In the Shallows (2024) combines sculptural collage with ink-and-paint animation to explore the fragmented, overstimulated nature of today’s media environment. Filmmaker Arash Akhgari creates a ...

Blake Lively is, to my mind, an underrated actress, a star in the classic tradition. Her acting has, unfortunately, taken a backseat to legal drama of late, but if you look past that — and you should ...

While the shark is certainly a terrifying menace in The Shallows, its home environment of the sea is the very thing that allows it to be scary in the first place. While Lively’s Nancy is stranded with ...

*I still remember being scared out of my mind when I saw Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic Jaws for the first time, at the theater. We had seen nothing like it on screen. It became the first Hollywood ...

“The Shallows” is the ubiquitous summer shark movie. However, it is very much worth seeing for many other reasons. If you can forgive the requisite foreshadowing “shark point-of-view” shots covered by ...

Earnest Civil War drama, alien invasion, a horror film about fashion modeling and a bikini-clad woman vs. a shark: Yep, it's quite a variety at the movies this weekend. Director Jaume Collet-Serra ...

Every summer needs a movie that’s as sun-drenched and easy-breezy as “The Shallows,” the Blake Lively vehicle that pits surfer vs. shark. On a triple digit day, you won’t be sorry to duck into this ...