I've been watching Renny Harlin's three-film reboot of "The Strangers" for several years, because that's how it was foisted upon us, and now that it's finally over, I'm willing to give it some credit.
Once again, Maya (Madelaine Petsch) strikes back against those masked crazies who killed the love of her life in the first film in this trilogy. This trilogy was based on a 2008 film also called The ...
The Strangers was a massive commercial success, ensuring that this blatant one-off project was going to be franchised out ...
The Strangers – Chapter 2 is a movie built on promises. The first film in this pre-planned trilogy adapted from Bryan Bertino’s original 2008 classic functioned largely as a re-staging, a stable but ...
This post was updated Feb. 10 at 8:31 p.m. Warning: Spoilers ahead. “The Strangers: Chapter 3” arrives with the promise of finality but collapses under the weight of a franchise too eager to explain ...
At 11 p.m., opening night, I made my way to Bloomington’s AMC theater and waited for lead actors Madelaine Petsch and Froy Gutierrez to light up the screen. The overhead lights dimmed and a dark ...
The Strangers – Chapter 2 is the second installment of the new remake trilogy from director Renny Harlin, following last year’s The Strangers – Chapter 1. While that chapter is essentially a retelling ...
When Indian star and filmmaker Rishab Shetty’s “Kantara” released in 2022, few could have predicted that a Kannada-language film steeped in local folklore would turn into a cultural phenomenon. Shot ...