There is a ton of history behind Nosferatu and Dracula, from the 100-year-old classic and Bram Stoker to Robert Eggers, Robin Bextor’s new documentary focuses on everything from the legacy Nosferatu has created to the challenges the movie faced at… Read More ›
‘Tis the season where, no matter the denomination, one is either characterized as “full of spirit” or a “grinch.” The description of such a person who rains of holiday cheer (or cheer of any kind) is directly tied both in… Read More ›
By the time 1986 arrived, Yuen Biao, one Hong Kong’s “Three Dragons,” had appeared in the Sammo Hung-co-directed Warrior’s Two (1978), lead Brandy Yuen Jan-Yeung’s The Champions (1983), and co-starred in Jackie Chan’s Project A (1983) and Sammo Hung’s My… Read More ›
Mira Nair’s first narrative feature, the Indian Hindi-language drama Salaam Bombay!, is as much a documentary as it is a narrative of Bombay’s (now Mumbai’s) loud and chaotic street life. Even though its story and characters are crafted by Nair… Read More ›
When people say that art should be political, what they really mean is that they don’t want to ingest films that might challenge their political views. They want to be entertained, not preached to. This is a childish perspective because… Read More ›
EoM Senior Interviewer Thomas Manning recently spoke with filmmaker Adam Volerich about his feature film directorial debut Drink and Be Merry. They discuss the melancholy magic of this Christmas flick filmed on location at the Ale ‘N’ ‘Wich Pub in… Read More ›
In 1963, Alfred Hitchcock terrified audiences with The Birds, a horror film about birds attacking humans. A little over a decade later, Steven Spielberg made people afraid to go in the water with the movie Jaws (1975), which stars Roy… Read More ›
From Lord Alfred Tennyson’s 1850 poem “In Memoriam A.H.H.,” the lovelorn often quote (or have quoted to them) “I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never… Read More ›
Secret Mall Apartment is one of those stories that feels far too strange, too rebellious, and too imaginative to be real — yet somehow it is. Set in Rhode Island, the documentary revisits the unbelievable true account of a group of… Read More ›
If back in 2013 someone were to tell audiences that there would be NINE Conjuring universe movies within 12 years, no one would truly believe it, but the Warrens and their cases and stories happened to just be that captivating… Read More ›
After releasing anniversary/first-time 4K UHD editions of the first two TRON films, Tombstone (1993), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and many others, 20th Century Studios offers audiences a chance to celebrate the 35th anniversary of filmmaker Tim Burton’s Edward… Read More ›
“If you can’t bite, don’t show your teeth.” – Bubbe (Carol Kane) in Caught Stealing There are a number of ways to spin the “fish out of water” theme in stories. Sometimes it’s a tale where someone gets whisked away… Read More ›
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues arrives with the kind of baggage only a decades-delayed sequel can carry. The original This is Spinal Tap (1984) didn’t start life as a blockbuster or even much of a mainstream success; rather, it built its… Read More ›
The Roses is a fine example of how two fantastic comedic leads can elevate material that might not fully deserve them and how a movie can still stumble when its supporting cast and pacing can’t keep up. Benedict Cumberbatch (The… Read More ›
Being a teenager is never easy or not confusing, unless you’re one of the cool kids who is popular and pampered. Most of us were not one of the cool kids in high school; we were the bookworms, the science… Read More ›
Tales of mistaken identity are a feeding ground for all genres in cinema. There’s action (Galaxy Quest), comedy (The Big Lebowski), horror (Tucker and Dale vs. Evil), thriller (Lucky Number Slevin), and drama (El Mariachi) — and these are just… Read More ›
X, Pearl, and MaXXXine together form one of the most distinctive and ambitious horror trilogies of the modern era — films that dared to bring intelligence, style, and emotional heft back to a genre that had been drowning in soulless jump scares. These… Read More ›
Starting with 2024’s Drive-Away Dolls, director/co-writer Ethan Coen with co-writer Tricia Cooke began what we now know is a trilogy of lesbian B-movies, a triptych of sorts, that include Honey Don’t! (2025) and the upcoming (and not-yet-dated) Go, Beavers!. These… Read More ›
Actor Donnie Yen has an extensive filmography of dramas, actioners, comedies, fantasy titles, and thrillers, often overlapping the genres in the same film and delivering solid martial arts entertainment in the process. From In the Line of Duty 4 (1989)… Read More ›
How many Frankensteins are too many Frankensteins, you may ask. The answer is there is never too much Frankenstein. Instead of having Oprah give everyone in the audience a car, everyone gets a Frankenstein movie. This release from Warner Brothers… Read More ›