Publications

News

April 9, 2024 · by Evan Miller

Bits and Bobbidi-Boos From Disney

Amid changes to its release calendar for the next two years, Disney announced dates for several films that previously had unknown windows fro...

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April 2, 2024 · by Evan Miller

Dan Lin Steps Into New Role as Netflix’s Head of Film

It was quite a shock in January 2024 when Netflix announced that Scott Stuber would leave the company as its head of film. In the seven years...

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Reviews

April 2, 2024 · by Amritpal Rai

Review: 'Asphalt City' Pummels You Into Wretched Submission

The first ten minutes of Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s Asphalt City (2024) begins with Tye Sheridan’s Ollie Cross, a rookie EMT, awakening from a ...

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Reviews

April 1, 2024 · by Amritpal Rai

Review: ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ Is Dumb Enough to Be Fun

It’s both a blessing and a curse that Adam Wingard’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) should come out after the historic Oscar win for ...

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Reviews

March 31, 2024 · by Neha Jha

‘Mom’ Review: An Honest Slice of Women’s Lives and Recovery

The receptionist at the hospital retorts when Bonnie (Allison Janney) keeps harping on why her daughter Christy (Anna Faris) has put her spon...

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March 31, 2024 · by Evan Miller

Leigh Whannell's 'Wolf Man' Delayed to January 2025

The moon isn’t full enough for director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man (2025) remake to hit its original prime Halloween release date of Oct. 25, ...

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Essays

March 27, 2024

From 'Mean Girls' to 'Wicked:' Are Musicals Back?

With the success of Mean Girls, is 2024 finally the year of the musical with Joker 2 and Wicked: Part 1?

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Interviews

March 27, 2024 · by Danny Jarabek

*SXSW 2024* Interview With 'The Hobby' (2024) Director, Simon Ennis and Cast Members, Candice Harris & Dan Corbett

From the World Series of Board Games on the Vegas strip and dating back to ancient Mesopotamia, "The Hobby" is an affectionate, character-driv...

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News

March 26, 2024 · by Evan Miller

Scarlett Johansson is the Official Pick to Lead the Next 'Jurassic World' Film

The next Jurassic World film has just taken another giant stomp in the right direction. Reported in early March by online film pundit Jeff Sn...

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Reviews

March 26, 2024 · by Evan Miller

‘Road House’ Review: You Can Take the House From the Road, But Not the Road From the House

Of all the campy and ridiculous action movies released in the 1980s, Road House (1989), starring Patrick Swayze, might be the craziest. It’s ...

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Interviews

March 25, 2024 · by Danny Jarabek

*SXSW 2024* Interview With 'The Queen of My Dreams' (2024) Writer/Director, Fawzia Mirza

Programmed at SXSW 2024, The Queen of My Dreams is set in 1999, when the sudden death of her father Hassan sends queer Muslim grad student Azr...

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Reviews

March 24, 2024 · by Amritpal Rai

Review: Nostalgia Chillingly Decays in ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’

There’s a line from Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) when Annie Potts’s Janine greets Carrie Coon’s Callie Spengler, Callie asks if the house s...

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