We watched The Furious as part of Beyond Fest at American Cinematheque. You can check out the full schedule here. Every now and then, a martial arts movie comes along and wows audiences with its innovations or the audacity of its choreography and set pieces. Enter the Dragon (1973) influenced a
The world's biggest genre-film festival Beyond Fest has finally announced its full lineup. It includes 8 world premieres, 5 North American premieres, 9 US premieres, 25 West Coast premieres, and 90 feature films in total. The great thing about Beyond Fest is that they get the filmmakers in person
Are you ready for Beyond Fest 2025? It's only the greatest genre film festival on the planet. To celebrate this year, they're going back over the 30-year career of Guillermo del Toro and his films. Está Vivo: The Gods and Monsters of Guillermo del Toro is the most complete retrospective of the
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