[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] In addition to being a dedicated police officer, the protagonist of...

[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] From their very inception, Marvel’s spandex-clad vigilantes have shared a...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Evil is a virus. As glimpsed in 2021’s Halloween Kills, its...

When Clive Barker decided to direct a cinematic adaptation of one of his own novellas (The Hellbound Heart) back in 1987, he was a...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Smile is a resoundingly efficient exercise in building mood and...

It’s easy to see why Martin Scorsese enjoyed Ti West’s Pearl: from the lyrical opening credits sequence to the haunting iris out, the...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The narrative structure of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is unconventional,...

[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] You either lose your mind or die. No in between. That quote is Cyberpunk:...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The most recent chapter in the Scream saga opens with a simple...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] From the operatic, post-apocalyptic thrills of the Mad Max series...

Synopsis: Christian Bale plays Silas Croodge, a greedy, miserly, out-of-touch corporate executive that has recently acquired a popular...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] In light of Dragon Ball’s enduring popularity—indeed, the...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] [Seriously, I LITERALLY GIVE AWAY THE ENDING IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH;...

From Lu Over the Wall to Ride Your Wave, animator Masaaki Yuasa’s films have always involved songs to some extent, but Inu-Oh is the...

Fate. Karma. Luck. Do such intangible forces truly govern the trajectory of human existence? Or is our suffering simply the result of...

There was no other way. It’s no hyperbole to claim that Doctor Strange played an instrumental role in thwarting Thanos’ genocidal...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The Digital Age has transformed mankind into a society of insatiable...

I apologize in advance if this review seems jumbled, disjointed, or confused; unfortunately, utter incoherence is the default response to...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] In the works of Stephen King, such mundane terrors as abusive...

I was not emotionally prepared for what I encountered within the pages of In Ghostly Japan. I was only vaguely familiar with author...