After that fun, zippy trailer, Argylle is a massive disappointment, a movie that doesn’t know what it wants to say or how it wants to say it. The leads – two actors I generally like – are painfully miscast, the tone is all over the place, and the only good parts are the fantasy sequences. The...
Read MoreEven giants sometimes need a second chance. Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi spy film Tenet will be re-released in IMAX theaters for one week starting February 23, 2024. The engagement is being designed as a lead-in to Dune: Part Two, which arrives in theaters on March 1; as such, screenings of Tenet w...
Read MoreThe prequel to one of Amazon Prime’s big hits has a title. Almost a year ago, it was reported that The Terminal List, the adaptation of Jack Carr’s novel starring Chris Pratt as Navy SEAL James Reece, would eschew a second season in lieu of a prequel series following a supporting character, Tayl...
Read MoreThe Mission: Impossible film series is taking the first step in a new direction. On January 25, 2024, the latest installment in the franchise, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, will begin streaming on Paramount+, but it will have a slightly different title. According to Variety, the ...
Read MoreLast year, I wrote about what I called Christmas-adjacent movies, five films that took place at Christmas but didn’t quite qualify as full-fledged Christmas Movies. As it happens, there are quite a few films like this, many of which are great. So, here are another five flicks, in chronological ord...
Read MoreUniversal is regaining its memory of its superspy franchise. Deadline exclusively reveals that it has heard from sources that Universal Pictures wants to make another Jason Bourne movie, and it’s negotiating with Edward Bergman, director of All Quiet on the Western Front, to helm it. Deadline str...
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