It's unfortunately common that a film has a premise that sounds great, but the story lets it down. In the case of "Etern...

Seneca is the kind of film that seems almost designed to slip through the cracks on first release, only to be rediscovere...

Jackie Chan's Dragon Lord (1982) sits at a crucial turning point in his career; it is the moment where the lessons of...

As I've done each year since 2015, I'm publishing a list of my top 10 films of the year. To qualify for inclusion in the ...

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) is less a continuation than a collision. Arriving seven years after The ...

I wasn't sure whether the sequel to "Five Nights at Freddy's" would work out. I needn't have worried. Th...

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Cover Girl (1944) often gets remembered as a glossy Rita Hayworth vehicle, but its real historical weight lies in what it...

The Mummy Returns (2001) is bigger, louder and more self-conscious than its predecessor, which is both its chief strength...

Stephen Sommers' The Mummy from 1999 may be sold as a rollicking adventure, but its enduring charm comes from the slo...

Pearl Harbor (2001) frames Japan's attack on Hawaii with a melodramatic love triangle that drives much of the film...

Wheels on Meals is often remembered as a buoyant slice of mid 1980's Hong Kong action comedy, but what gives the film its la...

Disney Wednesday #29 Red One is a glossy, overpowered Christmas blockbuster that feels less like a festive tale and more l...

Disney Wednesday #28 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) is both a confident escalation of the original film and a cl...

Disney Wednesday #27 I've promised my grandson Oliver that I'll watch a film with him every day in his school holid...

Typhoon Club, directed by Shinji Somai, is a quietly devastating portrait of adolescence trapped in the storm of societal ...

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River (2023) , directed by Junta Yamaguchi and written by Makoto Ueda, is a time-loop drama set almost entirely inside and...

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Once Upon a Time in China III (1993) , directed by Tsui Hark, continues the semi-mythical biography of Wong Fei-hung while...