With Halloween wrapping-up, Netflix is unleashing a horror-thriller just upon the eve of the famous holiday. The film, titled His House, is an unusual entry for the genre, telling a haunting story involving immigrants. Much like Get Out, this movie hopes to be another swing at bringing social issues into horror. And the unique take
Holidate has arrived on Netflix with a respectable cast of Emma Roberts, Kristin Chenoweth, Luke Bracey, Frances Fisher, and Jessica Capshaw. Sadly, the rom-com movie’s material does not lend itself to illustrate the many talents of the actors who took on this task. For starters, the all-too-frequent use of profanity tended to be gratuitous. Even
Back in 2019, director Todd Phillips gave us a fresh new take on The Joker (read our review) that we have never seen in the Batman films. We have always known the character has mental health issues, but it’s rarely seen from a sympathetic perspective. With Joaquin’s haunting portrayal plus the excessive weight loss, laughter
Guillermo del Toro is one of the top Mexican filmmakers working in Hollywood today and helped kickstart a revolution of Spanish-language filmmakers over the past few decades. For his own work, del Toro is an Oscar-winning director and producer, with a Best Director and Best Picture Oscar on his shelves. Outside of that, he has
This weekend Borat returns to hold a mirror to the ugliest areas of American culture. The new sequel titled Borat Subsequent Moviefilm takes aim at the current administration and the surrounding atmosphere in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in America. This time, Borat is out to make an offering to the Vice President of
With Rebecca, Netflix took a deep dive and released an adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier gothic mystery novel Rebecca. Most people know the story through Alfred Hitchcock’s debut American film, which won the Oscar for Best Picture. That gives this new Netflix version of Rebecca a lot to live up to. Rebecca on Netflix
In 1994, Wes Craven returned with a new Nightmare on Elm Street movie, but it was unlike anything that came before with Wes Craven’s New Nightmare. The film received positive reviews from critics, who saw what Craven was doing with the movie, but fans were not ready yet for meta-horror movies, and they ranked it
Screenplays are the backbone for any film and without a sound script, a movie has no ability to fly. Aaron Sorkin is one of the best in the business for making scripts that are relentlessly entertaining. And with The Trial of the Chicago 7, Sorkin manages to once again give something special. With his latest
In partnership with Netflix, Adam McKay looks to have pulled off quite a coup by managing to persuade a tidal wave of some of Hollywood’s top talent to his new movie. Don’t Look Up is scheduled to hit Netflix at some point in 2021, billed as a sci-fi comedy telling the story of two low-level
Actress Gal Gadot is facing a backlash on social media after she announced that she is starring in an upcoming film about the ancient Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, directed by Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins. The Israeli-born Wonder Woman actress took to Twitter on Sunday afternoon to announce the news. She expressed delight about being part