Aleshea Harris' Is God Is gives good reason for one of civilization's biggest sins. There are fewer moral ills in global mythology worse than killing one’s parents. Germanic lore tells of the dwarf Fafnir, who killed his father from greed and was consequently transformed into a dragon. Patricide
With the release of Hokum last week and Obsession on May 15, this month is shaping up to be a heavy-hitter for horror movies. Passenger, a mysterious movie with even more mysterious marketing, is next on the horizon. However, it seems like the marketing may be a bit more real than it
For fans of Mortal Kombat, the leap from the 2021 film to Mortal Kombat 2 feels massive. The fights are bigger. The roster is larger. The world is more expansive. The fatalities are more outrageous. Yet according to director Simon McQuoid, the sequel's most important upgrade isn't found in the
Fans of the iconic princess warrior, Kitana, in Mortal Kombat are finally getting the story they have been waiting for. This is her story! During the interview with Adeline Rudolph and Tati Gabrielle, I joked that the film was “burying the lead” by not openly calling it Kitana’s story. As a
As a longtime fan of the franchise, walking into my interview for Mortal Kombat felt equal parts exciting and surreal. I didn’t hold back my enthusiasm when talking with stars Karl Urban and Josh Lawson. After the explosive events of the first film, Mortal Kombat returns with higher stakes,
Alamo Drafthouse is teaming up with Prime Video for special event screenings of Spider-Noir on May 25th. They also have a new special menu coming along with the screenings for a limited-time only. Before the full season arrives May 25 on MGM+’s linear broadcast channel and May 27 on Prime Video,
DC Studios is already under the gun with their film slate including Man Of Tomorrow, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and a Wonder Woman film in the works. Now it looks like a film surrounding two of Batman's most legendary villains is on the table. Deadline is reporting that Greg Mottola, who has
The stakes have never been higher in Mortal Kombat 2, but according to stars Ludi Lin, Jessica McNamee, and Mehcad Brooks, the sequel's biggest upgrades aren't limited to its larger fights, bloodier fatalities, and expanded roster. The cast says the film also deepens the relationships between its
Video game adaptions have always proved challenging in cinema. The transfer of playability to watchability has far more failures than successes, and that's not even including the long list of ill advised Uwe Bol films. You would think that videos games, packed with complex protagonists, intriguing
The trailer for A24's The Drama does a great job of keeping things intentionally vague. We meet Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple about to get married who seem like they know everything about each other… until they very clearly don’t. One drunken night at dinner with
When Margaret Atwood returned to Gilead almost 35 years later, with her book The Testaments, the sequel to her seminal The Handmaid’s Tale, they said she could never match its genius. The story more than matched her 1985 dystopian classic, winning the 2019 Booker Prize, feeling horrifically timely
