In Robert Eggers’ last feature, The Witch, the writer/director showcased his fresh brand of stylized horror with a story that was slow-cooked to perfection until its juices exploded into chaos. The Lighthouse, his latest starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, pushes his characters closer to the brink, unraveling their sanity as kaleidoscopic and claustrophobic surroundings…
If you’ve read any reviews or reactions thus far, you’ve likely seen critics chastising Jay and Silent Bob Reboot for being a movie aimed at 45-year-old slacker types hungry for dick and fart jokes. Well, that’s not entirely inaccurate. But the movie being targeted to a specific audience has unfairly been spun as a negative,…
Directors Zoe Eisenberg and Phillips Payson (Throuple, Aloha From Lavaland) are back with another feature film set in the lush jungle of the Big Island of Hawaii. Stoke follows Jane, an entitled mainland tourist who hires two wannabe guides to take her to the Kilauea volcano. Shot on Hawaii island, the road-trip style drama was…
A few weeks back I was a special guest on another horror podcast – this time the Dead Ringers podcast! Dead Ringers covers horror movie double features that share similar DNA, yet still have distinct personalities. Hosted and produced by Nolan McBride and featuring a rotating cast of co-hosts (ME!), each episode is a discussion…
If I rattled off the synopsis of Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut, Booksmart, you’ll probably think you’ve seen it a million times over. Two graduating high school girls set out to finally break the rules and party on their last day of classes. Teenage hijinks ensue. Drugs, drinking, sex…well, yeah, all of that fun stuff happens.…
For a talent like Brie Larson, the sky has always been the limit. Now, she’s literally soaring the skies as Captain Marvel in a small lil Marvel film called Avengers: Endgame. But before her super-powered turn and the Oscar win that made her a household name, Larson shined in modestly-budgeted indies filled with complex character…
When last reported, Warner Bros. was actively developing a Beetlejuice sequel that would finally reunite director Tim Burton with the film’s star, Michael Keaton. Co-star Winona Ryder even confirmed the sequel to Seth Myers years ago. It’s been a while since the latest update, though, with the project seemingly rotting away in the afterlife waiting…
If we haven’t OD’d on superhero movies by now, it’s unlikely that we’ll run out of patience for the nostalgia fuel that is the Stephen King adaptation. The latest comes from Starry Eyes directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer and it’s a tale we’ve seen before: King’s 1983 novel Pet Sematary. Mary Lambert’s 1989 film…
Jordan Peele‘s Monkeypaw Productions has found its Candyman. So who’s up for the legendary role once played by the iconic Tony Todd? While the deal has yet to be inked, Variety reported today that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is in talks for the bee-friendly titular role in the upcoming entry. Shadow And Act on Twitter @JordanPeele and @NiaDaCosta’s…
When film criticism declares a movie is “style over substance,” does that incite you to queue up at the box office or convince you to wait for streaming? For many, there’s a wave of negative connotation and apathy paired with the phrase, as if too much style is a bad omen, something to approach with…