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I'm going to come clean with two confessions. First, I love Tron. I saw the film back in 1982 and it hit my nerd imagination so hard that I wanted a frisbee for Christmas that year and was majorly bummed that ...

It would've been easy to go the route of a remake. After all, Freaky Friday with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in 2003 was just another adaptation of Mary Rodgers' children's novel of the same name. There had been ...

Weapons is not a true story. And for great lengths of the film, neither is it a horror story. It's not an allegory for school shootings, as far as I can tell, despite the ominous title and a scene where Archer ...

Full disclosure, my dad wrote and directed this film. It's his first feature film slated for a theatrical release, and naturally, he invited me to screen and critique it. After the premiere, I congratulated him and he told me, "Be nice." ...

Stop me if you've heard this one before. Alien baby crash-lands on Earth and gets adopted by a childless couple in Kansas. The parents raise the boy, teaching him their values and showing him love. The boy learns of his ...

It's George Miller's own fault that Furiosa is something of a disappointment. This isn't to say that Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a bad film. It isn't. In all likelihood, in fact, Furiosa will be remembered as ...

The First Omen is a surprising film. Not because it packs in jump scares (there are almost none) or because it shocks with gore (there's very little blood), but because it's a remarkable exploration of a woman's traumas and ...

The marketing for Disney's Wish touted it as "100 Years in the Making," an animated feature to capstone a century's worth of stories from the world's biggest storytelling company. Even without the lofty ambitions, its Disney pedigree alone should ...

Something my eldest told me after watching The Marvels made me realize something about the MCU: it's no longer made for me. I'm a 50-year-old man who grew up reading about alcoholic Tony Stark and a Thanos who ...

The story in Return to Seoul (French: Retour à Séoul) talks of the existential burden that comes with being a foreigner to one's own home, and by extension, to themselves. It follows Frédérique Benoît a.k.a Freddie ( ...