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The George Romero-Helmed Stephen King Adaptation We’ll Never Get To See Glass Eye Pix By Anya Stanley/Dec. 9, 2021 11:54 am EST Movie fans and horror fans alike mourned the death of the legendary George A. Romero in July of 2017. It wasn’t just the passing of a man, but the cornerstone of a genre. With his scrappy indie movie “Night of the Living Dead” in 1968, the American-Canadian filmmaker ushered in a new era of modern horror....

The Great Outdoors Sequel In The Works, According To Dan Aykroyd Universal Pictures By Max Evry/Nov. 3, 2021 2:19 pm EST One of the more minor asterisks in writer/producer John Hughes’ canon is the 1988 comedy “The Great Outdoors,” which paired Dan Aykroyd and the late John Candy as mismatched brothers-in-law whose two families come together at a Wisconsin lake resort. Slapstick hilarity ensued, including water skiing mishaps, a steak-eating contest and a giant bear attack....

The Power Of The Dog Review: Jane Campion’s Stunning Neo-Western Has A Career-Best Performance From Benedict Cumberbatch [TIFF 2021] Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 11, 2021 5:05 pm EST “What kind of man would I be if I didn’t help my mother?” So says Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee) at the start of “The Power of the Dog,” Jane Campion’s quiet-yet-menacing neo-Western. We hear Peter say these words before we’ve even met him, and it will take almost the entire film before we find out what they truly mean....

This Week In Trailers: The Concert, FrICTION, I Didn’t Come Here To Die, Down Terrace By Christopher Stipp/July 2, 2010 4:00 pm EST I implore you all to not watch the American trailer playing for this film on iTunes. The trailer here, while not entirely all that different from its gentrified, English speaking cousin, just hits me in the heart in the way that you can tell when someone is being genuine and when someone is putting on airs....

Titane: Release Date, Cast And More By Jeremy Mathai/July 27, 2021 2:04 pm EST Filmmaker Julia Ducournau is rapidly carving out her own distinct niche, despite having only one feature film under her belt from back in 2016. That movie, Raw, immediately announced the French writer/director as a voice to be taken seriously and Ducournau is now following that up with this year’s Titane. If you’re hungry for more information on the movie, look no further....

TV Bits: ‘Jack Ryan’, ‘The Lost Symbol’, ‘Monsters At Work’, A New ‘Psych’ Movie, And More By Ben Pearson/May 22, 2021 11:00 am EST Here’s the first trailer for Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, a prequel that shows the origins of the symbologist character portrayed by Tom Hanks in the Ron Howard movies. Our pal Dan Trachtenberg directed the pilot of this series, which debuts on Peacock soon. Season 3 of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan finds Jack Ryan (Krasinski) on the run and in a race against time....

‘A Quiet Place Part II’ Teaser: It’s Been Quiet For Far Too Long, But A New Trailer Will Fix That Tomorrow By Ethan Anderton/May 5, 2021 9:30 am EST After being delayed at the start of the coronavirus pandemic last year, A Quiet Place Part II is finally coming to theaters later this month. Paramount Pictures is so ready to release this movie that they bumped it up from the previously set fall release date to take advantage of the sparse summer blockbuster calendar, which may or may not be a risky box office decision (especially with the movie coming to Paramount+ just 45 days after hitting theaters)....

‘Cruella’ Featurette Digs Into The Rockin’ Soundtrack, Now Available For Your Listening Pleasure By Ethan Anderton/May 23, 2021 12:00 pm EST Disney’s Cruella doesn’t arrive until next week, but the film’s score and soundtrack are available now for your listening pleasure. This isn’t your average whimsical Disney score with uplifting songs about love and adventure. Instead, Cruella comes with a rockin’ soundtrack inspired by London in the 1970s, so we get jams from Queen, The Clash, Blondie, Electric Light Orchestra, Nina Simone and more....

‘Kick-Ass 2’ Review: A Fun Sequel That Continually Trips Over Itself By Germain Lussier/Aug. 16, 2013 4:15 pm EST The two major things missing from Kick-Ass 2 constitute the two major problems with an otherwise decent sequel. Those things are Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman. Vaughn, who directed Kick-Ass in 2010, is an incredibly talented director. Goldman, who wrote the first film, is a fantastic screenwriter. They both return as producers this time around, but their respective duties have taken over by Jeff Wadlow, the director of Cry_Wolf and Never Back Down....

‘Kick-Ass 3’ Won’t Feature Chloe Grace Moretz’s Hit-Girl (If It Ever Gets Made) By Ben Pearson/June 20, 2018 4:00 pm EST Earlier this month, we wrote about how director Matthew Vaughn announced plans to get behind the camera for a reboot of Kick-Ass, his 2010 movie that was based on writer Mark Millar’s comic book. One of that film’s most memorable characters is Hit-Girl, a trained assassin played by the then-13-year-old Chloe Grace Moretz....

No Man of God Trailer Ted Bundy partially inspired the character of Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. That film turned 30 this year and it remains the gold standard by which all other serial killer thrillers are judged. It’s virtually impossible now to see an FBI agent sit down across from a killer for a tense interview and not be reminded on some level of Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter....

‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ Sequel Cast Adds Issa Rae As Spider-Woman By Chris Evangelista/June 4, 2021 2:25 pm EST The Spider-Verse is starting to take shape again. Issa Rae has joined the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse sequel cast as Jessica Drew, AKA Spider-Woman. Rae is the first new cast member to be announced for the sequel, which will bring back Shameik Moore as Miles Morales and Hailee Steinfeld as Gwen Stacey....

‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’ Director Michael Chaves On What Makes A ‘Conjuring’ Movie And Where The Warrens Go Next [Interview] By Chris Evangelista/June 7, 2021 8:00 am EST The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, the latest entry in the wildly successful Conjuring franchise, is in theaters and streaming on HBO Max right now. Once again, Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga are back as intrepid ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren....

‘The Gentlemen’: Guy Ritchie Is Turning His Gangster Movie Into A TV Series For Miramax TV By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 1, 2020 4:30 pm EST Remember when Guy Ritchie made his long-awaited return to the gangster flick with The Gentlemen earlier this year? Yes, that was this year, back in January 2020. And in the decade that passed in the 9 months since The Gentlemen came out, it has earned enough of a following for Miramax TV to commission a TV series adaptation, written and directed by Ritchie himself....

12 Tim Burton Movies You Should Watch This Halloween Warner Bros. By Molly Turner/Oct. 6, 2021 3:29 pm EST Over the course of his career, Tim Burton has become a master of the spooky aesthetic. Ever since the release of his debut directorial feature, 1985’s “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure,” Burton has been a singular voice in Hollywood who speaks for outcasts, weirdos, and everyone looking for a place to belong in the world....

A ‘World Of Darkness’ Universe Is Coming To TV And Film From ‘The Witcher’ Production Company By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 27, 2021 4:00 pm EST Vampires, werewolves, and wizards, oh my! A world populated with them will soon be hitting the big and small screens, thanks to the team behind The Witcher. Producing team Eric Heisserer (Shadow and Bone) and Christine Boylan (The Punisher) and the production company behind The Witcher are developing a World of Darkness universe, based on tabletop gaming franchise, for film and TV....

Alice In Borderland Season 1 Ending Explained: The Games Have Just Begun Netflix By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Nov. 7, 2021 5:08 pm EST Arisu and his new friends may have survived their deadliest game yet, but the ending of “Alice in Borderland” season 1 reveals that things are just getting started. Based on the manga by Haro Aso, “Alice in Borderland” premiered on Netflix in December 2020 and has recently experienced a recent surge of popularity among “Squid Game” fans looking for more offerings in the “death game” genre....

So What is “Apocalypse Now” About, Exactly? United Artists Burnt-out special ops guy Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is going insane in a Saigon hotel room before he gets offered a very special mission. He is tasked with traveling upriver into neighbouring Cambodia to infiltrate the camp of highly decorated Green Beret Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who is operating brutally beyond the control of the Pentagon. Willard’s mission is to terminate Kurtz’s command with “extreme prejudice....

Cool Stuff: NECA’s ‘The Wolf Man’ Action Figure Expands The Universal Monsters Toy Line By Ethan Anderton/June 24, 2021 6:00 am EST This year, NECA is digging back into the history of horror with a new, incredibly detailed line of action figures based on the classic Universal Monsters. The first one out of the gate is Frankenstein this summer, but this fall will bring The Wolf Man to your shelf, featuring an outstanding likeness of actor Lon Chaney Jr....

Ep. 607 - Nomadland (GUEST: Roxana Hadadi) By Slashfilmcast/Feb. 24, 2021 8:00 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff chat about Freaky, The Expanse, and Attack of the Murder Hornets. For the feature review, the cast is joined by Roxana Hadadi to talk about Nomadland, the latest film by director Chloe Zhao starring Frances McDormand. Follow Roxana at @roxana_hadadi on Twitter! The Slashfilmcast is launching a Patreon! Support us at http://patreon.com/filmpodcast. Use #slashtag on Twitter to recommend a title for us to watch....