Back in 1988, Ron Howard directed a fantasy movie written by George Lucas and Bob Dolman that followed a character named Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis), who becomes the caretaker of a child he finds. That…
While they’re more limited in their windows of opportunity, holiday themed movies face similar challenges that you’d see posed to the sequel of a major franchise. Most takes on Santa Claus have already been done, while his iconic presence…
Look up The Star Wars Holiday Special on Disney+ and you won’t find anything. Less remembered for being the first on-screen appearance of Boba Fett, more for the scene where Chewbacca’s dad watched porn, Disney’s 1978 Christmas cringe-fest…
One of the most primal human needs is to be understood. That goes for everybody, no matter how unsavoury – fucked-up people yearn to be accepted too. Take Kim Sum, the protagonist of Netflix’s new Korean psychological thriller Somebody.…
If there’s one thing fans of The Addams Family should know before watching Netflix reboot Wednesday, it’s to expect the unexpected. Yes, the look – pigtails, pale skin, pinstripes – is similar to the ‘90s classic. Yes, she remains po-faced…
Writer/director Rian Johnson has touched a lot of genres and concepts in his career as a filmmaker, and he’s always left a mark in the worlds he’s chosen to visit. Perhaps one of the most notable is the wildly successful whodunnit Knives…
To look back on The Walking Dead, I could think of the gaffes--there were plenty after all. I could think more fondly of the incredible visual effects and the showcase zombie kills that seemed to be a…
As Disney fans will recall, after the studio’s 1980s/1990s renaissance that brought us beloved animated musicals like The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, they got really weird with it in the early 2000s. We…
As the world comes round to the powerhouse that is South Korean entertainment, it only makes sense that screenwriters would eventually mine the ins and outs of their own industry for inspiration. Enter Behind Every Star, tvN’s latest…
While you might have expected it to debut around Halloween, which would have been a far more logical move, Netflix is getting ready to drop Wednesday--an off-shoot of the Addams Family franchise--just in…