In looking to distract the masses from the fact that their leader, David Zaslav, is a monster, Warner Bros. Pictures (along with its genre subsidiary, New Line Cinema) has been striking lucrative deals with industry titans to strengthen the brand… Read More ›
In this edition of EoM Presents, Senior Interviewer Thomas Manning sits down with the cast and crew of the indie horror-thriller film Come Home, including Nicole Pursell (co-director, producer, writer), Caitlin Zoz (co-director, producer, writer, star), and Chinaza Uche (star,… Read More ›
The Luckiest Man in America is both the title of Samir Oliveros’s second feature and also could be used to identify the star of the movie, someone who exploded onto the scene a few years back and continues to shine… Read More ›
This summer, if you could feel it, you chased it. And chase it you did. Now, director Lee Isaac Chung’s disaster flick Twisters is coming home with a digital-to-own premium edition and physical formats in the month of October. Courtesy… Read More ›
Originally created by Bryan Woods (65; Heretic) and Scott Beck (65; Heretic), under the vision of actor/writer/director John Krasinski (IF; A Quiet Place), the A Quiet Place film series is a creature feature with a character-driven heart. The first film,… Read More ›
As with any year, there’s a large selection of horror films, domestic and international, released in U.S. cinemas, but director Jang Jae-Hyun’s horror thriller Exhuma (파묘) made an impression on the audiences, critical and general, who saw it. Now, several… Read More ›
Trigger Warning: There is a sequence in the climax of the film with extensive cross-cutting that may be disturbing for photosensitive viewers. There are some films which, from the start, communicate to the audience that what they’re about to witness… Read More ›
As a huge fan of Batman, I can confirm and say confidently I thought Todd Phillip’s Joker was good, but that’s about it. It certainly was not the Clown Prince of Darkness we’ve come to see on screen or really… Read More ›
No one has ever questioned Sarah Paulson’s (Serenity; Ocean’s 8) ability to breathe life into something, and with her newest film, Hold Your Breath, this streak will continue as she is effortlessly brilliant in it and genuinely transforms the movie… Read More ›
In the Jewish tradition, each person dies twice. The first is when the person dies, their bodily functions ceasing operation through natural causes or unexpected tragedy. The second comes when someone says your name for the last time. This isn’t… Read More ›
In 2021, writer/director Jean Luc Herbulot released his supernatural thriller Saloum, and it made a mark on anyone who saw it. The story is of three mercs whose plan goes awry, yet places them exactly where they need to be… Read More ›
Benoît Delhomme’s directorial debut Mothers’ Instinct (2024), a remake of Olivier Masset-Depasse’s French-language thriller of the same name (2018), feels like it was born out of a cinephile’s (or actor-phile’s) dreamboard. Oscar-winners Jessica Chastain (It: Chapter Two) and Anne Hathaway… Read More ›
Nearly 39 years after audiences were introduced to Miami, Florida, detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey (Martin Lawrence and Will Smith; respectively) in the 1995 action comedy Bad Boys (1995), a fourth entry in the series landed in theaters: Bad… Read More ›
When it comes to thrillers, few do them like filmmaker Brian De Palma. If it’s not his take on Elliot Ness’s quest to arrest Al Capone in The Untouchables (1987) being quoted, chances are it’s his adaptation of Tony Montana’s… Read More ›
In early 2024, before horror hounds were aware we would be treated with one of the better years for horror films in recent memory, this little gem came out and set the bar, which, now in the back half of… Read More ›
Art is chaos and chaos is life, therefore, art is a manifestation of the chaos of life. Our experiences, our views, everything that is “us” is transported into what we create. In some instances, what is absent from it is… Read More ›
Over my recent vacation to Mexico (my first one in over half a decade), I spent most of my days with my Kindle reading in the pool as I baked in the Gulf sun. The first work I devoured in… Read More ›
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – Writer/philosopher George Santayana There’s a presumption that everything that happens to you now, for the first time, is happening now for the first time. This is partially what… Read More ›
“It’s hard to say no, isn’t it?” – Paddy, played by James McAvoy in Speak No Evil (2024) Back in the early days of 2022, I sat down for my first (and only to-date) viewing of some Sundance Film Festival… Read More ›
When I was a young filmmaker, I sat in a classroom while a poor excuse for a film producer talked to us about making films. At one point, when asked about how to get started in feature filmmaking, he pulled… Read More ›