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Fantastic Four is the comic book that gave birth to Marvel Comics, making it the older sibling to such better-known titles as Spider-Man, X-Men, and The Incredible Hulk. The reason Fantastic Four has been relegated to the role of "ugly stepsister"...

With some "mockumentaries" (or "meta-documentaries", "pseudo-documentaries", or whatever else you want to call them), it's best not to know beforehand that they're fakes. The opposite is true of Forgotten Silver, an inventive and wily project ma...

The Frighteners isn't a bad film, but it is a disappointment. Following director Peter Jackson's powerful, true-life matricide tale, Heavenly Creatures, The Frighteners falls short of expectations by being just one of many in the long line of 19...

There be Spoilers! here.Over the space of a decade beginning with Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Apocalypse Now, no fewer than five influential directors made films about the Vietnam War. Four of those were clustered during the late 1980s: Oliv...

I confess a degree of bafflement about why Hollywood apparently considers it necessary to employ the dumbest possible screenplays for movies like this. On one level, the only significant differences between G.I. Joe: Retaliation and Transformers ar...

Every actor or actress has his or her pet project - something they put their whole heart and soul into getting on the screen. For some, especially those who flirt only briefly (or not at all) with the spotlight of public adulation, this can be...

Another Netflix would-be blockbuster, another disappointment. According to reports, The Gray Man cost the streaming company close to $200M, which puts it alongside Red Notice as having an MCU-sized budget. Unlike most MCU films, however, The Gray ...

With the arrival of this "adaptation" of Gulliver's Travels, author Jonathan Swift must be spinning in his grave fast enough to make a top dizzy. If Swift was alive, no doubt he'd demand that his name be removed from the credits. Little of his sati...