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The Film: Keeping with the trend of anthropomorphizing animals in animation, a little flick called "GOAT" popped up earlier this year looking to capitalize on the popularity of such hits as the "Zootopia" and "The Bad Guys" films. You'd be forgiven for possibly not having heard of it, for it sort of came and went without making too much of a splash, receiving rather middling reviews from critics & audiences, and, despite what looks like a pretty impressive box office, coming

The Film: Director John Badham is another one of those directors whose name you might not recognize right off the top of your head, but whose work you are more thank likely familiar with, work that includes such classics as "Saturday Night Fever," "Dracula (1979)," "WarGames," and "Short Circuit." One of his projects that you don't hear a lot of talk about nowadays is his 1983 actioner "Blue Thunder," which involved a little bit of intrigue and a whole lot of helicopters flyi

The Show: Ever since its publication in 1986, "IT" has been one of Stephen King's single most popular works, spawning not only a beloved miniseries adaptation in 1990, but also a much more recent two-part rendition from director Andy Muschietti in 2017 and 2019. The latter of the two attempts had somewhat mixed results, with Chapter One giving us a fantastic adaptation of the story that focused on the main characters as kids, while Chapter Two gave us a rather bland, over-lon

The Film: Emily Bronte's 1847 classic "Wuthering Heights" has been adapted dozens of times for film, TV, and the stage, with the most famous iteration being William Wyler's 1939 version starring Sir Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon, which received an impressive eight Oscar nominations (winning just one for Cinematography). Considered one of the greatest novels of all time, it has indeed inspired many to try to bring it to life in one form or another, but in doing so, one has

The Show: When writer Brad Ingelsby last graced our television screens back in 2021, he brought us the remarkably compelling miniseries "Mare of Easttown," a fascinating murder mystery that garnered him a WGA Award and an Emmy nomination (which he most definitely should have won). The show was an amazing success and resulted in an extended deal with HBO, which leads us to his next television effort known as "Task," another series that takes us to a small & remote town where t

The Film: Writer Bryan Fuller has made quite an impressive career for himself working on such beloved & critically-acclaimed shows as "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," "Star Trek: Voyager," Pushing Daisies," "Heroes," and "Hannibal," with some of these projects earning him prestigious nominations from the Television Academy & The Writers Guild of America. Now, after nearly 30 years of working in television, he has decided to make the leap to movies with "Dust Bunny," a film he no

The Film: Throughout his remarkable career, director Joe Dante has given us many films that have gone on to be considered classics, including "Gremlins," "Gremlins 2: The New Batch," "The Howling," and "The 'Burbs." However, another one of these classics that perhaps doesn't get mentioned as much as his other work is a little sci-fi adventure called "Innerspace," which has had a mixed reception from critics over the years, but which found great success with audiences when it

The Film: Last year, screenwriter Alex Garland and director Danny Boyle made a bold attempt to resurrect a long-dormant franchise, giving us the next logical entry with "28 Years Later," an attempt to expand the story of where humanity stands after the mass breakout of the "Rage" virus. Critics thought the film was decent, but audiences were not nearly as impressed, giving it rather mixed ratings and a somewhat disappointing box office return that had the film barely breaking

The Film: Director Gore Verbinski had quite the career going from the early 2000s to the early 2010s, giving us such hits as a remake of "The Ring," the first three "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, and "Rango," which earned him the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. However, his streak quickly came to an end when he directed two back-to-back critical & box office duds, "The Lone Ranger" and "The Cure for Wellness." It's taken nearly a decade for him to finally get back into th

The Film: In the early 2000s, Asian horror was seemingly dominated by Japan, who gave us such popular works as "Ju-On: The Grudge," "Pulse," "Dark Water," and more, but that hardly stopped others from getting in on the horror craze, including South Korea and Hong Kong. In fact, it's from the latter of these that we received an intriguing entry in the genre also considered by many to be a classic called "The Eye," written and directed by The Pang Brothers (Danny Pang Phat and