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29 Oct

Star Wars Will Finally Explore the Kylo Ren and Darth Vader History the Movies Missed

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Family and legacy have always been important parts of the Skywalker Saga in Star Wars. The sequel trilogy especially expanded on this idea in interesting ways. Rey (Daisy Ridley) was revealed to be the granddaughter of Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), but decided to carry on the Skywalker legacy instead. Meanwhile her counterpart in the Force, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), the son of Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford), decided to carry on the legacy of his grandfather, Darth Vader, instead. In the movies, we don’t get to see much regarding Ren’s posthumous relationship with his grandfather. We…

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28 Oct

The Best Creepypastas That Never Became Movies

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If there’s one thing Hollywood loves, it’s an inexpensive intellectual property ripe for the optioning. That’s why, for a moment there, it really looked like creepypastas were going to be the future of cinema. For the uninitiated, a creepypasta is simply a scary story crafted for the internet. The noodly name derives from the memeable blocks of text known as “copypastas” that get copied, pasted, and shared across multiple forums on the web. The horror version of a “copypasta” is therefore dubbed a “creepypasta.” Creepypastas have been a spooky season internet staple long before they were even known as creepypastas.…

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26 Oct

Conclave Director Explains Ending’s Final Twists

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This article contains Conclave spoilers. For many viewers who think they recognize a bit of foreshadowing when they hear it, having Cardinal Bellini (Stanley Tucci) demand to know what would be the chosen papal name of Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) seemed to promise a likely finale: the reluctant and doubtful priest we’ve been following this whole time becomes pontiff and heir to the throne of St. Peter. After all, as is wrongly said more than once about Bellini, isn’t the man who does not want power the most deserving of it? Yet if you saw Conclave this weekend, then you…

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26 Oct

American Psycho: The Actors Who Could Be the Next Patrick Bateman

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“There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction,” intones Christian Bale in the voiceover that fills American Psycho, director Mary Harron’s 2000 adaptation of the 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis. “But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.” Bateman’s description of himself is something that movie fans might need to keep in mind, given that Italian director…

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26 Oct

Edward Berger Addresses James Bond 26 Director Rumors: ‘Bond, I Grew Up With It’

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Edward Berger is having a wonderful, extended moment in cinema. Despite walking across what appeared to be moviemaking holy ground when he remade—or more accurately reinterpreted—All Quiet on the Western Front in 2022, he came out on the other side with a gut-punch of a film which became one of the rare instances where a foreign-language movie was nominated by the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Berger for Best Adapted Screenplay. Now his follow-up arrives this weekend as one of the most buzzed about pictures of the fall, a surprisingly tense and even explosive thriller set in the bowels…

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26 Oct

Conclave Offers Microcosm of Today’s Political Shocks via the Papal Election from Hell

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Conclave is a movie rooted in the medieval. This is evident from one of the very first scenes in which men adorned in red robes and white collars scurry hushedly across the Sistine Chapel. It is here that we find Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) reluctantly assuming his role of the Dean of the College of Cardinals—which means he is in charge of overseeing the next papal conclave that will elect a new Pope to the seat of St. Peter. By design, this world looks positively ancient with its arcane customs and rituals. Yet any viewer who might be feeling…

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26 Oct

Rey Movie Update Is More Bad News for Star Wars Fans

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Star Wars seems to have become a revolving door for writers and directors as of late. Whether projects simply change hands or get scrapped entirely, fewer and fewer movies have safely made it from announcement to production since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Unfortunately, it looks like the upcoming Rey film, currently going by the working title Star Wars: New Jedi Order, has once again joined the ranks of Star Wars movies trapped in the development cycle with writer Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) leaving the project. Knight signed onto the film in March 2023, after the film’s original screenwriters…

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25 Oct

Venom: The Last Dance Post-Credits Scenes and That Knull Moment Explained

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This article contains Venom: The Last Dance spoilers. For many, losing their significant other can feel a lot like the end of the world. But for Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock, it could be literally that after Venom: The Last Dance comes to a close. When we leave Hardy’s erstwhile superhero, his better half—the slimy, gooey, raven-black symbiote who calls itself Venom—is dead. Probably. Venom definitely seems to sacrifice himself when the symbiote assimilates and destroys all of the bad juju from a symbiotic tracker sent to Earth to hunt him down. In the aftermath, most of the other symbiotes in…

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25 Oct

Venom 3’s Ending Is About ‘Love Lost’ Between Eddie and the Symbiote

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One thing was clear to Tom Hardy and Kelly Marcel back before Venom’s black gooey goodness ever slithered off the comic book page: Venom 3, or Venom: The Last Dance as it became known, needed to be the end of the story. “We always knew this was the conclusion,” writer-director Marcel explains while stepping into the Den of Geek studio alongside Venom 3 co-star Rhys Ifans. “We knew that we were signed up for three movies, or that Tom was signed up for three movies, and that there would be a three-movie arc, and that this is where we would…

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25 Oct

Dune: Prophecy Just Teased the Most Powerful Weapon in the Frank Herbert Universe

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“We’ve never seen a force like this,” says Valya Harkonnen (Emily Watson) in the final trailer for the HBO prequel series Dune: Prophecy. That comment is delivered amidst images of impressive forces, including the sandworms of Arrakis, the Bene Gesserit witches, and Emperor Javicco Corrino (Mark Strong). But the most striking image might be the most human, that of an arm covered by boiling skin. Although the trailer doesn’t say for sure, readers of Frank Herbert‘s Dune novels have a good idea of what they’re seeing. That appears to be the effects of a weapon called a stone burner, one…

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24 Oct

Blade Release Date Cancelation Is a Good Thing for Marvel

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About 90 percent of the enjoyment in Deadpool & Wolverine hinges on knowing references about the recent history of Hollywood and the current state of superhero movies. And none of those winking asides hit as hard as the moment where Blade, played once again by Wesley Snipes, does something cool, looks at the camera, and says, “There’s only been one Blade. There’s only gonna be one Blade.” As always, the Daywalker is correct, as it was announced that Marvel will no longer continue to try and ice skate uphill. The long in-development and beleaguered Blade film starring Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali…

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24 Oct

M3GAN 2.0 Dives Deeper Into ‘What Makes Her Tick’: Exclusive New Details From Jason Blum

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Jason Blum is skeptical of folks who claim they know they have a hit while watching the dailies. As far as he’s concerned, it has never happened in his career, even after he smiled the first time he viewed a playback of child actor Amie Donald pirouetting down a hallway and grabbing a machete. It was a darkly funny moment that had just been shot for director Gerard Johnstone’s M3GAN, a film which would combine Donald’s movements with Jenna Davis’ vocal performance in order to create the vicious title character. But that this would be the birth of a thoroughly…

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23 Oct

The Spooky Horror Movie and Music Video Tie-Ins of the ’80s and ’90s

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It’s cliché to lament about “the days when MTV played music videos,” but it’s true. Those were a magical time, and with all the countless music videos, there was a very specific subgenre that was peppered in for years. By that I mean the movie tie-in music video. Back then, to advertise both a new movie and its soundtrack, they would take one of the tracks and give it its own music video. It usually involved the musician performing their song with a narrative that loosely linked them to the movie’s story, and every few moments they would throw in…

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23 Oct

Wolf Man: Leigh Whannell and Jason Blum on Making Body Horror That Can Stand Next to The Fly

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The Wolf Man has always held a special place in Jason Blum’s heart. While, gun to his head, Dracula was his absolute favorite Universal Monster growing up, Lon Chaney Jr.’s depiction of poor, cursed Larry Talbot was pretty close behind. To this day, the filmmaker reminisces about watching the 1941 original with his mother. Perhaps that was one reason that when Blumhouse Productions first began entertaining the idea of reimagining some of the classic Universal Monsters for the 21st century, the Wolf Man remained high on the list. “It’s a project I’ve been passionate about for a very long time,…

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22 Oct

NYCC 2024 Recap: The Biggest Panel Announcements and Best Moments From Our Studio

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New York Comic Con is an event filled with cosplay, merch, and plenty of fan interaction, but the annual convention also features plenty of big announcements coming from the television and film panels as well as activations to create a unique experience for attendees. If you weren’t able to make it to NYCC this year, we’ve got you covered with all of the most exciting news and memorable moments coming from this year’s gathering. Plus, a few exclusive tidbits we learned at our interview studio! Panels  The Future of the Star Trek Universe Star Trek was in full force at…

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20 Oct

The Best Horror Movies of the 1990s

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Some people say the 1990s weren’t the best years for horror since they marked the end of many of the popular slasher franchises from the ‘70s and ‘80s that previous generations grew up on. In those movies’ place, the ‘90s introduced way more postmodern teen horrors (following on from Scream). But there was way more to ‘90s horror than that, and it’s an era which deserves a second look. While Scream was revising the slasher model, making it more female-friendly and catering to teen gore hounds who knew all the tricks, The Blair Witch Project ushered in a new era…

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19 Oct

How Woman of the Hour Tweaks the True Story of the Dating Game Killer to Make a Bigger Point

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Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut is Woman of the Hour, a crime drama centered on the time when serial killer Rodney Alcala appeared on show The Dating Game, while he was in the middle of his killing spree and had already been arrested and convicted of child molestation twice. Kendrick’s film is not a mawkish biopic of Alcala, it’s more a study of women being unsafe around men and how, certainly in the ’70s in the USA, the police and legal systems let victims down. The story is told through Kendrick’s portrayal of Cheryl Bradshaw, the bachelorette who picked Alcala on…

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19 Oct

40 Years Ago, The Terminator Created the Ultimate Survival Movie

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This article is sponsored by Sneak Energy. Check out their Terminator 40th limited edition collection here! From its first shocking future-tense moment to its ominous, and haunting ending, The Terminator is so much more than just a well-made action sci-fi movie. Forty years ago, with a script co-written by Gale Anne Hurd, James Cameron directed what can only be called his first masterpiece. Though the larger franchise is broadly beloved, the original film—featuring brilliant performances from Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, and Arnold Schwarzenegger—remains an unforgettable piece of cinematic art. Now, 40 years after its initial release, The Terminator is back…

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19 Oct

LOTR: War of the Rohirrim NYCC Footage Brings an Ancient Tolkien Hero to Life

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Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? The Horse-lords of Tolkien’s Middle-earth rode into New York Comic Con with a star-studded panel for New Line Cinema’s forthcoming animated feature, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. This prequel takes place approximately 200 years before the events of The Fellowship of the Ring, when Helm Hammerhand, ninth king of Rohan and the namesake of Helm’s Deep and Rohan’s legendary horn, escalated a family feud against his Dunlending neighbors and brought war and tragedy to his realm.  Emmy Award-winning Brian Cox,…

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19 Oct

Nosferatu: How Robert Eggers Came Up With Willem Dafoe’s “Occultist” Vampire Hunter

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Willem Dafoe has a history with Nosferatu. Long before appearing in Robert Eggers’ reimagining of the German Expressionist classic, the Oscar-nominated actor starred in a film about the making of the original vampire movie. In fact, one of the Oscars he was nominated for was the movie about Nosferatu—or at least a fantasy version of it where Dafoe played a literal vampire who is cast by eccentric director F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) to provide authenticity to the 1922 picture. Willem Dafoe’s performance in Shadow of the Vampire (2000) had a formative influence on Eggers too. Albeit the way Eggers tells…

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