Chris Nashaway is a writer, editor, film critic, and the author of Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story and The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982 (Flatiron, out in July).
Motorheads, rejoice: George Miller and Anya Taylor-Joy deliver a worthy follow-up to Fury Road . By the time it ends, though, the tank feels empty.
Where does Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes stack up in the simian film series?
I suspect that when Spielberg apologized for the film, it was because the movie represented something that he wasn’t quite comfortable with. Not yet, at least.
From the 1954 monster classic to the big brawls of the '60s and '70s, we ran down the greatest era of the beloved franchise.
The state of the American man doesn't look good on film, but there was a glimmer of hope at the Dolby Theater on Sunday night in Los Angeles.
From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Star Wars , it’s a medium where anything goes and nothing is off limits. Now, with the release of Dune: Part Two , the canon of classic sci-fi films has a new member.
Even better than the first film, the stakes are exponentially higher, the power struggles even more mythic, the on-screen world-building richer and more exotically filigreed, and the visuals even more dazzling. I didn’t think this was possible.
The provocative and perfectionist director only has one real miss in his filmography?which makes evaluating it a painstaking task.
Is the 52-year-old a bona fide A-list movie star or a very successful character actor? With the debut of Oppenheimer , let's run down his best roles to find out.
With the release of Mission: Impossible?Dead Reckoning Part One , we look back at a franchise so reliably good, it might have surpassed the greatness of Bond.
A buzzy psychological thriller, a guaranteed Pixar classic, and (gasp!) an Adam Sandler flick?all right here.
The Peter Jackson epic is brimming with of some of the nattiest, grooviest, most sartorially fly ensembles you’ll likely ever lay your eyes on.
This list?from Astaire & Rogers to Cartman & Kenny?will make even the crankiest song-and-dance skeptic want to twirl around a street lamp, tap dance in a puddle, and go singin’ in the rain.
Yes, it’s that good.
On the eve of Daniel Craig's final 007 outing, see how the canon stacks up.
Sometimes, even the world was not enough for the megalomaniacal rogues who routinely put 007 through his paces.
Height and hair color be damned, Craig was a throwback to Fleming and Connery’s conception of 007. He was cold and brutal, but beneath all the physical and psychological scar tissue, there was a soul…albeit a haunted one.
They’re getting too big for the baby stuff, but are they really ready for the thrills of a true horror classic?
Initially written off as 'Die Hard on a bus,' this Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock white-knuckle action thriller became an instant hit and turned them both into superstars.
He was, in a sense, the last great angry man. Or, at least, the last funny version of the species.
It's not the best movie of all time. It's not even the best Coen brothers film. But this pre-title card sequence is a masterpiece.
Mank, a movie about Tinseltown's Golden Era, has the most nominations this year, but it’s not the best film in the race. Is the Academy self aware enough to realize it?
Twenty five years later, this Chris Farley and David Spade cult classic is a perfect example of the timeless allure of the big, dumb, critic-proof buddy comedy.
The Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone film set off a short-lived erotic thriller boom in Hollywood?but the story is marked with controversy and betrayal.
How this big-budget Ancient Rome sextravaganza starring Helen Mirren, Malcolm McDowell, and Peter O'Toole became a movie so bad that Roger Ebert walked out of his screening.
30 years after its release, the Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins masterpiece still fascinates us. But the movie almost never even got made.
The acclaimed actor has defined his late-stage career as a gruff brawler, but his greatest of these is 2012's The Grey.
The 1977 film documents a time before gym culture, when Schwarzenegger was just little-known body builder with a sexual desire for 'The Pump.'
An underrated gritty return to form, the film includes the best seven minutes on his resume that don’t involve Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and a diner booth.
It may be lacking in the greatness of the other two films, but by any other reasonable metric, it's pretty damn good.
35 years ago, Sylvester Stallone entered the Cold War with a ham-fisted sequel that has one of the greatest boxing scenes in history.
By far the best of Brosnan's 007 run, his first outing has all the hallmarks of his greatness dragged down by an otherwise disappointing movie.