For the better part of six years, we've been conducting an autopsy on a patient who keeps sitting up.

Greetings, True Believers! It’s been about five years, give or take, since I’ve typed out a review. Parkinson’s Disease makes it difficult. I also don’t go to the movie theater much anymore…in fact, I don’t remember what the last movie I saw in a theater was.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day marks the moment when every Spider-Man actor must stop playing Peter Parker as a kid and start carrying him as a man. Tom Holland reaches that moment here.

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey should have been one of those rare movie events that unite film lovers. A director with a sterling reputation. A timeless story. A cast packed with recognizable stars. A filmmaker known for practical effects taking on one of literature's greatest adventures.

The first full trailer for Avengers: Doomsday opens with a warning.

“Something’s coming. Something we may not be able to deter.”

The line is meant to make us fear Doctor Doom.

Instead, it made me think about Marvel Studios.

Watch the trailer for a Tom Cruise movie and you'll notice something curious. Before the story is established, before the villain has uttered a word, before the title even appears on screen, the marketing has already made its sales pitch.

Tom Cruise is sprinting across a rooftop.

Uwe Boll's controversial thriller may be crude, angry and deeply uncomfortable. That doesn't mean it has nothing worth saying.

Once the industry's biggest gamble has become its safest bet.

There was a time when a Disney remake arrived with the built-in advantage of nostalgia. *Cinderella*, *The Jungle Book*, and *Beauty and the Beast* returned to stories that had already spent decades becoming part of the culture.