Viral Haunting Story Best When Played For Laughs
In his most recent tenure at Blumhouse, writer-director Christopher Landon showed a talent for making movies fun. His horror-comedies Happy Death Day and Freaky got a lot of mileage out of their (sub)genre-mashing conceits, but the self-awareness was tempered with…
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Kerry Washington and Delroy Lindo Elevate Hulu Dramedy Series
Home TV Reviews 'UnPrisoned' Review: Kerry Washington and Delroy Lindo Elevate Hulu's Dramedy Series We all could use a lot more Delroy Lindo in our lives and this new show, however uneven it remains, delivers on that from start to…
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Jason Segel Subverts Male Rom-Com Tropes in ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’
Matthew McConaughey runs after Kate Hudson's taxi in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Will Smith is a professional dating coach for men in Hitch. A rich, reticent Richard Gere shows a prostitute the high life in Pretty…
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Man Vs. Wild: Was the Show Fake?
Which elements of Man Vs. Wild call its authenticity into question? Discovery Communications Man Vs. Wild is a widely popular show that started airing in 2006 and is still streamed today. It was initially steamed on the Discovery Channel, but…
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Children of the Corn Director and Stars on Their New Stephen King Movie
The new Children of the Corn certainly follows the rudimentary template of the story — a creepy cult of kids in a corn field killing adults — but it veers from Stephen King's original and the many cinematic adaptations in…
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The 25 Most Anticipated Horror Films Of 2023
2022 was a great year for horror, with savvy niche distributors like IFC Midnight, Shudder, Neon, and A24 putting out some fantastic flicks and big studios going for broke on gonzo titles like “Barbarian,” “Smile,” and Jordan Peele’s “Nope.” 2023…
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Wanda Sykes & Ike Barinholtz on Mel Brooks
If you’d said to any Mel Brooks fan even three years ago that we’d finally be getting a long-awaited sequel to History of the World, Part I, the epic parody film that took audiences through all of human history, they’d…
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Sloane: A Jazz Singer | Film Threat
Director Michael Lippert’s documentary, Sloane: A Jazz Singer, shines the spotlight on the career of the relatively unknown torch singer Carol Sloane. Sloane was active in the 1960s and then again in the 80s. She performed at the 1961 Newport Jazz…
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‘Missing’ Sets Digital & Blu-ray Release Dates
Home Movie News 'Missing': Storm Reid-led Thriller Sets Digital and Blu-ray Release Dates "No one disappears without a trace." Image via Sony Another visual storytelling technique called "screen life," which presents a narrative through the lens of digital devices, has…
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Woody Harrelson Stars in Shaggy Underdog Story
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a decade since we’ve seen an actual Farrelly brothers movie. After 2014’s Dumb and Dumber To, Peter Farrelly went off on his own, won the Best Picture Oscar for Green Book, and…
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19 Oscars Facts That Sound Fake, But Are Shockingly True
19 Oscars Facts That Sound Fake, But Are Shockingly True The Oscars are widely considered to be the most prestigious of film awards. Winning a gold-plated statuette is one of the highest honors a creative could wish for. Despite the…
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“We Expected for Pretty Much No One To See It”: Justin Zuckerman on Yelling Fire in an Empty Theater
Isadora Leiva in Yelling Fire in an Empty Theater. I first saw Justin Zuckerman’s Yelling Fire in an Empty Theater—the writer-director’s ultra-low-budget, MiniDV-shot feature debut—back in December at Williamsburg’s Spectacle Theater. I’d been invited on a whim by the film’s…
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