Each weekend, 5 to Find searches for five films to add to your weekend watch-list. Hopefully we can add some good cinema to your schedule.

Has there ever been a sequel quite so simultaneously satisfying and insane as GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH? Where the first film was a delightful, playful homage to 50's and 60's small-town sci-fi, the second was a hyper-kinetic, bright-lights-big-city, somewhat unnecessary statement about mid-80's excess.

Ah, the record store. For a certain percentage of Americans, namely those of us born between 1950 and 1990, it was the coolest place on earth.

Though I consider myself a fan of Live Draw Taiwan effects over CGI, I do have to admit that motion capture is pretty freaking cool. It's a singular kind of acting, one that requires the performer to be, in most cases, something other than human, requiring whole new dimensions of physical presence and mental awareness to bring

To call anything Christopher Nolan has done a "misfire" wouldn't be wholly accurate, though every major director has a few minor films that don't have the same social, artistic, or cultural impact as certain others. INSOMNIA is one of these films.

There’s a pretty good chance you missed THE IRON GIANT on its original theatrical run. The marketers couldn’t figure out how to sell The Feel-Good Cold War Cartoon of the Summer.

Each year the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences gives out a few Honorary Oscars to actors, directors, producers et al to whom they feel merit is warranted, if not for specific work then for their work in general.

Another day, another new bit of STAR WARS EPISODE VII info, this time courtesy of the franchise's Instagram account. It's a brand new teaser with brand new images sure to introduce you to brand new levels of unbearable anticipation,

When I was a senior in college, I wrote a thesis on the narrative similarities between Martin Scorsese's GOODFELLAS and Paul Thomas Anderson's BOOGIE NIGHTS. Both center themselves around a young up-and-comer in an illicit industry, organized crime and pornography respectively, both showcase the kind of surrogate family that can be formed by people in

Film for film, there aren't a lot of actors or actresses out there carving as interesting a career path as Kristen Wiig. Ever since leaving SNL, the show that made her a household name, Wiig has continually eschewed expectations when it comes to the roles she's taken on the big screen.

I'm going to say something that I know isn't popular. I'm going to say something that is so unpopular in our circle of media junkies, in fact, that it might cause you to question not only my taste level, but also possibly my ability to ever discuss media. Fair warning, is all. Here we go:

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In the Coen Brothers' canon, A SERIOUS MAN is a critically respected but popularly overlooked film, perhaps because the tone of the movie is more subtle than others, perhaps because it's a film so rooted in faith and religion, or perhaps because it has no real stars.

One of the central maxims of filmmaking has always been, "show, don't tell." For the screenwriter, this is a chance to exercise their more prosaic abilities. For the director, it's a chance to advance the story by more organic, less exposition-dependent means. And for the actor, it's an opportunity to show what they're really made of.

The folks at House by the Video Store have a fun propensity for switching out movie soundtracks. They’ve done it with PSYCHO and IT FOLLOWS (which you can watch here) and now they’ve done it for HALLOWEEN and THE GUEST, a John Carpenter film and a movie so influenced by Carpenter, it uses the same font

"THE KARATE KID is the story of Daniel, a violent sociopath who moves to a California town and begins tormenting a local boy and his friends."

And thus begins the descent into the rabbit hole that is the entire realignment of your childhood.

When last we heard from Italian auteur Paolo Sorrentino, he was walking away with the 2014 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for THE GREAT BEAUTY, an author's rumination on life beyond secular hedonism. Now he's back with YOUTH, another look at the winter of creativity.

What? This? It's just a mashup of trailers for Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior and Mad Max: Fury Road. No big deal. We're just gonna leave it here.

It wasn't a week ago we reported that Jon Schnepp, director of the documentary The Death of Superman Lives, had let it drop that Mad Max director George Miller was in talks with DC and Warner Brothers to direct Man of Steel 2. Turns out that may only be half-true.

A new Ghostbusters movie was, for the better part of this century, cinema's Chinese Democracy. More rumor than reality, it seemed destined to maliciously tease us every six months or so with the possibility of being real.

Hey Jack and Jills! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Movie Madness, your weekly look at the new releases hitting the shelves that are worth your dollars.

Out of all the new characters in JJ Abrams' Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Kylo Ren has been the one who's most captivated fans. He's got that badass robe, that hardcore mask, and the gnarliest lightsaber yet; dude's like Snake Eyes went space ninja.

Tony Scott, a master of visual chaos. Speed, bullets, and brawn shot in shades of blue and red through thick smoke and salty language. From vampires to vengeance. He was never subtle, but I am not sure I ever wanted him to be. His films were like race cars, they looked amazing, designed and built for

EX MACHINA is one of the best films of 2015. A stunning achievement for science fiction and film that will be studied and celebrated in equal measure. Good science fiction is common in the theater: EDGE OF TOMORROW, INTERSTELLAR, but science fiction that transcends the genre is rare. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is bigger than

To say they don't make 'em like they used to is especially true when you're talking about horror movies. But to be fair, it's also true that we the audience don't watch 'em like we used to.