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Crossing the Streams is our series of guides looking at all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month. This time we’re checking...
Sequels that arrive many years, if not decades, after their popular predecessor face an uphill battle on multiple fronts. Even if they’re able to...
Crossing the Streams is our look at all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month, and this time we’re checking out the new Hulu...
Crossing the Streams is a series of columns spotlighting all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month. This time we’re checking...
Eighty-four years after Walt Disney’s first animated feature, the film studio that bears his name has a handful of story formulas down pat,...
Welcome to Commentary Commentary, where we sit and listen to filmmakers talk about their work, then share the most interesting parts. In this...
The United States’ war on drugs has been a farce for decades and for numerous reasons, but stories from the world of illegal narcotics and the...
“How can it be so difficult to adapt a story you’ve already written?” asks Ruth Condomine (Isla Fisher) to her writer husband Charles (Dan...
Welcome to Commentary Commentary, where we sit and listen to filmmakers talk about their work, then share the most interesting parts. In this...
Vinegar Syndrome remains one of the great indie home video labels, and each month they bring forgotten genre gems and old favorites back to life on...
Time-loop movies continue to be all the rage, and while Groundhog Day (1993) remains the champ with Edge of Tomorrow (2014) holding onto second the...
2011’s Bridesmaids was a breakthrough in more ways than one as a blockbuster comedy with women leading the charge both behind and in front of the...
Crossing the Streams is our monthly look at all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month, and this time we’re checking out the...
Welcome to Commentary Commentary, where we sit and listen to filmmakers talk about their work, then share the most interesting parts. In this...
Crossing the Streams is our monthly look at all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month, and this time we’re checking out the...
A not so busy street. A neighborhood watch community where more homes sport security signs than don’t. A luxury SUV with tinted windows and an...
Crossing the Streams is our monthly look at all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month, and this time we’re checking out the...
First dates can be awkward, and that’s even when they don’t involve dirty cops, a car filled with cocaine, and trigger-happy thugs wanting to cash...
“I’ll let history speak for me,” says the real William O’Neal in an archival interview at the end of Judas and the Black Messiah , and it’s...
The English language debut by Sion Sono starring Nicolas Cage in a black leather suit set to explode in five days. Yeah, that’s the kind of tease...
The potential for terror is evident all around us if you take even a moment to look, from extreme situations to our most mundane moments, but it’s...
Ah, the werewolf. A tortured creation made monstrous against his or her will, controlled by the lunar cycle, prone to hairballs, and averse to silver...
Some people view “crowd-pleaser” as a dirty word, as if movies that aim for wide appeal are somehow lesser creations than ones targeting a more...
Gaslighting may not be exclusively directed towards women, but history and society continue to do their part in making them the most likely target....
The vast majority of film scripts written throughout history make it nowhere near the screen, let alone into the hands of filmmakers intent on filming...
It may seem anachronistic, but period films have grown more modern over time as tales set in centuries past are spiced up with contemporary dialogue,...
Animal symbolism has long found relevance in the human experience, and it’s fitting as human beings are really nothing but animals with debt. The...
Most filmmakers feel content working within easily identifiable genres, but some prefer to color outside the lines. Steven Kostanski’s latest...
Rob Hunter January 19, 2021 Streaming might be the future, but physical media is still the present. It’s also awesome, depending on...
Welcome to Commentary Commentary, where we sit and listen to filmmakers talk about their work, then share the most interesting parts. In this...
Just as Jaws spawned dozens of knockoffs featuring man-eating animals both in and out of the water, Die Hard gave birth to numerous riffs dropping...
They say there are only seven basic stories in all of literature and film, and while the tally may be arguable the core truth remains. That means the...
Westerns come in all shapes, times, tones, and more, but the most traditional find violence around the late 19th century in the decades following the...
Movies about drone warfare pilots tend to zero in on similar targets — killing enemies on a video screen is far removed from taking a life on the...
Welcome to Commentary Commentary, where we sit and listen to filmmakers talk about their work, then share the most interesting parts. In this...
Crossing the Streams is our monthly look at all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month, and this time we’re checking out the...
When is a movie not a movie? When it’s a season of Twin Peaks, obviously, but more to the point of this post, when it’s Grizzly II: The Revenge ...
This article is part of our 2020 Rewind . Follow along as we explore the best and most interesting movies, shows, performances, and more from this...
Rob Hunter January 5, 2021 Streaming might be the future, but physical media is still the present. It’s also awesome, depending on the...
Crossing the Streams is our monthly look at all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month, and this time we’re checking out the...
Crossing the Streams is our monthly look at all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month, and this time we’re checking out the...
Regret, like muscle pain and memory loss, is an affliction most often worn by the older generations. Young people have no time for looking back as...
This article is part of our 2020 Rewind . Follow along as we explore the best and most interesting movies, shows, performances, and more from this...
Big, world-ending disaster movies typically range from Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day (1996) to Roland Emmerich’s 2012 (2009) to Roland...
2017’s Wonder Woman remains an energetic and refreshing entry into the cinematic superhero universe as it delivers big fun, plenty of action, and...
This article is part of our 2020 Rewind . Follow along as we explore the best and most interesting movies, shows, performances, and more from this...
When discussing adult-themed thrillers of the late 80s/early 90s it would be disingenuous not to include the last few films from Deon Taylor. Sure,...
Life can be hard, and it’s sometimes so because of choices we make along the way. Other times, though, our challenges come at the discretion of...