If you missed Paddington three years ago, you missed one of the most thoroughly delightful children's movies in recent memory, about an...

The premise of Jumanji, a holiday hit 22 Christmases ago, was that a board game brought jungle animals into the real world to chase Robin Williams...

There was a comforting sense of deja vu in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which kicked off a new trilogy by mimicking the plot structure of the...

Darkest Hour is about a controversial leader's steadfast refusal to engage in peace talks in favor of going to war. Not the sort of message you'd...

Like many fairy tales, The Shape of Water is a fantastical story about a lonely person who finds fulfillment through interaction with a magical...

There are plenty of cartoons about holidays like Christmas and Halloween, but the genius-nerds at Pixar saw an unfilled need and came up with Coco,...

Superman is dead. He was killed by a monster (not Batman) at the end of Batman v Superman and is still dead when Justice League picks up the story...

In 1934, when Agatha Christie published Murder on the Orient Express, trains were still a popular means of transportation, and Asia was still called...

The mighty Norse god Thor, as played by Chris Hemsworth, is a fun presence in the Marvel Cinematic Universe®, but his last stand-alone film (Thor:...

We doubted that Saw 3D, the seventh and "final" chapter in the gruesome franchise, would be the last one (that it was the seventh we did not...

I can think of quite a few projects for the state of Florida to work on if they're taking suggestions, but the wonderfully humane, heartbreakingly...

Last week was the fifth edition of Beyond Fest, Los Angeles’s most popular genre film celebration. Over the course of 11 days, the historic...

Jackie Chan plays the person that the title The Foreigner refers to, though nobody ever calls him that. They tend to call him "Chinaman," as in,...

Having missed it as a child and then being unsure which version I was supposed to watch, I never saw Ridley Scott's Blade Runner until the "final...

We'll talk about the behind-the-scenes turmoil at Fantastic Fest in another wordpile. In the meantime, here are reviews of some of the notable films...