Someone rather bluntly popped up on X recently to ask Hollywood writer-producer James Gunn a pointed — and here sanitized — question: “Who asked for a ‘Clayface’ movie??”...
Everything about “Wildwood” is ambitious. It’s a stop-motion animated movie that stretches over two hours, with 230 hand-controlled puppets across 132 sets, shot frame by...
It is a truth universally acknowledged, as somebody once wrote, that a Jane Austen novel is a precursor to the modern rom-com.
And so we find ourselves, in a new adaptati...
Since we're going back to the 1990s in “Street Fighter,” let’s use a “Seinfeld” episode to describe how I felt coming out of Kitao Sakurai’s adaptation of the vintage arc...
In the era of gentle parenting, even the word discipline can feel like a third-rail topic. It’s certainly foreboding when it’s first mentioned in Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord...
It is unfortunate for “The Social Reckoning” that “The Social Network” exists.
The latter is a modern masterpiece. The former was kind of always doomed to exist in its s...
Just as the fate of the world hangs in the balance in “Digger,” Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s over-the-top, climate-disaster satire teeters on the brink.
It’s an audacious pla...
Did director Michael Showalter just nail the Colleen Hoover adaptation? The third major movie version of the blockbuster author’s work hits the big screen with “Verity,” ...
Of all the magical portals that transport you to another world, “Forgotten Island” may have the cutest. It’s not a brick tunnel like “Spirited Away” or a hidden door like...
