Movies

‘Family Stone’ (2005), with loaded cast, better than a lump of coal

“The Family Stone” (2005) piles strong actors onto the screen and allows them to interact in an overstuffed house at Christmastime. This metaphorical snowball fight

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‘The Holiday’ (2006) is impossible, and impossibly cute

“The Holiday” (2006) has a large gap between screenplay quality and overall movie quality. It would be an interesting experiment for someone to read the

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Powell’s ‘Running Man’ takes a while to get up to speed

“The Running Man” (1987) predicted now-normal things like tech that spies on you, deep-fake insta-CGI and the ubiquity of “reality TV” (maybe the most Orwellian

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Self-cannibalizing ‘The Monkey’ is more dark than comedic

“The Monkey” is the fourth-biggest Stephen King adaptation of 2025, but it’s the one that most cynically comments on the fact that Hollywood can’t get

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‘Christmas Evil’s’ (1980) reels should’ve been slashed up

Watching 15 minutes of “Christmas Evil” (1980) and then hoping it will get better is like asking a large woman if she is pregnant. You

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‘Go’ back to 1999 for a night of Xennial cool

“Go” (1999) was vaguely seen at the time as the younger generation’s “Pulp Fiction” (1994). Today we can articulate that as Xennials as compared to

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Trachtenberg expands ‘Predator’ mythos in ‘Killer of Killers’

More “Predator” isn’t a bad thing, but it’s not an Earth-shattering thing either in the animated film “Predator: Killer of Killers” (Hulu). Co-director/co-writer Dan Trachtenberg,

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‘Freakier Friday’: Some things don’t change with age

“Freakier Friday” is a cute sequel to a cute 2003 remake of a cute 1976 movie that has been remade and sequelized several other times

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This time, the ‘Final Girl’ (2015) is fully prepared

Two similarly titled movies came out in 2015, “The Final Girls” and “Final Girl,” and neither has much to say about the roots of the

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‘The Package’ (1989) theorizes a thrilling end to the Cold War

Before big events happen in the real world, filmmakers like to write their own possible versions. These movies later serve as retro-alternate histories and become

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