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via Lionsgate Haunted house stories are a staple of the cinematic diet – and have been for decades – making it increasingly difficult for any creative team to put a new twist on a formula that’s been repeated so often. Based on the talent involved, though, there was every reason to expect 2018’s Winchester to turn out as a worthy addition to the subgenre. Co-writers and directors The Spierig Brothers had won plenty of acclaim for doing just that across their previous features, after delivered intriguing and…

via Sky Cinema Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds recently showed how to reinvent a classic Charles Dickens story into a wildly popular and rapturously received modern-day crowd-pleaser in Spirited, but you’d struggle to find any adaptations, reboots, retreats, or remakes that could turn out any worse than 2021’s Twist. On paper, retooling Oliver Twist into a street-level crime caper makes a lot of sense, but we’d be selling it short to say that the conception and execution was fatally flawed. In addition to an…

The first collaboration between Luc Besson and Milla Jovovich yielded The Fifth Element, an instant cult favorite sci-fi blockbuster that ended up as one of the 10 highest-grossing movies of 1997, so it’s little wonder the duo sought to partner up again as quickly as possible. In the end, though, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc was a huge failure. There’s an argument to be made that the historical epic may have fared much better had it arrived a year later than the October 1999 release, by which time…