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Adapting a video game to a live action film is tricky business. Any sense of gravitas will always be undermined or offset by the idea that the story is based on a video game. At best, it can be a fun romp ...

There's a lot of talk lately about "elevated horror," a new term to describe a genre that is often critically maligned for its use of the macabre, the grotesque, a shameless penchant for blood and guts and jump-scares. This sort of thing happens to ...

Captain Marvel star Brie Larson famously said that she didn’t need a 40-year-old white dude to tell her what didn’t work about A Wrinkle in Time. That film wasn’t made for him, she explained, saying that she wanted to know what it ...

One of the greatest episodes of the Twilight Zone, back in 1986, began with an episode entitled "Need To Know." In it, a government agent is sent to investigate an outbreak of insanity in a small town. We find out later that ...

Aquaman is the lamest superhero. For the longest time, the king of Atlantis has been the butt of superhero jokes. He swims, he talks to fish, and he’s pretty useless out of water. But for a short while in the 90’s, under ...

There aren’t many people out there who grew up with Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book instead of, say, Harry Potter, and we’re all the poorer for it. Kipling is a literary giant for good reason: He was a great storyteller, both in ...

The trouble with making a movie adaptation of a book is that, oftentimes, it’s very nearly impossible to fit the entire story in the course of the film. Little details get left out, characters don’t get as much development, and entire chunks ...

How can a biopic about one of the most fascinating and flamboyant performers of our time live up to the legend? It can’t. And it doesn’t have to. The most wonderful part of Bohemian Rhapsody, a film about the band Queen and its charismatic ...

Lino Brocka stands authoritatively atop Smokey Mountain, one hand on his hip and the other pointing towards something out of frame. A small camera crew is behind him, huddled close together under the shade of an umbrella, capturing the landscape of the ...

It’s a story so quintessentially romantic and tragic that it’s made and remade four times. This celebrity Cinderella story of rising and falling stars originally came out in 1937, remade with Judy Garland and James Mason in 1954, and again in 1976 ...

Thanos may have succeeded in wiping out half of the universe's population, but was he the true villain in Avengers: Infinity War?It may sound out there, but a new fan theory has suggested that another entity is responsible for the dramatic ending.The theory ...

As the Marvel Cinematic Universe's next movie after Infinity War, Ant-Man and the Wasp has some pretty dramatic expectations to contend with. The previous movie's cliffhanger ending left audiences despondent first, then suddenly hungry for clues as to what will happen next. So this next movie obviously seems ...

The Incredibles 2 is as much a superhero film as it is an ode to parenting and finding the perfect work-life balance—and it’s glorious.Fourteen years after The Incredibles catapulted writer-director Brad Bird into the upper echelons of animation, Pixar has come out with ...

The first thing that struck me about Ocean's 8, the sequel to Steven Soderbergh’s remake and eventual trilogy of the rat pack film Ocean's Eleven, is that it was given a rating of R-13 by the MTRCB. There’s no sex, violence, nudity, ...

When Hollywood makes a full-length feature based on an arcade game where the only goal is to destroy as much public property and eat as many humans as possible, you can bet they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of ...

Films gleefully exploit sound design to elicit emotions from viewers, and horror thrillers are guiltiest of all. From the scare chord to psycho strings, thrillers have used sound to make audiences jump or hide in their jackets. The primary conceit of A ...

Let’s get this out of the way: Pacific Rim Uprising is a movie for kids. The basic premise of giant robots and monsters duking it out and causing massive destruction on the big screen is a geek kid’s fantasy come to life, ...

Imagine a world so spent, broken, and rundown that most people choose to spend their time playing games instead of trying to deal with real life. We seem to be inching closer to that reality as most people immerse themselves on social ...

Fans of Madeleine L’Engle’s timeless young adult novel can rest easy. While director Ava Duvernay’s adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time takes some significant departures from the source material, it remains faithful enough to the book’s plot and central themes, resulting in ...

Prior to Tomb Raider, there were hardly any video game heroines who managed to maintain the balance of simultaneously being a sex symbol and symbol of female empowerment. Introduced to the world in 1996 by game developer Eidos, Lara Croft was created ...