On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age. Ahead of Halloween 2024, we’re doing the Midnight Movie Monster Mash with four films that challenge our understanding of evil characters and creatures just in time for Halloween. First, read the spoiler-free BAIT: a weird and wonderful pick from any time in film. Then, come back for …
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Most who have seen his work don’t typically associate the visceral and darkly funny filmography of eccentric Japanese auteur Takashi Miike with the terms “life-affirming” or “tender”, yet his 2019 hyper-violent and still darkly hilarious film First Love is both. Plot-wise, the movie isn’t a detour from some of Miike’s other films at all, as the yakuza is a major …
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Red Rooms Explained: Pascal Plante on 2024’s Best Serial Killer Movie You will be redirected back to your article in seconds “Red Rooms” director Pascal Plante tells IndieWire about his viral sensation, which follows a sociopathic woman with a morbid, parasocial attachment to a snuff-filmmaking serial killer. It’s a must-see now on VOD. ad Source link
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While the Spider-Man movies may be one of the most popular film franchises on the planet, that doesn’t mean that they’ve necessarily aged perfectly in every way. Like any film franchise, it sometimes has lines of dialogue that are far worse with the benefit of hindsight. There isn’t a film without poorly matured lines of dialogue, but due to the …
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Rebel Wilson is hitting back at the producers of her movie The Deb with a countersuit after they filed a defamation lawsuit against her. For those who don’t know, Rebel made her directorial debut with the movie and also stars in it as well. The drama all started after Rebel accused the producers of misconduct, embezzlement, and attempting to block …
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October 3, 2024 @ 3:14 PM The Stephen King adaptations keep coming, and “Salem’s Lot” is the latest offering. This is the third time King’s classic vampire novel – pitched as “Dracula” meets “Peyton Place” – has been adapted to the screen. This version stars Lewis Pullman as Ben Mears, a writer fighting for his life after his hometown is …
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Joaquin Phoenix wanted a “Joker” sequel bad — he photoshopped the character into classic movie posters in order to persuade and inspire Todd Phillips to create the follow-up. Speaking on the “Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso” podcast, Phoenix said he started working on the edits while wrapping up the first film, but then realized he actually did want a sequel. …
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For Sarah Paulson, “Hold Your Breath” brought a sigh of relief. Sure, the Emmy- and Tony-winner here plays a woman in the 1930s Dust Bowl who is convinced her children are in danger of an unseen monster dubbed Gray Man. But the experience acting in the horror-thriller made Paulson feel “liberated.” “American Horror Story” icon Paulson makes her executive producer …
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It’s been two years since it was revealed that real conversations about a “Community” movie were underway, with various updates sprinkled every few months. But, series star Yvette Nicole Brown says that at this point, everyone is the cast has “read an entire, full script” — and they’re very excited about it. That said, Brown stipulates that the script that …
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The horror genre is the queen of hit-or-miss films. While all genres have their best and worst, horror truly spans the spectrum of the greatest movie ever made to what can barely even count as a film. There are fantastically frightening films with incredible performances, like The Exorcist (1973) and Psycho (1960), and then there are films where the only …
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