Anniversaries “Have We Got A Vacation For You!”: Westworld at 50 By: Peter Sobczynski Michael Crichton's futuristic filmmaking debut gave a silly premise some thoughtful & unsettling weight.
Features A Field in England goes afield, in England By: Gregory J. Smalley Wheatley keeps it eclectic with the most psychedelic offering in his filmography.
Reviews Jules is an alien fantasy with heart, but no art By: Sarah Gorr The Ben Kingsley vehicle is a sentimental flick aimed squarely at the AARP crowd, but lacks style and craft.
Reviews There’s no getting blood from Heart of Stone By: Leo Brady Netflix's latest Gal Gadot project reveals the shallowness of their action brand and her acting commitment.
Reviews The Last Voyage of the Demeter raises solid B horror from the grave By: Justin Harrison Javier Botet skillfully embodies a cunning Orlokian Dracula in André Øvredal's enjoyably vicious horrorshow.
Reviews Only Murders in the Building Season 3 keeps it cozy even as love interests threaten to derail the magic By: Michael Frank The series splits the leads too often early on, but when the trio sticks together, it is as good as ever.
Recap Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finishes its second season with a bang A perilous confrontation with the Gorn brings out the series’ action movie bona fides in a dramatic season finale.
Features Sightseers takes murder on the road By: Michael Frank Ben Wheatley's third film brings Bonnie and Clyde across the pond for a decidedly less glamorous take on homicidal lovers.
Reviews Neil Breen’s Cade: The Tortured Crossing reaches glorious new heights of incoherence By: Gena Radcliffe The Prince of Perplexion is back & more baffling than ever in his first sequel.
Reviews Strange Planet strands viewers on a domain devoid of laughs By: Lisa Laman The popular webcomic gets turned into a TV show that proves some ideas can't sustain half-hour programs.
Features Kill List disturbs thanks to Wheatley’s merciless anti-romanticism By: Justin Harrison A disaffected hitman and his best pal descend into an entirely different sort of hell in the director/writer’s genre-hopping nightmare.
Podcasts Tune-Yards whistle their way through their wonderfully weird score to I’m A Virgo The beloved indie duo on working with fellow musician Boots Riley on his bonkers coming-of-age tale for Prime Video.
Features Every Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie From 1990-2023, Ranked Despite their hue, not all TMNT films deserved to be greenlit.
Reviews Winning Time Season 2 doesn’t trust its team on the court By: Tim Stevens MAX’s fictionalized look at basketball history gains some depth, but the filmcraft continues to distract and overwhelm the content.
Recap Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ musical episode hits all the right notes By: Andrew Bloom A peculiar quantum improbability wave spurs the crew of the Enterprise to start singing and dancing, and discovering truths about themselves through song.
Reviews Physical concludes with more questions than answers By: Gena Radcliffe Up to the very end the Apple TV+ dramedy remains funny, empathetic, cynical & frustrating all at once.
Features Down Terrace visits crime at the bottom of the barrel By: Tim Stevens Ben Wheatley's debut film rejects cool attitude and snappy dialogue to tell a working-class tale of crime.
Features Filmmaker of the Month: Ben Wheatley We celebrate the British filmmaker taking his biggest swipe yet at the mainstream this month with Meg 2: The Trench by declaring him our Filmmaker of the Month.
Reviews Everybody Loves Jeanne falls just on the right side of millennial quirk By: Matt Cipolla Céline Devaux’s hyperactive rom-com has enough creativity and engagement to distract from its unevenness.
Reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’s characters and mood triumph over a wobbly script By: Justin Harrison The latest incarnation of Eastman and Laird’s adolescent terrapin martial artists are wonderful characters. Watching them in action is a ball. Unfortunately, the rest of the flick does not quite match them.
Anniversaries “We have a piper down”: So I Married an Axe Murderer at 30 One of Mike Myers’ best movies is where he does the least amount of shtick.