On this edition of Meet Me at the Movies: Open Dialogue, Thomas Manning chats with director and producer Chad Stahelski about John Wick: Chapter 4. Stahelski shares about bringing legendary action star and martial artist Scott Adkins into the mix… Read More ›
Today, Joel Kinnaman speaks with Noel T. Manning II about why Silent Night was the most challenging, and demanding film of his career, the difficulties in prepping for a film character with no dialogue, and why Noel & Joel should take… Read More ›
There are plenty of movies about road trips, self-discovery, and mental health, so to create something singular that stands the test of time and audience exposure is certainly a hard feat to achieve. Unfortunately, because there are so many movies… Read More ›
These days, a comic book adaptation is as ubiquitous in entertainment as westerns were in the silent film era and later. There’re the big releases like the upcoming MCU film The Marvels (2023) or DCEU film Aquaman and the Lost… Read More ›
If you’ve enjoyed any part of the Underworld franchise or the thus-far single I, Frankenstein film, then you have writer/actor Kevin Grevioux to thank as the creator of those worlds. Now, Grevioux jumps into a new world of his creation,… 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 ›
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 ›
With writing credits like Crazy Rich Asians (2018) and Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), one shouldn’t be surprised that Adele Lim’s first foray into directing, Joy Ride, would be both distinctly through the lens of Asian culture and absolutely… Read More ›
There is always a lingering feeling that a movie, particularly one that is genre based, released at a poor time (like against a juggernaut such as Barbenheimer) or just not in the Halloween season, has a clear reason for the… Read More ›
The R-rated studio sex comedy. Once a staple of the American film industry, this genre has since faded into semi-obscurity following a mixture of oversaturation (did we really need three Hangover (2009-2013) films?) and Gen Z finding their own comedic… Read More ›
Sebastian Maniscalco brings a film based on his own life experiences to the screen in the Lionsgate release About My Father. Starring Maniscalco, Robert De Niro, Leslie Bibb, and Kim Cattrall, this comedy is directed by Laura Terruso. On this… Read More ›
Robert De Niro has built one of Hollywood’s most unique filmographies. He has worked with great filmmakers like Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Sergio Leone (Once Upon a Time in America), Quentin Tarantino (Jackie Brown), and Michael Mann (Heat). De Niro’s… Read More ›
There’s something about a good confidence film. They’re not always A-List-led romps like Ocean’s Eleven (2001) or explorations of morality like Rififi (1955). Sometimes, they’re a mixture of both, keeping the audience on their toes the entire time like Confidence… Read More ›
Crime stories get a lot of play in storytelling. Could be as classic as Othello or as modern as The Legend of Jack and Diane (2023); stories in which someone either gets in too deep, trusts the wrong person, or… Read More ›
“Do nothing, works for tons of actors.” – Ray Liotta as The Producer. Fool’s Paradise is the directorial debut of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005-present)’s Charlie Day. It’s a comedy about the absurdity and tragedy of the business of… Read More ›
EoM Senior Interviewer Thomas Manning recently sat down with writer and director Jesse V. Johnson (for the second time) to discuss his latest film, One Ranger. Johnson breaks down the film’s unique fusion of Texas and British culture, the stellar… Read More ›
Let’s begin with a brief historical recap: at the end of World War I, Germany was not in a good place (financially or spiritually) leaving them open to the ideas of a charismatic failed painter vegan coward who used the… Read More ›
To not mince words about it, I used to be a very avid collector of movie-related art (within reason) and had a substantial collection of posters, steelbooks, one sheets, and so forth. It was something that I prided myself on,… Read More ›
EoM senior interviewer Thomas Manning recently had the chance to interview writer and director Jalmari Helander in a discussion about Sisu, the wickedly entertaining action drama which follows a Finnish gold prospector’s quest for vengeance against a squad of Nazis…. Read More ›
There was a viral tweet going around recently of a meme account getting roasted for implying that high school in 2002 was “so chill,” leading millennials of that age to share their horror stories of attending high school in a… Read More ›