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Director and co-writer Jussie Smollett has his sophomore feature focusing on a married man named Jason Holliday, played by Smollett himself. J…

Francis Ford Coppola is an iconic film director. He won five, Academy Awards. He won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival twice. Cannes …

There have been six feature films in the franchise that started with James Cameron's The Terminator (1984). The franchise also spawned a live-…

A comedy series about educators in public schools can't come along now and not draw comparisons to Abbott Elementary (2021), the hit ABC serie…

Most of the films, live-action or animated, in this franchise have focused on the so-called "robots in disguise" already living on Earth. This…

Demi Moore has done a lot of thrillers. Some have been scary. Early in her career, she did horror films like a lot of actors, but, over the co…

If you're familiar with writer-director Jeremy Saulnier, a filmmaker from the DMV area, this film will also feel familiar. His breakout work w…

Girls For A Change is a nonprofit organization that seeks to empower girls and young women and encourage them into social justice projects. Ca…

Tim Burton started working in Hollywood as an animator for the Walt Disney Company. However, his first feature was Pee-wee's Big Adventure (19…

This is the fourth film from Spanish filmmaker, Pablo Berger. His three previous features were noticeably aimed at adults. This one is his fir…

If you've seen The Exorcist (1973), The Amityville Horror (1979), Poltergeist (1982) or even the more recent The Conjuring (2013), there is no…

Ever since the release of Die Hard (1988), which was a hit the year it came out, ever since then, there have been numerous films that have tak…

So many films have been meta toward Hollywood. Either they've been about filmmaking or they've been about entertainers, either actors, musicia…

What was interesting is that this film begins as one thing and diverts into another. It does so rather seamlessly. It has a strong protagonist…

The first billion-dollar film of the year was Inside Out 2 (2024). This film, written and directed by Sean Wang, is basically a live-action ve…

This film is about same-sex marriage in church. In the United States and a lot of countries, same-sex marriage is currently legal. There are s…

I haven't watched that many films about golf. From comedies like Caddyshack (1980) and Happy Gilmore (1996) to dramas like Bobby Jones: Stroke…

Thanks to Lily Gladstone getting nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), the door …

Eddie Murphy is the latest movie star from the 80's and 90's to revisit a popular character from his prime. He did so first with Coming 2 Amer…

Given that Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) is blowing up the box office and is set to be the biggest film of the year, it's a good idea to exp…

Hugh Jackman first starred as the character of Wolverine in X-Men (2000). It was produced by 20th Century Fox. It kicked off a franchise that …

Dave Bautista was a wrestler, a WWE champion and mixed martial artist from the 90's to the early 2000's. Bautista started appearing in Hollywo…

This is Tyler Perry's 25th feature as director. He wrote the screenplay, which is his 26th where he has produced and directed himself. The onl…

This film is being described as a sequel, but there isn't much narrative connection to the 1996 blockbuster. It's instead a remake or reboot. …

A film about a female swimmer was Oscar-nominated this past year. It was called Nyad (2023). In it, Annette Bening played a 60-year-old woman …

Most coming-of-age films center on young boys who are typically straight and who do typical straight things like play sports, fight with sibli…

At first, the film feels like it's about westward expansion and manifest destiny, but, because it's only the first episode in a planned four-p…

On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 was launched on a mission to land on the Moon and then return to Earth. On July 20, the lunar module touched down …

Ever since Ava DuVernay's I Will Follow (2011), there has been a lack of films or stories about Black female musicians in genres outside R&…

10. DUNE: PART TWO by Denis Villeneuve - The previous 2021 film did incredibly well at the box office, given that it was released in the wake …

10. A MAN IN FULL (Netflix) - David E. Kelley created this series. I haven't seen every show Kelley has done, but I tend to be a fan of his wo…

10. STAMPEDE: VOL. 1 [EP] by Orville Peck - This is the EP that features half the songs that will appear on the full album, being released in …

June Squibb is an actress, currently 94 in age. She started acting 70 years ago, mostly doing theater. She started working in film 30 years ag…

A photographer documented with pictures and audiotapes a specific motorcycle club in the Midwest from 1965 to 1973. He turned it into a book t…

Xavier Gens is a French filmmaker who started out in Hollywood with the action film Hitman (2007). He also did a horror segment in the antholo…

Based on the book by Sam McAlister, this feature tells the story of McAlister herself and her experience in 2019 working for BBC News when she…

It's been nearly a decade to the day since the release of Inside Out (2015), which grossed over three-fourth of a billion dollars. It won Best…

The character of Ultraman has a long history in Japanese culture. I'm not familiar with that history, but, it seems like an offshoot of kaiju …

Will Smith is obviously the biggest star here, but, for the most part, Martin Lawrence is the one who steals the show and essentially steals e…

Richard Linklater adapted a magazine article by Skip Hollandsworth for his film Bernie (2011), which was about a Texas man who was put on tria…

Ishana Night Shyamalan is the daughter of M. Night Shyamalan, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker of The Sixth Sense (1999). She has worked on sever…

If you do even a tertiary search, you won't find a lot of Japanese films about gay men who live their lives openly. There have been a splatter…

Premiering at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in 2023, this film won the Queer Palm, which is an independently-sponsored prize for a selected ti…

It could be because in the days leading up to seeing this film, I had watched several episodes of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone (1959). Afte…

If you've seen the Dwayne Johnson films, San Andreas (2015) and Rampage (2018), that will give you an idea of the kind of action adventure to …

This animated feature is based on a 2003 novel, but there are a lot of similarities to Kung Fu Panda (2008) and its subsequent franchise. Even…

We've recently seen romantic comedies do well in the box office. Anyone But You (2023) continued in the tradition of screwball situations. Lik…