Raritania

It has been remarked from time to time that DC and Marvel Comics' casts of heroes differ in, among so much else, their propensity for ca...

Ever since first encountering John Barnes' theory of the three generation life cycle of a creative genre a decade and a half ago I have ...

This summer I discussed a good many predictions about how various films would fare at the box office--and made a few predictions of my own. ...

NOTE: I wrote this just after Mission: Impossible 7's third weekend at the box office (July 28-July 30), but was unable to post it at th...

At this point it has been over a quarter of a century since the first big-screen Mission: Impossible hit theaters (back in 1996). At the tim...

After a summer of failures--failures on a large-scale that have been so severe and so numerous as to call into question the whole model of c...

Earlier this year, looking at the roaring success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie , I wondered if it would be the only billion-dollar hit of ...

Greta Gerwig's Barbie grossed $162 million in its opening weekend in North America. Once upon a time a merely respectable sum for a maj...

The film critic David Walsh has reviewed for his publication Nolan's Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), Dunkirk (2017) and...

Boxoffice Pro estimated that Mission: Impossible--Dead Reckoning, Part One would see its Friday-to-Sunday gross fall 53 percent from the f...

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer now looks to finish its run with about $80 million grossed domestically in its first three days. Even...

The new trailer for The Marvels is out . My thoughts: in contrast with the prior trailer, which frankly made the movie look a bit cheap, ...

Considering the summer's films here I have had little to say about either Barbie , or Oppenheimer --in large part because I have so much...

As anyone attentive to the press for the film is well aware, the critics and the entertainment press generally are in full claqueur mode wh...

A little while ago I discussed here my views of Christopher Nolan's strengths and weaknesses that left me with low expectations for his ...