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Doha: Following an incredible public response to the drive-In screenings at this year’s Ajyal Film Festival, the Doha Film Institute (DFI) will contin...

Whether you believe in life after death or not, we can all agree that it would be nice to have more time to settle matters or have the chance to say goodbye to loved ones before we continue our journey into the afterlife. This combination of romance and supernatural has been used in a number of films over the years like Ghost, a blockbuster hit from 1990, and more recently in Endless (2020). These films are usually designed to be feel-good or tear-jerkers and you'll get both from the latest...

Cruella de Vil Needs No Introduction, and Certainly No Explanation One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Cruella de Vil (Betty Lou Gerson) is not an especially complicated character. The New York Times’ original review talked about how Cruella entered “like a blow torch,” while its review of the 1991 rerelease summarized her as “the wickedest of all Disney witches.” None of the character’s lasting appeal has anything to do with her complexity or nuance. Her name is a combination of the wo...

Disney’s Emma Stone-starring Cruella — in theaters and on Disney+ Premier Access on May 28 — will be the third live-action spinoff of the 1961 animated classic, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, itself based on the 1956 Dodie Smith novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. The first, 1996’s 101 Dalmatians, was the studio’s second attempt […]

Every ’90s Blockbuster Movie Ranked Thirty years on, the 1990s has solidified its stature as one of the magical decades in filmmaking, much like how we view the ’30s and the ’70s. Precisely, this Gen X-decade pulled together the Hollywood studio power of the ’30s and the groundbreaking creativity of the ’70s, crocheting commercialism and art into the movie behemoths we speak of in legend as the ’90s blockbuster — which we’ve now ranked all by Tomatometer! First off, in putting ...

Why Syfys Killer Klowns from Outer Space Movie Didnt Happen According to Stephen Chiodo Why Syfys Killer Klowns from Outer Space Movie Didnt Happen According to Stephen Chiodo The Chiodo brothers, directors of Killer Klowns from Outer Space, have been trying to get a sequel made since the 80s but Stephen Chiodo explains that there has been a number of obstacles along the way. There have been rumours floating around for years regarding a planned sequel to the Chiodo brothers (Stephen, Charles & ...

Alerts Clockwise from top left: This Is Spinal Tap; High Fidelity; Best In Show; Hot Fuzz: Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey; Death Becomes Her; Josie And The Pussycats Streaming libraries expand and contract. Algorithms are imperfect. Those damn thumbnail images are always changing. But you know what you can always rely on? The expert opinions and knowledgeable commentary of The A.V. Club. That’s why we’re scouring both the menus of the most popular services and our o...

Moonstruck, died on Saturday at age 89. Olympia Dukakis said she enjoyed her fame after Moonstruck, especially when fans quoted lines from her movies to her. Photo: 2019 Getty Images Dukakis - a cousin of unsuccessful 1988 Democratic US presidential nominee Michael Dukakis - died at her New York City home on Saturday morning after months of failing health, said her agent, Allison Levy. Her daughter, Christina Zorich, was by her side. The Massachusetts-born daughter of Greek immigrants, Dukaki...

How Critters, a Gremlins knockoff, spawned a horror comedy franchise Latest TV News Contributed by Shared Critters, a tongue-in-cheek horror comedy also directed by a protégé of exploitation maestro Roger Corman, shares the same elevator pitch. And, because it arrived in 1986 — just two years after the impossibly cute-turned-murderous puppets known as Mogwai first hit screens — Critters was inevitably, yet unfairly, dismissed as a pure knock-off.    Stephen Herek has al...

Welcome to “This Week in Genre History,” where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world’s greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released. No, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, the writers behind Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure,  weren’t smoking anything when they came up with the title characters of their iconic comedy. “We were not stoned, though everyone thinks we were,�...