In a summer box office destined to be dominated by superheroes and Tom Cruise, there’s at least one more franchise that could challenge for the crown. Jurassic World Dominion is not only a sequel to the hit Jurassic World films, but it’s also the first…
It must have been a kick to be a science fiction fan in the summer of 1982 when Hollywood released six prominent sci-fi flicks within a few months of each other. The Road Warrior, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, The Thing, …
The newest trailer for Jurassic World Dominion is asking the important questions, like “Can a dinosaur truly be adorable?” or “Shouldn’t the child of Blue be called Green?” Regardless, the bigger questions after this trailer are “Who stole Baby Blue? A…
In the film industry, there’s a notion that actors must carefully navigate between small passion projects and big-budget blockbusters based on IP. It’s the “one for me, one for them” theory. Despite not having complete control (his words, not mine) ove…
Riley Stearns’ dark satire Dual brings his signature form of dry, deadpan humor to a story about a woman in the not-too-far future who’s forced to battle her own clone to the death in order to decide who lives out the rest of her life. It’s a fascinati…
Sometimes, a film review is a recommendation. Sometimes, it’s a warning. When it comes to Dual, the latest dark satire from writer-director Riley Stearns (The Art of Self Defense), the review can be a little bit of both.
Set in an alternate, but a…
As its title suggests, Everything Everywhere All at Once is everywhere you look these days. The film, from writing-directing duo Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, casts Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) as a woman who finds herself caugh…
No one can change the past. The best we can hope for is to change the present and the future. But what if the past wasn’t an unreachable place in space and time? The upcoming film Press Play is a sci-fi romance that gives one woman the chance to g…
If we’ve learned anything from David Cronenberg’s previous films, it’s that he really loves diving into body horror. Videodrome, The Brood, The Fly, eXistenZ, and Shivers all dealt with the subject matter in different ways. But in Cronenberg’s lat…
Everything Everywhere All at Once is a lot of things: A sci-fi adventure, a martial arts action movie, an absurdist comedy. But above all else, it’s a film about one family and its matriarch, Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh), who embarks on a trip through t…