At first glance, Celine Song's Materialists bears a superficial resemblance to her Oscar-nominated directorial debut, the beautiful Past Lives. That film follows Nora (Greta Lee), who left South Korea as a child and lives as an adult in New York in a relationship with her husband Arthur (John
The core of Mike Flanagan's latest Stephen King adaptation, The Life of Chuck, centers around the value of a life. It's a particularly poignant time to explore these sorts of questions, given the times we live in. Each day seems to bring new, fresh hells in systems so large--political, economic,
The TV landscape is filled with science fiction futures aplenty. Battlestar Galactica is a complex exploration of military and political institutions. Andor is a ground-level exhibition of anti-fascist military intrigue. Star Trek exemplifies the values of scientific exploration and follows efforts
Danny and Michael Philippou stunned audiences with their tense supernatural horror tale Talk To Me. It's a frightening exploration of grief and warning against conjuring forces beyond your control. The Philippou brothers have returned with Bring Her Back, a very different exploration of grief's
Supermassive Games' Until Dawn became an instant horror classic for PlayStation, in part thanks to its adept atmosphere building and an innovative butterfly effect dynamic, where characters live or die based on (what seem like) the most innocuous player choices. It's a dynamic that's inherently
The Last Of Us ends season 1 in a tense place. The long journey of Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) hit a major snag when Joel realizes the Fireflies can only investigate Ellie's immunity to the cordyceps virus by digging into her brain, a fatal procedure. Of course, Joel lost his own
Like a host of legendary Hollywood figures (think James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Jackson, and Martin Scorsese) Alec Gillis got his Hollywood start thanks to the inimitable Roger Corman, whose mountain of cult and genre films launched the brightest stars in New Hollywood. Gillis worked
A keen audience can almost always identify when a movie isn't centering the story it really wants to tell. Madame Web, for example, is ostensibly about Dakota Johnson's clairvoyant Cassandra Webb's efforts to save three girls destined to be Spider-Women in the future. Here, however, the girls do
Last week's episode of Pretty Little Liars: Summer School left off with Faran (Zaria) taking on Bloody Rose Water's test like a champ. Of course, Bloody Rose Waters is a sore loser. So, she still attacks Faran, who not so easily gets away but not before slicing her arm with a knife. This week's
Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl returned for one of their four final specials for The Last Drive-In with a creature feature meets modern horror pairing, bringing together Rawhead Rex (1986) and Oddity (2024). It is a bizarre double feature on paper, and somehow even stranger in execution.
Hokum follows in the footsteps of other horror movies released recently that are what we like to call "slow burns." That subgenre usually starts slow and brings our characters into another world or brings an item from another world into ours. Hokum comes from writer/director Damian McCarthy, who
