Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The official summary for Anaconda partially reads, “When a midlife crisis pushes them to ...

“Anaconda” has slithered its way to a box office milestone. The Sony adventure comedy, starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd, has crossed $100 million at the worldwide box office. As of Friday, the film’s ...

We often ask ourselves why on earth some of these movies get made — particularly reboots. When one gets announced, it's frequently met with a collective eyeroll from the internet. Take, for example, ...

The movie gets at least one thing right: Rebooting the shlocky, widely-panned creature-feature, starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd, is a goofy idea. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Jack Black and Paul Rudd’s new monster snake comedy Anaconda is somewhat lacking in bite, according to Rotten Tomatoes’ critics. “When a midlife crisis pushes them to finally go for it, they head deep ...

The 1997 creature feature gets a self-referential redo that works best when it allows its two stars to lean into silliness Anyone rightly suspicious of comedies that try to make sure they have plenty ...

Jack Black and Paul Rudd star in a self-aware revival of so-bad-it’s-good ’90s favorite 'Anaconda,' where the only joke that lands is the idea that anyone would want to remake that movie. With ...

I guess it’s funny that Luis Llosa’s cable TV classic — a silly “Jaws” riff about a giant CGI serpent who slurps down the members of a documentary crew as they drift along the Amazon — would be ...

There are movies that you watch because they add to humanity’s great history of finding life’s meaning through art, and then there are movies that you watch because it’s fun to hear someone say, in ...

It is probably too much hyperbole to call Sony’s Anaconda the funniest movie of the year, but for my money it really is. It initially started out to be the studio’s desire to remake or “reimagine” its ...

The original Anaconda is one of the greatest so-bad-it’s-good horror movies of all time. The plot is illogical, the CGI snake is cartoonish, the cast is full of future A-listers (Jennifer Lopez! Owen ...

Tom Gormican told the CCXP crowd that the reimagining of the 1997 horror film centers on "a meta concept that is a celebration of the original but is a wholly new idea." By Ryan Gajewski Senior ...