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When I was about 10 years old I was gifted the book Special Effects in the Movies by John Cuhane. Long before the days of DVD extras, this book showed how the most seemingly complicated visual effects were...

The 2022 Oscar nominees were announced this morning, with Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” receiving 12 nods, the most of any film. Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” received ten nominations, while Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast” and Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” were...

In “Catch the Fair One,” Native boxing champ Kali Reis delivers a powerhouse performance just as hard-hitting as you’d expect from a career athlete whose nickname is K.O., as in knockout.  At the center of Josef...

A sense of nostalgia will likely be up for grabs when the 2022 Oscar nominations are revealed tomorrow. Most of the notable directors behind the likely 10 Best Picture picks are all at the top of...

“If you are going to spend your time doing the best you can doing shit, then why do it? If you are going to spend your time giving to future generations some of the benefits of...

Roland Emmerich destroys the world again with “Moonfall,” but this time his heart just isn’t in it. The German nihilist blockbuster filmmaker, who has rarely met a conspiracy theory he didn’t like, has become the “master...

One of the best movies of last year, Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World” charts the tumultuous early adulthood of Julie (Renate Reinsve), a young woman searching desperately for any sense that her life...

Almost exactly a month ago, Apple became the first corporation in history to reach a market cap of $3 trillion. While I’m sure this was a reason for the 45-year-old company to celebrate, it doesn’t seem...

The biggest compliment one can give the new Amazon series “Reacher” is that Alan Ritchson owns the role now, despite it previously belonging to Tom Cruise. Cruise may not have been the right physical size for...

Yes, really: four stars for “Jackass Forever,” a film in which people get fired from cannons and almost incinerated atop toilets and blasted to smithereens in Port-a-Potties, and menaced by bears and snakes, and stung by scorpions...