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Most of us discovered Dean Stockwell, who died last week at age 85, by way of the television series Quantum Leap (1989-1993), where he memorably portrayed Admiral Al Calavicci, a cigar-chomping horn dog and right-hand to Sam (series star Scott Bakula). Over 97 episodes, Stockwell showed up every week with that unmistakable gleam in his eye to help Sam fix American history and find his way home.

Director Jeymes “The Bullitts” Samuel lifts ‘The Harder They Fall’s’ pedestrian and over-plotted script (which he co-wrote) with an obvious passion for the Western genre, buckets of style, and a fabulous cast.

Eternals, the latest from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is a dreadful mix of Matrix Reloaded (2003) and Justice League (2017).

Army of Thieves promises two things: terrifying zombies and clever heists, and fails to deliver on both counts.

Many horror movies warned us of the threat of the left’s Woke Gestapo. Here are five of the best.

“Dune” is a movie made to be seen on the biggest screen you can find.

During Halloween, there’s a lot of crap out there. I love Michael Myers and Jason Vorhees — but Chucky, Freddy, Pinhead, Jigsaw, and on and on and on, not so much. So here are some franchises you might have missed.

About two hours into the nearly three-hour James Bond adventure, “No Time to Die,” I started to miss the good old days of the invisible car.

Here are the top five underrated zombie movies of all time.

One of my favorite things is introducing people to great movies they might not have seen or even heard of.

Netflix’s big weekend release, “The Guilty,” is basically a filmed stage play and one that doesn’t hold up to storytelling Scrutiny.

I don’t know what to say other than the movie’s terrible. Just terrible. Awful. A crushing disappointment.

Please don’t ask me why I sat through all four episodes of Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan, the latest true crime debacle from Netflix.

Time-Life’s The Ultimate Richard Pryor Collection: Uncensored is one of those rare products that delivers as advertised.

Here are the top five greatest screen farewells from legendary actors in movie history.

Here are Oscar-winner Clint Eastwood’s five best movies between 1980 and 1999.

Here’s a list of Oscar-winner Clint Eastwood’s five best movies from the 1970s.

Here are Oscar-winner Clint Eastwood’s five best movies from the decade of the 1960s.

Eastwood still has a young man’s zeal to stick it to the establishment. Honestly, can you imagine a theme more subversive in this fascist era of woke than Be your own man?

Director and co-writer James Wan’s Malignant very much wants to be something it’s not: one of those over-the-top, gonzo horror movies that are more fun than scary and the kind of movie that feels like a find.  You know, a movie you show your friends just to hear them say, How’d I miss that one!?

Like the dreadful “Birds of Prey,” Marvel’s “Black Widow” is only receiving positive reviews because it’s directed by a chick and everyone’s terrified of being herded into solar-powered cattle cars and sent to Wokeschwitz.

Tomorrow War is unpretentious, exciting, occasionally moving, and just plain fun. Everything you want in a summer movie is right there: a big, straight-forward concept, terrific special effects, an appealing movie star, a very appealing supporting cast, plenty of action, stakes that feel real, a load of laughs, likable characters, and a universal theme about the importance of family, most especially fathers.

Like its predecessors, The Forever Purge is accidentally pro-Second Amendment as well as a blistering condemnation of left-wing ideology. Too bad it’s so boring.

Netflix’s “The Ice Road” stars Liam Neeson and is B-movie heaven, a real and rare treat in this anti-art age of CGI and woketardery.

“F9,” the tenth entry in the Fast & Furious universe, now ranks as the franchise’s third major letdown in a row.

HBO’s seven-part series, ‘Mare of Easttown,’ is a working-class masterpiece backed by perfect performances.

What makes “The Conjuring 3” work is not the plot but Wilson and Farmiga and a powerful theme about good versus evil.

“Nobody” is pure badass, pure entertainment, I can’t wait to see it again, I can’t wait for my wife to see it, and bring on the sequel.

“A Quiet Place” Part II opens marvelously with a shot of small town America. Main Street is dead. Nothing moves, other than the American flag flapping in a lonely breeze. Then a pickup in a real hurry zooms into frame, parks, and out jumps Lee Abbott (John Krasinski), who’s supposed to be dead.

Army of the Dead is an hour too long (150 minutes), takes itself way too seriously, and is over-plotted to the breaking point, especially with unnecessary mythology that borders on pretension.

It’s somewhat rare that an anime film gains traction at the U.S. box office or even gets a theatrical release. Growing up, the only ones I remember are Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: The Pyramid of Light, Naruto: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow, and of course, Spirited Away… and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train is blowing them all out of the water.

“Woman in the Window is so awful,” I’m angry at Netflix for wasting my time by pretending it had snagged some Big Hollywood Movie, when what it really had was a flaming dud with a troubled history.

“Those Who Wish Me Dead” is worth a look, but still a disappointment. While there are some good moments, there’s no overall sense of peril and the plot holes are so big they boggle the mind.

For the first half of the decade, movies remained as great as ever, and then began a long decline in 1996, a decline that has only worsened.

The movies that should have won the Best Picture Oscar between 1940 and 1949.

Yesterday we looked at the very first years of Best Picture winners, 1927 to 1930. Today, as we march through the decades, we look at 1931 to 1939.