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Paul Feig is a nothing short of a wild card as far as quadruple threats go. First and foremost, as a talented writer under the wings of Judd Apatow, having created a TV cult classic in Freaks and Geeks, where he’d left a real niche in the field. And yet most folks will see him more as an avid film …

In a year that’s seen Stephen King’s best work from his 80s writing heyday soured somewhat by poor marksmanship, even if the direction was always with best intention, perhaps it’s a miracle the best was saved for last. The absolute best, like mind-blowing, mind-numbing best. Legitimate horror personified without needing to rely excessively on nostalgia or grotesque imagery to tell …

I can still vaguely remember the night I had sat in a cramped IMAX theater for years ago, where I posed a pivotal question. “Should the Terminator franchise be dead and done for! Is it about time?”. Only the original and its immediate sequel have proven its staying power, the latter two films are nothing more than underwhelming. And Genisys, …

Look past the inherent fact that The Current War has been affixed to its figurative shelf for two years in the wake of Hollywood scandal, and there’s perhaps still a half-decent film to be discovered. A biopic chronicling the epic footrace during the 1880s and 90s, between giants of encapsulated energy Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse? Compelling Oscar …

Alicia West (Naomie Harris) has not had it easy in her life. A child with some bad habits, scared of her city, and her upbringing, she returns to her native New Orleans a confident adult. Eager to begin a new career in the police force, following combat duty in Afghanistan, and the passing of her mother. And yet, so much …

21 years ago, then-hotshot producer Jerry Bruckheimer, while still working under the wings of one archaic mouse, released perhaps his most iconic, and highest-grossing piece of work. The space epic Armageddon seemed to have change the preeminent story by which summer popcorn blockbusters will live and die. Perhaps in an alternate universe, his most recent film out this weekend would’ve …

Making movies out of wildly successful TV shows has seen a weird, minor renaissance period in the 2010s. First Veronica Mars, then My Little Pony. And now, as the decade ends, perhaps the biggest TV drama to emerge out of Britain into global popularity hits the big screen. And if you haven’t really seen the show, your level of enjoyment …

[NOTE: An official selection of the 2019 Seattle International Film Festival] Who says there couldn’t be space for a certain niche form of weirdness in our indie arthouse dramadies these days? That is a question I had found myself craving the answer to after one of the more uniquely premised films to emerge out of Sundance, about a man who …

In the grand scope of films to be inspired by best-selling literary adaptations, I clearly fall short knowing I’m simply not much of a novel reader. For better or worse, it may stay that way unless it were a book firmly recommended to me without end. Ready Player One was the last real example of that, and even then, I …

[NOTE: An official selection of the 2019 Seattle International Film Festival] Intensely dramatic, journalistic dramas are really nothing considerably new, especially in a decade where DC and Boston’s heritage newspapers were highlighted in Oscar-bait films; one of them did win Best Picture, though one is still lost as to why it had earned that honor. The latest to join that …