Move over, The Substance, there’s another hot new body horror in town! One of my favorite 2025 Sundance Film Festival premieres is this feature directorial debut called Together from the Midnight section of the line-up this year. It’s the first full-length feature from the superbly talented Australian filmmaker Michael Shanks, best known for his award-winning […]

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man begins with a swinging classic refrain before the rap and hip-hop infused beats of “Neighbor Like Me” adrenalizes the comic-styled credits. This change sets the tone for a revisionist origin story that will likely ruffle snowflake feathers. I loathe to bring this topic up again in a Disney/Marvel review, but the […]

‘The Count of Monte Cristo,’ a three-hour epic adventure adapted from Alexandre Dumas’s literary classic, is leading the race at the Cesar Awards, France’s equivalent to the Oscars, with a whooping 14 nominations. ‘Beating Hearts,’ Gilles Lellouche’s sprawling crime romance, follows shortly with 13 nominations. While a favorite in the Oscar race, Jacques Audiard’s ‘Emilia […]

“Recording Evil,” a landmark documentary project exposing the largest spy operation in World War II, has started filming across three continents. The documentary was commissioned by Israel’s Public Broadcaster, KAN 11, to mark the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Told through tens of thousands declassified British intelligence documents, […]

Since Stan Lee and Steve Ditko first created Spider-Man more than six decades ago, the character has been one of the most enduring superheroes in popular culture. From comics to animated series and a slew of live-action films (as well as 2018’s animated, Oscar-winning “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”), Peter Parker and his alter-ego have been […]

Read More When Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man was first revealed, it was initially pitched as a prequel to the Jon Watts trilogy starring Tom Holland. The series was set to fill us in on the details Captain America: Civil War and Spider-Man: Homecoming didn’t cover, following the young hero becoming a local legend. However, things […]

Masters of the Universe is currently stacking up its cast in the long-awaited reboot of the live-action arm of the ‘80s franchise, with Noah Galitzine taking on the role of He-Man, the self-professed “most powerful man in the universe.” But what if, in another reality, the mighty Thor was transformed into Eternia’s musclebound hero? That […]