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SMOKE Review: Burning Down the House
Taron Egerton and Jurnee Smollett star in Dennis Lehane's crime drama series, premiering on Apple TV+.
GUNS UP Official Trailer: Kevin James And Christina Ricchi Star in Action Comedy
A family-man moonlighting as a henchman for the mob has one night to get his family out of the city – and keep his dark secret hidden – after a job goes horribly wrong. Guns Up, the action comedy...
Now Streaming: Gerard Johnstone, M3GAN and Before
Where to watch 'Housebound,' 'The New Legends of Monkey,' and 'M3GAN: Unrated' before 'M3GAN: 2.0' opens on Friday. Plus: posters galore!
John Carpenter's STARMAN Returns to Earth on 4K UHD
Our 4K roundup also includes new 4K UHDs of 'Jaws,' 'A Knight's Tale,' 'The Prosecutor,' and more.
F1: THE MOVIE Review: Brad Pitt's Star Vehicle Revs Up Hyperkinetic, Hyper-Stylized Action
A glossy, big-budget, star-driven summer release like Joseph Kosinski’s (Top Gun: Maverick, Oblivion, Tron: Legacy) latest effort, F1: The Movie (hereinafter “F1”), a Formula One racing drama, falls broadly into an updated, contemporary version of film historian Tom Gunning's “cinema...
ELIO Review: Pixar's Latest Stirs Heart and Senses in Equal Measure
For moviegoers of a certain vintage, Elio, Pixar’s latest addition to its stellar-level animated output, will feel comfortably, nostalgically familiar. Centering as it does on a starry-eyed preteen dreamer, Elio pays respectful homage to family-oriented 70s and 80s Amblin...
28 YEARS LATER Review: Boyle and Garland Reunite to Deliver Timely Post-Apocalyptic Horror
Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connor, Alfie Williams, and Ralph Fiennes star.
SORCERER 4K Review: Friedkin's Fury Road
Roy Scheider goes crazy in the jungle in the 1977 epic that opened a week after 'Star Wars.'
Criterion in September 2025: BORN IN FLAMES Leads an Impressive Slate
Lizzie Borden's incendiary (?!) Born in Flames (1983) leads an impressive slate of films due for release from the Criterion Collection in September 2025. Because the film deserves its headlines, I'll just quote the official release: "A blistering rallying cry...
THE NAKED GUN Trailer: The Sound of The Police is Hilarious
The Gen X nostalgia wave continues this week with the full trailer for the reboot of the crime-spoof franchise, The Naked Gun. Action star Liam Neeson mostly puts aside his action chops to take over the comedy reins from...
ECHO VALLEY Review: Julianne Moore, Sydney Sweeney in Tense, Suspenseful Thriller
In the real world, fireworks usually signal celebration, but in director Michael Pearce’s (Encounter, Beast) latest film, Echo Valley, a dramatic thriller co-starring Oscar winner Julianne Moore (The Room Next Door, May December, When You Finish Saving the World) and...
SPACEBALLS 2: THE SEARCH FOR MORE MONEY Teaser Trailer: Mel Brooks Returns
Mel Brooks is truly an American national treasure. At 98 years old, he is still making movies that take the piss out of movie-making. As promised by the wise and powerful (or just plain) Yogurt in 1987's Star Wars trilogy...
WICK IS PAIN Review: Behind the Scenes in the Action Franchise
Jeffrey Doe's documentary asks: What makes the action franchise work?
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Review: Live-Action Remake Fails to Justify Its Existence
When filmmaker Gus Van Zant (Milk, My Own Private Idaho, Drugstore Cowboy) remade Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Psycho, in 1998, critics somewhat justifiably dismissed the end result as a stunt, a prank, a jest, and not an affectionate homage to a...
THE LIFE OF CHUCK Review: Dance Like Everyone's Watching and Wants to Know How
Mike Flanagan Tackles a somewhat gentler Stephen King story.
MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS 4K Review
Directed and co-written by Paul Schrader (First Reformed, The Canyons, Cat People, American Gigolo), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, is out now from our friends at Criterion in a gorgeous 4K/Blu-ray combo release. The film is a departure of...
THE WIZ 4K Review: Looks Great Now, and Even More Deeply Weird
Diana Ross and Michael Jackson lead Sidney Lumet's deeply weird adaptation of the Broadway stage production on a sterling Criterion 4K disc.
THE RITUAL Interview: Director David Midell Leads Me Through the Horror
Hello! It’s Dave Canfield, your Creature Feature Preacher here with another conversation. Director David Midell has made a hell of a debut. His first feature, The Ritual, not only stars Al Pacino but the always ascendant Dan Stevens. The pair...
Now Streaming: THE ACCOUNTANT 2 Doesn't Add Up, But No One Cares. NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH Goes to Sleep.
Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Jack Quaid star.
Friday One Sheet: 28 YEARS LATER...
Skulls, and sunflowers, and Pantone Red, oh my! One thing that has been remarkably consistent with 28 xxx Later franchise has been this particular shade of distressed red in their posters. Here, a poster that seems to be highlighting the...
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