Sure, these aren’t original properties, but it’s still pretty exciting: a new, previously-undone Stephen King adaptation, a hit anime film, and a sequel to a classic cult comedy all vied for dominance in a...
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) The international sensation that spanned six seasons, 52 episodes, annual Christmas specials, and now a film trilogy reaches its closing chapter. The question is: how did creator and...
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) Ed and Lorraine Warren return for the fourth entry in the Conjuring franchise. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga have embodied these roles for over a decade, serving as the...
Splitsville comes courtesy of the pair of Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin. Both wrote and starred in the film, with Covino directing as well. After the success of their debut, The Climb, they...
The Toxic Avenger An old Troma hero finally received a 21st-century fan-filmmaker treatment. Peter Dinklage voices and embodies Winston, the doomed janitor who plunges into toxic rebirth, with Luisa Guerreiro handling the mutant hero’s...
Darren Aronofsky has somehow directed his most commercially-friendly and straightforward film while simultaneously paying homage to his career and all of his influences. Such is the compelling paradox of Caught Stealing, a crime-comedy…
Ethan Coen should just direct a TV anthology. If there’s anything that Honey Don’t and his prior solo effort Drive-Away Dolls elucidate, Coen’s strengths lie in funny little scenes and moments, not in a...
Director Zach Cregger surprised the world when he emerged from a career in a comedy troupe to direct an indie horror called Barbarian. That film took the horror scene by storm with its unexpected...
This week brings an interesting clash of new releases. On one hand, an original body horror starring real-life married couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie distributed by indie company Neon. In other words, the...
It’s been a while since the Stephen King Book to Screen series came knocking, but we’re glad to be back! We covered Misery in our last entry, and this time aren’t skipping any books....
The ’90s and ’00s were a relative mixed bag for Marvel superhero films. For every X2 or Spider-Man, there was a Daredevil, Elektra, or Hulk weighing things down. There were lot of growing pains...
Ari Aster began his career with two supernatural horror films, exciting audiences as one of the bright new voices in horror. With Eddington and the preceding Beau is Afraid, Aster has expanded his definition...
We’re back with the Great Disney Reel Rumble Retrospective! We’ve moved onto the later half of the Renaissance Era. After the mixed reception to Pocahontas, Disney was likely hoping to regain some momentum. But...
The Man of Tomorrow. Man of Steel. The Last Son of Krypton. Boy Scout. Big Blue. These are nicknames that Superman has earned throughout his 87 years of publication and multimedia history. While we...
Jurassic World Rebirth may rank among the most ironic film titles of all-time. Rehash would be a more appropriate subtitle. The seventh entry in the long-running Jurassic franchise offers nothing original and recycles all...
Tom Cruise tried to recapture his success with Top Gun by turning to the racing world with Days of Thunder, which used the same basic premise. It is fitting that Top Gun:Maverick‘s director Joseph...
Rivers in film are, or can be, powerful metaphors. As physical features, they are both setting and environment, sometimes an antagonist, sometimes an entire character. They can be engines of plot all to themselves.
While not quite twenty-eight years after 2002’s 28 Days Later…, the return of Danny Boyle to the franchise that helped redefine the zombie film for mass audiences still feels like a long time coming....
How to Train Your Dragon is a faithful adaptation of the original animated film from the same director, Dean DeBlois. It captures the same story and does a fairly good job of recreating the...
Reviewer Ranking: #587/2974 It’s a great time to be a Predator fan. In 2018, the Shane Black-directed film The Predator was met with weak reviews – if not outright scorn – and any future...
I owe my 2025 Cannes Film Festival journey to Wade, the other Flickcharter that attended, who informed me about the “3 Day in Cannes” experience. I was accepted after a month of silence following...
The Cannes Film Festival launched the 3 Days in Cannes program in 2018, allowing cinephiles ages 18-28 to attend the prestigious festival which is not otherwise open to the public. I was in college...
John Wick can now boast as being among the franchises with its own cinematic universe with the arrival of its first spin-off film, Ballerina. One of the most popular action franchises of the last decade, John Wick made a name for itself…
Karate Kid: Legends is the first film in the franchise in 15 years. The 2010 reboot of the franchise with Jackie Chan was successful enough that development began on a sequel, but the momentum faded and eventually sputtered out. The IP…
The Final Destination franchise began humbly back in 2000. Originally designed to be an The X-Files episode, writer Jeffrey Reddick decided the story would work better as a film, and New Line Cinema luckily agreed. What was born was…
Based on the 2020 YA novel by Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield is the latest Shudder production to snag a theatrical release. The horror streamer has slowly bit a niche for itself distributing indie horror flicks, and it has employed a…
With Marvel Studios’s output all over the place in the Multiverse Saga, there’s been a general consensus that the studio has lost its edge. Thus, every time a decent film has come out in the last few years, critics have rushed to declare…
The Great Disney Reel Rumble Retrospective reaches a grand moment as we continue through the Renaissance Era! We cover more of Disney’s classic films, with one a critical and commercial darling and the other having more mixed reception.…
Welcome back for the final time, folks. All good things must come to an end. Our journey through the Texas Monthly Top 50 BBQ joints has reached its final stop at stop #44. No, we haven’t forgotten how to do math. This trek followed the…
We’re back on Flickchart Texas BBQ Road Trip for our penultimate spot on the list! We head to East Texas one last time to visit one of the best joints in the state, in Longview! Stop #43: Longview, Bodacious Bar-B-Q Longview is the other…