Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos reteams with star Emma Stone on Bugonia, a timely new update of Jang Joon-Hwan’s Save the Green Planet. The sardonic, genre-bending satire takes aim at modern echo chambers and their erosion of humanity. Lanthimos’ signature ability to skew reality with absurdist humor and style belies a cynical condemnation of our […]
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The stakes are personal in explosive action sequel Sisu: Road to Revenge. Writer/Director Jalmari Helander (Rare Exports) is back at the helm alongside returning star Jorma Tommila as the silent antihero with a special talent for slaughtering baddies, but this time the adrenaline-pumping “more is more” energy gets offset by an unrestrained sense of humor and […]
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Steven Spielberg’s seminal shark horror classic Jaws turns 50 this year, and Beast of War, the latest by filmmaker Kiah Roache-Turner (Sting, Wyrmwood: Apocalypse), draws inspiration from the historical account that directly inspired Quint’s unforgettable monologue in Spielberg’s film. Roache-Turner, who writes and directs, gives his own spin with his 1942 Australian war movie, featuring […]
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In Stephen King’s Cujo, a family’s beloved pet St. Bernard turns homicidal and traps a family in their car after catching rabies. In director Johannes Roberts’ Primate, it’s a pet chimpanzee who succumbs to the ruthless disease, and the car gets traded for the family’s swimming pool. Yet Roberts’ old school techniques, complete with stunning […]
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The Strangers: Chapter 2 makes its debut tomorrow at Fantastic Fest, and we’ve got an exclusive new poster that puts its heroine in the center of danger. The second chapter in the trilogy premieres tomorrow, September 20, at 5:10pm CT. Just over one year after The Strangers: Chapter 1 kickstarted a new trilogy of terror tales, Lionsgate is […]
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