It seemed great on paper. Nicolas Cage as Dracula? It’s a role he was born to play; it’s a wonder it hasn’t happened before now (sorry, Vampire’s Kiss doesn’t count). Renfield, Dracula’s long-suffering servant — or in vampire parlance, “familiar” — plagued by co-dependency issues and seeking help in a …

If you’ve seen promos for Paint, you’ve probably figured out that Brit McAdams’ comedy starring Owen Wilson is inspired by Bob Ross, the artist who hosted the low-fi PBS series The Joy of Painting for many years before succumbing to lymphoma at age 52 in 1995. Creating landscape paintings in …

After the debacle that was the 1993 live-action Super Mario Brothers movie adaptation, the creators of the new animated version clearly felt the need to restore the faith of the wildly popular video game’s legions of fans. While devoted players will weigh in on whether the film fulfills that goal …

To quote the evil Noah Cross in Chinatown, “Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” The same can be said of Adam Sandler, who spent years as a piñata for critics as a result of such mindless comedies as Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore. …

The much-documented and discussed real-life romantic relationship between Zach Braff and Florence Pugh may not have lasted, but the writer-director has provided the actress a sterling opportunity to showcase her talents with his latest directorial effort. Pugh delivers a superb starring performance that serves to accentuate her growing artistic stature …

2019’s Shazam! delivered a captivating origin story of the DC Comics character Billy Batson, a teenage boy who meets a wizard who bestows on him the power to grow to be a grown-up superhero upon uttering the magic phrase. Now, Billy is again, alongside together with his foster siblings, who’ve …

The creatives behind the John Wick franchise should lose sleep at evening considering how they’ll outdo themselves with every new installment. If that’s the case, it makes a robust case for insomnia, since John Wick: Chapter 4 outdoes its formidable predecessors in practically each respect. Greater, badder, bolder, longer, and …

Listed here are two phrases that ought to eternally be banned from our vernacular: “medical refugee” and “insulin rationing.” Tragically, you hear them typically in Scott Alexander Ruderman and Rachael Dyer’s documentary receiving its world premiere at SXSW. Bluntly if appropriately titled, Pay or Die serves as an infuriating reminder …

Spoiler alert: Dinosaurs and people didn’t exist on Earth on the identical time. This presents an issue for filmmakers trying to make a dinosaur film with human/dino interplay, a minimum of by way of historic accuracy. One choice is to disregard actuality completely, as One Million Years B.C. did. One …

Cease me when you’ve heard this one earlier than. An irascible, down-on-his-luck coach is reluctantly put in control of a ragtag workforce of misfits who can barely play the sport. Though he can hardly disguise his preliminary disgust, the gamers’ enthusiastic attitudes and common lovability soften him up till he …

Contemplating that the really intelligent meta-ness of the 1996 unique has now turn out to be curdled with repetition, the Scream franchise has confirmed surprisingly sturdy. By now, the system is as acquainted because the clichéd horror movies it satirizes. In between the savage murders dedicated by Ghostface, the characters …

It’s fairly straightforward to inform that Guy Ritchie’s new motion comedy has been sitting on the shelf for some time. In any case, its villains embody Ukrainian gangsters. Not that there aren’t nonetheless gangsters in Ukraine, however let’s simply say the timing isn’t supreme. The movie’s title offers a touch …