Most Hollywood remakes completely miss the mark of the original. They remind audiences of Hollywood’s tendency to completely wring out every penny they can from anything that works. But once in a blue moon comes the exception to that rule. Those select few breathe new life into timeless classics and
Twilight is completely unsubtle, unevenly directed, is full of annoying characters and clunky, expository dialogue, and has a final third that is weak and nonsensical - and yet all of that is forgivable. It's forgivable because the film isn't really concerned about any of that. It makes clear early on that
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Starship Troopers, Paul Verhoeven's 1997 sci-fi satire of both militarism and fascism, was always supposed to be so ridiculous. If the concept of a group of galaxy trotting Space Marines battling overgrown cockroaches wasn’t enough to make you snicker, then the over-the-top, in your
For one reason or another, not every attempt at a film franchise is successful, but there is a story behind every failure. Writing under the name Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler's A Series of Unfortunate Events series is bleak from the start, where the three Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus and Sunny, are orphaned
By Fabian Broeker. The camera almost constantly zooms and dollies into and away from its subjects in Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer. In a film that grapples with the cyclical nature of family bloodlines and the death (or, rather paralysis) and rebirth of biological matter, it is no coincidence
