Movie Reviews

“Wicker” is set on the outskirts of a village by the sea where a Fisherwoman (played by Olivia Colman) — smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed — is...

Hollywood has been in a difficult position the past few years. From the COVID-19 pandemic closing theaters to both actors and writers guild strikes to...

How real events are portrayed in fictionalized movies walk a fine line between education and entertainment. And the more recent the true events occurr...

The legacy sequel — one of the biggest gambles movie studios usually take at least once each year. For every “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Blade Runner 2049” ...

The 78th annual Primetime Emmy Awards are set for Monday, 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...

It’s not quite Oscar season, but with kids returning to school and temperatures and leaves soon beginning to drop comes the movies that may have a cha...

The hold Steven Spielberg had on pop culture, particularly in the movies, was pretty remarkable. Three times he directed the then-highest-grossing mov...

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...