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, ...

Gormican's meta twist on the 1997 killer snake movie won him the job after Sony received more run-of-the-mill pitches: "We heard from the producers after the fact that they'd heard 50 or 60 takes of ...

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 ...

Running time: 100 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence/action, strong language, some drug use and suggestive references). In theaters Dec. 25. Who would have thought that 1997’s “Anaconda,” in which ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ll give Tom Gormican’s comedy reboot of “Anaconda” this much: It’s the fourth or fifth best movie in the “Anaconda” series. It’s behind the original “Anaconda,” obviously, because there’s no beating ...

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 ...