Category: Looking Back

Based on my own research. Additions and corrections welcome (@ me), will update accordingly. Total wide releases (600+ theaters): 155 Sequels, […]

When bad numbers happen to good movies. Now, you’ll notice we didn’t say these movies were “flops.” Several of them were […]

You know how half the movies now are based on young-adult novels about adolescent girls in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and the […]

Colossal seems destined to become a cult film, one that we’ll look back on and wonder how audiences missed it. Though […]

What is Girlfriend’s Day? An extended Mr. Show sketch built around a single joke? A genuine film noir with a goofy […]

Studio comedies are in a rut: In 2017, we had to contend with such junk as The House, Rough Night, and […]

With all due respect to troubled figure skaters from the ‘90s, if you see only one I, [Woman’s Name] movie this […]

It was just this week that we saw the biggest merger in recent history between Fox and Disney. What does this […]

At a time when indie filmmakers are increasingly turning to crowdfunding platforms to bring their modestly budgeted visions to life, many […]

Despite the never-ending flood of sexual harassment accusations and our President just … talking, this was a pretty amazing year to […]

Any movie starring the eternally great Song Kang-ho is a movie worth seeing, but his latest manages to be more than […]

One of the year’s most quietly devastating performances can be found in Terence Davies’ immaculately rendered portrait of poet Emily Dickinson. […]