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Something New from James Wan So, here’s the scoop: James Wan, the wizard of horror who brought us the spine-chilling Saw and the creepy-crawly The Conjuring, is back in action! It’s been a wild ride since his last directing gig with the underwater spectacle Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom in 2023, and now he’s diving […]

Lights, Camera, Action! It’s SXSW Time! While Hollywood is polishing its Oscars and buttering its popcorn, down in good ol’ Texas, the movie scene is buzzing louder than a beehive on caffeine! Yes, my friends, it’s that time of year again—SXSW has rolled into town, bringing with it a cornucopia of films that mash together […]

Jason Goes All Telekinetic By 1988, Jason Voorhees had become a bit of a wandering corpse, both in the movies and beyond. Paramount Studios, the same folks who unleashed the brilliant yet monstrous original flick in 1980, thought they had finally buried the hatchet with our favorite hockey-mask-wearing dude. They tried to end his reign […]

Train Dreams: A Quirky Dive into America’s Dark Side So, we’ve got this film called Train Dreams that just snagged a Best Picture nod—because, of course, what’s more American than going for that shiny trophy? Now, unlike your typical Western where our hero is off saving the world (or at least his own skin), we […]

Let’s Dive Into the ’00s Oscars! As the hubbub of Oscar season kicks into high gear, we’re inspecting the glittery past of Best Picture winners. We’ve already taken a delightful stroll through the ’80s and ’90s, but now it’s time to dig into the 2000s. Not here to challenge the Academy’s shiny trophies for Gladiator, […]

Hamnet’s Emotional Rollercoaster As we gear up for Oscar season, the drama around Hamnet is really heating up! Critics are throwing shade, calling Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel “Shakespeare fan fiction.” They’re griping about everything from throwing modern relationship dynamics into the mix, to what the program covers looked like, to Paul Mescal […]

Fargo: The Coen Brothers’ Masterpiece So, picture this: it’s 2013, and film critic extraordinaire J. Hoberman is reviewing Inside Llewyn Davis. He throws down the gauntlet by declaring the Coen Brothers the supreme masters of ‘the art of contempt.’ I mean, talk about a bold statement! While other art rebels like Marcel Duchamp or Johnny […]