Captain America: Civil War is a triumph. As the latest entry in the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe, it surprises with both its ability to feel fresh despite its status as a sequel (to both Captain America: the Winter Soldier and Avengers: Age of Ultron) and its strength as an action drama – yes, drama,...

10 Cloverfield Lane is a movie that works on subverting expectations – for both the audience and its characters. It does this continually throughout its svelte 106 minute runtime, but first with its own name. The title of the film suggests some kind of tie-in to the 2008 found footage monster movie Cloverfield – and...

The latest movie to feature Charles Schulz’s iconic Peanuts gang came out this weekend, opening to warm if somewhat mixed reviews, and a respectable $45 million in the U.S. and Canada. Arriving just in time for the holidays, The Peanuts Movie, swinging for the fences with everything in its arsenal of lacquered nostalgia and...

Halloween is an opportune time to break out the cinematic horror goodies – either the ones that you’ve accumulated over the years or maybe just the ones you’ve just never had the time or the inclination to take a look at before. For the benefit of the Pop Chomp reading community, I have compiled my personal...