In the wake of Obsession continuing an unheard-of box office run, another horror film entered the marketplace from a young director with a YouTube background. Backrooms, based on the web series from director Kane Parson, which was inspired by the "Backrooms" creepypasta, exploded over the weekend
During a time when the industry claims it's in need of new voices and originality, nothing has felt more original than how a filmmaker can get their movie in front of the masses. The training ground of film school, while still viable, feels like a relic of the past, and even the concept of "it's
It's rare that a movie arises from an image and a couple of 4Chan posts. Backrooms and all of the content that has been made about it on YouTube, Twitter, and other social media are a phenomenon. So naturally, Hollywood would come sniffing around when there's money to be made. This time around it
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
There was a time when the stoner comedy was a reliable genre, particularly among the coveted demographic of young men. I remember those late nights in the college dorm quite fondly. Up late working on a paper last minute, ready for the weekend, and a friend suggests ordering a pizza and popping in
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
