“Jurassic World Dominion” marks the conclusion of the second “Jurassic” trilogy, and I got a chance to chat with director Colin Trevorrow about what’s coming. In the film, the dinosaurs are off Isla Nublar and are integrating with human society. Some of them are friendly(ish). Some of them are running in herds. And some of […]

Disney didn’t become a pop culture juggernaut by accident, folks. As general audiences can attest, the studio’s ability to produce some of the most consistently reliable franchises and turn them into brand names all to themselves practically speaks for itself. From Marvel to Pixar to “Star Wars” to Disney Animation, the conglomerate has built up […]

Asked to name the greatest horror movies of all time (and not just their personal favorites), the average moviegoer, or even the diehard genre fan, might pause to mull it over. Long-considered classics, like the old Universal creature features, require a lot of creepy justification to unseat them – but part of the fun is […]

You can take the Middle-earth out of the hobbits, but you can’t take the hobbits out of the Middle-earth, as the old adage goes. Does that sentence make any sense? Not really. Is it a thing I just made up as pretext to talk about Prime Video’s series “The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings […]

Gateway horror has waned in recent years. Several decades ago, it seemed that every network had at least one or two distinctly horror-themed shows aimed at young audiences. Currently, the vagaries of genre have shifted more toward fantasy and dystopia, though the advent of digital streaming has reignited interest in several classic pieces of ’90s horror […]

Zahn McClarnon should have starred in his own TV series a long time ago. The instinct to make him more of a main character was there toward the end of “Fargo” season 2, where he played the mercurial enforcer Hanzee, and since then, we’ve seen McClarnon costar or take on a recurring role in shows […]

That didn’t take very long. It hasn’t even been three years since we first learned that Lionsgate wanted to get back into the business of “The Hunger Games” alongside original author Suzanne Collins — a development that had absolutely nothing to do with studios around the industry desperately scrounging around for whatever blockbuster-ready IPs they happen […]

Television could do with being a little bit scarier. Though there are some great horror TV shows out there, like the Paramount+ series “Evil” or Mike Flanagan’s “Midnight Mass,” the small screen doesn’t always seem to make room for great horror as well or as often as the big screen does. Maybe tension is harder […]

Actors who play love interests don’t always get along. In an interview for V Magazine (via Us Weekly), Charlize Theron confessed she and Tobey Maguire had some tension on the set of the heartfelt coming-of-age drama “The Cider House Rules”:  “Tobey and I had a bit of a rough time, yeah. I mean, we’re good now. […]

Oliver Stone’s “Platoon” had a long road to the screen, and when it finally got made, it was only after a couple of false starts. Stone began writing about his experiences in the United States Army as soon as he came back from Vietnam in 1968, but his initial attempt at channeling them into a […]