Musical fantasy from the Disney people, featuring imbecilic hillbillies and a melodramatically mustachioed huckster as villains, a carrot-topped waif as a hero, and a too-cute, teardrop-shaped, pink-green-and-lavender cartoon dragon. There's also Helen Reddy, a movie debutante, as the steadfast, spiritual …
by Duncan ShepherdThe 20th Century Fox fanfare (with CinemaScope addendum) is performed on jungle drums and didgeridoo. Sometimes, a film earns points even before the opening credits hit the screen; other times, a variation on a studio logo is as avant garde …
by Scott MarksFirst (and most profitable) in the line of horror films produced by Val Lewton for RKO in the early Forties, as competition with Universal Studios, at that time dominating the horror field. This one set the pattern for those to …
by Duncan ShepherdShe sees...fake people? After discovering she can see everyone's imag…
Set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, apes …
Garfield (voiced by Chris Pratt), the world-famous, Monday-hating, la…
After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple (M…
He’s a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets bl…
A celebration of the most iconic – and much missed – homegrown star o…
When a group of friends recklessly violates the sacred rule of Tarot …
Luca “Director of Desire” Guadagnino’s tennis movie isn’t really abou…
A classmate introduces teenage Owen to a mysterious late-night TV sho…
Takumi and his daughter live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One…
Darren Barrenman (Chris Pine) is a native Los Angeleno who spends his…
It’s telling that the two war photographers at the center of Alex Gar…
Musical fantasy from the Disney people, featuring imbecilic hillbillies and a melodramatically mustachioed huckster as villains, a carrot-topped waif as a hero, and a too-cute, teardrop-shaped, pink-green-and-lavender cartoon dragon. There's also Helen Reddy, a movie debutante, as the steadfast, spiritual …
by Duncan ShepherdRise of the Planet of the Apes alone justified the advent of CGI. With it comes a worthy successor. No other-worldly Hollywood actioner of recent vintage come close to playing by the rules of the robust fantasy universe it puts …
by Scott MarksThe ten-minute tournament — an over-produced Decathlon after the fashion of TV’s American Ninja Warrior — does nothing but rehash past glory and pad a hulking two-and-a-half hour (!) running time. Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) now works as a high …
by Scott Marks