Rushed into production to capitalize on the success of the first film, Wayne’s World 2 has a built-in audience, given its start as a skit on Saturday Night Live. While Wayne’s World 2 wasn’t as big a hit as the...
An exploration of grief and suicidal ideation through the lens of horror, The Woman in the Yard doesn’t cover much new ground and becomes tedious at times. The story is a bit thin and would have worked better as an...
Directed by Norman Jewison (Moonstruck, The Hurricane), In the Heat of the Night won five Oscars in 1967: Best Picture, Best Actor (Rod Steiger), Best Screenplay (Stirling Silliphant), Best Editing (Hal Ashby), and Best Sound. Nearly sixty years later, the...
In more than twenty years of making films, Sean Baker became a critical darling but made few waves with the moviegoing public. That changed with 2024’s Anora. While Anora only grossed $55 million worldwide, it represents more than five times...
On the heels of Dumb and Dumber, the Farrelly Brothers brought their unique mix of slapstick and toilet humor to the tale of another ‘loser’ with Kingpin. Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson) is a washed-up pro bowler, who lost his game...
After nearly thirty years making movies, John Wayne earned his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor in Sands of Iwo Jima. His role as Sgt. John M. Stryker doesn’t stray from the hard leader types that had made Wayne a...