Confess, Fletch review: Jon Hamm charms in crime comedy reboot

Confess, Fletch puts Jon Hamm in investigative reporter I.M Fletcher's Lakers cap for a satisfying reboot of the crime comedy franchise.

Entertainment Reviews         September 15, 2022

Clerks III review, or how Kevin Smith made me cry

Clerks III isn't just the final chapter of Kevin Smith's trilogy. It delivers a surprisingly powerful look at how much we've all changed since 1994.

Entertainment Reviews         September 15, 2022

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners review: Candy-coated chrome carnage

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners delivers a fun, frantic adventure set in the world of Cyberpunk 2077 that doesn't demand any familiarity with the game to be enjoyable.

Entertainment Reviews         September 13, 2022

Pinocchio review: nothing new to see in wooden adaptation

Disney's live-action adaptation of Pinocchio doesn't offer anything fresh, only the same story through a new filter and a good performance by Tom Hanks.

Entertainment Reviews         September 8, 2022

Cobra Kai season 5 review: Crowded, but compelling, karate

Season 5 of Cobra Kai gives fans more of what they expect without changing the formula, and with plenty of familiar heroes and villains along the way.

Entertainment Reviews         September 6, 2022

What it’s like to be Jurassic World’s live-action dinosaur wrangler

Jurassic World Dominion's live-action dinosaur supervisor, John Nolan, explains how his team created the practical components to the film's dino adventure.

Features         September 4, 2022

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power review: perfection, precious

Amazon's The Rings of Power series lives up to the hype with episodes that wonderfully channel the scope, spectacle, and heart of The Lord of the Rings saga.

Entertainment Reviews         September 2, 2022

Aliens, upgrades, and Dolly Parton: behind The Orville’s VFX

Creating the visual effects for The Orville season 3 demanded a lot of VFX studios, from alien worlds and ship upgrades to new creatures and ... Dolly Parton?

Features         August 31, 2022

How Jurassic World Dominion’s VFX made old dinosaurs new again

Jurassic World Dominion's VFX supervisor takes a deep dive into the creation of the film's new dinosaurs and explains how they resurrected a few old ones, too.

Features         August 25, 2022

Vines, gore, and rifts galore: Behind Stranger Things’ season 4 VFX

Creepy vines, severed limbs, and the destruction of Hawkins were just a few of the visual effects elements Scanline VFX brought to Stranger Things season 4.

Features         August 22, 2022

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law review: Green is good in the MCU

Marvel's She-Hulk: Attorney at Law delivers another win for the MCU with its humor, heart, and impressive performance from Tatiana Maslany.

Entertainment Reviews         August 21, 2022

In the MCU, Marvel’s most important stories are in its Disney+ shows

The MCU movies are great, but the most important stories being told in the MCU are 0n Disney+ shows like WandaVision, Loki, and Ms. Marvel.

Features         August 18, 2022

The comics, colors, and chemicals behind Ms. Marvel’s VFX

The visual effects that helped bring the Marvel hero Ms. Marvel to Disney+ found inspiration in a variety of unexpected places.

Features         August 17, 2022

Day Shift review: Jamie Foxx leads fangless vampire movie

Despite some entertaining elements, Jamie Foxx's vampire film Day Shift underwhelms with too few surprises, too many familiar pieces, and not enough Snoop Dogg.

Entertainment Reviews         August 12, 2022

The Sandman review: dreamy adaptation exceeds expectations

Decades of troubled development don't stop Netflix's The Sandman series from delivering an impressive adaptation of Neil Gaiman's groundbreaking comic book.

Entertainment Reviews         August 5, 2022

Prey review: a fresh spin on the Predator franchise

The best Predator film since the original, Prey delivers a tense, action-packed adventure that feels fresh and unique in the franchise.

Entertainment Reviews         August 3, 2022

The Outlaws season 2 review: no more funny business

Season 2 of The Outlaws fully embraces its crime-thriller potential and delivers a more satisfying story arc, even as it goes light on the laughs.

Entertainment Reviews         August 2, 2022

Paper Girls review: time-traveling, girl-power Goonies is good enough

Prime Video's adaptation of the Paper Girls comic book series is an exciting sci-fi saga that blends powerful emotional arcs with a nostalgic adventure story.

Entertainment Reviews         July 29, 2022

How the Thanos VFX team brought The Quarry’s characters to life (and then killed them)

Supermassive's interactive horror game The Quarry used groundbreaking tech from an Oscar-winning visual effects studio to bring its scary story to life.

Features         July 25, 2022

Nope review: Jordan Peele’s intelligent sci-fi horror delivers

Jordan Peele's third film, Nope, continues his trend of delivering thought-provoking horror, this time in a cinematic feature filled with great performances.

Entertainment Reviews         July 22, 2022

Resident Evil review: Netflix series aims high, falls short

Netflix series Resident Evil takes big risks with its adaptation of the game franchise, but ultimately doesn't deliver the series fans are probably hoping for.

Entertainment Reviews         July 13, 2022

The Sea Beast review: Netflix channels Disney in fun monster tale

Thrilling, funny, and deeper than its premise suggests, The Sea Beast is a Netflix animated movie that feels positively Disney in all the best ways.

Entertainment Reviews         July 8, 2022

Black Bird review: An outstanding cast lifts Apple TV+’s dark series

Black Bird, an adaptation of James Keene's tale of befriending a serial killer, packs plenty of award-friendly performances into a compact, efficient drama.

Entertainment Reviews         July 7, 2022

Why Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers is a master class in animation

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers mixed multiple generations of animation styles using clever tricks and an innovative approach to visual effects.

Features         July 2, 2022

Minions: The Rise of Gru review: Fast and funny, but fading

Minions: The Rise of Gru delivers plenty of fun moments, but its colorful, crazy world is beginning to feel a bit too familiar.

Entertainment Reviews         July 1, 2022

The Princess review: Hulu’s fairytale fight film packs a punch

Hulu's genre-mashing action film The Princess is a fun, hard-hitting fairytale adventure that subverts expectations and delivers plenty of surprises.

Entertainment Reviews         July 1, 2022

Deadpool writers on Spiderhead and mainlining joy in the MCU

Spiderhead writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick weigh in on their Netflix thriller with Chris Hemsworth, Deadpool 3 in the MCU, and the Twisted Metal series.

Features         June 28, 2022

How Marcel the Shell became 2022’s best feel-good movie

The director of Marcel the Shell With Shoes On shares the story of how his film's tiny hero found his way to the big screen, and kept his heart along the way.

Features         June 27, 2022

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On review: Tiny story, big heart

Hilarious and charming, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On is a coming-of-age story about a tiny shell that's cinematic chicken soup for your soul.

Entertainment Reviews         June 26, 2022

The Umbrella Academy season 3 review: A beautiful apocalypse

The Umbrella Academy keeps getting weirder with each season, but season 3 is a reminder that it keeps getting better, too.

Entertainment Reviews         June 22, 2022

How VFX gave Doctor Strange’s Gargantos a magic makeover

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness opened with a wild battle scene featuring the creature Gargantos. Here's how visual effects helped create it.

Features         June 21, 2022

Lightyear review: Taking fun to infinity and beyond

Disney and Pixar's Lightyear does an impressive job of transforming Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear from a toy into a bona fide sci-fi action hero.

Entertainment Reviews         June 18, 2022

Spiderhead review: Chris Hemsworth shines in slick thriller

The Netflix thriller Spiderhead doesn't aspire to be an Oscar darling, but it is an entertaining psycho-drama with excellent performances from its cast.

Entertainment Reviews         June 17, 2022

Emmy-winning actress, feminist icon Mary Tyler Moore has died at age 80

Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated actress Mary Tyler Moore has died at the age of 80 due to complications from pneumonia.

News         June 15, 2022

‘Split’ scares off ‘Rings’ to win the box office for the third week in a row

M. Night Shyamalan's thriller Split won the box office for the third straight week, topping horror sequel Rings this time around.

News         June 15, 2022

Live-action remake of 'The Lion King' brings on Donald Glover and James Earl Jones

The upcoming live-action remake of The Lion King has added Donald Glover and James Earl Jones to its voice cast.

News         June 15, 2022

It's all-out creature carnage in action-packed 'Kong: Skull Island' trailer

The final trailer for giant-monster movie Kong: Skull Island puts the focus on the creature carnage set to unfold.

News         June 15, 2022

Scarlett Johansson takes the fight to the water in new 'Ghost in the Shell' clip

Paramount Pictures has released a scene from the upcoming, live-action Ghost in the Shell movie a week early.

News         June 15, 2022