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No Shredder, no problem: ‘TMNT’ Season 4 (2005-06) is a scary smorgasbord

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” Season 4 (2005-06, Fox) continues its style of adapting the Mirage comics but tightening the narrative links between street-level villains, outer

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‘Venom: The Last Dance’ (2024) a sweet friendship story

The Sony branch of the Marvel multiverse has been a punchline as much as it’s been a line of movies, but the bright spot has

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Have the ‘Jurassic Park’ films really gotten that bad? Or have tastes changed?

If I took a time machine from 1993 – the day after seeing “Jurassic Park” – to today, then watched the six sequels, I’d figure

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‘Marvels’ (2023) is rather fun despite being indecipherable

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has achieved a weird semi-success, semi-failure with Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), introduced in “Captain Marvel” (2019) and getting her second showcase

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Koepp, Edwards simplify ‘Jurassic World’ story for a ‘Rebirth’

The seventh “Jurassic” movie is for some reason called “Jurassic World: Rebirth,” but colloquially I suppose people will call it “the 2025 one” or “the

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Again, ‘Aquaman’-verse looks great in ‘The Lost Kingdom’ (2023)

Randall Park’s Dr. Shin, an audience surrogate who accidentally works for supervillain Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), notes in “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” (2023)

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‘Thunderbolts’ explores alternate way to return power to people

The Marvel Cinematic Universe rediscovers the heady times of about a decade ago with “Thunderbolts,” a story of six decidedly rough-around-the-edges anti-superheroes-turned-real-superheroes that goes down

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‘Captain America: Brave New World’: What if a bad president had self-awareness?

“Captain America: Brave New World” kicks off 2025’s three Marvel Cinematic Universe films by re-engaging with the primary storyline after 2024 served up only the

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Old friends, new enemies enhance ‘TMNT’ Season 3 (2004-05)

There might not be another franchise that skirts the edge of copyright law quite like “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” which famously started as a “Daredevil”

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‘Walking Tall’ (1973) walks the walk and talks the talk

It’s hard to go wrong with a 1970s car-chase, shoot-out, bar-fight kind of film. “Walking Tall” (1973) has fairly modest ambitions. It wants to tell

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