Kinemalogue

FALL II: DEADPOINT 2026 Directed by Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig Written by Jonathan Frank and Scott Mann Spoilers: moderate Fall, Scott Mann's 2022 sleeper hit that I, at least, did not sleep on, was pretty great.

BATMAN 1989 Directed by Tim Burton Written by Sam Hamm and Warren Skaaren Spoilers: severe By the late 1970s, Batman had become a figure of ridicule in the wider culture; this would not have been the case for comic book fans by the late 1970s, for the she…

THE ODYSSEY 2026 Written and directed by Christopher Nolan Spoilers: effectively inapplicable, though perhaps high, if this is your first exposure to any modern retelling of the Greek Epic Cycle I forget who I heard it from—or if I heard it from anyone, t…

THE END OF OAK STREET 2026 Written and directed by David Robert Mitchell Spoilers: mild There's eventually a more instrumental explanation, but until then about the only reason I could imagine that The End of Oak Street happens in 1982 is because it simply

BEETLEJUICE 1988 Directed by Tim Burton Written by Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, and Warren Skaaren Spoilers: high In speaking of any Golden Age of Tim Burton, almost everyone agrees it begins immediately in 1985 with his first feature film, Pee-wee's B…

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS 1990 Directed by Tim Burton Written by Caroline Thompson and Tim Burton Spoilers: severe Edward Scissorhands is the kind of movie you get to make after you made Batman, and probably only after you made Batman, or the equivalent of Batm…

PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE 1985 Directed by Tim Burton Written by Phil Hartman, Michael Varhol, and Paul Reubens Spoilers: high Pee-wee's Big Adventure—a precious bauble even if it weren't so surprisingly important to the intertwined histories of film and te…

THE DRAMA 2026 Written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli Spoilers: would be a complete waste of time at anything lower than "high," so high The Drama made a moderate-sized splash during its release back in the spring—it's not the most challenging bar for a

I WANT YOUR SEX 2026 Directed by Gregg Araki Written by Karley Sciortino and Gregg Araki Spoilers: moderate Maybe it would have happened more gradually for someone who hadn't just caught up with the last of his so-called "Teenage Apocalypse" trilogy the n…

CORPSE BRIDE 2005 Directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton Written by John August, Caroline Thompson, Pamela Pettler, and Tim Burton Spoilers: highish When the Golden Age of Tim Burton ended is a matter of debate, with some unwilling to consider it even la…

WINNIE THE POOH 2011 Directed by Stephen Anderson and Don Hall Written by a bunch Spoilers: More-or-less inapplicable, as I'm sure you could guess Only eight months earlier, Disney had released Tangled, their 50th "canonical" animated feature, a film unde…

THE INVITE 2026 Directed by Olivia Wilde Written by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones (based on the movie Sentimental by Cesc Gay) Spoilers: moderate I could be accused—I would welcome the accusation—of being a much bigger-than-average fan of Olivia Wilde's

TANGLED 2010 Directed by Byron Howard and Nathan Greno Written by Dan Fogelman, plus innumerable others, over more than a decade Spoilers: severe As I've made it clear that I date Disney's Second Renaissance back to 2008 and the ever-underrated Bolt (which

SUPERGIRL 2026 Directed by Craig Gillespie Written by Ana Nogueira and Jeremy Slater (based on the comic book Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King and Bilquis Evely) Spoilers: moderate Of the many angles from which one could approach Supergirl, probab…

THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD 2026 Written and directed by Michael Sarnoski Spoilers: moderate The Death of Robin Hood would have it—or at least star and executive producer Hugh Jackman would have it, as he's explained it thus in a whole trailer for his film, so

ROBIN HOOD 2018 Directed by Otto Bathurst Written by Ben Chandler and David James Kelly Spoilers: moderate In the mid-10s, Hollywood had no fewer than three Robin Hoods in development, and that's mysterious to me, given that only a few years earlier, Ridl…

ROBIN HOOD 2010 Directed by Ridley Scott Written by Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris, and Brian Helgeland Spoilers: moderate, but higher than you'd think possible in a movie described as "the origin of Robin Hood" You can't say that the 2010 film bearing the simp…

ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS 1993 Directed by Mel Brooks Written by Evan Chandler, J.

HOPPERS 2026 Directed by Daniel Chong Written by Jesse Andrews and Daniel Chong Spoilers: moderate The only way out is through, they sometimes say, and such is the case with Pixar and that studio's most recently-released film, Hoppers, which did the estim…

I LOVE BOOSTERS 2026 Written and directed by Boots Riley Spoilers: moderate Whatever else, you gotta be a little amazed that in A.D. 2026 you can go out to your regular old AMC multiplex in Pennsylvania and watch some genuine communist propaganda—explicit…

DISCLOSURE DAY 2026 Directed by Steven Spielberg Written by David Koepp and Steven Spielberg Spoilers: moderate The last several years of Steven Spielberg's career, as many as eight years and three movies by my count, have been devoted to either tying up…

HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS 1987 Directed by William Dear Written by William E.

ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES 1991 Directed by Kevin Reynolds Written by Pen Densham and John Watson Spoilers: inapplicable, really Robin Hood's theatrical appearances died back during the 70s, following a period of thirty-odd years where his story was to…

ROBIN AND MARIAN 1976 Directed by Richard Lester Written by James Goldman Spoilers: moderate shifting pretty immediately into severe, and I guess you could feel deceived that I said it was ever "moderate" The ending of Robin and Marian is not, in broad st…

THE BANDIT OF SHERWOOD FOREST 1946 Directed by Henry Levin and George Sherman Written by Wilfred H.