The Batman sequel moved with a crisp confidence that had been mostly missing from blockbuster cinema for a long time
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Thanks to COVID-19, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence's big-screen reunion is the final relic of a time when large…
Jon Favreau used groundbreaking technology to strip all the life out of the animated classic
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Rian Johnson dared to make an anti-nostalgic Star Wars. The diehards were not pleased.
Disney is simply not into spending hundreds of millions to indulge a director’s whims when there’s Star Wars money…
The year Star Wars returned, Hollywood entered the echo chamber of nostalgic legacy sequels
Clint Eastwood's wartime biopic emerged victorious in a year of superhero blockbusters
Catching Fire taught the Harry Potter generation to distrust adults
In 2008, the year that the Marvel Cinematic Universe began, Batman ate Marvel’s lunch. Iron Man, the movie that…
The Harry Potter series was too big to fail, and yet it could’ve failed so easily, again and again. In Harry Potter,…
I must’ve known that all the toys weren’t about to die. I had to know. This was a G-rated kids’ movie, the third…
It’s been more than a decade since a wholly original film was the biggest hit of its year. All our reigning…
The three part threes all arrived in May of 2007, one after the other after the other. First weekend in May: Spider-M…
By most estimates, 2011’s Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is the most expensive motion picture ever…
In the fall of 2012, the Walt Disney Company dropped a four-billion-dollar bag of money on George Lucas’ desk and…
Shrek was a “fuck you.” That was the entire point. This massively successful children’s film franchise owes its…
“Fantasy is the one genre that’s never been done especially well,” Peter Jackson told The Los Angeles Times. “After…
The bus is a carnival of humiliation. The driver won’t stop, so Peter Parker has to run alongside, banging on the…