I spend a lot of time with music while I'm writing. Most albums become good company. A few demand my attention. Crossing Over falls squarely into that second category. I kept finding myself reaching over to turn ...

By the time The Ghost of Frankenstein rolled into theaters in 1942, Universal's favorite oversized corpse had already been shot, burned, drowned, buried, and generally treated like the world's least appreciated science experiment. ...

Bob Zemeckis pivoted into black comedy in the early nineties after his stellar run of Back to the Future sequels. With no less than Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and John McClane himself as his leads! This delicious ...

There are fantasy films, and then there are events. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is one of those movies that doesn't simply invite you into another world—it throws the damn doors open and dares your imagination to keep up. ...

Rebirth? Hmmm, is it though? Last year’s re-restart of the Jurassic franchise certainly provides a new bunch of lambs to the slaughter, a new director and a new stab at box office glory (which it succeeded in  ...

“Whoa.  Free toy inside!  Free toy inside!” Do I have your attention, Cult of UHF? Good. Because after all these years, the rest of the world has finally caught up with what "Weird Al" Yankovic was doing back in  ...

David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street is the kind of late-summer popcorn movie I thought Hollywood had forgotten how to make: big, weird, funny, occasionally terrifying, and completely committed to showing  ...

A low hum emerges from the void—distant, mechanical, almost celestial. It swells into a vast orchestral surge, as if some unseen force is breathing life into the cosmos itself. Flickers of melody spiral like  ...