Watching Todd Haynes' Wonderstruck is like watching a juggler who can't quite find the right rhythm. Parallel narratives unfold 50 years apart (one in 1977 and one in 1927), but it takes 20 minutes before the cross-cutting finds a prop...
Because Netflix is the UN of media creators and publishers (i.e. masters of diplomacy, not subtle and not so subtle jabs), they've revealed The Punisher's release date, and it just so happens to be the same day Justice League ...
Now that production has wrapped, director Ron Howard took to Twitter today to spill the beans on the title of the Han Solo Star Wars spin-off. And wait for it, it's a doozy: Solo.
By the success of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the looks of Thor: Ragnarok, and this latest trailer for Black Panther, it seems Marvel is learning from their past mistakes and allowing their directors a bit more wiggle room within their...
The second annual Brooklyn Horror Film Festival ended last night. I wasn't able to check out nearly as many films as I'd hoped to. For instance, I unfortunately missed the opening night film, Housewife by director Can Evrenol. By all accoun...
In honor of both Friday the 13th and Stranger Things' second season Halloween premiere, Netflix has released the final trailer for season two. It admittedly doesn't have the same pop as the Thriller backed first trailer, but this is our be...
It’s been a while since we’ve seen Jackie Chan in US cinemas, especially as a lead, and I for one, am happy to have him back. Think on it for a moment: Jackie Chan is still one the world’s biggest stars (currently ra...
After that all too brief "going to the mall" scene in X-Men: Apocalypse, I've wanted an X-Men film where cool, super-powered teens hang out and do things. But since I don't make the big decisions, and The New Mutants is based on a comic bo...
All happy families are the same; each unhappy family is only sort of the same, and will eventually wind up in their own movie or book. Take the Meyerowitzes in Noah Baumbach's latest movie. This sophisticated clan of New Yorkers reminded of...
Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird reminded me of my own experiences growing up. When a coming-of-age movie works, I'm bound to say that, and Lady Bird is one that works so well. Or, as they say in Northern California, hella good. Given, Lady Bi...
The second annual Brooklyn Horror Film Festival gets underway tonight at the Brooklyn Alamo Drafthouse. The opening night film is Can Evernol's Housewife, which looks like Clive Barker by way of Dario Argento. More than 45 feature films and...
You know who Sony Pictures is. You know the kinds of movies they create. Jack and Jill, Fantastic Four, Pixels, Ghostbusters (2016), The Emoji Movie. This studio has generated some of the worst pieces of film I've ever seen. Now, they'...
If you have a movie franchise these days, even if it isn't that successful, you evidently have to make it a cinematic universe. It's just a rule now. Studios want money and the way to make money these days is assumed to be a cinematic unive...
I'd been pretty excited about Gigantic since Disney announced it on their release slate. It would have been the next in the currently sterling line of Disney animated features, and had the age-old Disney trick of adapting a fairy tale ...
It's finally arrived. The first trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi just premiered during Monday Night Football on ESPN. This is the first look we've gotten at The Last Jedi since the teaser debuted back in April....
I was all aboard for the reboot of X-Files when it landed, and then I watched it and remembered why the show had stopped. It's not that it got bad, but it just didn't have anywhere else to go, and it still didn't. It had jumped the sh...
At New York Comic Con this weekend Warner Bros. announced that they were moving forward with plans to release a remastered version of their classic animated series Batman: The Animated Series on Blu-ray in 2018. Not many details are known b...
Usually I try to leave these things open for debate for at least a sentence or two before giving my opinion, but there's clearly a right answer here. While Blade Runner 2049 is probably the best result to come out of a needless se...
The Mountain Between Us promises a lot from the outset. It promises to be a story of survival, one where your life depends on the support of a stranger. It also intends to sweep the audience off their feet with a grand love story, a bond fo...
It took a long while, but after the unique and funny pilot for The Tick that Amazon studies made they first season came... and then quickly went because it was only half a season. While the first set of episodes had a definitive story...
We are nary a month away from the release of Justice League and WB has released yet another trailer. This time featuring more of Lois Lane and setting up a bit more of the story. It might venture a bit too far into spoiler territory so if y...
Representing Flixist, this lonely writer made his first pilgrimage to the holly mecca of nerddom that is the New York Comic Con. I'd done my research. I'd read the guide, and reached out to those I knew who'd bravely gone before me. Their w...
Spawn creator and co-Image Comics founder, Todd McFarlane, stopped by New York Comic Con to dish about his latest Spawn film, his time at marvel, and his unusual musical preferences while he writes.
Archer is getting a new look in his ninth season, moving to a new location with character shifts and a new story. Flixist was on-hand with Amber Nash (Pam), Lucky Yates (Krieger), Davis Willis (Barry), and Aisha Tyler (Lana Kane). Debuting ...
Marvel has been trying to adapt their Runaways comic series for quite some time now (since 2008, if I'm not mistaken). But thanks to newer platforms like Hulu, they finally get their chance. I'm not the most knowledgeable fan of the comic,...
June 28, Hasbro has just released the trailer for My Little Pony: The Movie. I’m mildly impressed. It’s fun. Zany. Action-packed. It has great animation and it appears to have references designed for people over the age of ...
Pacific Rim has a pretty strong following of people who loved it. I found it to be a flawed spectacle that left me wishing for a sequel so that they could make a better movie. And now we have that sequel. After its appearanc...
Denis Villeneuve has done the impossible. He has pulled off a feat that most directors won't even take a stab at. He has delivered unto us something we haven't seen for years. With this act Villeneuve has firmly established himself as one o...
Netflix is looking to enter the riot business. The company announced that its most popular plan, currently $9.99, will now cost $10.99 / mo. The premium plan which allows simultaneously play on four screens (locations) will jump from $11.99...
Last week, Pacific Rim: Uprising surprised us with some pretty cool posters. Today, in an exclusive with Entertainment Weekly, we are treated to the first official images from the upcoming film. When Guillermo del Toro left production...
Rick and Morty is a dense series. Not because of its content per se, but because of the discussions it brings to the table. Its a series constantly at odds with its predilection for toilet humor and the overbearing cynicism of its deli...
Marvel and Netflix have decided to cancel a panel on their upcoming Punisher series at this weekend's New York Comic-Con following Sunday night's massacre in Las Vegas, which left more than 50 dead and hundreds of others injured. It's a dec...
Bob's Burgers is one of those shows I never expected to love as much as I do now. It started a bit slowly, but once it really steered into its grounded absurdity (an oxymoronic nature Bob's Burgers balances so well) it took off and some of ...
Netflix has been on a bit of a roll releasing genre subverting films. Just last month they released the comedy Little Evil, that turned out to be more of a twist on the "evil child" trope than a straight up parody. Now we've got McG's new ...
You may not know this, but Chucky, the red headed doll inhabited by a serial killer's soul thanks to some magic, had a bit of a comeback a few years ago with the straight to video release of Curse of Chucky. Believe it or not, after a ...
I guess I’ve only got myself to blame. See, because I am an exceptionally cool and popular person (and also because I don’t have any TV that isn’t streaming), I didn’t catch the premiere of Marvel’s The Inhum...
The Sonic the Hedgehog movie is moving studios. Deadpool director Tim Miller was going to produce with his pal Jeff Fowler directing and Sony had the rights to make it, but they put the proj...
Zama is a novelistic film, but not because it's an adaptation of a 1956 Argentinian novel by Antonio di Benedetto. Watching Zama creates a feeling that's similar to reading. The shots are so carefully composed, the sound design so meti...
If you've read any of my posts for Flixist, you know that I approach most sequels not with trepidation, but with outright skepticism. This is because rather than being an earnest or needed continuation to a great story, they're cash grabs. ...
Time was if you shoved Tom Cruise into a movie and emblazoned all the marketing with his name bigger than the name of the movie you'd pretty much have a guaranteed number one opening weekend, and most likely a box office hit. That time has ...
