Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler: Weimar’s Woes

Photo: Universum Film In 1922, two extraordinary films came out of the Weimar Republic. One was an influential horror movie, Nosferatu, an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s ”Dracula”. The other one…

The Flash

In an attempt to save his mother’s life, Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) lands in a different dimension where he enlists help from his 18-year old self, a semi-retired Batman (Michael…

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Scott (Paul Rudd), his teenage daughter (Kathryn Newton), Hope (Evangeline Lilly) and her parents (Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer) are sucked into the Quantum Realm where they face a mighty new…

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

In 1994, three different races of Transformers clash, with a Brooklyn car thief (Anthony Ramos) and a museum intern (Dominique Fishback) caught in the middle. The seventh Transformers chapter serves…

The Little Mermaid

After saving a human prince (Jonah Hauer-King) from a shipwreck, mermaid princess Ariel (Halle Bailey) wants to be part of his world. An ambitious remake of the 1989 Disney animated…

Fast X

Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his extended ”family” are hunted by a new enemy (Jason Momoa) whose beef with them stretches back to their days in Rio de Janeiro. The…

Elephant Man: A Victorian Sensation

John Hurt. Photo: Brooksfilms In 1979, John Hurt terrified a whole world in the sci-fi-horror movie Alien, in a sequence that required a lot of special makeup effects. One year…

The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan

In the early 1600s, young D’Artagnan (François Civil) arrives in Paris, hoping to become one of King Louis XIII’s famous musketeers; his first encounters with three of them land him…

Citizen Kane: Billionaire and Enigma

Orson Welles. Photo: RKO When Sight and Sound recently polled critics all over the world for another list of greatest films, there were dramatic changes. Jeanne Dielman (1975) came out…

The Exorcist III

Lieutenant Kinderman (George C. Scott) investigates several gruesome murders that remind him of a serial killer who was executed years ago, as well as a diabolical case from the 1970s……