Tag: opinion

Hollywood spent the last decade strip-mining your childhood, and 2026 is the year the receipts came due. The Mummy crashed. Mortal Kombat II got beaten by Miranda Priestly in a wig. Masters of the Universe is the next coin flip. The lesson is sitting right there — if anyone in the C-suite would look at it.

Look, I came in ready to write the "we didn't need this sequel" piece. The Devil Wears Prada 2 had every disadvantage a 20-year-old legacy comedy sequel could have. So why did I leave the theater thinking the only honest critique left is one nobody's saying out loud?

Look, I came in ready to write the "we didn't need this sequel" piece. The Devil Wears Prada 2 had every disadvantage a 20-year-old legacy comedy sequel could have. So why did I leave the theater thinking the only honest critique left is one nobody's saying out loud?

Lee Cronin's The Mummy is sitting at 58% on Rotten Tomatoes — miles ahead of the 2017 Dark Universe disaster but nowhere near his own Evil Dead Rise. It's bloody, it's loud, and it can't decide what kind of movie it wants to be.

Sony went all-in on gaming adaptations and Spider-Man. Warner Bros. dropped seven minutes of Dune 3 and announced a Game of Thrones movie. Two studios down, two to go — and CinemaCon already has a clear winner.

A 1-billion-view trailer. A $300 million opening weekend tracking. And a plot that literally erases Peter Parker from existence. Tom Holland didn't just come back — he rewrote the rules.

Dunkirk, Tenet, Oppenheimer, and now The Odyssey. At some point in the last decade, Nolan stopped being a filmmaker and became a gravitational force. The numbers, the hype, and the IMAX cameras all agree.

The DCU's second film sent its lead to space with a dog and a teenager instead of giving audiences another Metropolis slugfest. James Gunn just made the most confident creative bet in superhero cinema this year.

It's not a superhero sequel, a nostalgia reboot, or a Disney cash grab. The most overhyped movie of 2026 is a $19 million opening weekend from an Oscar-winning director — and we all saw it coming.

A stacked cast, a proven director, and Amazon's billions. We've seen this exact pitch before — and it almost never works. Here's why He-Man might be the summer's biggest gamble.

The first five months of 2026 gave us blockbuster trailers and franchise hype — but the best movies of the year so far are the ones most people walked right past. Here are six films that deserved better.

Star Wars is returning to theaters for the first time in seven years. The trailers are divisive, the stakes are enormous, and honestly? None of that matters. Here's why.

In eleven days, seven speakers will take the stage at WebScience 2026 in Brno to talk about AI agents, shipping AI code, and operations in the age of automation. Hollywood has been rehearsing these exact conversations for decades. Here's how the movies got there first.

Forty-four years after a shapeshifting alien terrified audiences with latex and foam rubber, Hollywood is quietly admitting what Casey Throwback Mills has been saying all along: pixels can't replace the real thing.

The final season of The Boys premieres April 8. The cast is already warning fans about 'mixed' reactions. Here's the thing: this show stopped being great two seasons ago, and no amount of Homelander speeches will fix what's broken.

Some shows get ten seasons of mediocrity. Others get the axe right when they're hitting their stride. Here are 5 recently cancelled series that deserved better — and yes, I'm still mad about every single one.

Fast Forever just got announced for 2028 and everyone's acting like this is exciting news. It's not. The Fast & Furious franchise peaked over a decade ago and has been coasting on nostalgia fumes and Dom Toretto's unearned gravitas ever since.

Another Colleen Hoover adaptation, another round of manufactured tears. Reminders of Him opened to $18 million, critics are split at 55%, and audiences are eating it up at 89%. Here's why both sides are wrong.

Marty Supreme went home empty-handed after nine nominations. Sinners broke records but still lost Best Picture. And Sean Penn couldn't even be bothered to show up. The 98th Academy Awards were a mess — and I loved every second of it.