One of our favorite modern-day scream queens is back with a new, albeit familiar, film hitting Hulu this week! Maika Monroe is portraying Polly Murphy in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. a remake of the 1992 psychological thriller. The film originally starred Rebecca De Mornay and Annabella Sciorra.
A new music biopic hits the big screen this weekend, and this time, "The Boss" gets his moment to shine with the release of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen. Music biopics have long been a staple of cinema, and sometimes they can lead to Oscar
This weekend sees the release of Shelby Oaks, a film written and directed by Chris Stuckman in his feature directorial debut. The movie plays like a variety of different sub-genres of horror, but much of its aesthetic utilizes a found footage narrative to craft its story. It's a sub-genre of horror
So what makes a movie terrifying? What about frightening? There's a psychological aspect, a physical aspect, and of course a personal aspect too. Now, before you go off and say “BUT NONE OF THESE MOVIES ARE SCARY”, that might be what you think, but this is my list, and that means, these are the
Across Los Angeles every single Halloween season, there are events big and small that can capture your attention, provide frights, bring in the Halloween spirit, and then some. For the sake of this ranking, we'll only be doing the biggest ones in Los Angeles; otherwise, we'd be here all year round
It's never a bad thing when Keanu Reeves graces our screens, and he's doing just that this weekend as a guardian angel in Good Fortune, the directorial debut of Aziz Ansari. Reeves has a reputation for being one of the nicest guys in Hollywood, and this has gone a long way in making him a favorite
Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl returned for The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob's Halloween House Party, delivering a double feature built around two very different approaches to Halloween horror. This time, the legendary horror host paired Body Bags (1993) with WNUF Halloween Special (2013),
George Carlin told perhaps the greatest joke on football ever told in his 10/11/1975 SNL monologue, where he contrasted the pastoral nature of baseball with the warlike sport of football. To quote one segment among many, “In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field
The term "crowd pleasing" or "crowd pleaser" has found itself layered with some derogatory undertones among critic circles. Broad appeal seems immediately discounted, as if populist filmmaking is somehow lesser than when compared to auteurs and hidden indie gems. I've always maintained that there