If Beale Street Could Talk Is Masterful Emotionally Resonant Filmmaking That Should Not Be Missed
Tish Rivers (KiKi Layne) was only 19. Fonny Hunt was only 22. They were deeply in…
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Aquaman Tops The Box Office For Third Weekend In A Row As Escape Room Scores Solid Bow And Assortment of Holdovers Hold Strong
The 2019 domestic box office kicked off in fine form this weekend as the sole…
Year of the Month: Was The Original X-Men Really A Game-Changer For Superhero Movies?
At the dawn of the 21st century, movies based on Marvel Comics were not a…
Douglas Laman’s Top Twelve Cinematic Discoveries of 2018
And so, here we are on the first day of 2019. I cannot thank you…
Bumblebee Has Got The Touch And Also Has The Power To Emotionally Move Viewers
Bumblebee takes the live-action series of Transformers movies into a bold new direction, namely in the direction…
The Final Box Office Weekend of 2018 See’s Aquaman Reigning Supreme, Mary Poppins Rebounding And Holmes & Watson Without A Clue
Watching all of the fascinating box office up’s and down’s that were occuring all throughout…
Bird Box’s Better Aspects Get Let Down By An Overly Convoluted Script
Over the course of the last few days, Bird Box has become one of the most talked-about…
Vice Is A Sprawling Saga of Corruption That Kind of Works (Surprisingly Well, In Fact) In Spite of Its Worst Elements
Adam McKay is mad as hell and he’s not gonna take it anymore. Even when…
Welcome to Marwen Is Too Enamored With Empty CGI Spectacle To Go Beyond The Valley, Er, Town Of The Dolls
Gotti. Life Itself. Red Sparrow. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. These are the worst…
How Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Captures Intimate Parts Of The LGBTQA+ Experience
SPOILERS FOR SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE FOLLOW! “And whenever I feel alone, like no one…