Movies

Warning: spoilers ahead. The unexpected billion-dollar success of Todd Phillips’ R-rated “Joker” (2019) on a modest $55 million budget makes the $300 million budgeted “Joker: Folie à Deux’s” 37-million-dollar…

“Megalopolis” is the Kamala Harris of prestige arthouse cinema. The monstrously ambitious big-budget science fiction/fantasy drama, written and directed by one of cinema’s greatest voices, is intended as an immensely earnest, optimistic,…

Hollywood, CA – Love it or hate it, no one can deny that The Shawshank Redemption is one of the most iconic film franchises of all time. The Shawshank Redemption launched the career of then-little-known actor Morgan Freeman, who went…

Film portrayals of modern conservative figures tend to treat their subject matter as either horrifically evil, fodder for comedy, or both. That’s because conservatives are heavily outnumbered in Hollywood, and celebrities lend their fame…

If there are two consistent villains in the history of cinema, they are the Nazis and evil corporations. From the Umbrella Corporation (“Resident Evil”) to Omni Consumer Products (“RoboCop”), Cyberdyne Systems (“Terminator”), Buy N Large…

ANYWHERE BUT ENGLAND – Viewers of a recent celebrity interview experienced feelings of shock and betrayal upon learning that that new actor is actually British, and not American as they portray on that current popular TV show/movie. “When…

When Disney goes woke, it goes broke. When it remembers its audience, however, it succeeds. It has been a good few weeks for the Walt Disney Company. Its two most recent films are history-setting box office successes, and the company that…

Superhero movies are like video games. They’re loud, flashy, underwritten, overlong, overburdened with CGI, populated with interchangeable characters and plot, topped off with an overwhelming dollop of sameness. Prior to 2000, the only ones…

There is something wonderfully old-fashioned about “Twisters.” Coming from many of the same creatives that made “Top Gun: Maverick,” one of the most popular films of the decade, it bears many of the same marks that made it successful. It’s…

“Twisters,” released July 19 as a standalone sequel to the 1996 action film by (nearly) the same name, is a box office hit by any measure. The movie has grossed $220 million, received rave reviews from critics, and set the record for the…