the magical adventures in the Wizarding World are going to end not with a bang, but a whimper. The success of the o...

Of all the video game movies to surprise audiences and critics alike by not being a worthless piece of advertising, the last one many expected was “So...

It’s rare to see a misstep in Marvel’s cinematic output these days. Long gone are the days of widespread critical and commercial disappointment that c...

Hollywood superstar Will Smith won his first Academy Award Sunday for his lead performance in “King Richard,” a biopic about the father of Venus and S...

Near the end of 2021, when Ryan Reynolds’ third movie of the year was released, a common discourse on the internet posited that the movie star keeps p...

Pixar films have taken viewers across the world, into the distant past and far into the future. Toys, monsters, many different animals and a variety o...

Whether you’re a fan of comic books and superheroes or not, everyone knows Batman. The tragic backstory, the somewhat silly costume, the brooding bill...

The unique vision of director Wes Anderson has grown beyond the terms “stylized” or “quirky” to describe what are films that lovingly steal from the w...

Anytime a movie comes out that is an adaptation of a popular video game, the question of whether it will be great and impactful or just another pointl...

As movies delayed over a year or more due to the coronavirus pandemic are finally being released, another sequel to a hit from several years ago, a re...

About 20 minutes into this return to the big screen by Ronald Emmerich, famous for his big-budget, cast-of-thousands and CGI-heavy disaster films, a c...

Of the four Shakespeare plays we were supposed to read in high school — one per year — the one I had missed out on was “Macbeth.” I don’t recall why w...

When it comes to the arts, a common adage is “write what you know.” For decades in the movie business, directors and writers are constantly making fil...

Going to the newest Disney animated feature used to be an event. During the company’s Golden Age, seeing the latest release from the days when Walt hi...