Despicable Me 4 is a smash while MaXXXine breaks franchise records at the holiday weekend box office. The weekend numbers are starting to roll in (via Deadline), and Despicable Me 4 is on track for a terrific $120 million 5-day opening, with a $72 million weekend gross, which is about what we predicted earlier this … Read more
Ti West’s MaXXXine is dividing critics, including our own, so here’s a second opnion on the neon-drenched horror flick. Check out our other MaXXXine review here! PLOT: In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail … Read more
The Night Stalker is on the loose, terrorizing innocent citizens who fear they’ll be his next victim. And conservatives are complaining that movies and music are going to turn America’s youth into Satanists. (Among the montage of period-specific news footage off the top is Twisted Sister lead singer Dee Snider testifying before the Senate about … Read more
Following MaXXXine‘s recent release, fans have been wondering if Ti West’s X franchise has ended with the latest installment or if a MaXXXine 4 will happen. They are also wondering if a fourth installment is confirmed with a release date. This is despite MaXXXine having been marketed and said to be the final film of … Read more
She’s a star. Mia Goth stars in the third installment of Ti West’s series of horror movies that started in 2022. We had X, a slasher that pays tribute to the horror, pornography, and exploitation films of the 1970s. West followed this up with Pearl, a prequel set in the 1930s that took its inspiration … Read more
We talk with Ti West, Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Debicki, Giancarlo Esposito, and Moses Sumney Talk MaXXXine starring Mia Goth It was thrilling the first time I witnessed Ti West’s X. It was a fun slasher flick that offered a refreshing take on the sub-genre. And then came Pearl. Here we are, a surprise double feature … Read more
In just a handful of years, Ti West has made an entire trilogy of films about the intersection of Hollywood, sex, and stardom. It started with 2022’s X, an unusual slasher movie about a killer murdering the cast and crew of an porno film in the late 1980s. Next came Pearl, a prequel set decades earlier about an … Read more
The first reactions from a Burbank screening of Ti West’s MaXXXine have emerged, giving us a clearer idea of what kind of horror it is. To the MaXXXine MaXXXine is the third in West’s Mia Goth-fronted horror trilogy from A24, which saw period terror in the 70s set X and in the technicolor prequel Pearl. … Read more