Category: Movies

They don’t make movie stars like they used to, but they only made a star like Gene Hackman once. Born in 1930, Hackman served as […]

The Oscars aren’t everything. Sometimes the films that win truly represent the best films of their years; sometimes they reflect a trend or a spirit […]

Body Horror is one of those subgenres that can be difficult to define, although it is sometimes confused with something gory. There has to be […]

During his presidential campaign, the new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., promised to suspend infectious disease research for eight years […]

Love is hard, but movies? Movies are easy (well, at least watching them). The trials and tribulations of modern dating and romance are bound to […]

Movies can have singing dialogue, sure, and some great movies don’t rely on pretty images, but for the most part, film is inherently a visual […]

It’s become fashionable to hate on Valentine’s Day, and I get it – commercialization; unreasonable expectations; the soft commercialization of a deeply human experience. But […]

The final months of 2024 saw the release of two major cinematic works, each focusing on design and architecture. Even though the films are very […]

Look, there’s a lot going on right now, and it can be nice to enjoy something frivolous like the Academy Awards. But watching movies is […]

Governments lie. They are deceiving. They steal. Sometimes the blame comes from within: corrupt people who have tricked their way into the corridors of power […]

The people in them may be beautiful, sure, but modern cinematic sex scenes are often completely sterile. Even in the conservative 1980s, mainstream films happily […]

For many of us, New Year’s Eve represents not only the culmination of a long holiday season, but also a time to both reflect and […]

We’ve watched many news cycles about the death of movie theaters, although the height of COVID certainly seemed like a tipping point. Since then, however, […]

Music documentaries are having a moment. In the last month, talking heads (as opposed to Talking Heads) have been philosophizing about the power of “yacht […]

There is comfortable viewing, and there are films in which the characters are comfortable. It’s not always the same thing. Some of these films make […]

Even though Mariah Carey is slowly defrosting, there’s another sure sign that the holidays are coming: The slow trickle of cute and cozy movies debuting […]

Next Tuesday is Election Day and, if things go as expected, the start of Election Month. On both sides of the political divide, the rhetoric […]

You may have heard that it’s an election year. While the news of the day focuses on the candidates vying for the most important job […]

I haven’t seen Joker: Folie à Deux yet (and probably never will), so I won’t attempt to write a review for it, but it’s clear […]

I’ve spent several years here at Lifehacker compiling or editing lists of all the movies coming to the major streaming services each month, and as […]

Sometimes just an idea can haunt your dreams. Of course, there are films that I’ve never even seen that have deeply disturbed me simply because […]

It’s not your imagination: From Dune to Batman to Killers of the Flower Moon to Oppenheimer, the biggest blockbuster films are indeed getting longer . […]

Casual moviegoers might assume that almost everything is available on streaming these days, or at least easily found on DVD or Blu-ray. Unfortunately, this is […]

The fact that the film is misinterpreted cannot always be explained to audiences: director François Truffaut famously suggested that it was almost impossible to make […]

Raise your glass, America. Today is the fourth of July. Independence Day. Your special day. Why not celebrate the occasion with an incredible, ultra-violent spectacle […]

I’ve always been perfectly content watching movies alone. Watching a movie with an audience is great if it’s an action or comedy, but there are […]

To quote “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho, “…once you get past the 1-inch subtitle barrier, you’ll be introduced to many more amazing films.” Luckily, the […]

The year is only just beginning, but the shape of the year’s film landscape is already obvious. Comic book movies are on hold, opening up […]

A wise man once said, “I love it when a plan comes to fruition.” Of course, I do too, especially when I watch a movie. […]

Father’s Day is approaching again, which means you’re probably seeing ads for all types of gifts dad might like: silly golf balls; knives that open […]

Ever since Jaws made people afraid to get back in the water in 1975, summer has been considered the best season for movies, at least […]

The trend in movie viewing times seems to be towards longer durations, and even if the data doesn’t really support it , recent super-long installments […]

Remember live-streaming movies? Just like American Psycho 2: All American Girl (with Mila Kunis and Williams Shatner), Dollman vs. Demon Toys, Bratz: Stars and Style, […]

In this age of digital entertainment, streaming services have given us easy access to thousands of films from the last century. I will never have […]

British impresario Malcolm McLaren’s tombstone reads: “Better a spectacular failure than an innocuous success.” This happens in life and sometimes in movies . Many films […]

Movie marketing logic suggests that we need to know everything about a movie before spending money on a movie ticket, but that doesn’t mean it’s […]

Same-sex marriage was legalized in Massachusetts nearly two decades ago and in the US back in 2015, but somehow queer films are still mostly a […]

There are as many paths to learning queer history as there are people who lived it, and many legends we’ve all but forgotten that would […]

Just as turning on the blues can be a balm for a troubled soul, immersing yourself in a deeply sad film can give you a […]

There were two Roger Cormans, although they were ultimately inseparable: there was a B-movie master who produced (literally) hundreds of low- and no-budget films: Carnosaur […]