The Final Destination franchise is anything you want it to be. Its six not-so-varied variations of death engaging in a cruelly one-sided game of…
Over the last 30 years, the Mission: Impossible series has mutated from a simple blockbuster star vehicle, to an action director’s showcase for the…
Over the course of three seasons, I Think You Should Leave has cemented Tim Robinson as a genuinely iconic comedic performer. With episodes under…
Titles are a funny thing. Adapted from a 2020 novel of the same name, Eli Craig’s horror-comedy Clown in a Cornfield takes the same tact as…
What is it going to take for the Marvel Cinematic Universe to right the ship? Even the monolith’s most diehard fans are starting to…
Not all cinema exists to tell a story. Certain filmmakers may refer to themselves as storytellers, and certain writers on may claim that the…
It’s been eight years since The Raid director Gareth Evans served as the man behind the camera on a feature film (that would be…
While the title gives the impression that this is an Asylum-style mockbuster ripping off the little-loved Brad Pitt-starring Bullet Train, the new Bullet Train…
There are few genuinely pleasurable elements in Daniel Minahan’s On Swift Horses. Adapted by Bryce Kass from Shannon Pufahl’s novel of the same name,…
Much has been written about the veritable glut of garbage films put out by the various streaming services in the post-COVID landscape, to the…
If you know anything at all about French director François Ozon, then you realize just how little we know about him. Sure, we have…
Stray dogs, lone horses, and rampant horniness may not make for pleasing documentary subject matter, but they add to the sense of joie de…
In Fire Island, director Andrew Ahn and writer/actor Joel Kim Booster retrofitted Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, not just as a means to reflect…
What can be done with the anger that tragedy bears? Brett Neveu wrote Eric LaRue for the stage in the wake of the Columbine…
In 1984, Jeffrey Katzenberg was appointed chairman of The Walt Disney Studios during the final production stages of The Black Cauldron, meaning at a…
After Stephen Cognetti injected some much needed life into the largely sterile and drab Hell House franchise with his previous film Hell House LLC…
Press Your Luck, an American game show that first aired in 1983, is arguably most notable for contributing the expression “No Whammies, stop!” to…
In a recent interview with critic Carlos Aguilar, filmmaker Isaac Ezban recounts seeing Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth while in film school and being…