Obsession Oscar buzz: the $750,000 horror hit wants 15 Oscars
Hannah Whitlock
Hannah Whitlock
Obsession Oscar buzz: the $750,000 horror hit wants 15 Oscars
A 26-year-old director's micro-budget horror movie out-grossed half the summer's blockbusters, and now its studio is campaigning it like it's Oppenheimer.
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How scary is Other Mommy? A demon wears Jessica Chastain's face to reach her 8-year-old — critics say the movie wastes it
Hannah Whitlock
Hannah Whitlock
How scary is Other Mommy? A demon wears Jessica Chastain's face to reach her 8-year-old — critics say the movie wastes it
The premise is nightmare fuel, the trailer's jump scare went viral, and the reviews read like incident reports. Here's what you're actually signing up for.
What Late Fame is based on: the manuscript outlived its author by 80 years and survived a Nazi book burning
Hannah Whitlock
Hannah Whitlock
What Late Fame is based on: the manuscript outlived its author by 80 years and survived a Nazi book burning
Willem Dafoe's quietest Oscar vehicle this year is adapted from a novella with a better third act than most movies: written in the 1890s, published in 2014.
Is One Night Only based on a book? The source is real — Hollywood ranked it #1 before a single scene was shot
Hannah Whitlock
Hannah Whitlock
Is One Night Only based on a book? The source is real — Hollywood ranked it #1 before a single scene was shot
No novel, no article, no podcast. The source material is a script that Hollywood's own executives voted the best unproduced screenplay of the year — and that's where the story gets uncomfortable.
Where was Practical Magic 2 filmed? The whole witchy island is England in disguise
Hannah Whitlock
Hannah Whitlock
Where was Practical Magic 2 filmed? The whole witchy island is England in disguise
The Owens sisters' New England seaside town has a new secret, and it's a postcode. Not one frame of the sequel was shot in America.
Clive Barker is 'proud as f**k' of a new Hellraiser — and it's not a movie
Daniel Okafor
Daniel Okafor
Clive Barker is 'proud as f**k' of a new Hellraiser — and it's not a movie
The franchise has ten films and a reboot, and its creator just gave his warmest review in decades to the entry you hold a controller for.
Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes doc is making audiences feel sorry for Elizabeth Holmes
Daniel Okafor
Daniel Okafor
Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes doc is making audiences feel sorry for Elizabeth Holmes
You Can See Everything opened October 16 with a perfect critics' score, and the most common reaction coming out of theaters is the one nobody planned for.
Pretty Woman's original ending was two rewrites away from the movie you know
Hannah Whitlock
Hannah Whitlock
Pretty Woman's original ending was two rewrites away from the movie you know
Before the fairy tale, the script was called 3000, Vivian was a crack addict, and the last scene left her money in a gutter. The writer himself drafted the movie out of its own ending.
Is Dossier 137 based on a true story? The protest injury at its core happened to real people more than once
Hannah Whitlock
Hannah Whitlock
Is Dossier 137 based on a true story? The protest injury at its core happened to real people more than once
Dominik Moll's thriller follows one fictional flash-ball case through France's police of the police. The statistics behind it are not fictional at all.
Sit tight or head for the exit? What the Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass end credits are hiding
Hannah Whitlock
Hannah Whitlock
Sit tight or head for the exit? What the Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass end credits are hiding
There is something in the credits of the worst-reviewed Tom and Jerry movie ever made. Whether it changes the stay-or-go math is another question.