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In the third installment of the animated franchise Hotel Transylvania, Dracula (Adam Sandler) takes a Bermuda…

In a year featuring multiple cinematic depictions of Oakland, California (including the flashbacks from Black Panther

Toward the beginning of Boundaries, beleaguered single mom Laura (Vera Farmiga), her shiftless father Jack…

During a break from the awe, suspense, and action of Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg’s camera pans across shelves of…

Plenty of people know about the perils of nostalgia, but what about the nostalgia of peril? That’s what Action Point…

Whoever first used the now-familiar shot where a camera is positioned at water level and observes its half-submerged…

“Stories don’t just stop,” says Fletcher Chace (Brendan Fraser) in the tenth and final-for-now episode of Trust.…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable…

It was one common complaint-as-question among many leveled at the Star Wars prequel trilogy: With all the Jedi,…

Melissa McCarthy may have the elements of an immediately recognizable comic persona, but her years as a character…

Though Trust has jumped back and forth in time a bit, especially when it was initially gathering the (fictionalized)…

No one mentions the baby’s name right away. This makes sense: Marlo (Charlize Theron) and Drew (Ron Livingston) are…

The best episodes of Trust so far haven’t really trafficked in ensemble drama, despite the impressiveness of the…

Adam Sandler has so many regular and semi-faceless collaborators that it can be virtually impossible to discern…

Before we begin, I should back up.

Traffik, a watchable semi-terrible exploitation picture, has one sequence that sets it apart from the many trashy…

Dawn Shadforth, the director of the fourth episode of Trust and the first director on the show not named Danny…

The cartoon panther says nothing—not in dialogue and not about the movie he’s advertising. Each Pink Panther film…

In Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, the legendary filmmaker looked at World War I through the eyes of a noble steed,…

Some actors who have served as male leads in Danny Boyle movies over the years include Ewan McGregor, Cillian…