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3 weeks ago | 
slashfilm.com | Sandy Schaefer
As Pride Month 2025 gets underway, it's difficult to know how to feel. With news stories about members of the U.S. government passing anti-trans laws or bolstering anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment popping up on a near-daily basis, the obvious response is for queer people and their allies to be louder and prouder than ever.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Sandy Schaefer
1 hour agoIn this month’s selections, romance across dimensions and an animated entry in the “Predator” franchise. ‘Predator: Killer of Killers’ Stream it on Hulu. In 2022, Dan Trachtenberg’s Hulu original “Prey” marked a return to form for the Predator franchise, in which technologically advanced alien …
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1 month ago | 
slashfilm.com | Sandy Schaefer
There are few names that get Disney historians to raise their eyebrows like Disneytoon. The studio behind the Mouse House's direct-to-home-media racket from 1990 to 2018, Disneytoon was tasked with knocking out sequels, prequels, and spin-offs to its parent company's biggest animated films as quickly and, just as importantly, cheaply as possible. The results weren't exactly Disney magic, but you can't blame the studio's artists for doing what they could.
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1 month ago | 
slashfilm.com | Sandy Schaefer
Let it never be said "House, M.D." let something as insignificant as facts get in the way of a brain-tickling mystery.
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1 month ago | 
slashfilm.com | Jeremy Smith |Sandy Schaefer
The agonizingly long wait for Josh and Benny Safdie's follow-up to their nerve-shredding 2019 masterpiece "Uncut Gems" is finally over, and, on the plus side, we're going to be getting two films from the brothers this year. Whether there's a downside to the fact that they're now working separately remains to be seen.
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2 months ago | 
slashfilm.com | Sandy Schaefer
There's a whole lot of "TV show" in the TV show "Riverdale." Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's small screen Archie Comics adaptation — an inspiredly chaotic queer work that's as cheerfully absurd as it is painfully earnest when it wants to be — burns through storylines like there's no tomorrow. It's how, in the end, the show is able to indulge in subplots involving everything from illegal teen convict fight clubs to diabolical sorcerers from alternate realities to the tickle porn industry.
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2 months ago | 
slashfilm.com | Sandy Schaefer
"Primal" is many things. For starters, it's a thoughtful look at the unifying experiences of loss and grief, as well as one of the most accurate (and sensitive) depictions of what it's like to live with an animal companion put to screen. It's also the gnarliest animated "Conan the Barbarian" adaptation that's never been made and often plays like a Robert E. Howard fever dream.
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2 months ago | 
slashfilm.com | Sandy Schaefer
This article contains spoilers for "Severance."Praise Kier! Dichen Lachman is finally getting her time in the spotlight.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
slashfilm.com | Sandy Schaefer
Gerard Butler's Nick "Big Nick" O'Brien has one of the best entrances in film history in "Den of Thieves." Upon rolling up to the aftermath of a deadly shoot-out at a local breakfast joint, the profoundly ethically-questionable Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Detective (whose blood is seemingly 50 percent alcohol at all times, even when he hasn't been drinking) then proceeds to casually pick up and much down on a frosted donut from a blood-splattered box on the ground.
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Mar 17, 2025 | 
slashfilm.com | Sandy Schaefer
What is it that makes Chris Sanders' animated movies distinct? For starters, there's their visual acuity. His feature debut, "Lilo & Stitch," which Sanders wrote and directed with Dean DeBlois, features warm and inviting watercolor backdrops to match the rich, earthy tones and incredible 3D flying sequences of Sanders and DeBlois' sophomore effort, "How to Train Your Dragon" (still one of DreamWorks Animation's highest achievements).
