Karyn Kusama’s upcoming crime-thriller Destroyer looks extreme. If you’ve seen the director’s 2015 film, The Invitation, that probably comes as no surprise. Per the movie’s synopsis, “LAPD detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman), as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later,…
Jordan Peele’s directorial debut is about racism and social injustices, but not of the Nazi, alt-right variety. Rather, his film Get Out focuses on the ways middle-class white liberals act and the things they say that in turn make black people feel so uncomfortable. From the “I would’ve voted for Obama a third time if…
Jordan Peele (RIP, Key & Peele) has a new horror movie hitting theaters in February that he not only wrote, but also directed. The horror-thriller, entitled Get Out, follows a black guy, Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), as he travels upstate with his white girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams), to meet the parents. After being profiled and harassed by a racists cop, Chris’…
Mostly everything you’ve already heard about The Cabin in the Woods is true. Yes, it’s almost impossible to truly showcase the film’s depth without getting all spoiler-y. Yes, Joss Whedon (and co-writer/director Drew Goddard) has done it again, creating one of the most unique and visual horror experiences in years. Yes, Cabin is perhaps the…
After one view of the new trailer for Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s The Cabin in the Woods, my mind is reeling. It appears to have the brutality of the Saw series, with the setting of The Evil Dead, splashed with the organized terror of The Hunger Games. Is that even possible?! Originally shelved by…