Welcome to the Author Archive for Lisa Laman

• Ten Years Ago, The Jack Black Renaissance Began Giving Audiences Goosebumps
• Jared Leto vs. Jason Segel: How To Do Fan-Fiction Right
• What's Up With Emily Blunt's Miscalculated 'The Smashing Machine' Performance?
• Before 'The Smashing Machine,' Dwayne Johnson Showed Off His Chops in 'Southland Tales'
• Leonardo DiCaprio's Acting Career Has Been Built On Being Vulnerable
• Margot Robbie Delivered One of the Best Wes Anderson Movie Performances Ever
• Why We Need More Filmed Broadway Shows like 'Hamilton' in Theaters
• How Superman Zoomed Past So Many Other Summer 2025 Movies In Quality
• Remember When Hollywood's Big Comeback Hinged on Russell Crowe and 'New Mutants'?
• What Does The New Paramount Pictures Look Like?
• 2025 Is the Comeback Year for Hollywood's Leading Men of the 2010s
• Akiva Schaffer's 'SNL' Masterpiece 'Dear Sister' Is the Genesis for 'The Naked Gun'
• The Future of Theatrical Moviegoing Should Be Accessible, Not Costly and Exclusive
• A Decade Ago, Fox Teased a Marvel Future at Comic-Con That Never Happened
• Why Materialists, Babygirl, and The Iron Claw Are A24's Most Important Recent Hits
• 'Superman' Hints at a Quieter Future for Comic-Book Movie Credit Scenes
• We Need Way More Dinosaur Movies Beyond the Jurassic Park Saga
• How 'Ted 2' Collapsed the Seth MacFarlane Cinematic Empire Ten Years Ago
• How The Pixar Empire Crumbled (Even Before COVID And Elio Arrived)
• How Many Times Must the Rom-Com Prove Itself at the Box Office?
• 'The Accountant 2's Release Strategy Makes Netflix's Anti-Movie Theater Attitude Infuriating
• Where Does Troubled 'Ballerina' Studio Lionsgate Go Next?
• 'Casper' to 'Lilo & Stitch': What We Lost in 30 Years of Live-Action Remakes
• Disney, Start Remaking Unmade Animated Movies
• How Has 'Mad Max: Fury Road' Influenced the Last Ten Years of Cinema?
• We Were Supposed to Get a New Pharrell Williams Movie ... What Happened?
• Will Summer 2025 Save This Year's Box Office?
• Which Modern Classic Movies Should Hollywood Re-Release Theatrically Next?
• Let's Talk About David Cronenberg's Trans Fanbase
• Kelly Marie Tran Was a Queer Icon Long Before 'The Wedding Banquet'
• The Faith-Based Oscar Isaac Cinematic Universe You Didn't Know About
• From Gen Z to Minecraft: What Hollywood Forgot About Its Youngest Fans
• Snow White's Songwriters Pasek & Paul Must Be Stopped for the Good of Musical Cinema
• Was Ratatouille the Worst Thing To Happen to Pixar?
• Why 'Becoming Led Zeppelin' Is 2025's Most Exciting Box Office Success, So Far
• 'F Marry Kill' Annoys Rather Than Captures Your Heart
• Before 'Anora,' How Many Truly Independent Best Picture Oscar Winners Have There Been?
• So What Does Apple TV+ Do In Original Films Now?
• How Did a Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Tommy Lee Jones Movie Completely Disappear?
• 'Companion,' 'Anora,' 'Wicked,' and Modern Women Protagonists Eschewing Assimilation
• What's With the Grown-Up Fanbase for the Movie Version of Paddington?
• Ten Years Ago, Fifty Shades of Grey Broke Box Office Records But Failed To Spawn Imitators
• American Film Distribution Is in Crisis Mode ... and It's Not Going To Get Better
• How 'Hoodwinked!' Changed January Cinema Forever
• The Biggest Box Office Lessons of 2024
• Seven 21st Century Movies That Should Be Added to the National Film Registry Next
• How Bill Skarsgård Enters Monstrous New Acting Territory with 'Nosferatu'
• Thanks Chappell Roan For Getting Us Through 2024
• How the Film Version of 'Wicked's' 'Popular' Represents the Brilliance of Its Adaptation
• Why Streaming Services Struggle So Much in the Horror Genre
• 'Tusk' and Kevin Smith's Brief, Bloody Rebellion