Beginning this Friday February 23rd, you can head to theaters for a new live-action, R-rated horror movie about the art and intensity of stop-motion animation. In director and co-writer Robert Morgan’s “Stopmotion”, Ella, the daughter of a stop-motion animation legend, takes on a new project that quickly, and viciously, takes over her. Morgan talks about […]
After eight years of trying to make it happen, Universal and producer Jason Blum will finally release “Five Nights at Freddy’s” in theaters and on Peacock next Friday October 27th. The feature film adaptation of the popular video game franchise stars Josh Hutcherson and Matthew Lillard. I recently had the chance to interview director Emma […]
Christopher Nolan’s three-hour drama “Oppenheimer” just made history for Universal Pictures. It’s not only the studio’s 10th highest grossing film in North America of the 21st century, but it’s the century’s biggest non-“Fast and Furious”, non-“Jurassic World” and non-Illumination animated movie so far. That’s quite an accomplishment. Universal’s next big potential blockbuster release is “The […]
Film critic, radio host and podcast aficionado Mike Sargent has directed his first feature film in more than 20 years. It’s the supernatural horror thriller “From the Shadows”, starring Bruce Davison, Selena Anduze and Keith David. “FTS” opens in select theaters on Sept. 22 and is available on Vudu Sept. 29. Sargent (who co-hosts the […]
This fifth installment in the “Scream” series is a slasher/horror movie about slasher/horror movies. Its title is simply “Scream”. If you’re wondering why it’s not “Scream 5” or even “5cream”, well, there’s a joke about halfway into the film that answers that question. It’s one of the sharper self-aware moments in a script that’s packed […]
Within the horror movie genre sits a gated community of films about haunted houses inhabited by troubled owners — past and present. “The Night House” attempts to rise to the top floor of this group. Unfortunately, the most mysterious element of director David Bruckner’s creation is its title. The meaning isn’t revealed until the final […]
The post-apocalyptic/mankind on the verge of extinction/epidemic virus crisis genre continues to grow at a rapid pace. From “World War Z”, “Contagion” and “28 Days Later” to the “Planet of the Apes” and “Hunger Games” franchises, and even “WALL-E”, we’ve seen it all. Joel Edgerton was a producer on the 2014 indie “The Rover”, which […]