2024 Summer Movie Preview

With the release of The Fall Guy this weekend, the summer movie season is finally upon us. While it’s a thinner summer than usual due to the dual writer and actors strike bringing movies to a standstill for much of 2023, there should still be a lot of stuff worth checking out, even if the … Read more

Taylor Sheridan to write & direct Empire of the Summer Moon

Taylor Sheridan to write and direct Empire of the Summer Moon project revolving around famed Comanche chief Quanah. Deadline reports that Yellowstone’s Taylor Sheridan has optioned Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne. Taylor Sheridan is … Read more

The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 Filming Start Date Revealed for Hit Amazon Series

According to People, Amazon MGM Studios is currently eyeing to start the production of The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 later this spring in Wilmington, North Carolina. The outlet noted that the studio may still set a different filming start date, as “nothing firm” has been set yet. Last August, it was announced that … Read more

The #1 Summer Movie the Year You Graduated High School

Movies have been a defining part of the summer experience for several decades now, with the modern summer blockbuster pioneered by Steven Spielberg in 1975. With his seminal summer horror film Jaws, Spielberg changed the filmmaking landscape. Though prosperous, Hollywood had still been in something of a transitional period following the studio system and Hollywood’s … Read more

NYFF 2023: Pictures of Ghosts, Eureka, Last Summer | Festivals & Awards

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

TIFF 2023: Summer Qamp, Boil Alert, Songs of Earth | Festivals & Awards

Throughout, the movie is a great showcase for the promising visual talents of directors Stevie Salas and James Burns. Whether it’s in documentary passages, dreamy sequences with spare VFX, or instances of on-the-ground, cop-tussling journalism, “Boil Alert” shows that Salas and Burns have an exciting intuition as filmmakers. Sometimes, the touches can border on being too … Read more

Hell of a Summer (TIFF) Review

Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk’s Hell of a Summer is an affectionate spoof of eighties slasher flicks, but it’s ultimately pretty mild. PLOT: A group of summer camp counsellors are picked off one by one during an orientation weekend.  REVIEW: Hell of a Summer marks the directorial debut of actors Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk. … Read more

Summer of Sam writer met with a witch to get movie made

Summer of Sam co-writer Michael Imperioli says he met with a witch in the Chelsea Hotel and used otherworldly means to get movie made Michael Imperioli may be best known for playing Christopher Moltisanti on the TV series The Sopranos, but he has over 100 other screen acting credits and several writing credits (including multiple … Read more