Hokum Damian McCarthy knows how to scare an audience. At the Hokum premiere at SXSW, screams and giggles filled the theater as festivalgoers jumped in their seats and covered their eyes watching McCarthy’s tightly wound trap spring out at them—sometimes…
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Marvel may have some of the most popular characters in comic book history, but where the brand has really shone is with its teams. One of the first that comes to mind is Marvel’s First Family, aka The Fantastic Four,…
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There’ll Likely Be Michael Jackson Vigils Throughout the Night A day in the life of the internet is impossible to reconstruct as a feature film. The pace of the scroll is too quick; any given snapshot is too algorithmically myopic…
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Have you ever wondered what really goes into making your favorite shows and movies? At Collider, we’re now taking you behind the scenes with the actors, directors, writers, and crew who bring the stories to life. Collider Access is an…
Read moreFilm Threat Publisher Chris Gore sat down with writer-director David St. Clair to talk about his debut feature, The Lonely Crowd, a romantic thriller now streaming on Prime Video. The film follows two strangers on what starts as a first…
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American Dream Set in Austin, Minnesota, a company town where nearly every resident has a connection to food-processing giant Hormel Foods, Barbara Kopple’s American Dream (1990) embeds with unionized Hormel meatpackers as they respond to a 23 percent hourly wage…
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[Editor's Note: The following contains The Four Seasons Season 2 spoilers] Summary Collider's Steve Weintraub talks with the cast of Season 2 of Netflix's The Four Seasons. Tina Fey and Will Forte discuss David Tennant and that series finale cliffhanger.…
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In the heart of Salt Lake City, two brothers—Taylor and Ethan Paur—have created something deliberately unconventional. Their debut feature film, By His Hand, is a neo-western cult thriller road chase film that refuses to be a crowd-pleaser. And that’s entirely…
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Blue Film Blue, as it pertains to the material and sociopolitical histories of cinema, is a color associated with legend, conjecture, and etymological ambiguity. During the heightened moral panic and puritanical tyranny of Hays Code–era Hollywood, blue grease pencils were…
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Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for the Spider-Noir finale. Summary In the Prime Video series 'Spider-Noir,' Spider-Man is reimagined as a PI named Ben Reilly in 1930s New York. Sandman is a tortured, layered antihero tied to Cat, and…
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In a conservative religious compound in the Southeast, a young Daril Fannin was told that television was the Devil’s tool—that Satan would use the small screen to control their minds. His bedroom, his parents’ bedroom, the kitchen, and the living…
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Two Seasons, Two Strangers Amidst a surge of interest in contemporary Japanese cinema in the West, Sho Miyake is not yet a household name—but his reputation is only growing. Since graduating from the Film School of Tokyo, Miyake has been…
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