Bill Skarsgård takes on the iconic role of The Crow in this modern reimagining of the original graphic novel by James O’Barr.
A young, expectant wife must figure out how to stop her husband’s nightmarish sleepwalking habits before he harms himself or his family.
Italian filmmakers Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino delve into the blurred boundaries of fiction and reality in their latest film.
Ogopogo is said to be an enormous lake monster, which has haunted the dark waters of Lake Okanagan for untold generations. Sightings can be found in folklore and in the modern day, accompanied by a wealth of indigenous tales which have led many to believe that there may truly be a monster in Lake Okanagan. Cryptozoologists, historians and varied researchers alike have watched Okanagan for decades – what secrets does it still hide? The story is told through expert and witness interviews, historical media and immersive special effects, all set against the backdrop of narration by author and researcher Heather Moser. I’ve given the Small Town Monsters franchise a miss, if only because I’m generally not a fan of the “Hey, what’s that…
From July 18 through August 4, 2024, the centre of our genre-film loving world moved to Montreal, Canada, where the Fantasia International Film Festival unveiled a broad and diverse selection of films from around the world, as they have done, consistently, since before the century began. That’s like, forever! Our fine contributing writers Kurt Halfyard, J Hurtado and Andrew Mack attended the festival in person, saw many, many movies, and reviewed many of them, both short films and those of feature length. Now that the festival has concluded — with the announcement of the audience awards — here’s a recap of our Fantasia 2024 coverage, organized by reviewer, with the films listed alphabetically by English title. Reviewed by Kurt Halfyard 4PM. BOOKWORM. GHOST CAT ANZU….
In Mickey Hardaway, a young animator’s search for a mentor becomes a search for vengeance to those who he feels have failed him. The film opens with a murder of a man whose identity we later find out. Then it goes back (the timeline can be a bit confusing at times). Mickey Hardaway is director Marcellus Cox’s debut, and it has done particularly well at the Las Vegas Black Film Festival. Mickey (Rashad Hunter) is a young black man from California, and not from a part that’s swimming with money. As a little child, he begins to show a passion for art. It turns into a full-fledged problem when he has a grant offer from the California Institute of Art, which his father (David Chattam)…
Ryan, the lead singer of a late-90s rock band is haunted by irrelevance and struggling to regain visibility a decade after the band’s prime. Charlie Dupont, an eccentric super-producer, invites the band to his 1000-year-old French chateau to record a comeback album. But as tensions rise and tempers flare, Ryan and his bandmates realize they’re up against more than just the pressure to succeed. The nightmarish rock thriller Art of a Hit is coming to digital and on-demand platforms next week on August 20th from Giant Pictures. We have an exclusive clip to share with you today. You can check it and the trailer out down below. Art of a Hit was directed by Gaelan Draper, and written and produced by Draper and…
No, that is not a spelling error in the title. I do not normally post obituaries but the news at Variety this morning about the passing of Hong Kong cinema legend Corey Yuen is equally tragic and bizarre. Yuen, one of the more inconspicuous Hong Kong cinema legends, preferring to work behind the scenes on directing and action choreography, passed away – back in 2022. Yuen passed away on an undisclosed date that year due to complications from Covid-19. His death was initially kept private at the request of his family. But on Monday, the news was revealed on Chinese-language social media by fellow action star Jackie Chan, who paid tribute to Yuen and others in the industry who had died. Yuen,…
Vince Vaughn stars in a role he was born to play, alongside Natalie Martinez, Meredith Hagner, Rob Delaney, John Ortiz, Michele Monaghan, Ronald Peet, L. Scott Caldwell, and Jodie Turner-Smith.
Off the top, I don’t know if I am at odds with this. I should be. I have treasured memories tied to viewings of the 1954 classic monster movie Creature From The Black Lagoon. Specifically, watching the 3D version of the film, on print (I don’t recall what size) in the chapel at college back when our lord and master Todd and I went to school together and we’d bring David (Canfield) up from Chicago to give lectures on cinema. Isn’t that what they call a core memory? So news from THR that horror aficienado James Wan is in talks to direct a remake of Jack Arnold’s classic Universal Monster movie should drive me insane. But I’m old, and tired, and I think there…