Oftentimes, the best comic book movies operate as more than excuses for eye-popping CGI and action-packed extravaganzas. It's in those films that they transcend the cliches of the genre and speak to human experiences and emotional depth. This is why Peter Parker and Spider-Man have resonated with
Sam Raimi returns to the big screen with this weekend's horror thriller Send Help. His first original movie in 17 years since the release of Drag Me to Hell in 2009. It's not as if Raimi hasn't been busy, even returning to direct a comic book film after his tenure with the Spider-Man films with
The Apothecary Diaries has the cast finally begin to prepare for the incoming locust plague in Ep. 52 "The Last Volume". Sure, they could've prepared much sooner. However, without the intel gained in this episode, those preparations wouldn't have been nearly as guided as they are here. Now it's
For a film called All Of A Sudden, very little happens suddenly in Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s sensitive portrayal of friendship and care. The director (Drive My Car) has a particularly patient style of filmmaking that is not universally appealing, but it captures humanity in all its messy earnestness.
Sasaki and Peeps gives us plots galore being brewed up, as you might expect from Ep. 15 "Concealment and Infiltration" with that title. Complete with both the faking of a death and an undercover operation to investigate the death game faction. It's all great ingredients for some serious political