“I’ve been having glitches,” Scarlett Johansson’s part-human, mostly cyborg robot says in “The Ghost in the Shell.” “It will pass.”
Rupert Sanders’ remake of Mamoru Osh...
Hey, “Life,” 1979 called. It wants its alien-invasion movie back.
“Life” so echoes Ridley Scott’s 38-year-old claustrophobic science-fiction classic “Alien,” in which a ...
Back in the ’90s, you probably knew them as “Mighty Morphin,” and these days they take the pre-fix “Saban’s,” but we all know them best as simply the “Power Rangers.”
Ex...
If you’re of a certain age, Danny Boyle’s 1996 film “Trainspotting” was an earth-shattering, mind-expanding event. There was a Before “Trainspotting” and an After “Train...
Don’t judge a book by its cover.
That’s the overarching theme of Disney’s live-action retelling of “Beauty and the Beast.” But in recent weeks, controversies surrounding...
Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts has said in interviews that he pitched “Kong: Skull Island” to Warner Bros. as “King Kong” meets “Apocalypse Now.” Working with an 84-year-o...
If anyone didn’t already know how hard it was to be a woman on the American frontier, Dutch director Martin Koolhoven bludgeons the point home in the often gruelingly ef...
Forget Batman vs. Superman or Captain America vs. Iron Man. In James Mangold’s moving tribute to X-Men’s Wolverine, “Logan,” it’s all Logan vs. Logan. He strips away the...
The wedding-themed romantic comedy “Table 19” is like that beautifully wrapped gift you’ve had your eye on since the reception. But then, when you open it, you realize i...
Genre films — horror, comedy, fantasy, Westerns — have always been great vessels for social commentary.
The pleasures of genre conventions allow such messaging to go dow...
