For over 25 years, we’ve had the privilege of watching a group of stupid guys do stupid shit. In Jackass: Best and Last, we get the opportunity to see just how the stupendously idiotic and magnificently important franchise began – with archived footage of Johnny Knoxville shooting himself in the chest while wearing nothing more […]
The first two Despicable Me films were so popular, in fact, that Illumination realized they should give the little yellow Tic Tacs who provided comedic relief their own spin-off franchise within the universe. Now, billions of dollars later, we’ve arrived at Minions & Monsters, the seventh entry in the mega franchise.
It’s been a full six months into 2026, and quite a lot has happened. The Sundance, Berlin, and Cannes Film Festivals have come and gone. Greta Gerwig’s Narnia has been moved to 2027. Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial has been pushed to 2027, dropped by Amazon MGM, and acquired by NEON to go back into the 2026 slate. Michael has surpassed Oppenheimer as the highest […]
Wilde’s well-oiled machine comes together to deliver something hilarious, yet emotionally cathartic. Though small in scope, The Invite achieves maximum emotional impact by asking what it means to actively choose someone and how to find each other again through the noise.
With the second film in the rebooted DCU now in wide release to pair with last year’s Superman, we analyze the recent Supergirl movie, exploring its marketing, storytelling choices, and representation of female superheroes. With the film currently sitting at around 54% on Rotten Tomatoes, the reactions have been mixed. We discuss broader trends in superhero films, particularly […]
Supergirl is the second film in the DCU created by James Gunn and Peter Safran, following Superman from 2025. Clayface will follow this year as the third entry of “Chapter One: Gods and Monsters” in the soft reboot of the DCEU which featured 16 films between 2013 and 2023. Supergirl follows Kara Zor-El who joins forces with an unlikely companion on […]
Willy Wonka summed up the legacy of the film perfectly on the day of its release so many years ago. “So shines a good deed in a weary world,” he said while grasping an everlasting gobstopper across his desk. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory itself is that good deed in a weary world, offering light, joy, and whimsy to all who have encountered it, and will continue to encounter it for many years to come.
In our continued conversation on Queer cinema for Pride, we look toward POC and International Cinema, two topics that often get left out of the Western canon. POC and International Queer cinema provides a platform to explore diverse identities and experiences, often absent from the dominant Western narrative with examples dating back to 1919. These […]
Leviticus suggests that the things we long for are not always as distant as they seem, that the life we imagine for ourselves may still be waiting for us if we are brave enough to reach for it.
To set the scene here, the Universal logo sequence goes quiet. You hear Linkin Park and Jay-Z’s “Numb” blasting from the nightclub speakers as a woman is dancing and a bunch of club patrons are having a grand ol’ time. Unbeknownst to them, a bunch of Miami-Dade cops, led by Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs, […]
But Signs is a terrifying horror film about a deadly alien invasion, whereas Disclosure Day is a sci-fi drama about government cover-ups and modern media. The richer answer, then, lies in how these movies approach their core theme — namely, the ways in which humanity chooses to engage with (or in some cases, reject) the existence of the divine.
In general, Dead Man’s Chest is very much worth revisiting. In retrospect, the movie looks a lot better visually and director-wise than the output of live-action Disney remakes that have come out. The lack of color, emotion, or creative control lacks the magic, spectacle, and heart that Verbinski’s Pirates movies have.
Now, are you watching closely? Let’s begin with today’s films. RETRO//RANKED is a Rolling Tape network series ranking the individual entries of beloved franchises and filmographies, timed to major new releases. For season 7, we’re diving into the complete filmography of Christopher Nolan, building episode by episode, two films at a time, toward the release of his […]
Supergirl is not able to stand out as much among most blockbusters and is painfully middling superhero fare at best. A shockingly ugly looking blockbuster at worst, and with even its most interesting ideas being fairly derivative of better Sci-Fi and space fare, the girl of steel’s long-awaited return to the big screen is a subpar disappointment.
As Randy Newman sang more than 30 years ago in “You’ve Got a Friend in Me”: “Our friendship will never die,” — and neither will the Toy Story franchise. Toy Story is one of the only film properties held sacred by every generation that has engaged with it. A child today can be planted in […]
