If you were ever a kid, and we assume you were, you probably know about Dr. Dolittle, the man who could talk to animals. Hugh Lofting’s tales are almost a century old, and you might have even seen the 1967 Rex Harrison film. This time around, Robert Downey Jr. takes on the role in a…
January tends to be a dumping ground for movies. Everyone’s wrapped up in awards talk, and studios are busy pushing their films for Oscar consideration. Sometimes, as a critic, I wonder if studios can walk and chew gum at the same time, much less release a big-budget action film in January while trying to navigate…
Get the tissues ready. After a two-month break, This Is Us is returning Tuesday, January 14th, and so many questions need to be answered – like what’s happening with Kate (Chrissy Metz) and Toby (Chris Sullivan)? Their seemingly happy marriage starts to take a wrong turn when Toby begins to pursue different interests and hides…
The wait is over – fans can now see Lauren Graham return to her theater roots and belt out musical numbers like The Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” in the new NBC series Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. The show follows the story of Zoey (Jane Levy), a computer coder who has the ability to…
Waaaayyyy back in what we call the Golden Age of Hollywood, it wouldn’t be unusual for studios to only release 50 or 60 films and maybe only a few more than 100 worldwide. Now, that number is generally surpassed by the end of the first quarter of each year. With that giant upswing in content…
Deep in the Marianas Trench, a group of subsea workers are drilling into the Earth’s crust 7 miles underwater. However, catastrophe strikes when some unknown force destroys their facility. A small group of survivors is all that remains of the crew. Stranded with no hope of rescue, they come up with a desperate plan. They must make…
Hopefully, you read the first part of our 2020 Oscar nominations predictions, so you already know they will be announced on the morning of Monday, January 13. The Cut-off for Academy members to submit ballots was yesterday, Tuesday, January 7, so we should already be in the tabulation part of the Oscar process. But let’s…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the 2020 Oscar nominations on the morning of Monday, January 13, and it should be an exciting year with so many great movies of different sizes and varieties. Sure, there have been some mega-blockbusters and a few smaller mini-blockbusters, but there have also been a…
Little Women has been both a marvel and a frustration since it was written. An immortal story of young women growing to adulthood shorn of cliché and romanticism and replacing it with simple humanism and the feel of a moment captured in time. It’s so powerful that it’s as compelling today as it was 150…
Spies in Disguise opens in theaters on Christmas Day, and VitalThrills.com recently got a chance to attend a roundtable discussion with directors Troy Quane and Nick Bruno, as well as star Masi Oka (Heroes). We learned all about how this is a love letter to spy movies, the worst thing Oka’s character, Kimura, has ever…
In the run-up to the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and the end of the Skywalker Saga, we took a look back at all of the Saga films and re-evaluated them and their legacy as a whole. You can start at the beginning with A New Hope by clicking here. Star Wars:…
There are good movies. There are bad movies. There are a lot of mediocre movies. And sometimes, just sometimes, there are movies that reach the Nietzschean ideal of the Übermensch, existing beyond silly ideas like good and evil. I looked into the abyss, and Cats was staring back at me. If I were less professional,…
Jake Hoot may have only been a one-chair turn in Season 17 of NBC’s The Voice, but the 31-year-old artist just proved his talents by taking home the top prize. The coach of The Voice Season 17 winner, Kelly Clarkson, said she keeps making fun of the other coaches for not turning. “Other than the one…
In the run-up to the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and the end of the Skywalker Saga, we will be taking a look back at all of the Saga films and re-evaluating them and their legacy as a whole. Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi Either a reaction to the creative…
As someone who was there at the beginning of that fateful summer of 1977, I’ve ridden the highs and the lows of the Star Wars saga over the years. During that time, there have been, shall we say, some truths I’ve clung to that depended greatly on my own point of view. I’ve reevaluated these films…
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ends more than a franchise. It ends an era. Yes, we have The Mandalorian, and I love Baby Yoda (okay, The Child) with my entire heart, but this is bigger. A New Hope is my first conscious movie memory. Star Wars has literally changed my entire life and charted the course of…
In the run-up to the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and the end of the Skywalker Saga, we will be taking a look back at all of the Saga films and re-evaluating them and their legacy as a whole. Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens The Star Wars series has long…
In the run-up to the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and the end of the Skywalker Saga, we will be taking a look back at all of the Saga films and re-evaluating them and their legacy as a whole. Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith In the look back on…
In the run-up to the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and the end of the Skywalker Saga, we will be taking a look back at all of the Saga films and re-evaluating them and their legacy as a whole. Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones The transition film from the…
In the run-up to the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and the end of the Skywalker Saga, we will be taking a look back at all of the Saga films and re-evaluating them and their legacy as a whole. Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace Here’s where things get weird. As much…