Actor, writer and director Mark Duplass takes another step into the horror genre with The Lazarus Effect, a Blumhouse production directed by David Gelb. In the film, Duplass stars as Frank, an ambitious scientist who has created a serum nicknamed “Lazarus,” which has the power to bring the dead back to life. During one particular experiment, his wife Zoe (Olivia Wilde) dies in a freak accident and he quickly uses the serum to resurrect her. While it does work, Frank and his team being to wonder if they have accidentally unleashed an evil force that cannot be contained.
The latest effort from Blumhouse Productions is The Lazarus Effect, a supernatural horror movie which stars Olivia Wilde and Mark Duplass as a pair of scientists who work on perfecting a serum that can bring the dead back to life. During one particular experiment, however, Wilde's character is accidentally electrocuted and dies almost immediately. Struck down with grief, Mark decides to give her the serum. Though it does bring her back to the land of the living, she's not exactly the same person that she was before her death.
Salma Hayek returns to her action packed ways in the new thriller Everly. In the film she plays the titular woman, who's kidnapped by a crime organization and forced into prostitution against her will. Everly is held prisoner at a nice upscale apartment, but after four years in captivity, she decides to turn the tables on her captors in an effort to rescue her mother and baby girl from those who have stolen her freedom. Getting out of that apartment, however, proves to be far more difficult than she realizes.
Ever since the musical came back into vogue in Hollywood, we have been treated to some enormous spectacles, what with the cinematic adaptations of Les Miserables and Into the Woods. That’s what makes the latest musical adaptation, The Last Five Years, exceptionally unique, as it is far more concerned with its characters than it is with wowing you with incredible sights and sounds.
Just when you think there has been one mockumentary too many, along comes What We Do in the Shadows. Written, directed by and starring Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, the film follows a group of four vampires who share an apartment together in Wellington, New Zealand.
Kevin Costner re-teams with the writer and director of The Upside of Anger, Mike Binder, for his latest film, Black or White. In it, he plays Elliot Anderson who, as the movie starts, is widowed after his wife is killed in a car crash. This is only the latest tragedy to befall Elliot though, as he also lost his daughter to drugs years before, and all he has left in terms of family is his granddaughter, Eloise (Jillian Estell).
Black Sea stars Jude Law as Robinson, a submarine captain who, as the movie starts, is laid off from his job at a salvage company and ends up commiserating with his former workers who haven’t been employed in ages. In desperation, Robinson resorts to working with a shadowy backer who informs him there is a German submarine at the bottom of the Black Sea which is said to be loaded with gold.
2014 was a big year for Ethan Hawke, and as we head further into 2015, he's still riding high on a wave of critical acclaim for his film Boyhood. The actor doesn't seem to be slowing down any time soon, either, as this year will see him star in a number of exciting flicks, the first of which is Predestination.
After leaving quite the impression on audiences with her work in the horror film Jessabelle, Australian actress Sarah Snook returns to the screen with an even more gripping performance in the sci-fi thriller, Predestination.
