Mystery still matters. Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day feels less like a new movie and more like running into an old friend you haven't seen in years—and then realizing halfway through the conversation how much you've missed them. ...

There was always something a little frustrating about 1998’s Practical Magic. The ingredients were all there: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, witchcraft, romance, murder, Stevie Nicks,  ...

There’s a particularly nasty question lurking beneath every frame of Elegance Bratton’s By Any Means: What happens when the people responsible for enforcing the law decide the only way to achieve justice is to break the damn thing? ...

There are movies that look good in 4K, movies that look great in 4K, and then there is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse / Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, a pair of animated lunatic masterpieces seemingly designed to crawl ...

There are movie trilogies, and then there are three-film stretches that permanently fuck with the DNA of cinema. Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy belongs firmly in the latter camp. Watching A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars ...

Thirty years later and the Martians are back, baby. ACK! ACK! ACK! Watching Mars Attacks! again in 2026—now that Warner Bros. has finally dragged Tim Burton's beautifully deranged bastard onto 4K—I'm  ...

There comes a point in every mad scientist's career when somebody really needs to grab him by the shoulders and say, "Maybe don't touch the glowing meteorite." Unfortunately for Dr. Janos Rukh, nobody gets ...

There are hotels where you worry about bedbugs. There are hotels where you worry about whether somebody wiped down the remote. And then there is the godforsaken Irish inn in Damian McCarthy’s Hokum, where the ...