Sam Raimi does not make a lot of movies. In the last 15 years, he’s only directed three films: The big-budget Wizard of Oz prequel Oz the Great and Powerful, the Doctor Strange sequel Multiverse of Madness, and his most recent effort, 2026’s Send Help. While he’s had a hand in creating some other projects through his production companies, Raimi has only directed 16 feature films over the … Read more
As she steps down as the head of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy says there’s only one project she has “a bit of regret” about from her tenure overseeing Star Wars and Indiana Jones: Solo: A Star Wars Story. Asked by Deadline about projects she “wish you had back” or “maybe you could have done better with more time,” she specifically cited … Read more
Expectations are a fickle thing. Take last year’s 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle’s long-awaited follow-up: expectations, courtesy of years of build-up and its riveting marketing campaign, were running high only for the film to prove somewhat middling, flashes of brilliance muted by a nonclimactic third act and its cringey, divisive cliffhanger. Compare that to Nia … Read more
There are only 19 film genres. (At least according to Letterboxd.) The over 1.13 million movies in the fabulous and fabulously nerdy movie database and social media app can be sorted by genre. Letterboxd recognizes 19 different ones: Action, adventure, animation, comedy, crime, documentary, drama, family, fantasy, history, horror, music, mystery, romance, sci-fi, thriller, TV movie, … Read more
In Anaconda, Jack Black and Paul Rudd play two friends who decide to travel to Brazil to make an indie remake of the trash-classic 1997 Jennifer Lopez/Ice Cube snake movie—and end up with a fun, silly adventure that works as long as you set your expectations accordingly. Again, set your expectations accordingly. Objectively, this new … Read more
As of today, Golden Globe winners Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick‘s reunion movie, The Best You Can, is now available for streaming on Netflix. Before this, the romantic comedy had its premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Festival. This marks the long-time couple’s first time on screen together after twenty years. They previously starred in 1988’s … Read more
The biggest question director Zak Hilditch lets linger with We Bury the Dead is: why would you make a zombie movie where the zombies do nothing? If I chose to make movies instead of simply critiquing them (the former is hard, the latter is easy), I’d want to make a zombie movie. Zombies are gnarly, … Read more
K2Pictures has released the first trailer for the Look Back live-action movie, a live-action take on the manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto that also received an animated movie. “Popular, outgoing Fujino is celebrated by her classmates for her funny comics in the class newspaper. One day, her teacher asks her to share the space with Kyomoto, … Read more
In The Testament of Anne Lee, director Mona Fastvold gives us an invigorating drama-musical quite unlike anything I’ve seen before. It’s a shame the central character is a cultish nut job. Amanda Seyfried stars as Ann Lee, a young woman who finds comfort in the Shaker movement, a religious sect offshoot of Christianity that believed … Read more
Staying employed these days is no guarantee. You have to be resourceful, even clever, to make ends meet and maintain whatever lifestyle you’re used to. Sometimes you have to take drastic measures, like posting a fake job opening to collect resumes to determine who your top competition is–and then hatching a plan to murder them … Read more