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‘Tag’ Trailer: Will These Man-Children Get Their Comeuppance?
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Amma Asante is Hitting the Big Leagues with a Cold War Thriller
The British director is a thoughtful pick for this real-life drama. → Read More
Spike Lee is Making a Superhero Joint With ‘Nightwatch’
Sony is stepping up their superhero game with a huge directorial coup. → Read More
Guillermo del Toro is Looking Out For the Next Generation of Mexican Oscar Winners
Mexico's recent dominance of the Best Director category looks set to continue. → Read More
‘Black Panther’ is Officially the First Best Picture Contender of 2018
Could a superhero movie actually go the distance this year? → Read More
Ranking the Directors of The James Bond Franchise
What kind of lineage would the Bond 25 director be joining? From journeymen to auteurs, we rank the 007 helmers. → Read More
Muschietti’s Muse: Jessica Chastain in ‘Mama’
Jessica Chastain would make a great final woman in IT: Chapter Two. The fans may have helped make this happen, but Muschietti and Chastain go way back. → Read More
There Should Always be 10 Best Picture Nominees
The Academy still gets it wrong sometimes. This year’s Oscar nominees were surprisingly strong. But there’s one area where the Academy continues to slip up: the number of Best Picture nominees. → Read More
It’s Up to Fans to Promote Hidden Streaming Gems
We have the power. However much money the streaming giants spend on original content, it seems they will always bury certain noteworthy titles. Buzzy festival acquisitions or indie-leaning original productions can easily get lost behind the big new original series, Hollywood blockbuster… or Bright. → Read More
The Ever-Changing Aspect Ratios of the Jurassic Park Franchise
Few franchises have undergone as many aesthetic changes as Jurassic Park. Yes, other series have switched from film to digital and new cinematographers and directors have altered the visual style over time, but the Jurassic films have changed the very frame of the action… twice. → Read More
Man Solo: The New ‘Star Wars Story’ is Behind the Times
Star Wars has changed since we last saw young Han Solo in 1983’s Return of the Jedi. This leaves Solo: A Star Wars Story with the dubious honor of being the first new Star Wars film to be led by a male character. → Read More
"Riverdale": Dazzling High School Horror
Horror television is in a good place right now. The Exorcist, Channel Zero and Stranger Things are all taking small screen horror to interesting new places → Read More
5 Horror Subgenres That Would Work in a Superhero Film
In recent years, we’ve seen countless genre mashups in the superhero world – Logan’s a western, Guardians of the Galaxy’s a space opera, Spider-Man: Homeco → Read More
To Be Continued: On ‘IT’s’ Terrific Marketing Campaign
What a weekend! New Line Cinema’s adaptation of Stephen King’s “IT” has just had the best opening weekend for a horror film ever. But, let’s be honest here → Read More
Top 10 Biggest Horror Box Office Openings of All Time
The official final numbers aren’t even in yet, but IT is set to have the biggest opening weekend ever for a horror film. But just how high is Andy Muschiet → Read More
[FrightFest Review] 'The End?' is a Case of High Concept, Low Execution
The strangely titled The End? combines a single location survival thriller with a zombie film, as successful money man Claudio’s (Alessandro Roja) elevator → Read More
[FrightFest Review] 'The Terror of Hallow's Eve' is a New Halloween Treat
The opening of The Terror of Hallow’s Eve feels very familiar. It’s October 30, 1981. Three high school girls walk the suburbs. When separated, a rustle in → Read More
[FrightFest Review] 'Our Evil' is Emotionally Charges and Violent
Guillermo Del Toro has become the king of blending the worlds of the living and the dead. So many of his films explore a world of ghosts and monsters lying → Read More
[FrightFest Review] 'Veronica' is a Hitchcockian Psychosexual Thriller
Veronica is an example of a titling oversight gone right. I went into Carlos Algara and Alejandro Martinez-Beltran‘s film expecting a Ouija board shocker f → Read More
[FrightFest Review] 'Attack of the Adult Babies' is an Exercise in Cinematic Disgust
For anyone still struggling to understand why Brexit happened, Dominic Brunt has put together a unique British social class farce to help you out, Attack o → Read More