Twisters Review

Jan de Bont’s Twister is a modern disaster movie classic but does the sequel, Twisters, live up to it? PLOT: A former storm chaser (Daisy Edgar-Jones) recovering from a tragedy is convinced by a former colleague to help him chase a series of massive twisters rocking central Oklahoma.  REVIEW: Jump back to the summer of […]

Seven Samurai Continues Its Ride Through Cinema’s Past and Future | Features

Kurosawa’s own influences are both obvious and contested. They are, at once, refreshingly cosmopolitan and distinctly Japanese, a combination that simultaneously earned him a reputation for “not being Japanese enough” while also priming his films for easy international export. It was he, not his contemporaries Yasujirō Ozu or Kenji Mizoguchi, who became the first Japanese […]

The Horror Franchise Goes Back To Basics

20th Century Studios is billing Alien: Romulus as a sort of a franchise reset; taking this iconic horror series back to where it all began with a straight-ahead genre movie with creepy xenomorphs chasing working-class astronauts through an isolated spaceship. But the new trailer for Alien: Romulus also makes the new film look a lot less spare, […]

What About Bob? On the Legacy of One of the Best-Loved Comedians, Bob Newhart (1929-2024) | Tributes

Some of Newhart’s most fondly remembered routines hilariously skewered Madison Avenue. In “Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue,” an increasingly flustered imagemaker tries to get Abe to stick to the Gettysburg Address script (“You changed four score and seven to eighty-seven? Abe, that’s meant to be a grabber.”) That routine kicks off The Button-Down Mind of Bob […]