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A mysterious sound spurs a small-town telephone operator to enlist the local DJ to try to discover its source at the dawn of the space age.

Birds of Prey has a shaky start, a bit too infatuated with its own kitschy conceits, but when it gets to the Characters and the Action, it nails it.

“Underwater,” is a film whose marketing campaign is doing it no favors. Going into it, after having seen the trailers,…

42 Years later we come to the end of the original saga’s storyline, and it turns out

The long awaited film adaptation of Stephen King’s “Doctor Sleep” (the sequel to the classic “The Shining“) is a really pretty solid flick for what it is. It should be expressed, however, that what this represents isn’t another horrific delving into a psychological breakdown, but rather a somewhat more adventure-based thriller with aspects of horror […]

“Ford v Ferrari” is the kind of studio vehicle that feels like it was engineered to earn award nominations nearly as much as the Ford GT40 was tailor-made to compete at Le Mans. From its leads Matt Damon and Christian Bale as race-car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles, to the slow establishment of […]

Let me open up by saying that “Countdown” is not by any stretch a bad film. It’s got some decent runs of jump scares as well as tension, however its PG-13 rating keeps it firmly rooted on the lighter side of the “blood and gore” rating’s fence. As a first time feature film outing by […]

When the first “Zombieland” shambled onto screens back in 2009, the cinematic and television landscapes weren’t quite so saturated with the legions of the living dead as they are now. That was so long ago that AMC’s “The Walking Dead” wouldn’t yet premiere for another year. Back then Zombie films weren’t rare, to be sure, […]

Ang Lee is a director with a respectable track record behind him, with the likes of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, and “Life of Pi”.  Now he’s back helming “Gemini Man” with a script co-penned by “Game of Thrones” co-showrunner David Benioff and starring Will Smith and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Smith stars as Henry Brogan, a […]

Let’s get this right out of the way at the start – “Joker” is a brilliantly executed film with a central performance that will without a doubt garner Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar nomination. That said, this is as far a cry from the Joker’s we’ve ever seen before as Heath Ledger was from Cesar Romero. […]