Remember when I used to write posts that consisted of my uninformed take on a new release, timed to its release date? Haven't done a l...

If you thought I just wanted another excuse to get a Wonder Woman poster on the front of my blog ... well, you're only half right. (Bec...

I like to use holiday weekends to catch up on beloved favorites. I don't know why, exactly. But something about not working on a Monda...

On Saturday night I watched a movie you'd think I would have seen ages ago. After all, when you really love a parody, you have a natural...

My last four films in the theater had been Wonder Woman , Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales , John Wick: Chapter 2 and Alien...

We've seen the origin story of Batman enough times that people actively joke about the inevitable  shot of Martha Wayne's pearls fal...

You may recall that when the first Guardians of the Galaxy came out and was a huge success, and director James Gunn started showing up eve...

In watching the two most recent Alien films, I've thought that the synthetic characters are the subject of an unusual amount of focus. ...

I listened to an episode of The Slate Culture Gabfest this week that was recorded a couple weeks before that, in which they interviewed A...

I rewatched Alien 3 (hate that I cannot write this film's title correctly, to the third power) on Thursday night, in preparation for a ...

When I watched Pirates of the Caribean: Dead Men Tell No Tales on Wednesday night -- and frankly, enjoyed it well enough -- I thought it ma...

I remember sometime as long ago as the early 1990s, before superhero movies were literally a dime a dozen, thinking how incredibly weird it ...