Of all the oddball flourishes across Guillermo del Toro’s filmography, it’s perhaps most surreal that he has taken this long to run away and join the circus. I...
There may not be any eventuality in the Multiverse where Eternals works. It feels like deep-cut source material not mined for adaptation out of desire, but a n...
“This never happened to the other fellow” quipped a young, eager George Lazenby in 1969. The opening of Peter R. Hunt’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is to d...
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they ma...
For a major release by a media behemoth, Free Guy is surprisingly restrained. Set in an ersatz Fortnite dubbed Free City, the film follows Ryan Reynolds’ Guy, ...
The most remarkable thing about The Marksman is how actively it insists on not setting itself apart. Almost willfully mediocre, Robert Lorenz’s neo-western fea...
Retirement is the ultimate adversary. True for Will Smith’s Mike Lowrey, truer still for Hollywood. Though lega-sequels perpetually seem like a fairly recent p...
Time and Terminators make fools of us all. Much like the cold-blooded killers that have inhabited it, the sci-fi action franchise seems hellbent in its refusal ...
Few movie stars have an affability as potent as Will Smith's. At 51, it's an asset he and his collaborators, big and small alike, have bet big (and mostly won b...
In its final moments, Spider-Man: Far From Home muses that people will believe anything. This fairly blatant observation of the not-too-distant future setting o...
