American Star
The hitman may be the most overused figure in cinema, particularly in contrast to what hired killers turn out to be in the news stories we really hear about, who [...]
The hitman may be the most overused figure in cinema, particularly in contrast to what hired killers turn out to be in the news stories we really hear about, who [...]
Films about colonialism and settlers overtaking Western land are often in Western movies, and they most often come up with white protagonists who side with the oppressed Indigenous people, and [...]
There has always been a lot of passion and perspective for filmmaker Ava DuVernay; there is no denying that she has always crafted films about essential issues that tie our [...]
Freud’s Last Session, the new film from director Matt Brown (2015’s The Man Who Knew Infinity) occupies a strange filmic space. Like Brown’s previous film, it is based on real life [...]
Taking a more dramatic approach than having the same old routine narrative of astronauts discovering threatening extraterrestrial life and dying off slowly, I.S.S. deserves some praise for coming up with [...]
The biblical epic was a Hollywood mainstay decades ago, particularly in the 1950s and early 1960s. The genre has largely fallen out of favor, with religious films now largely the [...]
Jason Statham, one of cinema's most consistent modern action stars, is coming off a rough year. While his Meg 2: The Trench earned over $400 million, it was a waste [...]
Mean Girls has been a pinnacle of pop culture in the two decades since its release. The 2004 Tina Fey-scripted comedy starring Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams was an immediate [...]
The first significant Shudder original release of 2024 could be the year's most off-the-wall horror movie. Destroy All Neighbors hits the streamer today from director Josh Forbes, an experienced music [...]
Four Daughters is promptly proving how layered and experimental documentaries can be. Documentarian Kouther Ben Hania's latest docu-fiction merges documentary with reenactments in this engrossing story about femininity and family [...]