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It's been more than five years since we last got to spend time in J.K. Rowling's wizarding world on the big screen, and this adventure of magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) throws the audience right back into the thick of it. Inspired by the first-year required reading book at Hogwarts of the same name, the film while not perfect is still a great return to the world of magic and the various creatures and races that inhabit it.

Doctor Strange is Marvel's latest entry into the pantheon of their wider Cinematic Universe which includes all of the films other than the X-Men and

One thing we rarely expect to find when dealing with sequels and prequels to below-average horror films is that they're an improvement over the original.

While we've never been sold on Ben Affleck's performance as Batman, his latest performance as Christian Wolff in The Accountant is a wonderful case of

At this point Canadian director Denis Villeneuve seems to be just showing off. Nearly every one of his feature films have garnered some level of award

The irony of the use of the title The Birth of a Nation is not lost on viewers today: the 1915 film (so just over a century ago) with the same title had

It feels like only a few years ago that the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon's damaged wellhead was spreading across the Gulf of Mexico like an

With the continued popularity of the Walking Dead, there's been no lack of zombie films and television shows over the last few years. Unfortunately

Don't Breathe turns one thing that's common in the horror genre on it's head: most often films will start with a solid concept, but then they break down

The catalog of films which involves one or two intrepid but down on their luck fellows that suddenly come across a get rich quick idea is hardly a limited

Sausage Party is one film that I really didn't expect to like. Actually even after the movie started, I thought how unbelievably crass are we going to

It was fairly late Monday night after the Suicide Squad screening when everyone had finally assembled for the group Skype call with Disney. Variety and

We've all heard about the beleaguered path to the big screen for DC's latest installment into their Extended Universe franchise of films, Suicide Squad. A

It would be a challenge to try to pick out which franchise was more of a copy/rinse/repeat approach to it's storyline, Taken, or Jason Bourne. Right now

It was only a few years ago that the Zombie genre was utterly let down by the screen adaptation of World War Z. Since then we've largely limped along with

In 2009, writer/director and general geek oracle J. J. Abrams performed a near miracle by rebooting the Star Trek franchise with level of success that few

Let's get this right out of the way, the new Ghostbusters film has some fine leads. From the four ghostbusters themselves: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig,

There are a number of genres where the typical story arc has been done so many times, there's almost no surprises along the way. Beyond the possible

The first Purge film with it's home-invasion theme was novel in it's being an ultra-violent commentary on social and economic classes and how little it

So, let's get the Elephant in the room out of the way to begin with - in the 21st century, nearly any film about Tarzan (and European colonialism in

Shark movies is another flavor of horror genre that I'm typically a very easy lay for. The Shallows is a very slick production and better quality than

  Twenty years ago writer Dean Devlin and director Rolan Emmerich ushered in the modern era disaster blockbuster with a film that's never been called

By this point most people who are at least of college age have committed some amount of hours, days, or weeks playing Blizzard's World of Warcraft. Many

X-Men: Apocalypse marks the ninth installment in Fox's attempts to dial in the right combination to get a hit out of Marvel's classic team of Mutants.

The Nice Guys is a film that fits cleanly and snugly into writer/director Shane Black's legacy in film - and that would be he was also the fellow who

Captain America: Civil War is the thirteenth entry into Marvel's Cinematic Universe. As such it comes in with a great deal of on-screen canon behind it,

Green Room is an incredibly well made Punk Rock thriller that is one of those films that the cast and trailer along give the impression it'll be good, but

Last week many fans had their hopes of attending a recently announced Michael Giacchino Lost concert at the Ford Theater in Los Angeles dashed when the

The Walking Dead continues to play at the emotions of the show's legions of devoted fans with tonight's season finale. As with most of their season and

Warner Bros. is doing all it can to try to outdo Fox when it comes to how fast it can run their primary superhero property down the drain. Where it should