Reboots: When a franchise has gotten too old for a sequel but it’s also too familiar for a straight-up remake. Accept no substitutes. And since Hollywood now exists in a state of perpetual repetition, we get a lot of reboots these days. When a reboot works, it injects some new life into an older property, refreshing something … Read more
The Razzies’ latest round of winners is here. (Winners might be a bad choice of words in this case.) Since 1981, the Golden Raspberry Awards — better known to bad movie lovers (and bad movie makers) as “The Razzie Awards” — have given out prizes to the worst films, directors, writers, and actors of the … Read more
The film industry has been making adaptations of famous books pretty much since movies were invented. Nowadays, if an author publishes even a mildly successful novel, it’s a good bet that a movie studio will swoop in to scoop up the rights—sometimes even before the book is published. With so much of Hollywood dominated by … Read more
Letterboxd’s database categorizes movies into 19 different genres: Action, adventure, animation, crime, documentary, drama, family, fantasy, history, horror, music, mystery, romance, science fiction, thriller, TV movie (is that a genre?), war, western … and comedy. In each category, users can filter and arrange the movies in a myriad of ways: By decade of release, by where and how … Read more
The Oscars are the unofficial conclusion to a year of movies. Yes, a calendar year technically ends on December 31. But for cinephiles, the year is not done until the thousands of members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have their say, and name the winners of their annual awards. Only then can we … Read more
Adam Sandler has been a making movies for over 30 years. In Billy Madison, Billy Madison is only 27. (We are all so old.) After a very successful stint on Saturday Night Live, Sandler quickly found huge box-office success — although not always critical praise — headlining a series of comedies. That success continues to this day. He launched his own (also quite successful) … Read more
POLL: What’s the Worst Superhero Movie? With Madame Web getting terrible reviews, the time has come to ask our readers, what really is the worst superhero movie of all time? February 25th 2024, 9:58am SAG Award winners: Murphy, Gladstone, RDJ, and Randolph headed to Oscar victory? The 30th SAG Awards found winners in Oppenheimer, Killers … Read more
Screen acting is a multifaceted discipline. It’s not enough for an actor to look the part. They’ve got to sound the part as well. And when they don’t, things can go really wrong really fast. “Sounding the part” has proven very tricky for a lot of screen actors through the decades, including some of the very best performers … Read more
With great power comes great responsibility … and sometimes great movies. (Other times, not so much.) As hard as it may be to believe, the Spider-Man film franchise is now more than 20 years old. Or maybe Spider-Man franchises is more accurate. What started as one trilogy of films by Sam Raimi has now been … Read more
The reviews of Madame Web are here. Spoiler alert: They’re not amazing. Or at least they’re not amazingly good. If you’ve been following along with the news around this movie — like, say, the report that star Dakota Johnson left her longtime agency for new representation “just days after a baffling first trailer debuted” — you … Read more