remake
This physical reimagining of Moana doesn’t tarnish the 2016 film’s legacy, and Hamilton director Thomas Kail has made his near shot-for-shot remake almost as endearing as the original.
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The Invite doesn’t try to state anything profound; it just asks us to look at what’s there and what’s holding them back from being more. And it has such a devil of a time doing it.
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Bugonia isn’t a typical hostage situation by any stretch of the imagination; director Yorgos Lanthimos and screenwriter Will Tracy play with our biases and perspectives, cheekily throwing our expectations and what we think of as common knowledge out the window.
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Bubblier than a glass of champagne, often howlingly funny, and altogether sweet, Freakier Friday gives you warmth and happiness, and you can’t fault it for that.
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How to Train Your Dragon makes a letter-perfect jump from animation to live-action with this lovely, heartwarming recreation that fills us with wonder a second time.
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When the original Mean Girls made its debut in April 2004, it found an audience eager for its classroom drama and its comedy which showed us at our backbiting worst. Twenty years on, its legacy can be found in the numerous “Get in, loser, we’re going _____” memes that pervade social media and the evergreen […]
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Author’s note: There’s something weirdly awesome and kinda nuts about watching a screener of a movie called Hellraiser and seeing a “Property of Disney” watermark pop up every now and again. Welcome to the new Hellraiser, a surprising revival and reboot of this 35-year-old film series. Like the ten films before it, Hellraiser is based […]
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Let me get this out of the way: I have no attachments to the previous incarnations of Firestarter – neither Stephen King’s 1980 novel nor the 1984 filmed adaptation – in particular. The book was one of the first of his that I ever read, but I barely remember anything from it; I didn’t see […]
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Superficially, CODA is the same kind of “be who you are” coming-of-age story where a kid from the wrong side of the tracks (really, is there a “wrong side of the tracks” these days?) finds a talent that makes them shine, lifting them out of the hell that is high school and bucking their family’s […]
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Author’s note: I have not seen Le Convoyeur, the film upon which Wrath of Man is based. With the exception of maybe one or three films in his 23-year career, I dig on Guy Ritchie movies. There’s nothing else like them. The way he moves his characters through seedy underworlds, his jukebox-style use of music, […]
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