April Snellings

Don’t read this review. If you’ve made it this far without anyone spoiling the surprises lurking in The Cabin in the Woods, don’t let me be the jerk who ruins it for you.

No matter how hard you try, you really can’t go back. And to prove it, here’s a dull, unfunny and accidentally depressing installment in a franchise whose best years are clearly behind it.

Director Gary Ross, working from a script that he co-wrote with Hollywood writer Billy Ray and Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins, has crafted a solid adventure flick that will please the trilogy’s fans and win it more than a few ...

As long as one-liners and blue Martian blood are flying, John Carter is endearing and entertaining. When it stops to catch its breath, though, it has a tendency to take itself a bit too seriously.

Somehow, it doesn’t feel right to criticize the acting prowess of the active-duty Navy SEALs who make up the core cast of Act of Valor. It’s schmaltzy and trite when it’s standing still and it occasionally veers too far into ...

Compiled and restored by comics historian Greg Sadowski, this new volume from always-reliable Fantagraphics Books serves up 176 covers from a decade when comics were still trying to figure out what they were—and what they could be.

James Watkins’ chilling spook show isn’t even remotely interested in reinventing the ghost story. There’s nothing in it you haven’t seen before, but its old-school scares are executed so perfectly that it feels fresh again.

Consider me disillusioned. All these years, I’ve thought being a spy would be awesome—all globe-trotting and fancy cars and nifty gadgets. As it turns out, spies aren’t sexy at all. They’re sad, they cry a lot, and they mostly just ...

At this point, it’s hard to write about the dreaded American remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo without sounding like an apologist. The movie has only grossed around $60 million so far—a respectable sum, but not nearly enough ...

If you’re of a certain inclination, The Sitter entertaining enough to earn a cautious—and very specifically qualified—recommendation.