“Back to the Future Part II” (1989) imagines “Jaws 19” hitting theaters in 2015. Rather surprisingly, that franchise didn’t have another entry after the fourth
“Airplane!” (1980) used the exact plot of “Zero Hour!” and added exaggerations and absurdities to hilarious effect. “Superhero Movie” (2008) — produced by “Airplane!’s” David
Sara Paxton, who looks like Alexis Bledel mixed with Kirsten Dunst, fell off my radar after TV’s “Summerland,” where she plays a not-very-likable girl, if
Sometimes I look at my old reviews and cringe. When I listened to a “How Did This Get Made?” podcast episode ripping into “Deep Blue
If in 1993 I imagined a movie about the “Jurassic Park” dinosaurs dispersing around the globe for a grand adventure, I would’ve imagined “Jurassic World:
In the early days of cellphones, horror fans wondered if new movies could be scary now that people could immediately call for help. We soon
The “Venom” films feature fights that look like entangled silly string monsters. But those are alien symbiotes, so that makes a certain sense. “Morbius,” now
“Jaws” (1975) was a famously expensive and physically punishing production, mostly because it used a mechanical shark. But the film was intense, and a classic,
“The Dead Zone” (1983) has two essential ingredients for turning Stephen King’s sprawling, light-on-plot 1979 novel into a compelling film. One is Jeffrey Boam’s screenplay,
Placed alongside commodified Marvel and bastardized “Star Wars,” the Wizarding World stands as the last great original blockbuster franchise. I think it will be appreciated