The confession is usually triggered by a joke bombing: Kids are doing it. Everyone’s doing it in the Midwest. It’s called ...

In the era of IP dominance at the box office, “formulaic” has become an oft-used term in movie discourse and criticism. Franchises, such as the MCU, are particularly lambasted for their recycling of ...

One of the most acclaimed horror movies of all time is an unassuming little Australian film called The Babadook.The film is top-notch, but it still incorporates one of the worst cliches in modern ...

Let’s examine some of the more scintillating lines of dialogue from Simon Cellan Jones’ sports movie “Arthur the King” in the order they occur. Repetitive verbal cliches like these are ...

“Day of the Fight” is an unabashed genre picture that manages to be both the kind of movie they supposedly don’t make like they used to, and also something bracingly fresh.