Cinema Scholars

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If I’m ranking all of the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies, it would go like this: Jurassic Park (1993), The End of Oak Street, a tie between Jurassic Park 2 (1997) and 3, fifty feet of crap, and then a four-way...

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It seems like whenever a new horror film is released, it has to be one of two things: a film added to a franchise- it does not even have to be a sequel- or a movie starting a new franchise. In the case of Insidious: Out of the Further, it is the former. What started as a great, potentially original idea for a horror film...

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Throughout the history of the moving image, there have been a handful of films classified as a “phenomenon.” Examples of this are The Godfather (1972), Jaws (1975), and The Blair Witch Project (1999), to name a few. These were films that pushed the needle, both commerci...

Cinema Scholars reviews Andrew Patterson’s whimsical honey heist, The Rivals of Amziah King. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Angelina LookingGlass, and Kurt Russell. Black Bear Pictures is releasing The Rivals of Amziah King in theaters nationwide on August 21, 2026.

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I fell in love with Looney Tunes as a boy. It was just part of growing up. I would come home from school, and there were Bugs, Daffy, and the gang right there for my pleasure. As I got older, I still loved those cartoons. I think what I loved so much was that the writers were pretty savvy. They knew adults would be watching these with their child...