“Volcano” (1997) picks a smart topic to take advantage of how the burgeoning tech of CGI can work well in a disaster movie. Slow (yet
Exposition is the blessing and the curse of “Deep Impact” (1998), a superbly acted, deeply emotional and relatively mellow end-of-humanity movie about a comet headed
“Parenthood” (1989) is a deceptively simple dramedy about three generations in a family and different parenting techniques. Director Ron Howard, initially famous for portraying a
“Dante’s Peak” (1997) is more well-liked than “Volcano” from the same year, and — while it’s six of one pile of molten-rock fireballs, and half
“Face/Off” (1997) is on the short list of great body-swap movies. Fans say they love John Travolta acting like Nicolas Cage and Cage acting like
It had bothered me that the Turtles seem to be at April’s apartment for months while Shredder and the Foot Clan “simultaneously” regroup in days
I’ve often heard great family movie screenplays complimented with “Both a child and an adult can like it,” but I don’t usually agree. One exception
“You’re Next” (2011) signaled that a new generation of millennial filmmakers were next, as the horror genre segued into a 2010s style to replace the
I found my TV habits changing in 2025. I met the fall season with a Gen-Z-style “meh,” and I was fine delaying viewings of even
Superhero fatigue? What superhero fatigue? In the 2010s, the Marvel Cinematic Universe completed the Infinity Saga, essentially a 22-episode TV season except with mega-budget movies.