Robert Downey Jr. is back, but not as you know him – no matter where you know him from. Today, HBO released a trailer for The Sympathizer, a new spy thriller miniseries from Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar. Based on the novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer follows the Captain, a communist ...
Read MoreAfter that fun, zippy trailer, Argylle is a massive disappointment, a movie that doesn’t know what it wants to say or how it wants to say it. The leads – two actors I generally like – are painfully miscast, the tone is all over the place, and the only good parts are the fantasy sequences. The...
Read MoreEven giants sometimes need a second chance. Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi spy film Tenet will be re-released in IMAX theaters for one week starting February 23, 2024. The engagement is being designed as a lead-in to Dune: Part Two, which arrives in theaters on March 1; as such, screenings of Tenet w...
Read MoreThe prequel to one of Amazon Prime’s big hits has a title. Almost a year ago, it was reported that The Terminal List, the adaptation of Jack Carr’s novel starring Chris Pratt as Navy SEAL James Reece, would eschew a second season in lieu of a prequel series following a supporting character, Tayl...
Read MoreThe Mission: Impossible film series is taking the first step in a new direction. On January 25, 2024, the latest installment in the franchise, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, will begin streaming on Paramount+, but it will have a slightly different title. According to Variety, the ...
Read MoreLast year, I wrote about what I called Christmas-adjacent movies, five films that took place at Christmas but didn’t quite qualify as full-fledged Christmas Movies. As it happens, there are quite a few films like this, many of which are great. So, here are another five flicks, in chronological ord...
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