“Evil Does Not Exist” had its world premiere at last year’s Venice Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden Lion and won the Grand Jury Prize; during its tour of the international festival circuit, the film also traveled to Toronto, London, and New York, where Hamaguchi visited the Criterion offices and sat with his […]

Tokyo Theater Nikkatsu has released a teaser trailer for director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s upcoming horror thriller Cloud. The title of the film, Cloud is in reference to the digital space known as the cloud. The film is described as a suspense thriller depicting “collective madness” born from a chain of hatred. The story follows a “man […]

Jerry Seinfeld is blaming the “extreme” left for the lack of growth in sitcoms, saying political correctness has ruined the format. What’s the deal with being politically correct? Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is once again going after PC and woke culture, saying they are responsible for the demise of the American sitcom. On a recent episode […]

It was already disappointing to hear that Quentin Tarantino called off plans to make his intended tenth and final film as a director, The Movie Critic. But now we learn that while the movie would have been about a film critic for a seedy ’70s magazine, Brad Pitt would have starred in the film as Cliff Booth, […]

“Terrestrial Verses,” one of the most brilliant and provocative films to emerge from Iran recently, has qualities that link it to both the modernist formal traditions of post-1979 Iranian cinema and the more recent trend of social and political asperities aimed at the authoritarian repressiveness of the Islamic Republic. The film’s stylistic approach is both […]

This week, DreadXP launched Sucker for Love: Date to Die For from solo developer Akabaka. This is the second game in the Sucker for Love franchise and I was hyped because I loved the first game so much. Sadly, unlike the first game, Date to Die For is currently only available on PC although I’m […]

28 Days Later was shot in the early days of digital video and sports a unique (but dated) look. Should the new rightsholder tweak it for 4k? If you have Hulu (or Disney Star in Canada), you might have noticed that Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later is no longer available. Indeed, Disney lost the rights […]

Jerry Seinfeld makes his directorial debut in May with his new Netflix movie Unfrosted, a humorous look at the origin of the Pop-Tart. (“What’s the deal with Toaster Strudel? What is this, the Hasburg Empire?” etc.) If you don’t care about breakfast pastries, though, there are dozens of other movies, shows, and comedy specials to check […]

But this isn’t a music biopic or even an origin story, even though much of the plot centers on whether older sister Rebecca can secure a record contract with her pure, clear voice, which could rescue the family financially. (Spoiler: she does and goes on to become Grammy winner Rebecca St. James; for KING & […]

I’m a big fan of Universal’s original 1954 monster movie The Creature From The Black Lagoon and Skybound Entertainment has revealed a new story that they are going to tell with Gill-Man titled The Creature From The Black Lagoon Lives!. This is the second Universal Monster horror comic that they’ve produced. The first was Dracula […]