“Based on the American Dream.” These are the words that greet audiences before anything else when pressing “play” on Daniel Brown’s feature-length version of his story Your Lucky Day. The words shouldn’t be ominous, yet things in the country have,… Read More ›
EoM Senior Interviewer Thomas Manning recently sat down with filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite to discuss her latest directorial effort, the sci-fi thriller I.S.S.. Cowperthwaite discusses the influence of her documentarian background on narrative filmmaking projects like I.S.S., as well as the… Read More ›
If you were from the ‘80s, a big bulking dude who made a career of questionable quality action films, and then decided to write and direct equally questionable content, then audiences should know exactly what they’re getting themselves in to…. Read More ›
Writer/director Park Hoon-jung is not one to shy away from the darkness that exists within humanity (I Saw the Devil) or a hidden world within it (the Witch series). Whether in the bright of day or the shadows of night,… Read More ›
Multigrain, harvest grain, 12 grain, whole grain, there’s a whole lot of grain for everyone. Now, if this irritates you to your core, then you’re probably happy about the reports that the James Cameron restorations look like Madame Tussauds, however,… Read More ›
The Road Movie. A film where a character, or group of characters, sets sail on an adventure, goes to visit an old friend, do a deed or just…go searching. Revelations are made, things are discovered, events in favor to the… Read More ›
January has long since been the dumping ground for studio films that executives and test audiences have deemed to be the low points of their upcoming slates, whether it be cheap action films, cheesy horror films, unfunny comedies, or cliché… Read More ›
After premiering in France in June 2023 and screening at a variety of genre film festivals like Fantasia International Film Festival, Slash Film Festival, and FrightFest under the name Farang (a Thai term meaning “foreigner”), IFC Films snagged director Xavier… Read More ›
Before we reach the end of the Road to 100, co-hosts Darryl Mansel and I welcome fellow NCFCA/SEFCA member and host of the podcast And The Winner Was Joel Winstead onto the program. We begin by digging into the recently… Read More ›
There are some films whose concept is so engaging on paper that it must feel like a slam dunk before production even starts. In the case of director Timothy Woodward Jr.’s (Hickok) action thriller Til Death Do Us Part, the… Read More ›
Are we the family we’ve come from or the family we create? This is the major question at the center of the Graham and Parker Phillips-helmed Rumble Through The Dark, a drama adapted from the Michael Farris Smith March 2018… Read More ›
In today’s theatrical market, making a movie off an established intellectual property (IP) is standard practice. Successful book? Make it a movie. Successful television series? Make it a movie. Successful video game? Keep attempting to make it a movie. Successful… Read More ›
There are movies which, whether you’ve seen them or not, no matter where your cinematic knowledge or pleasures come from, you have knowledge of and the understanding that the film is generally received well. Some of these movies are regarded… Read More ›
Back in October 2023, in the spirit of chills and thrills, Well Go USA released director/co-writer John Curran’s (Chappaquiddick) latest project Mercy Road, a high-octane thriller that doesn’t let up from the moment of ignition. The film walks the line… Read More ›
Back in October, director John Curran’s latest project, the high-octane thriller Mercy Road led by Luke Bracey, hit theaters and digital services. Filled with paranoia as Bracey’s Tom desperately tries to save his daughter from an enigmatic voice on the other… Read More ›
You’ll believe a computer nerd can be handsome and ripped. Or maybe you won’t. It’s Michael Mann’s (Thief, Heat) Blackhat (2015), and it’s finally releasing in 4K UHD from Arrow this Tuesday, November 28th. But more importantly, the 2K Director’s… Read More ›
There can be an argument made that since the beginning of film there was always going to be the inherent other side of prestige and relative opposite of the term “good” because there is always an audience for something dumb… Read More ›
2003, director John Woo unleashed the sci-fi action thriller Paycheck starring Ben Affleck (Air), Uma Thurman (Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair), Aaron Eckhart (Rumble Through The Dark), and Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) unto the world. It should have been… 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 ›
30 years ago, the running came to an end. Again. This time, on the silver screen, not the TV one. It was Harrison Ford (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars) vs. Tommy Lee Jones (Men in Black, No Country… Read More ›