Tom Cruise has been playing Ethan Hunt for 30 years; let that sink in. Sure, he’s taken on close to 20 non-Mission: Impossible roles since the first film in 1996, […]
Unlike many other issue-oriented documentaries that capitalize on the controversy of the moment and round up a group of talking-head “experts” on a subject to expound on the extremes of […]
From directors Nyle DiMarco (a Deaf activist making his directing debut) and Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for “Superman,” Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie) comes a lesser-known chapter […]
Two things have always separated the Final Destination films from other horror franchises. First, the villain (Death) is never seen, only experienced—there are no clever quips or certain types of […]
Although it didn’t take quite as long as it did The Accountant to get to its recent sequel (nine years), Another Simple Favor takes place in the aftermath of 2018’s […]
Not since the original Guardians of the Galaxy movie has Marvel so successfully forged a team that worked so convincingly together and resulted in so much emotion by the end […]
In Havoc, the latest absolutely chaotic, utterly brutal actioner from writer/director Gareth Evans (The Raid), Tom Hardy plays Walker, a beaten-down, taken-out-with-the-trash detective who starts out like that even before […]
Considering the pedigree of the horror video game adaptation Until Dawn, I admittedly expected something better. From director David F. Sandberg (Lights Out, Annabelle: Creation, both Shazam! movies) and writers […]
Based on the 2019 book by Shannon Pufahl, On Swift Horses is a story about secrets and secret lives in the period in American history immediately following the Korean War. […]
In that rare blend of fairy tales, fantasy, folk horror, and monster movies, the directing debut from music video veteran Isaiah Saxon (The Legend of Ochi) introduces us to a […]
It’s been nearly ten years since director Gavin O’Connor (Warrior, Pride & Glory) and screenwriter Bill Dubuque brought us The Accountant, the curious story of Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck), who […]
You’d be forgiven if, like me (and based on the film’s marketing materials), you anticipated something of a more raucous, raunchy modern romcom from filmmaker Andrew Ahn (Driveways). Perhaps something […]