Is there such a thing as too much genre cinema? If so, then it would likely occur at Montreal’s Fantasia Festival, an over-three week long celebration of the bonkers and brilliant excesses taking place at the exciting edges of filmmaking. The fest’s 23rd edition begins July 11 with a slate of...

As someone who was born a handful of months before the first Toy Story came out, the hit franchise has always very clearly been about one thing: me.  Or at least, people like me: kids raised on the sheer optimism of Disney renaissance and peak Pixar slowly learning together what it means to grow...

We didn’t need another X-Men movie. Ever since the raucous pastiche of the original Deadpool and the bloated, redundant X-Men: Apocalypse, it seemed clear that Fox’s mutant movies had run their course. But that didn’t stop another from stumbling into theaters a few weeks ago with the...

It has escaped few moviegoers' notice that within the last week three movies about sentient dolls have been released: Toy Story 4, Child's Play, and Annabelle Comes Home. Given the chaotic nature of multiplexes and the incompetence of parents, it's easy to see how confusion may arise. And so, in...

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 hear an actor’s best impression of a historical figure, and they’re swooning. But considering how critically well-regarded and frequently made...

Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg, Biden, O’Rourke, Harris, Yang. Uh ... I wanna say Islee? Is that one? The list of Democratic candidates for the 2020 presidential election continues to grow. Now one more public figure has decided to run for office, and he’s a doozy. Godzilla, the 65-year-old strange...

My therapist told me the best way to process my many sex dreams about the realistic CGI Pokémon from Pokémon: Detective Pikachu was to write about them and free myself from my shame. If Emma Watson can fall in love with a bear-goat-man in Beauty and the Beast, why can’t I enjoy fantasizing...

Her Smell – writer-director Alex Ross Perry’s latest abrasive outing – opens with an oddly comforting image. We meet rock trio Something She in the early '90s as they’re celebrating an appearance on the cover of Spin magazine before we cut abruptly to a few years later. The group’s...

It’s been well-documented that the theatrical popularity of the documentary is back. Four films from 2018 — RBG, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Free Solo, and They Shall Not Grow Old** — now rank in the top 50 highest-grossing documentaries of all time (in the U.S.), while only four released in...

The latest film to earn the distinction of being #1 at the box office and universally disliked is Dumbo, from Disney, the studio that's usually responsible for highly successful movies that everybody hates. How did this happen? Well, we snuck into the Disney offices a few years ago and planted a...

Spoilers for Us. For most in the film business, marketing is simply a tool, a way to let potential customers know about a product being sold. There are a few filmmakers, however, who have control over their marketing materials and, rather than just use them as advertising, make them an extension...

Captain Marvel may seem to be the action movie event of the month, but for fans of martial arts cinema, there’s a far more exciting film coming to Video on Demand on March 22. Its name is Triple Threat, and it seems tailor-made for action junkies who grew up on a diet of ’80s hard-body action...

OK, Marvelinos! You've seen Captain Marvel and reveled in its 1990s awesomeness! (Remember how everyone back then had cats?) But you're still wondering about a few things -- and that's where we come in! Buckle up and keep reading as we answer your burning questions about the latest entry in the...

Reek HastyNetflix CEO and co-founder (Guest columnist.) As CEO and co-founder of Netflix, I wanted to address some concerns that have come up recently. We don't like to be in the news except for ordinary things like capriciously raising our prices, or for the daffy emails I used to send in...

After the now billion-dollar-grossing Aquaman defied critics of good taste everywhere, executives at every major studio are wondering how to reproduce its success. How do I know? Because I'm the clinical psychologist for dozens of them, and I don't believe in doctor-patient confidentiality. The...