GEMINI MAN is a brief spark of something special and an unqualified success as an experiment with the 3D HFR format
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AD ASTRA is an internal, artsy character drama with the plot of a Syfy Channel Original Movie. What else can you hope for?
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The quarter-century-old TOY STORY series has always been about moving with the times, and that’s exactly what the latest installment does.
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CAPTIVE STATE is a directorial sci-fi showcase that ends up feeling directionless.
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Jordan Peele’s new TWILIGHT ZONE series looks promising, but also might be a lost opportunity.
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The follow-up to the modern classic, THE LEGO MOVIE 2 goes ancient for its inspiration.
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Coming off the excellent fantasia of Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, it can feel simultaneously exciting and disappointing for Spider-Man to show up again on film, played by an actual human man with a physical body. Tom Holland is a good actor and he has a disconcertingly youthful face, but he isn’t made out of four
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FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD is a fascinating trainwreck — the kind of bad movie only a great artist like J.K. Rowling could make.
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Julius Avery’s WWII horror movie OVERLORD doesn’t transcend the tropes of the zombie and war genres, but handles itself capably within those confines.
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Lewton Bus’ own Adam Bumas sits down for a chat with Adam Simon, director of the horror documentary, THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE.
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The performances, music, and the classic Hollywood tale of fame and fortune are enough to carry the latest incarnation of A STAR IS BORN.
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Cary Fukunaga’s miniseries is meant to make you unnerved, then make you laugh, then make you think, in that order.
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The whole series is, not-so-secretly, about the pulse-pounding drama of trying to make a movie.
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We don’t know much about the forthcoming show, but we’re pretty sure that its star won’t look any different than he has for the past thirty years.
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The first LEGO MOVIE 2 trailer leaves our Lego heroes powerless to defend their Lego world from a Lego invasion by Lego extraterrestrials
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Terry Gilliam’s long-awaited movie needs 400 years of literary history to properly discuss.
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Rounding out this week in THERE WAS AN IDEA…, Adam ruminates on the nature of power in the MCU and asks the question: Does Spider-Man even have it?
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Kicking off this week’s lineup for THERE WAS AN IDEA…, Adam locks down the ins and outs of the Vision for AGE OF ULTRON.
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This trailer is almost literally “all MCU crossovers, all the time”.
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Alex Garland understands that the way to do smart sci-fi is to take dumb sci-fi and put on the brakes – this isn’t TOO far off from SPIDER-MAN 3.
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Plus: a playlist to watch the trailers by!
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THE COMMUTER is a paean to the Common Man and, most importantly, trains.
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From mutants to genetically engineered pigs to brainwashing suburbanites, Adam takes a look back at the science fiction cinema of 2017.
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Pixar’s latest makes you wonder how much “Pixar’s latest” really means anymore.
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Kenneth Branagh upped the silly unreality of Christie’s classic novel, but you should still take it seriously
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The writer/director of BRICK and LOOPER is making a series of space opera films unsaddled by Skywalkers. This is good.
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BLADE RUNNER 2049 is worthwhile — an achievement much more magnificent than it might sound.
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The JURASSIC WORLD director is out. What other white dude will replace him?
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How inconsequential can a hero’s problems be before you stop caring?
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  2001: A Space Odyssey starts with the now-immortal image of the earliest form of humanity: An ape, using tools, which excites and inspires all the other apes. We don’t learn much about the ape’s story in the movie (The fascinatingly different novel version calls him “Moon-Watcher”), but the movie is all about that kind
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Take a SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING themed tour of Queens with Adam Bumas
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The storytelling techniques in Pixar’s quietest movie are the secret to the studio’s success.
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Serious question: Were there people out there who weren’t expecting Ryan Coogler’s Afro-futurist take on Black Panther to be anything but transcendent? The movie’s teaser trailer – released surprisingly early in tonight’s Game 4 of the NBA Finals – was never going to be surprising in terms of sheer quality or the command and breadth
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Dark Star is the movie every kid in film school hopes to make. It was made for a term project between 1970 and 1973: Cheap yet ambitious, offbeat yet identifiable, and…not really much good at all when judged as a professional wide-release movie, but no one really does that because of the magnitude of the
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Warning: This review contains discussion of spoilers  – not spoilers themselves – for The Circle. Which is to say, not “Darth Vader is Luke’s father”, but “Empire Strikes Back ends with a shocking revelation about Darth Vader’s origins.” Read at your own risk. Just by existing, James Ponsoldt’s The Circle already has me in its corner.
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Lewton Bus crew Adam, Arzner, and Jason welcome a very special guest, Andrea (Annie) Gonzales, author of Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting it Done for a deep dive into roles for women in game development and the games themselves. Subscribe:
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I have to say this up at the top: I can’t and won’t abide by referring to this sci-fi horror movie by its title. There’s just too large a space for puns and double meanings that would get old even if I was doing my best to avoid them. Whenever it comes up, instead of
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King Kong doesn’t work like most monsters. The creatures that endure in the public consciousness for centuries tend to be ill-defined – shadowy menaces, alluring in their danger as much as their mystery. buy vidalista online clinicaorthodontics.com/wp-includes/SimplePie/Content/Type/php/vidalista.html no prescription Kong, by contrast, is a massive, hairy, open book of an unnatural beast. How’d he get
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Keanu’s action sequel has its perfectly-aimed sights on the traditionalist world the first movie created.
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The BBC smash hit’s latest season represents the fall of a cultural giant.
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If 2016’s movies were so great, why did they feel so bad?
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