The 1980s, packed full of kid-driven adventure films, has just as many beautiful disasters as it does universally beloved hits. But to be included...

Scary stories are inherently political. How couldn’t they be? They tap into our greatest fears, and whatever those happen to be is a commentary on...

No matter how good a film is, or how satisfied a director and an audience may be with the final product, there will always be the urge to go back...

When Mary Harron’s American Psycho hit theaters twenty years ago, it sent shockwaves through mainstream cinema. It was daring, intelligent, and...

Last year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences proposed the idea of introducing a new Academy Award category, Best Popular Film  – ...

Of all of this Sunday’s Oscar nominees, 1917 has been the most lauded for its technical achievements. Given the frequency with which the...

With over one hundred years separating World War I and the present day, cinema has consistently had to find new ways of depicting it for modern...

With all the big budget, heavily franchised stories of people with special powers (mutants, as they might uncharitably be called), it’s refreshing...

Starring Jack Quaid (son of Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid) and Maya Erskine, Plus One is a charming romantic comedy that has flown under the radar of...

Are we ever truly able to escape the past? The mistakes that we’ve made, opinions we’ve held, and lines that we’ve crossed may feel like...

What wild and unnatural spirits exist in the depths of the forest, possessing an ancient and eternal power far beyond our reckoning? There’s an...

In the aftermath of war, especially one as psychologically scarring as World War II, people become obsessed with black and white. Who was right, and...

Given the current sociopolitical climate and general state of the world, satire seems like a tall order. How can you comically exaggerate people and...

Growing up in rural New York where heavy snow is just a matter of course, you have an innate understanding of exactly how long a winter storm can be...

It’s no secret that a biopic is the surest route to Oscar love. Academy voters need only catch a glimpse of artfully applied facial prosthetics and...