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When word first emerged that we were going to be getting a Venom movie, people were excited at the prospect. It was always a popular Spider-Man storyline from the post-Secret Wars era. Then the next news hit: while it’s still a production by Sony (the company who holds the reins on the use of the […]

Watching the trailer for Bad Times at the El Royale gives fans of a certain genre of film a particular thrill. The kind of people who get excited anytime they see a film in the vein of Free Fire, Smokin’ Aces, or anything by Tariatino. Then it comes time to roll into the theater to […]

So by now unless you’ve been living under a rock you are aware that A Star is Born isn’t a new film. In fact this is the fourth time it’s been developed for the screen (going all the way back to 1936), and that doesn’t even count the number of times it’s been made under […]

A Star Is Born will fill your heart, break it, and use the art of Kintsugi with the resulting pieces. Everyone pretty much knew the 2018 retelling of A Star Is Born was going to be something special, especially when Lady Gaga was attached to star. The true unknown was 4-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper directing for the […]

It’s been 31 years since Shane Black was last involved in a Predator film; the last time he was in front of the camera as the relatively scrawny, eyeglasses-wearing Rick Hawkins, this time he returns at the helm as the writer and director. Between then and now there have been four other Predator films, all […]

This week The Nun, the latest entry in the Conjuring series of films will begin haunting theaters. 2017’s Annabelle: Creation was a solid frightfest; and I had excitedly settled in to watch The Nun hoping it would have been cut from a similar cloth. When you’re coming into the fifth film in a horror franchise, one […]

I’m a massive Muppets fan, and while they haven’t always been featured in the best films, the pure fondness factor will earn a lot of latitude. When the trailer for The Happytime Murders first came along I was on cloud nine — a combination of gumshoe noir, a puppet-inhabited world, and set in a sex-fueled […]

Streaming services continue to serve as incubators and homes for indie and low-budget productions that only a few years ago would have only had a limited opportunity for an audience. However, times have changed, and now we can come across little gems like Prodigy, a laser-focused psychological thriller from first time feature writing and directing […]

Crazy Rich Asians has landed fresh off the boat and is going to make a huge splash regardless of final box office numbers or the Rotten Tomatoes score. In a similar vein to other recent “it’s about time” cinematic entries like Wonder Woman and Black Panther, its overall impact with its virtually entirely Asian casting […]

Sharks are perennially a sure thing when it comes to pop culture. Every year we get Shark Week, and SYFY still laughs all the way to the bank every time they kick out another Sharknado film. So when something like The Meg trailer came along, it was like blood in the water with fans of […]