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

Netflix releases trailer for English-language adaptation of 'Death Note'

Netflix has released the first trailer for its upcoming Death Note movie, based on the acclaimed anime and manga series.

News         June 15, 2022

Watch Scarlett Johansson dive right into the action in ‘Ghost in the Shell’ clip

Scarlett Johansson takes a high dive off a tall tower in the latest clip from the Ghost in the Shell movie.

News         June 15, 2022

‘We all float’: The first trailer for Stephen King’s ‘IT’ is pure nightmare fuel

Here's the first official, nightmare-inducing trailer for the upcoming big-screen adaptation of Stephen King's It.

News         June 15, 2022

New preview of ‘It’ explores friendship, and the terrifying sewers of Derry, Maine

New Line Cinema has released a new preview of 'It,' the upcoming two-part adaptation of Stephen King's terrifying 1986 novel.

News         June 15, 2022

HBO teaser for season 2 of ‘Westworld’ suggests show will get even darker

The viral website for HBO's hit series Westworld has received an update that it hints at some scary things happening in Westworld Season 2.

News         June 15, 2022

'Death Note' clip introduces Willem Dafoe's death god, Ryuk

Netflix debuted a clip from Death Note featuring Willem Dafoe's death god, Ryuk, during a Thursday panel at Comic-Con.

News         June 15, 2022

‘It’ sequel will bring back director and young cast, hit theaters in 2019

The It sequel will hit theaters in September 2019, and original director Andy Muschietti will also return for chapter 2 of the saga.

News         June 15, 2022

Jurassic World Dominion review: Dinosaur doldrums

Jurassic World Dominion gets the whole team back together, but in doing so, it sidelines the franchise's greatest asset: Its amazing, terrifying dinosaurs.

Entertainment Reviews         June 10, 2022

Mad God review: A gory, gorgeous nightmare

Stop-motion and visual effects master Phil Tippett's film Mad God is a project 30 years in the making, and the nightmare it delivers is worth the wait.

Entertainment Reviews         June 9, 2022

Ms. Marvel season 1 review: A super start for MCU’s new hero

Disney's Ms. Marvel series gets off to a great start with its introduction of Kamala Khan to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Entertainment Reviews         June 9, 2022