Based on a 25 episode series from YouTube, Kane Parsons adapts his idea of a sort of House of Leaves, liminal space pocket dimension to the big screen. Bringing in major talents Shawn Levy, James Wan and Mark Duplass this is a sure hit.

But what is this Backrooms, dimensional space? Well, that’s the thing that keeps it compelling. We are told what it does but we never really learn why. Which is good because it wouldn’t matter what the…

See? Legacy sequels aren’t a new thing. Paul Newman returns nine years later to reprise his Ross MacDonald character Harper (called Lew Archer in the novels) in The Drowning Pool. This time he’s hired by Joanne Woodward as a woman Newman knows from a short fling years ago to fly cross country from California to New Orleans and investigate a blackmailer.

Newman runs into a variety of interested parties from local cops to oil magnates to southern royalty; all with…

The premise of a man using magic to coerce a woman to fall in love with him only to regret it when her infatuation begins to be oppressive is not new by any means. The Twilight Zone wasn’t even out of its first season when “The Chaser” had an episode that had a love potion that was only $1 but the ironic twist being the cure was a thousand times the price.

What makes Obsession so incredibly fresh is that…

I like all of the live action movie versions of Superman. All of them.

Richard Donner was brave enough to take a funny paper character and add some gravitas. When Superman screams out into space to turn back time to save the love of his life I tear up every time. And Christopher Reeve proved that you can make wirework look real. The way he would lean into turns simply sold a man flying as real.

Bryan Singer’s one-and-done wasn’t…