April Snellings

James Watkins’ chilling spook show isn’t even remotely interested in reinventing the ghost story. There’s nothing in it you haven’t seen before, but its old-school scares are executed so perfectly that it feels fresh again.

Consider me disillusioned. All these years, I’ve thought being a spy would be awesome—all globe-trotting and fancy cars and nifty gadgets. As it turns out, spies aren’t sexy at all. They’re sad, they cry a lot, and they mostly just ...

At this point, it’s hard to write about the dreaded American remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo without sounding like an apologist. The movie has only grossed around $60 million so far—a respectable sum, but not nearly enough ...

If you’re of a certain inclination, The Sitter entertaining enough to earn a cautious—and very specifically qualified—recommendation.

If you like your monsters bare-chested and angsty, you’re in luck—Hollywood has defanged the vampire, neutered the werewolf, and served both up on a whiny silver platter. Those of us who would rather our monsters be, well, monstrous can have ...

If Howard Hawks’ The Thing from Another World spoke to the paranoia of the 1950s and John Carpenter’s The Thing addressed the antagonistic relationship with our own flesh that was oh-so-’80s, what does first-time Dutch director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s ...

If they spelled out the film’s trippy main twist in the trailer, they must have saved something good for paying audiences, right?

Shark Night is crippled by its PG-13 rating; it’s a boobs-and-blood movie that is permitted to show neither.

Audiences who pushed Rise of the Planet of the Apes to a very respectable $54 million opening weekend were probably expecting nothing more than a bit of action-heavy August escapism, but we ended up with something very different: a thoughtful ...

Joe Johnston’s Captain America: The First Avenger was arguably the toughest of the Avengers prequels to pull off, but it’s also one of the most successful—if you need to rank such things, you can safely put it behind Iron Man ...