Bad Boys for Life (2020)
Bad Boys 3 has been in the works for over ten years, with the script phase beginning in 2009. Columbia Pictures assigned Peter Craig, co-writer of Ben Affleck’s The Town, for the first pass,...
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Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020)
Birds of Prey is directed by former Wall Street Journal reporter Cathy Yan, who follows up her acclaimed indie film, Dead Pigs. The film is a spin-off from the commercially successful but critically maligned...
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Peter Sellers, who played the bumbling yet highly effective Inspector Clouseau, died on July 24, 1980, and to whom Trail of the Pink Panther, which was released 2.5 years after his death, would be dedicated....
The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
Jim Jarmusch has taken on horror before to success with his 2013 vampire flick, Only Lovers Left Alive. This one takes his usual lightheartedly droll approach to cinema, building on the quirky, bluesy, lackadaisical vibe...
Trancers (1984/1985)
B-movie maestro Charles Band directs this low-budget sci-fi blending of Blade Runner, The Terminator, James Bond flicks, the John D. MacDonald novel “The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything” (which had been adapted into...
RoboCop (1987)
A fantastic science fiction film, subversively posing as a cheesy b-movie, RoboCop is one of the smartest, funniest, and gutsiest movies of its era. Filled to the brim with cheeky social commentary, this is one...
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Frances McDormand (The Good Dinosaur, Transformers: Dark of the Moon) plays Mildred Hayes, a financially strapped grieving mother who decides to rent, after selling her ex-husband’s tractor, the use of the titular three mostly dormant...
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
An admirable and inspired attempt to further continue the story as presented in the highly influential 1982 classic, Blade Runner, sees modern visionary Denis Villenueve (Arrival, Enemy) supplant Ridley Scott (who executive produces) as director, further...
Detroit (2017)
Director Kathryn Bigelow, collaborating with favorite screenwriter Mark Boal (who penned her The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, takes on the challenge of crafting a drama based on the true events of one particular tragedy that occurred...
War on Everyone (2016)
Back in the late 1990s, there were quite a number of Tarantino knockoffs to come out — hard-boiled and very violent thrillers that featured lots of quirky characters and attempts at amusing, anecdotal conversations...