During SXSW 2026, director Jorma Taccone premiered his latest feature, the action horror comedy Over Your Dead Body, starring the fantastic ensemble cast comprised of Samara Weaving, Jason Segel, Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Paul Guilfoyle, and Keith Jardine. On this… Read More ›
Led by Johnny Pemberton and featuring Robert Patrick, Kevin Nealon, and Avery Potemri, writer/director Tyler Cornack’s horror comedy Mermaid is an ode to Florida Man. In a brief five-minute conversation for EoM Presents, EoM Contributor AJ Friar chats with Cornack… Read More ›
“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Trigger Warning: There’s a brief sequence in which sexual assault is threatened that may be… Read More ›
When it comes to the occult, there are about as many famous fictional investigators as there are ways to approach a ghost story. There’s Daffy Duck (voiced by Mel Blanc) bringing the silly, while John Constantine is more serious. There’s… Read More ›
Trigger Warning: Kill Me features explorations of mental health and suicidal ideation, as well as depictions of attempted suicide that may be difficult for sensitive viewers. If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal ideation (active or passive),… Read More ›
Photosensitivity Warning: Several sequences in Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant feature flashing or sudden bursts of light. This may prove triggering for photosensitive individuals. Children are parasites. Yes, you read that correctly. After the sperm and egg connect and a zygote… Read More ›
There’s a common misconception that stories, by nature of being broadcast or shown in a theater, condone behavior, justifying choices, always, simply because they are the behaviors and choices of the main character. This is an egregious failure of media… Read More ›
To ignore history is to imprison yourself in repetitive cycles. Even worse, to make presumptions based solely on what you’re told is to doom yourself to being a keystone cause of those cycles continuing. This is a key component in… Read More ›
Congratulations. For a certain set of people, this singular word carries weight. This isn’t to say that it doesn’t for the general populous as receiving accolades or cheers often makes one feel elated, but, for a specific set, “Congratulations” correlates… Read More ›
If you didn’t know who director Kenji Tanigaki (Enter the Fat Dragon) was before, then after you see his explosive newest feature, The Furious, you’ll know he is one to look out for if you’re a fan of movies like… Read More ›
Chandler Levack (I Like Movies) is back with her sophomore feature and Mile End Kicks makes one wonder what horrible tragedies and injustices Chandler went through herself or if there are a lot of creative liberties being taken in her… Read More ›
Writers and directors Dusty Mancinelli and Madeline Sims-Fewer are back with another movie entrenched in trauma and decision-making. After their last outing, Violation (2020), which is a much more difficult watch content-wise, they deliver Honey Bunch which focuses on the… Read More ›
Under the oral traditions of yesteryear, the things humans couldn’t explain or understand, the things for which there was little proof beyond anecdote, fell under myths and legends. Now, however, in the digital age, when it’s so easy for anyone… Read More ›
“Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war.” – Mark Antony in William Shakespeare’s Julius Cesar. Though his debut short released in 2003, filmmaker Gareth Evans wouldn’t make his international mark until 2011’s The Raid, also known as The… Read More ›
Perfect people make for boring stories. The outcomes are expected because there’s no drama, no challenge, no antagonist. Imperfect people, however, are not only more interesting, they’re more accessible. So much so that it doesn’t matter how shitty their behavior,… Read More ›
When it comes to narrative mysteries, truth and reality are all a matter of perception. Some things can be argued or compromised on, others are indisputable, but they are all a matter of perception. It’s in this vein that multihyphenate… Read More ›
There was a time when the concept of a multiverse was left to modern philosophy and creative writing as the idea of worlds on top of worlds separated by frequency, many like our own except for the tiniest of differences,… Read More ›
Trigger Warning: The narrative of Touch Me grapples with difficult topics involving sexual abuse and addiction. Additionally, there are a few brief sequences of light-strobing that might be difficult for photosensitive viewers. “And crawling on the planet’s face, some insects,… Read More ›
In an always-on world, there’s something beautiful about traveling somewhere without easy access to tech. It helps one recenter and, if with others, reconnect. Traveling is, of course, a privilege and should be treated as deferential to the place one… 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 ›