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Looking back on 2021’s Mortal Kombat, I’m still blown away by how much fun that movie turned out to be. I’m not the only fan who feels that way, especially as we reckon with how, if the 2025 fall movie schedule held fast, we would have seen Mortal Kombat II landing in theaters this month. The
Sometimes it's best to go into movies blind, and that's how I pretty much went into the black comedy Twinless, written and directed by James Sweeney and starring Sweeney alongside Dylan O'Brien. The only whispers I heard about the movie were some of the buzz it generated during this year's Sundance
Warning: massive spoilers for Tron: Ares are in play. If you think the Tron series isn't a dense environment of lore, you've been playing the wrong game, Program. Now that Ares is loading up in theaters, some questions about Disney’s sci-fi legacy have been answered. As if that wasn’t enough,
Over the weekend, Dwayne Johnson showed a much different side of himself in The Smashing Machine, a biographical sports drama about former MMA fighter Mark Kerr. The movie has garnered Johnson the best reviews of his career, and it has even sparked potential Oscar buzz for his transformative turn.
This weekend, Dwayne Johnson returns to the big screen in a way that no one has seen him before. The wrestler-turned-actor is letting go of stacking up big box office dollars and is flexing his acting muscles in The Smashing Machine, written and directed by Benny Safdie. Johnson takes on the role
On October 1, 2010, The Social Network opened nationwide and became an instant classic in the process. While a movie about the founding of Facebook might not seem like a nailbiter, director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin presented the story with a sense of urgency that allowed the film
This weekend, The Strangers: Chapter 2 hits screens and will continue the head-scratching decision to move full steam ahead with this franchise as a new trilogy of films. The Strangers: Chapter 1 was a haphazard remake of sorts of the superior 2008 film, directed by Bryan Bertino, which debuted
Paul Thomas Anderson arrives this weekend with his tenth film, One Battle After Another, which has already garnered some of the best reviews of his career. The last Anderson film to hit the big screen was 2021's Licorice Pizza, so cinephiles everywhere are excited to see what the prolific director
The trailer for A24's The Drama does a great job of keeping things intentionally vague. We meet Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple about to get married who seem like they know everything about each other… until they very clearly don’t. One drunken night at dinner with
There was a time when the stoner comedy was a reliable genre, particularly among the coveted demographic of young men. I remember those late nights in the college dorm quite fondly. Up late working on a paper last minute, ready for the weekend, and a friend suggests ordering a pizza and popping in
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The last few episodes of HBO's The Pitt have been a whirlwind of activity. Though not covered here, the show ran the gamut from staff assaults to ICE's appearance. The latter was a prescient addition to the storyline given the current climate in America, and something the show portrayed correctly.
