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...

MOVIES: "Animals" "Before You Know It" "Corporate Animals" "Dirty God" "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile" "The Farewell" "Fighting with My Family" "Greener Grass" "The Hole in the Ground" "Honey Boy" "I Am Mother" "Little Monsters" "The Lodge" "Native Son" "The...

The final scene in 2017’s Split revealed that the movie, thought to be a self-contained M. Night Shyamalan thriller, had been a secret sequel to the writer-director’s own Unbreakable from 17 years earlier. While that twist was a very novel one at the time, it has been recently revealed to me...

Box Office Mojo has data for 839 movies released in 2018. That's a lot of movies! It's also about 500 short. The actual number of new movies released in the United States in 2018 -- "released" = played at least once a day for at least a week in at least one theater -- is 1,313, give or take....

In The Favourite, Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) stuffs a piece of cake into her face, then promptly vomits it back into a bucket. Despite this setback, she continues to eat it. Her favorite, childhood friend and lover Sarah (Rachel Weisz), is not afraid to point out that the Queen of England is stupid...

It's Halloween week, and you know what that means! You forgot to buy candy for the trick-or-treaters! Also you're probably knee-deep in horror movies because that's how late October works for movie nerds: We are beholden to watch at least a few extra horror flicks. Now would be a good time to head...

Screenlife — the screen-capture-style gimmick-turned-medium used in movies like Unfriended (2014) and Searching (2018) — feels like a textbook bad idea. The style was largely pioneered by Russian director and producer Timur Bekmambetov, whose studio, Bazelevs, developed technology to propel...

Fans of A Star Is Born are already listening to the soundtrack on repeat, but here's something new to add to the mix! Warner Bros. has released this demo recording of one of the songs, originally written and performed by Randy Newman. Why they changed the lyrics and style to the version heard in...