Royals hitmaker, Lorde stunned her fans recently after she posted an image of her black eye on Instagram. This caused a sense of worry across her fandom. Although many fans inquired about the black eye speculating she got hurt, others thought it might be a promotional stunt set to feature in her upcoming album. Here’s … Read more
Uma Thurman is lacing her pointe shoes to star alongside Lana Condor and more in the action film Ballerina Overdrive. Are ballerina dancers Hollywood’s new hotness? With the John Wick spinoff Ballerina, starring Ana de Armas, pirouetting into theaters next year and the latest indie action film Ballerina Overdrive coming from 87North and Gulfstream Pictures, … Read more
A little while back, we ran a special WTF episode about the 1979 Disney movie, The Black Hole, an uncommonly adult film for the family-friendly studio. It kicked off an experiment for the studio to move into adult fare, eventually spawning no less than three subsidiaries that produced some of the most influential movies of … Read more
“The Killer That Stalked New York” (1950) Let’s just say after COVID — I use the word “after” very loosely — Earl McEvoy’s pandemic thriller “The Killer That Stalked New York” hits a bit differently. Based on a 1948 Cosmopolitan article by Milton Lehman, it follows Sheila Bennet (Evelyn Keyes) — who has recently returned … Read more
When Supermassive Games‘ formally announced Directive 8020, it looked more than just another entry in The Dark Pictures Anthology. With its official title deviating from the series’ typical naming convention, it seemed the developer was going in a new direction for the series. This looks to be the case according to a statement from the … Read more
Leah McKendrick just wrote the new I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel and is now set to write and direct a monster movie M.F.A. screenwriter Leah McKendrick recently wrote the initial screenplay for the I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel that’s set to reach theatres on July 18, 2025. Her script … Read more
“Ultraman: Rising” is what the old-time studio bosses used to call “an audience picture”–meaning you get a lot more out of it if you see it with an audience. Especially the audience for which it was designed: in this case, young children who like watching baby creatures act like misbehaving baby humans, and adults who game for a … Read more
The Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho understands this feeling just as well as I and maybe you do, and he’s made a lovely, enveloping film about it, called “Pictures of Ghosts.” The subject here is his hometown of Recife. It’s not a place that looms as large in North American discourse as Rio or San … Read more
Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho tells us the origins of his love for motion pictures, developed in the city of Recife at theaters like the Veneza and Sao Luiz. Though these cinemas were closed over time and converted into different spaces with new people and memories, the ghosts of the films of the director’s youth … Read more
Todd Phillips took to Instagram to announce that joker 2 has finally wrapped after four months of filming. The director also shared two new images from the movie featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in character. “That’s a wrap,Phillips wrote in the caption. “Thanks to these two (+ the entire cast) and the BEST crew … Read more