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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
Casper Kelly's Buddy is a mind-bending journey into a very dark version of children's television. Back in 2014, Casper Kelly gave the world "Too Many Cooks," an 11-minute dive into aging television conventions that swam deeper into a twisted darkness the longer it went on. It seemed a fun inheritor
I remember seeing the trailer for The Dog Stars and having my eyes roll back in my head. Do we really need more post-apocalyptic stories when we're living in a real life apocalypse? Do we need another movie that has an analog for COVID-19 and the aftermath that had on our own society. Well,
The Lantern Corps is a tricky thing to bring to life. We saw that with the 2011 movie Green Lantern. But Lanterns manages to put DC's "space cops" in a gritty reality where having the ring isn't everything. Chris Mundy, Watchmen and Lost's Damon Lindelof, and comic writer Tom King weave a story of
