Vampires, immortal as they are, will always be a part of horror cinema, either sparkling in the sunlight to woo teen girlfriends or trapping real estate agents in their ancient castles so their army of undead wives can suck their blood. They’ve made their way from whispered warnings in fairy tales and folklore to the … Read more
Is there a crisis on infinite DC earths? As the old DC Extended Universe gives way to whatever DC Studios CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran have planned next, a lot of popular characters and actors find themselves in limbo. (Does DC have a Limbo? Marvel definitely has a Limbo. I can’t remember.) Gunn and Safran … Read more
As of this writing, the invaluable movie social networking site Letterboxd lists 112,245 released from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2009. Ten years, over 112,000 movies. That means if you dedicated your life to watching every single movie released in the decade over the course of the entire decade, you would have to watch … Read more
Last year, Peacock revealed that it was remaking the seminal Hong Kong action classic The Killer — and that the film’s original director, John Woo, was returning to update his own work. But we’ve learned a bit more about the production — which had almost finished shooting when the actors’ strike began. The new details come from producer Charles Roven, in an … Read more
Adam Sandler’s entire family is now in business with Netflix. In Sandler’s latest movie, he plays a supporting character, the father to his own (fictional and real-life) daughters, played by Sunny and Sadie Sandler. Sandler’s wife Jackie appears in the film as well — although Sandler’s fictional spouse in the movie is played by Idina Menzel. … Read more
Winter Kills has one of the very best casts of any 1970s thriller: Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Belinda Bauer, Anthony Perkins, Eli Wallach, Sterling Hayden, Dorothy Malone, Ralph Meeker, Toshiro Mifune and even Elizabeth Taylor in a brief, silent cameo. It’s based on a novel by Richard Condon, whose work had already inspired three previous films, … Read more
As weird as it sounds, there are — at least according to Hollywood — “good” times to release movies to theaters. Summer has become the home of big blockbusters — mostly because kids are out of school, and families are looking for entertainment (and probably some air conditioning). The winter is the de facto launching ground … Read more
The hot summer box office has been fueled by big movies like Barbie and Oppenheimer, and helped by smaller indie hits, like the Talk to Me, which has already grossed over $24 million in theaters against a reported budget of just $4.5 million. The movie has also proven to be a major critical hit, with a 95 percent on … Read more
Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most respected directors ever. That’s why remakes of his material don’t usually do well. Robert Downey Jr. hopes to change that. While not all of Hitchcock’s films were the most received at their time, and some of his later works never really took off, he’s now considered one of … Read more
There are controversial movies and then there are movies that are so controversial that people get upset about them before they even see them. And then there are movies that are so controversial that people get so upset about them before they even see them to the point that the studios releasing those movies decide to change them … Read more