Photo Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Universal Pictures, Shudder Warning, spoilers for the plot and the ending of Speak no evilboth the 2022 film and the 2024 remake. A happy ending can send audiences smiling, but it’s the devastating endings that leave a more lasting impression. A truly grim ending can be infuriating and depressing, but at […]
Photo: COURTESY OF NETFLIX The Netflix adaptation of The perfect coupleone of Elin Hilderbrand’s hugely popular beach novels, takes an extremely liberal approach to its source material. The basics of both plots are the same: The maid of honor of a wealthy Nantucket family is found dead on the morning of the ceremony, and everyone […]
It all goes back to a presumptuous line in Tim Burton’s first Beetle juice. (Perhaps.) Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Warner Bros. Warning: Spoilers for Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceTim Burton’s sequel to his 1988 film Beetlejuiceis strange. And of course it is. The first film introduced Burton’s joyfully macabre freakiness to the mainstream audience. If Beetlejuice Squared hadn’t […]
