“I wasn’t happy with Temple of Doom at all. It was too dark, too subterranean, and much too horrific. I thought it out-poltered Poltergeist. There’s not an ounce of my own personal feeling in Temple of Doom. The danger in making a sequel is that you can never satisfy everyone.” …

“For the first time in my life, I’m making an alien picture where there is no love and no attempt at communication.” – Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise. Those two names alone are monsters in the motion picture industry, and both have profoundly impacted cinema in general. The …

While Guy Ritchie will never attain the acclaim of his two earliest pictures, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000), it doesn’t seem like he’ll ever attain the lows of Swept Away (2002) and Revolver (2005). He has an up-and-down filmography full of hits and misses. Still, …

Creed III provides an opportunity for Michael B. Jordan to flex his muscles as a filmmaker, and that he does in his stylish and energetic directorial debut. Working with a screenplay by Ryan Coogler, Keenan Coogler, and Zach Baylin, Creed III is the third film in the Creed reboot series, …

“I always hated those titles like Batman Forever. That sounds like a tattoo that somebody would get when they’re on drugs or something. Or something some kid would write in the yearbook.” —Producer Tim Burton Batman Forever can be considered the first truly nineties Batman picture. It was released right …

Baseball is a great game. I lament its current decline in popularity. However, despite being hardly the best athlete, I enjoyed playing and watching baseball growing up. Certain genre movies I grew up loving and certain sports I grew up loving both happen to be baseball. Playing baseball is different …

It’s been remarkable to watch the emergence of Jordan Peele as a writer-director over the last six years, beginning with the smash hit Get Out (2017) which he won an Oscar for best original screenplay. This was followed by Us (2019), which explored many deep themes of systemic oppression, the …