The horror genre has had an interesting trajectory over the course of cinema. The 1970s was one of its most interesting periods. Films like Halloween (1978), The Wicker Man (1973), and The Exorcist (1973) helped define the genre. There was… Read More ›
There was an immense feeling of betrayal once the critical response to The Last Voyage of the Demeter hit outlets the day before its release, and while a 49% on Rotten Tomatoes isn’t the worst score that a film could… Read More ›
Killers of the Flower Moon is an achievement in cinema. Respectful, relentless, and remarkably paced, the film sees the 80-year-old master filmmaker, “Maestro Scorsese” as younger filmmakers call Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street, Goodfellas), prove himself to be… Read More ›
It’s the hope that kills you. – Mae Green, Ted Lasso In her debut feature film, writer/director Marleen Gorris confronted gender expectations and equity with psychological crime thriller A Question of Silence (1982), only to follow it up with a… Read More ›
Last month, Unearthed Films released both a Blu-ray and DVD edition of Stefano Sollima’s 2015 crime drama Suburra. Now, thanks to MVD Entertainment Group, EoM is delighted to give away one (1) Blu-ray edition of Suburra to one lucky individual. Full details… Read More ›
It’s always a pleasure to join Noel T. Manning for a chat about movies via his program Meet Me at the Movies and even more so when the topic is centered on films I’m excited to see in the tail end… Read More ›
Home releases bring with them a certain weight of expectation for cinephiles and film fans. For newer ones, it’s the promise that they’ll always be available, safe from a distributor or studio’s license dissolution or server deletion. For older films,… Read More ›
As I grow older, I find my taste in horror slowly but surely changing with each year, my taste for finding what could jolt me with the most adrenaline-pumping action in my youth slowly morphing into a preference for things… Read More ›
Since 2020’s Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge, a new animated film within this version of the MK universe has released each year. The first follow-up, Battle of the Realms (2021), is a direct sequel, carrying over the events of Scorpion’s… Read More ›
From October 1995 to March 1996, dystopian mech anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, the brainchild of filmmaker Hideaki Anno (Shin Godzilla), broadcast in Japan, eventually coming available elsewhere in the world. It told the story of an alt-Earth in which the… Read More ›
Before diving into one of October’s 4K Criterion releases, I want to acknowledge that this is not a never-before-seen 4K as Arrow in the UK has released Videodrome previously. Now, I do not know, with any form of certainty, if… Read More ›
The video rental store horror classic City of the Living Dead (1980) has arrived in gloriously gory 4K UHD from Cauldron and is a perfect pickup for the Halloween season. Originally distributed in the U.S. as “The Gates of Hell,”… Read More ›
The Insidious franchise was a surprise hit in 2010. It allowed director James Wan to make a name for himself as a maestro of horror. Insidious’s success has now spawned a franchise of five feature films. It includes a series… Read More ›
Despite what stories tell us, our lives don’t end when we achieve the dream, overcome the adversity, or, worse yet, get taken down by the corporate monster trying to rip down the community center. Until we cease to function, the… Read More ›
Whenever a movie is based on something, there is always hesitation that the base work is going to be rather difficult to adapt to be something interesting for an audience to engage with as a film. However, when that film… Read More ›
Before the written word carried the words of the present into the future, the oral tradition was used to safeguard family and cultural histories. This method, though reliant on the memory of the custodian, still remains a valued part of… Read More ›
Filmmaker James Benning has been making movies as early as 1972, starting with his short film Time and a Half. His projects shift in specificity, but each one appears to be an exploration of a precise subject, and Benning has… Read More ›
Originally conceived as a short film by screenwriters Noah Galvin (The Good Doctor), Molly Gordon (Booksmart/Shiva Baby), Nick Lieberman, and Ben Platt (Pitch Perfect) and directed in its long-form by first-time feature filmmakers Gordon and Lieberman, the film Theater Camp… Read More ›
Between television and film, people have adapted Stephen King’s work over one hundred times, so there is quite literally no point stating where this adaptation of his work stands with the other works other than the great, the good, and… Read More ›
Though one might think that physical media desire is waning with Walt Disney no longer shipping new discs to sell in Australia, cinephiles and genre fans aren’t going to stop buying discs anytime soon with boutiques like 88 Films putting… Read More ›