For fans of the franchise, Ghostbusters: Afterlife was a winning combination of a trip down memory lane and an expansion of the franchise, placing a new family at the center of the story while tying itself directly to the events of the 1984 original.
Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women has been adapted for the big screen no less than seven times, but there's one recurring theme that's defined each spin on the source material, whether we're talking about the 1917 silent version or the critically acclaimed 2019 movie.
On top of being one of the most prominent names in modern fashion, Tom Ford is also an accomplished filmmaker, having written and directed A Single Man and Nocturnal Animals, both of which won hugely positive reviews from critics and landed some awards season recognition.
With the first of December falling on a Wednesday, Netflix subscribers are guaranteed a midweek bonanza of new content when the streaming service reloads and refreshes its library as we head into the final month of 2021.
While the majority of major Hollywood franchises would come under fire for deliberately positioning a mega budget blockbuster as one half of an incomplete story, Avengers: Infinity War got away with it by delivering one of the most shocking endings in recent memory.
We've become accustomed to the Marvel Cinematic Universe's opening fanfare precluding every one of the franchise's film and television projects, but as the roster of heroes continues to expand, the studio needs to keep updating the intro to reflect the newest faces on the block.
It's admittedly beginning to grow a little tiring hearing filmmakers of a certain generation bash the superhero genre for its ubiquity, but you can understand where they're coming from in terms of their background and how they got into the industry in the first place.
Critics and fans may have vastly different opinions on how good of a movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife is, but one thing everyone appears to agree on is that McKenna Grace's Phoebe is the undoubted star of the show.
Yeon Sang-ho's Train to Busan was a hot topic of conversation among fans recently, but it had nothing to do with the merits of the 2016 action horror that scored widespread acclaim from critics and became an international phenomenon after exploding onto the scene in bloody fashion.
If you've seen a movie, watched a TV show or played a video game with even the most tangential of connections to the Japanese criminal underworld, then you'll be more than familiar with the Yakuza. To an extent, at least.