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
Early belief in unicorns has long stemmed from writings like those of the ancient ‘natural history’ chroniclers Ctesias in the 4th Century BCE or Pliny the Elder in 1st century AD. Belief in the magical beasts, described variably but always with a single horn in the middle of their foreheads,
Bailey Bass as Claudia, Jacob Anderson as Louis De Point Du Lac, and Sam Reid as Lestat De Lioncourt - Interview with the Vampire _ Season 1, Gallery - Photo Credit: AMC AMC+ Interview with the Vampire series comes in hard with its full revamp of title, style, and promotion with season 3: The
We've had haunted house movies. Sure, but have we had a haunted van movie? That's what Passenger amounts to at its most distilled form. This is a horror movie about a demonic force (the opposite of Saint Christopher) that has been chasing and killing travelers for hundreds of years. Basically, the
Though marital arts action cinema is vast and varied, it is rare for one to elevate the genre and push it forward. There have been few recently - The Raid comes to mind, and while not technically "martial arts" I'd argue John Wick counts - that feel as if something new and special is happening.