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Whiplash has been earning raves ever since it debuted at Sundance 2014, where it won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. All these months later,...

  Domhnall Gleeson plays Jon, a naive would-be songwriter who rather abruptly – and randomly – is asked to join an avant garde band called...

Back during my Marvel Comics-reading days, when I was what you’d now call a “tween”, I’d catch fleeting references to the Guardians of...

  This sequel to the, uh, prequel (to what, exactly?) Rise of the Planet of the Apes – and in retrospect, they should have named the previous film...

I wish this movie had a better name. Its working title, All You Need Is Kill – like the Japanese novel on which it’s based – is no better, but Edge of...

After seeing the difficulties his countrymen had with their own English language debuts – Kim Jee-woon’s reviled Schwarzenegger vehicle The Last...

I’m late to the table – culinary joke! – to this sleeper hit, but after Chef received enough recommendations from trustworthy friends, I caved...

It sounded so promising: a reverent remake of Godzilla with top-notch actors, an indie director with rich potential, and a serious take on the story. Why, then,...

The latest installment in the X-Men movie franchise is loosely based on the January 1981 X-Men comic book of the same title, which takes place in a dystopian...

Cult indie director Jim Jarmusch takes on the vampire genre. On the surface, this seems like a no-brainer: the spooky Jarmusch could almost pass for a vampire...

I’m not sure whether to describe this film as “The Matrix by way of Toy Story” or as “Toy Story by way of The Matrix“. Either...