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Review: The Mule

Earl Stone, the 90-year-old horticulturalist and Korean war veteran that Clint Eastwood embodies in his latest film, The Mule, is such an...

Timing is everything. Take the twist in Extinction, which comes an hour after the film starts and which is meant to have viewers rethink...

In the grand scheme of the Marvel Universe, the character of Ant-Man has always served as a diversion, comic relief in the company of his...

There's something irresistibly ingratiating about Ava DuVernay's film adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's beloved 1962 classic, A Wrinkle...

A fun but not exactly great TV series that ran from 1977 - 1983, CHiPS, like most big-screen adaptations of shows from the '70s or '80s,...

Will Smith bikes a lot in Collateral Beauty. Sometimes he cries whilst biking. Mostly he's mad. It doesn't really matter for Collateral...

A ramshackle hybrid of The French Connection and Starsky and Hutch (the film, not the television series), War on Everyone marks John...

The Martian is director Ridley Scott's rendition of a workplace comedy. It might be odd to describe it as such, but not entirely...

Torturous, mean-spirited and deeply unfunny, there is no reason in the world that Vacation should have ever been made or allowed to see...

For better or worse, everything is connected in the Marvel Universe. The ties may at times be tenuous, but they are in place nonetheless....