Listen in below to my interview with Tim Wynn, the musical composer for Final Destination: Bloodlines, now in theater. Wynn has a long history of genre composing, including 15 seasons of Supernatural, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, and a long collaboration with Christopher Lennertz. As the third composer in the Final Destination franchise, find out how Tim Wynn respected the legacy of Shirley
Read MoreSinners as a title may discourage the evangelical audience from seeing the film. Yet, Ryan Coogler has more to say about spiritual warfare than most faith-based movies. His first breakthrough into horror touches on the deeply rooted religious backdrop of the 1930s Mississippi South, where people of color survived a racist landscape through resilience, grit, and the hope of an answered
Read MoreThe Last of Us returns with its second season, not only with explosive action mixed with violence, but with emotional moments that are quieter, more introspective, and has the potential to be far more devastating in the future. The season’s premiere episode, “Future Days,” is not only a direct reference to the Pearl Jam song featured in The Last of Us
Read MoreDeath of a Unicorn is a comically unhinged concept. The foundation has all the flavors of an SNL Digital Short or a Robot Chicken segment. The movie finds an existence on one unique question: What if we made a Jurassic Park movie but used unicorns instead of dinosaurs? To increase the insanity, take a wholesome comedic star like Paul Rudd and
Read MoreThe new A24 film Opus spurs reflections about the recently deceased Gene Hackman. The late actor rarely found a genre he could not improve in some form. Hackman made it a point to flourish in movies like The Birdcage, where the role required him to tackle progressive topics with sincere comedic timing. Similarly, he could navigate a darker role, much like
Read MoreControl Freak is a brand-new horror film written and directed by Shal Ngo. Ngo is an up-and-coming Chinese-American filmmaker known for The Park (2023) and several shorter works, making this surely his biggest project to date. The film stars Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Miles Robbins, Toan Le, and Kieu Chinh. In the story, a woman finds the
Read MoreAfter the incredible commercial success of Longlegs, bolstered by a clever marketing campaign, many audience members eagerly anticipated seeing what Osgood Perkins would come up with next. It turns out they didn’t have to wait very long, as his latest feature, The Monkey, was already in the can when Longlegs bowed out in cinemas. Adapted from the short story of the
Read MoreThe Dead Thing might be dropping on Shudder during the Valentine’s Day weekend, but the new film by Elric Kane is hardly a standing ovation to the idea of romance. One might even call it cynical. In the age of loneliness and swipe culture, the need for connection feels more urgent than ever, causing the slightest bit of rejection to feel
Read MoreHow far would you go for something worth living for? That’s the question answered by Miles Teller’s Levi in Apple TV’s newest movie, The Gorge. The Gorge is directed by infamous horror director Scott Derrickson, known for films such as Doctor Strange, The Black Phone, and more. Along with Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy, The Gorge stars Sigourney Weaver and Sope
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