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If you turned off the adaptation of Cocoon – One Summer of Girlhood before reaching the halfway point of its short, sixty-minute runtime, you’d likely mistake it for Japanese military propaganda, which is unmistakably curdled by what comes after. Although the location, time period, and details of the ongoing conflict are left unspecified, everything about […]
Almost every stoner comedy since 1998 has lived in the shadow of The Big Lebowski, reassessed as a masterpiece in the years since its disappointing initial run. So if you’re trying to add to the canon, why not borrow some of its key elements in a deliberate acknowledgement of its power? A few hapless friends thrust […]
Night Nurse is the rare film that features exactly zero characters. Oh, there are plenty of people, to be sure. Most of them even have names! But that’s approximately where their definition stops. Each is a nurse at the same assisted living facility, the kind where the patients have complete freedom to roam and drive […]
Although Jennifer Kent’s debut film, The Babadook, brought international attention to the Australian horror scene, little would come of it until nearly a decade later. Talk to Me kicked off the wave we’re currently riding, for better or for worse (mostly better). That’s fortunate for writer/director Adrian Chiarella, for while the involvement of Mia Wasikowska […]
Hong Kong was once at the forefront of action cinema the world over. While the ’80s were a time of maximalist, muscular blockbusters flooding out of the United States, the East Asian city (then a British colony) punched well above its weight. Following the work done by Bruce Lee and the Shaw Brothers to soften […]
Hailing from an era defined by kids’ cartoons designed purely to sell toys, Masters of the Universe was one of the cheesiest and most ridiculous, especially amongst the few still broadly recognizable this deep into the twenty-first century. It wielded a then-popular blend of high-fantasy and futuristic, space-based sci-fi easily at home on the side […]
How do you adapt a no-budget, avant-garde, YouTube-based anthology series like Backrooms into a mainstream feature film? You could point to Skinamarink as an experimental horror that received a theatrical release. But it was acquired out of a festival, and never reached one thousand screens. Conversely, A24 approached Kane Parsons about adapting his own series into […]
The fact that horror is the only genre left that reliably brings in a profit due to its ability to get by on tiny budgets (see: Obsession‘s second week increase on less than $1 million) means there’s just about always a new flick coming out, if you know where to look. The low stakes also […]
Forbidden Fruits starts as a riff on Mean Girls, but set in a mall (somehow still thriving in 2026) at a store halfway between Forever 21 and Nordstrom, called “Forever Eden”. The “Plastics” are replaced by the “Fruits”, Apple (Lili Reinhart), Cherry (Victoria Pedretti), and Fig (Alexandra Shipp), twenty-somethings whose views of social dynamics and […]
Bursting onto the scene with a strong voice, a distinct style, and a fresh tale is a fantastic way to get yourself noticed. But if your follow-up repeats (or even deepens) the same beats and style, you risk pigeonholing yourself as a certain kind of director. Some are perfectly content to explore the same themes […]