Everybody has that movie that they will always champion, always recommend, always love unconditionally. For me, that movie is Shadow of the Vampire, which was released in theaters twenty-five years ago. This fictional account of the making of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu remains one of the most incisive, thought-provoking, and hilarious vampire films ever made, all […]
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“A crying woman is a scheming woman.” Women are supposed to be natural caregivers. Once we become mothers, we’re expected to put aside our own physical pleasures and dedicate our lives to protecting our young. But what of the mothers who can’t keep their children alive? The women who fail in the one job they […]
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Game Loop. Trace and I inadvertently bookended our April discussions of John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London (listen) and Ciarán Foy’s Eli (listen) with Jude Law films. At the start of the month, we tackled Matt Damon’s Italian grifter in The Talented Mr. Ripley (listen) and now we’re closing out April with David Cronenberg‘s eXistenZ […]
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Walter Mosley’s psychological thriller novel The Man in My Basement is headed to the screen, and Variety reports this morning that Anna Diop (Nanny) has joined the cast. Diop will star alongside Willem Dafoe (Poor Things) and Corey Hawkins (The Last Voyage of the Demeter) in The Man in My Basement, being directed by Nadia […]
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Willem Dafoe is no stranger to the world of Nosferatu, as he famously played original Nosferatu actor Max Schreck in the 2000 movie Shadow of the Vampire. Dafoe returns to that arena in the upcoming Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman) remake of Nosferatu, only this time around he’s playing a human who’s hunting […]
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Tim Burton is back with the long awaited sequel Beetlejuice 2, which will feature Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder alongside several faces fresh to Burton’s afterlife. Beetlejuice 2 is scheduled to haunt theaters on September 6, 2024, and one of the actors who will be joining the returning players is the always great Willem Dafoe (Poor Things). Speaking […]
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In the pantheon of Erotic Thrillers, Body of Evidence is an odd one. It falls into the even more niche sub-category of courtroom thrillers, which spend as much time on the naughty bits as they do with witnesses on the stand or in depositions (see also: Disclosure). Enter Body of Evidence. In the film, femme […]
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Casting continues this week on Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice 2, and THR reports today that Willem Dafoe (The Lighthouse) is the latest big name actor to join the impressive ensemble. THR reports, “While plot details are being kept six feet under, it is understood that Dafoe is playing a law enforcement officer in the afterlife.” Warner Bros. […]
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Air, water, food, and shelter rank at the top of the basic necessities required for human survival. In Inside, writer/director Vasilis Katsoupis and co-writer Ben Hopkins wield psychological torment to posit that art should also be considered a necessity. For its art that drives a man forward in this single-location thriller that attempts to hinder survival at every turn. […]
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Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman) is directing a remake of the horror classic Nosferatu, and Deadline reports that Willem Dafoe is in talks to join the cast. Dafoe was of course recently directed by Eggers in The Lighthouse, and it’s worth noting that Dafoe actually played Max Schreck/Count Orlok in the 2000 film […]
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Willem Dafoe (The Lighthouse) stars in the upcoming psychological thriller Inside, and Deadline reports this morning that Focus Features has acquired the film for 2023 release. Inside will release in theaters on March 10, 2023. The movie “tells the story of Nemo, an art thief trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn’t […]
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Profound Fart Work August has been a whirlwind month of far-ranging films! Trace and I started with our first John Carpenter in the made-for-TV film Someone’s Watching Me!, then moved on to Clive Barker’s ambitious Nightbreed before jetting across the world to tackle Michele Soavi’s Giallo/Slasher film Stage Fright. Now we’re back Stateside with Robert […]
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All of the Spider-Man films collide in Spider-Man: No Way Home, which has just swung its way to 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD. The latest Spidey adventure tears a hole in Peter Parker’s world, releasing the most powerful villains who’ve ever fought a Spider-Man in any universe. This brings together a unique form of […]
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The opening scene in Guillermo del Toro’s latest gives a grim introduction to lead Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) as he drags a wrapped body into the floorboards of a house, then sets the place ablaze. Intentionally presented without context, it casts Stanton in harsh light. That, of course, is by design. Appearances are often deceiving, and nothing […]
Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water) has returned with his brand new genre offering, Nightmare Alley, which finally has an official trailer. The footage from the film is nothing short of stunning, looking like del Toro’s own take on Gotham City, calling to mind Tim Burton’s Batman and its even more astonishing […]