Simon Abrams

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is here, but so is a potential revolution in the making of game adaptations.

The original 1978 shockumentary, and the mondo exploitation films like it, preyed on a fear that has been watered down over time.

The original 1978 shockumentary, and the mondo exploitation films like it, preyed on a fear that has been watered down over time.

It winks at its audience throughout, but its bloody violence and pandering laugh lines never go full-tilt SYFY Original.

It winks at its audience throughout, but its bloody violence and pandering laugh lines never go full-tilt SYFY Original.

A numbing succession of schematic set pieces empties the canopic jars, then runs out of ideas.

Renny Harlin's "airplane crash and also sharks" disaster movie benefits from a specific kind of earnestness.

Renny Harlin's "airplane crash and also sharks" disaster movie benefits from a specific kind of earnestness.

Backrooms brings liminal horror to the masses, and with it, a generation looking for a past that might not exist.

Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas front the devoted musical filmmaker's latest, weakest effort.