As it turned out, 2023 was a pretty good year for movies. (Insert Larry David “pret-tay, pret-tay, pret-tay good” GIF here.) So good, in fact, that we had a difficult time choosing just ten favorites, ...

Considering 2023 was a year that saw some real lows for the movie industry – specifically the near-complete shutdown of Hollywood for months due to the writers and actors strikes – it also had some ...

Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley ...

2023 may have been a difficult year for many movies, but it was a damn good year for horror. While films like Wish, The Flash, and Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning struggled to make waves or earn a ...

There’s nothing like watching a movie with an audience — and, as I realized a few months ago, there’s nothing like watching an audience watch a movie. It was in October during the 61st New York Film ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

The story of horror movies in 2023 is one of extreme ends, with the most out-there experiments flourishing while more standard genre fare fell flat. There was no terrifying instant classic destined to ...

It’s been a weird year for the entertainment industry. On the one hand, films like Barbie, Oppenheimer, and even The Super Mario Bros. Movie have reignited certain analysts’ and critics’ faith in the ...

Ah, horror, our most beautiful, freaky, and misunderstood genre. IGN is full of horror nerds that love and celebrate it every chance we get, and since the Oscars seem to have so much trouble giving ...

From atomic bombs (Oppenheimer, Asteroid City) to atomic blondes (Barbie, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour), 2023 was a year when cinema looked ahead by going back to the past. With reliable franchises ...