Category Archives: Movies

The highs, lows, and epic sandworm cameos of the first Dune trailer

The Verge staff analyzes our first look at Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation After a lot of waiting, the first trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune is finally here. It has an almost impossibly star-studded cast — there’s everyone from Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet to Jason Momoa and Oscar Isaac — along with impressive set design and, yes, gigantic […]

‘The Boys’ dresses up one of TV’s most daring shows in a superhero costume

'The Boys' dresses up one of TV's most daring shows in a superhero costume

(CNN)“The Boys” quickly became Amazon’s signature series, and the second season of this beyond-dark show outdoes the first — offering a searing take on modern-day America that might be TV’s most subversive program, camouflaged in superhero garb. What could be more terrifying than a psychopathic Superman? That’s a central facet of “The Boys,” which hits […]

Disney’s Live-Action Lion King (2019) Review: Repeating History

Disney's Live-Action Lion King (2019) Review Repeating History

The new live-action version of The Lion King arrives in theaters on July 18. It’s another remake of an animated classic, but does it do the original justice or bring anything new and worthwhile to the table? Read on for our full review. With the new Lion King movie, Disney adds another film to the […]

Disney stars remember actor Cameron Boyce, who has died at age 20

Disney stars remember actor Cameron Boyce, who has died at age 20

Cameron Boyce, the Disney Channel actor who starred in its TV series “Jessie” and franchise “Descendants,” died Saturday of “an ongoing medical condition,” his family told ABC News. He was 20 years old. “It is with a profoundly heavy heart that we report that this morning we lost Cameron,” a spokesperson for his family told […]

Review: “Spider-Man: Far from Home” Presents the Illusion of a Good Movie

Review: “Spider-Man: Far from Home” Presents the Illusion of a Good Movie Spider-Man: Far from Home,” starring Tom Holland as the Queens teen-ager Peter Parker, rapidly intertwines the big events that capped the “Avengers” cycle—Thanos’s mass obliteration of half of humanity and of half the Avengers, in “Infinity War,” and the return of those victims […]

All ‘The Conjuring’ horror movies, ranked (including new ‘Annabelle Comes Home’)

All ‘The Conjuring’ horror movies, ranked (including new ‘Annabelle Comes Home’) The evil doll from “The Conjuring” movies haunts young Judy Warren (Mckenna Grace) in the new horror film “Annabelle Comes Home.” USA TODAY Things go bump in the night frequently in “The Conjuring” universe, namely thanks to folks like the Crooked Man, the Nun and […]

Toy Story 2 is the best Toy Story

Woody and Buzz make some new friends in Toy Story 2

Toy Story 2 is the best Toy Story It’s also one of the best movies ever made. With Toy Story 4, Pixar has the unenviable task of following up what was already a perfect trio of films, charting themes of birth, life, and death with lovely grace, despite the fact that their main characters are […]

‘Frozen 2’ Trailer: Elsa and Anna Get a Little Surreal

‘Frozen 2’ Trailer Elsa and Anna Get a Little Surreal

‘Frozen 2’ Trailer: Elsa and Anna Get a Little Surreal The first full-length clip for the sequel includes a horse glowing underwater and a mysterious warning. Sequels have been losing steam at the box office lately, with “The Secret Life of Pets 2” and the X-Men film “Dark Phoenix” the most recent disappointments. Disney hopes […]

HBO’s ‘Big Little Lies’ season two, now with Meryl Streep, is dark, delicious TV

HBO’s ‘Big Little Lies’ season two, now with Meryl Streep, is dark, delicious TV HBO builds a convincing case that this second season of “Big Little Lies” wasn’t only a good idea — it was a necessary one. When “Big Little Lies” debuted on HBO in February of 2017, it was an instant sensation. Adapted […]

Avatar’s Box Office Record Is Even More Impressive After Avengers: Endgame

Avatar’s Box Office Record Is Even More Impressive After Avengers: Endgame There has not been a movie event in our lifetimes quite like Avengers: Endgame. No amount of pie-in-the-sky box office forecasting or broken pre-sales records could have prepared the industry or us for the opening weekend of Marvel’s culmination film. By the time all […]