ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to The Babadook director Jennifer Kent about the film’s legacy and its upcoming rerelease. In honor of the 10th anniversary of the iconic indie horror movie, it will return to theaters featuring an exclusive Q&A with Kent. There will be nationwide theatrical showings on September 19 and 22, thanks to IFC … Read more
The slasher classic Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is returning to theatres this month, celebrating its 40th anniversary 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of one of my favorite entries in my favorite franchise: the Friday the 13th sequel Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter – and to mark the occasion, Paramount Scares and Fangoria have teamed up to bring … Read more
The Matrix is 25 years old. As a great man once said… whoa. Celebrating this momentous occasion, the film will be returning to theaters for two nights in September, via Fathom Events. The program will include an exclusive featurette “looking back on the monumental impact of The Matrix.” Hosted by The Matrix Resurrections’ Jessica Henwick (Bugs), the documentary … Read more
Francis Ford Coppola’s *other* 1974 masterpiece, The Conversation, has been given the 4K treatment for its 50th anniversary. Fifty years on, the conversation over The Conversation is far from over. To mark Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 paranoiac thriller — released the same year as The Godfather Part II, which is still hard to fathom — … Read more
The Criterion Collection is turning 40 years old, and it’s celebrating in an extremely Criterion Collection way: By releasing a 40-film box set culled from their archive of great films. Officially titled CC40, the set includes films from around the world and through history, dating back to 1940 and going all the way up to 2001. … Read more
Writer/director Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook is getting a theatrical re-release for its 10th anniversary, with a Kent Q&A Somehow, 10 years have already passed since the release of writer/director Jennifer Kent’s horror film The Babadook (watch it HERE) – and to mark the occasion, IFC Films is teaming up with Iconic Events Releasing to give the film a … Read more
You want yourself a woman? One come in here from Albuquerque run a cathouse over there. Name is Bertha – got an ass on her like a forty-dollar cow. And a tit… I’d like to see that thing filled full of tequila – Hey you know what she always said about cowboys? She always wished … Read more
Throughout the night, my eyes glanced around the room. I caught sight of “Hoop Dreams” director Steve James and “Return to Seoul” filmmaker Davy Chou. Along the way, the festival’s artistic director Mimi Plauché and its managing director Vivian Teng stepped on stage to talk about the festival’s adventurous summer screenings, its CineYouth festival and … Read more
Today marks 30 years since the release of Alex Proyas’ classic film so we take a look at the highly anticipated 4K UHD release. May 11, 1994 saw the release of Alex Proyas’ The Crow, and cinema was never the same. And now, 30 years later, we’re finally being treated to the definitive version on … Read more
The unexpected global success of “Pulp Fiction” in 1994 spawned a wave of wannabes and cash-ins, many of them mixing and matching elements that they thought made Quentin Tarantino’s movie a success: Violence, drugs, ostentatiously declamatory dialogue and monologues, time-shifting stories. Of course, the real reason for its success was that it had a singular … Read more