U Are the Universe highlights debut director Pavlo Ostrikov’s exploration of love and survival set against the vast loneliness of a post-apocalyptic cosmos.
Ben Burtt, legendary sound designer, reflects on his iconic work on ‘Star Wars,’ shares behind-the-scenes stories of creating alien languages, and reveals the unexpected challenges of working with NASA and Steven Spielberg.
Belgian-Guatemalan filmmaker César Díaz delves deeper into his personal past with his latest film, which intertwines the intimate struggles of family with the broader socio-political turmoil of the Guatemalan Civil War.
Steven Kostanski’s deep dive into the films that influenced their own filmography continued with their ode to 80s small creature features, Frankie Freako. The film had its world premiere at Fantasia last month, well received by that uproarious crowd, no doubt. Shout! Studios is putting it in Select Theaters on October 4th and today the first trailer this afternoon. Check it out down below. A new monster-driven horror comedy by cult-favorite director Steven Kostanski (PG: Psycho Goreman, The Void) and starring Conor Sweeney, Adam Brooks, Kristy Woodsworth. FRANKIE FREAKO is loaded with ‘80s nostalgia and follows uptight yuppie Conor Sweeney, who, after calling a late-night party hotline that promises out-of-this-world fun, must battle the pint-sized forces of evil unleashed through his phone line,…
The counselors of a summer camp are terrorized by a masked killer.
Directed by César Díaz, the film delves into the intense conflict between revolutionary ideals and maternal duty, set against the politically charged backdrop of 1980s Mexico.
On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Years Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives in this dial-up disaster comedy.
Albert Brooks made his directorial debut with a sharp-eyed, witty satire starring Charles Grodin and Frances Lee McCain, now on 4K and Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.
Some 15 years ago, Coraline graced our movie screens. Last weekend, it returned in a new, remastered 3D edition, via LAIKA and Fathom Events, and surprise! The animated film made $9.6 million at the box office in the U.S., good enough to place #5 in the weekend charts, and, more importantly, good enough for Fathom Events to extend its limited run, planned for just five days, instead through August 29. Why is this reason to celebrate? I’ll answer that by republishing my original review, first published in February 2009, below: —– Happily and firmly planted in middle-aged bachelorhood with no children of my own, I’m the last person you should trust when it comes to recommending movies for kids, but I wish Coraline was the…
At a press conference in Cannes in 1990, director Jean Luc Godard said about his choice of Alain Delon for the role of the hitchhiker in his movie New Wave: ‘There was a role for ‘him’ in which I saw only him.’ Godard went on to say: ‘It’s someone who carries his own tragedy…’. Godard went further by comparing movie stars, and in this context more specifically Delon, with the stars in the sky whose light only reaches us after years have passed. Appropriately, Delon’s character Roger Lennox was referred to in the film’s title role as “Lazy,” his co-star Domiziana Giordano is “Elle.” Alain Delon was partly the archetypal film star. An endless line of women including Romy Schneider (1938-1982) as his self-proclaimed great…