A year ago, "M3GAN," one of the snazziest films ever produced by Blumhouse Productions, was the exception to the rule of first-weekend-of-January trash thrillers. The movie was witty and shivery ...

Some of these memories are tarnished by a sense of darkness. Cinema has long depicted this; for every luxurious scene there are two tarred by the same brooding brush, representing something malevolent ...