I've been growing rather tired of the superhero genre over the past few years. It's not that I don't like them but I'm just getting tired of the same stories over and over with different characters thrown in. Sure there are some bright spo...

While the two-man story is almost commonplace on the stage, it's rare to see something similar come to the big screen. It's not all that shocking as there's a lot more to work with in the medium of film and therefore the more subdued story...

Ever since the completion of Breaking Bad, there's been a persistent rumor that a follow-up movie was in the works. I'm a purist, I don't see the need to return to a well once it has been perfectly tapped. After a nearly perfect run of five...

I believe I would be hard pressed to find someone who disagrees with me that John Rambo is a character of a certain time. What started as a great look at the horrors that lingered in soldiers returning from Vietnam quickly turned into a mac...

After two successful standalone films and a few supporting roles in the crossover films, Spider-Man is officially out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Citing a source, Deadline has reported that talks have broken down between Sony and Marv...

A24 has been hitting it out of the park in recent years. Where as smaller distribution companies are either being bought out or facing bankruptcy. The still young A24 has been putting out award winners and crowd pleasers. While The Kill Te...

Disney which has made it abundantly clear that it is not afraid to gobble up competitors in the entertainment industry might have taken a bite of something rotten when they picked up 20th Century Fox earlier this year. In their first quarte...

After Taika Waititi took the Thor series of movies from Thor: The Dark World, quite literally the worst movie in the MCU to one of the most fun and meaningful entries with Ragnarok, it could be safely assumed that he was going to be coming ...

I love alternate universe stories in comics, and outside of comics as well. It's so metaphysical and I love the idea that one small thing being different can have such large ripple effects on our or a characters reality. So tonight when Mar...

Now this is more like it. At the Marvel San Diego Comic-Con panel, it was announced that one of the next Marvel movies featuring characters who were already introduced is going to be a Doctor Strange centric one. It's not surprising conside...

We already knew about the planned show featuring Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes coming to Disney+ in the future. Now, thanks to Kevin Feige at the Marvel San Diego Comic-Con panel, we have a release window as well as a nice surprise. Coming in...

Pop-up bars are so blasé at this point. They have truly lived up to their name as they seemingly pop up all the time in the major cities of the world, mostly to latch onto whatever the current cultural zeitgeist is and pull some extr...

There are times where I really hate how many good movies are given updated rereleases in the United Kingdom. I had to watch from the sidelines as an updated release of 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in the UK and over here in the states...

It's an odd time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For the first time in what seems like years, there isn't a multitude of films lined up for the foreseeable future, at least not known to us. With the big Thanos story that the films had bee...

I'll be the first to admit that I haven't been a fan of anything that has come out of the DCEU since Man of Steel. Truth be told, the only movies I've been looking forward to from DC have been ones that are tangentially related to their abo...

You can't say that Pokemon Detective Pikachu didn't try. Despite pulling in the best opening weekend for any movie based on a video game ever, Pokemon Detective Pikachu still fell short of Marvel's Avengers: Endgame and failed to take the t...

I'll be honest, I have no faith when it comes to adaptations and spin-offs of established media. So walking into Pokemon Detective Pikachu for review, I was ready for cliches, tropes, and lazy slapdash world building. I can't believe how mu...

Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law may be the best show that Adult Swim has ever put out. It was witty, sharp, and ruined every memory I had of Hannah-Barbera cartoons from my youth. It was nearly perfect. While the one-off special from late l...

There's been a void of information about the upcoming HBO "adaptation" of the seminal comic Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. While showrunner Damon Lindelof (LOST) has been pretty upfront about it not being a direct adaptation, he's...

Fans of the Harry Potter spin-off series Fantastic Beasts will have to wait a while for the third of five planned films as Warner Bros. today has announced that the third film will release on November 21, 2021. Warner Bros. President Ron Sa...

I'm not a horror fan by any stretch of the imagination, at least not in the modern era. I feel that the genre has lost any sense of enjoyment by replacing steady tension building with jump scares and cliched villains. I yearn for the more p...

It seems that with his recent death, Charles Manson has come back into vogue among purveyors of the horrific aspects of the human psyche. I for one never got the fascination as he was nothing more than a psychopathic racist who used drugs a...

For the past few years, we've all had our speculative science fiction itch scratched by the return and resurgence of Black Mirror and all of the shows it inspired. But despite having a new show with updated visuals and storytelling techniqu...

Chucky has been around for what seems like forever, I remember many a night as a wee child having trouble sleeping because I couldn't stop thinking that Chucky had conspired with my toys to kill me in my sleep. Ever since the original 1988 ...

Today we got a double whammy of looks at the upcoming adaptation of everyone's favorite childhood horror book Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The first bit was the poster that came out and I gotta say they really undersold this one. Ins...

Just last night I was saying to my significant other that it seemed like the Coen brothers had moved into a new phase of their career. We had just concluded watching Hail, Caesar! and a few weeks prior I had rewatched The Ballad of Buster S...

Well well well, look who finally came around to their senses? Going off of a report from Deadline that was confirmed by someone in the Marvel camp, James Gunn is returning to write and direct Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3. Gunn was taken o...

We're nary a month and some change away from the final chapter of Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and in case you lived under a rock for the past year, Marvel wants to make sure you know Endgame is coming with a new trailer. O...

Surprising absolutely no one, Captain Marvel lead the box office in its opening weekend coming in at a strong 153 million dollar take. Whether it be the absolute need for a new Marvel movie after the ending to Infinity War or the strategic ...

Welcome one and all to Flixist's new end of the year awards program, the Golden Cages! With Hollywood becoming increasingly out of touch with what the people like, we at Flixist have taken it upon ourselves to deliver the fair, bala...

Welcome one and all to Flixist's new end of the year awards program, the Golden Cages! With Hollywood becoming increasingly out of touch with what the people like, we at Flixist have taken it upon ourselves to deliver the fair, balance...

Longtime readers of this site will know I've had issues with the biopic genre for a while. I'm a stickler for establishing a theme and feel and following them through the entire movie. The biopic genre a lot of the time seems to forget this...

I'm one that tends to try and go into a movie as blind as possible, most movies have become so predictable at this point that I want any nuance or twists to come to me in the theater when I'm witnessing it for the first time. That being sa...

While myself and fellow Flixist staff member Matthew Razak couldn't understand all the praise lavished on Baby Driver, it's hard to deny that writer-director Edgar Wright is a fantastic filmmaker. His work on the Cornetto Trilogy was a mast...

We all had a metal phase, don't try to deny it. While most of my friends were into thrash and death metal, my late teenage rebellious years drove me towards black metal, more specifically symphonic black metal. Something about the classica...

International movies have the unique ability to share with us stories that we may not know about in easily consumable bites. It's not that every single movie ever released has to tell the story of a nation or peoples past, God knows we don'...

Robert Zemeckis is a storied director with a wonderful reputation for enjoyable and uplifting movies that also contain in them a deeper more personal tale of overcoming adversity. Forest Gump is one of my favorite movies because of its fant...

The post-apocalyptic novel and video game Metro 2033 had an adaptation planned for next year, but now it's dead like all of us in that world. Dmitry Glukhovsky, the original author of the novel series who leased the rights to MGM in 2016 t...

It's Thanksgiving, time for board games, booze, American football, and gluttony. While everyone in America is sitting on the couch processing their gigantic meal, the first trailer for Disney's CGI remake of The Lion King dropped during t...

I've always loved the road trip genre of film, it's such a nice metaphor for character growth and there are usually some very scenic second unit shots that fulfill my wanderlust. There is comfort in these films as they usually all follow th...