The only way Disney’s live-action remake of its own Beauty and the Beast works is if you don’t compare it to the […]
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The Trainspotting soundtrack, one of the most influential albums of the ‘90s, belongs to the rare group of film soundtracks where the […]
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The rapidly growing self-cannibalization wing of Walt Disney Pictures has manufactured a new live-action version of Beauty and the Beast that courted […]
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Zaniness is in short supply these days. In this grim-dark universe directed by Zack Snyder that we’ve created for ourselves, any […]
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Jordan Peele’s horror-comedy Get Out is breaking new ground for its blunt, satirical take on the current state of race relations. […]
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There are few purer forms of entertainment than monkeys, wanton destruction, and comically oversized objects. So when a team of visionary […]
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Kong: Skull Island is about people barging into a place they’ve never been before, dropping bombs to see how solid the […]
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Welcome back! Last time, we took a look at movies based on U.S. history from Columbus to the end of the […]
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Comics, like movies, are texts ripe for deconstruction. Animators and writers deliberately plot their stories for audience entertainment, while simultaneously commenting […]
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Logan, directed by James Mangold, is the third film in the Wolverine trilogy (if you can call it that), the tenth […]
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Logan is the third standalone film for Hugh Jackman’s knife-fisted X-Men maverick Wolverine, completing the weary trilogy with something fans have […]
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There’s a scene about two-thirds into David Fincher’s Zodiac in which David Toschi, the San Francisco homicide detective played by Mark […]
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