The first US trailer for Rust & Bone has arrived. Video: Rust and Bone: Exclusive trailer It looks every bit as beautiful as I imagined. Jacques Audiard (Un Prophete, The Beat that My Heart Skipped) was the perfect choice to…
Anthology horror should be a much bigger influence on the American film industry than it is. You have a form that allows you to tell a few complete stories in the same running time as one feature length film. If…
Last year, American Horror Story struck gold with a brilliant viral marketing campaign. A gorgeous mansion, decked out in red, was disturbed by the presence of a mysterious figure in a black rubber suit. Sometimes, it was a man; other…
A new David Cronenberg film is always an event. Even if it winds up being a comparatively tame affair (A Dangerous Method would have been daring if made by another director), there’s always something interesting to latch onto and think…
Sometimes, I surprise myself with what films appeal to me. I know, deep down, that the Resident Evil series is not good. On its best day, it’s just ok. And I’m fine with that. It’s survival horror eye candy that…
The teaser trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained frightens me in the best ways possible. The performances seem positively unhinged. The concept is pure pulp. Everything seems to be winking at the audience. It’s possibly more self-aware and darkly humorous…
Aside from a really cool probably educational game where you explored sunken ships in a full diving bell, my favorite PC gaming memory is an old one. I was addicted to SimCity. I loved building up a city only to…
One of my favorite shows to write about has been RuPaul’s Drag U. Off-kilter contestant writing really abusive comments here aside (scrubbed and banned, hence the comment policy, soon to be amended as I turned off moderation), it was so…
The Apparition is a horror film with an all-star teen-friendly cast. There’s that girl from Twilight. Oh look, it’s the bad boy of Harry Potter. Cynicism aside, the casting is appropriate as the leads are all supposed to be grad…
Maniac is one of those slashers that people either love or hate. It’s as polarizing as it is under seen. The entire point of the story is to follow a serial killer around as he does his thing in NYC.…
Stop me if you heard this one before. A big movie studio takes a chance on a strange little horror screenplay from people who are really knowledgeable in sci-fi/fantasy/horror. The writers make the film and the studio doesn’t know what…
The goal of a good trailer is to entice the target audience to come see the film. It can focus on plot, character, stars, style, action, one scene, many scenes, everything, or nothing at all to get this job done.…
Are you ready? Tags: RuPaul’s Drag Race, RuPaul, Logo: Fierce TV RuPaul’s Drag Race is arguably the best reality TV show out there right now. RuPaul invites a group of drag queens from all over America to compete for the…
In 2004, when I first went away to college, I had the opportunity to see Gus Van Sant’s Palm D’or winning film Elephant for the first time. I was shocked, disturbed, enthralled, and obsessed with the film. It was a…