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My entry point to the Fantastic Four was Jonathan Hickman’s seminal run on the comics from issues 570 to 611 (and also Dark Reign and FF). I knew the Fantastic Four culturally, but had never read any of their comics before. It’s possible that I was still in my Batman-only

Last week I was away on assignment in San Diego. For that reason, I was not able to write about the opening weekend of The Fantastic Four: First Steps. But if I had, like many I would have noted the film’s $117.7 million debut was a positive sign for the

Watching Together, first-timer Michael Shanks’ exploration of codependency and millennial malaise, is like finding hair on your toothbrush— it’s grosser when you know where it’s coming from. Starring actual married actors Alison Brie and Dave Franco as a couple who’s been together so long they’ve lost sight of whether it’s

Real life couples playing big screen lovers has been a fascination for audiences since the days of Fairbanks and Pickford, Tracy and Hepburn, Cruise and Kidman. How much of what we are watching is indicative of the real-life dynamic between these two performers? Do they love like that, lean on

Winner of a trio of prizes at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Souleymane’s Story is an urgent, energetic drama that follows a Guinean immigrant through the streets of Paris as he races to make food deliveries on his bicycle while also repeatedly rehearsing the story he must tell during his