Two new horror pictures play like media studies seminars. That they manage to be both archly artificial genre commentary and functional ente...

James Wan’s Insidious is one of the great jump scare horror movies. It’s a haunting that leaps out and rattles you with sudden appearances ...

I love that both 90-minute Jason Statham action thrillers released this year are one-word titles, and that they’re each a verb that could al...

Wordsworth said the child is the father of the man. Consider the case of Adam Sandler. His early movies were certainly childish. They were b...

We used to regularly have big summer special effects pictures with a light touch, lots of surprises, and a neat conclusion. The End of Oak S...

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the most straightforwardly entertaining Marvel movie in quite some time. It has no multiversal shenanigans or ...

Christopher Nolan loves to play with time. Think about the dual timelines of Oppenheimer , the three speeds of Dunkirk , the backwards-and-f...