Diablo Cody has been in the screenwriting game a long time. Her debut, Juno, won her the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. She enjoys continued success, notably in her continued collaborations with Juno director Jason Reitman, Young Adult and Tully. The film younger generations tend to latch onto is the Megan Fox starring vehicle Jennifer’s Body. Its queer themes, sardonic comedy, and true horror cement
Read MoreOne of the coolest compliments I ever heard the late, great Roger Ebert express about a movie was that, while you’re watching it, your mind keeps turning; the movie’s mysteries encourage you to explore your own imagination in regard to what you’re seeing on the screen. The new prehistoric horror film from Bleecker Street titled Out of Darkness is exactly the
Read MoreShe is Conann is not a Conan film. The characters are mostly here, including the addition of Red Sonja. But the acid dream of She is Conann has other ideas on its mind. In a weird, nightmarish feminine LGTBQ vision of the Barbarian. We see the iconic character through various stages of her life, bathing the brutal character’s journey in a tub of
Read MoreFew months in the year are as scary to moviegoers as January. After the rush of awards season and holiday blockbusters, audiences spend far less time at the movies. Therefore, the studios dump the films they don’t expect to do very well at the beginning of the new year. Especially horror. The release of Night Swim, however, still feels a bit
Read MoreMonarch: Legacy of Monsters, much like Godzilla, is a kaiju of an experience. The new show aims to give the same feel as the current Monster-verse films, offering titan mayhem and even Godzilla himself. Apple TV+ certainly has the money to experiment with such a task, and for the most part, no penny is wasted on the small moments it becomes a
Read MoreIt has been a long, excruciating wait for Stranger Things season 5 to begin filming, especially considering that both volumes of season 4 dropped on Netflix back in summer 2022. After the way Vol. 2 ended, with the Upside Down making its way to the real world, fans have been eager to find out what happens next. But we are finally
Read MoreIt’s not as terrifying as when the candy runs out, or when you’re set upon by a horde of inflateable dinosaurs, but it’s pretty close . The new Goosebumps series on Disney+/Hulu is a spine-chilling delight sure to give you a thrillingly terrifying time this Halloween night. At New York City Comic Con earlier this month, we caught up with the
Read MoreIf you’re looking for a frightfully good time this Halloween evening, Goosebumps on Disney+/Hulu is the perfect way to get your scare on. Earlier this month at New York City Comic Con, we caught up with executive producers Pavun Shetty and Connor Welch in roundtable interviews to talk about reanimating this spooky delight for a new generation. In our NYCC roundtable interview with executive producers
Read MoreSlayers: A Buffyverse Story, a new Audible original podcast, is back to slay and dust some vampires. It’s the first audio adventure in the Buffyverse and is set ten years after the events of “The Chosen,” the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series finale. Slayers has us returning to the Buffyverse, where vampires, demons, and a new baby slayer meet. The audio drama features
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