Horror wunderkind Ari Aster spooked (or, more accurately, upset) audiences with last year's family-destroying Hereditary. I brought my girlfriend at the time to a nice Friday night showing. She was a mother, and, boy, was she unhappy. I was tugging my collar like a madman. I'll know better this time to bring any loved ones to Aster's follow-up, Midsommar. The director's sophomore effort is shaping up to be another stylish and slick spookfest, at least per that first short teaser that's been released. Man, A24 knows how to cut a good trailer, huh?
One of the more fun aspects of the last 21 Marvel movies is that they all had some kind of mid-or-post-credits scenes tucked away, usually little Easter eggs or tags that tied up a loose end or was the punchline to a joke. Apparently, per lots of sources, Avengers: Endgame has no such scenes. Surprising? I mean...not exactly. If this movie is gonna wrap up the myriad plot lines dangling all over the place, why would Disney stick in additional loose ends?
Back in 2015, a first-time feature director by the name of Robert Eggers stunned critics nationwide with his terrifyingly spookifying The Witch, a 1630-set period piece which featured, well, a witch who terrorizes a banished pilgrim family. The film had an insane dedication to historical accuracy, right down to the smallest detail of how these people would have lived back then. The accents are appropriately rough and transitioning from their British influences. Also, it has the coolest goat to have ever been captured on film. Even cooler than, uh, you know, that other famous goat...
Thanos is gonna get a bug up his ass this weekend in the finale that is Avengers: Endgame. Well, maybe. So many different things could happen to the Purple Titan, but most of us will just have to wait 24-48 hours until we find out for sure. Just in case you were still on the fence about whether or not to see the biggest cinematic offering the world has produced since Movie 43 though, true auteur and thankfully redeemed director James Gunn had a call to action on an otherwise innocuous, adorable post to his Instagram.
"Ah, we have such tweets to show you!" Remember when Pinhead said that in Hellraiser back in the day? No? Oh, right, that line might be in the possible near-future reboot that multiple studios have threatened over the last few years. Well apparently the internet is still hungry for some fresh cenobite action, and Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson is the new target of this insatiable media machine, after he posted a humorous meme riffing on the Lament Configuration, the macguffin of the Hellraiser series.
I am a ride-or-die Halloween franchise fan. A Halloween stan, as the kids say. I've seen all of 'em multiple times, and yes, I do kind of like Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers if not mostly for Paul Rudd's ridiculous acting. The mystery of Michael Myers in the early installments really base him in that unknowable, primordial fear, and the films display what the worst of humanity is truly capable of...outside of capitalism! Zing!!!
Have you guys ever heard of this upcoming little indie darling called Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker? It looks pretty rad, huh? It also looks like Luke Skywalker, played by the marvelously mischievous real-life joker Mark Hamill, is going to come back as a force ghost in the upcoming film to aid young Rey in her fight against his nephew, Kylo Ren/Ben Solo.
Poor M. Night Shyamalan can't catch a break, can he? To say that the director of Glass has had a tumultuous, up-and-down career within the Hollywood machine would be quite an understatement. Unfortunately, things seem to be on a bit of a downturn for the hit-or-miss director once again after the poor critical reception of his most recent blockbuster, and he took it harder than normal.
Can you smell what Dwayne Johnson is cooking? I can, and it smells like compassion and empathy. For his numerous contributions to charities, his general niceness, his dope Instagram posts, and the major impression this hulking A-Lister has made in the Hollywood landscape, TIME Magazine put The Rock himself on their Top 100 Most Influential People list, commonly referred to as TIME 100. Each year, the magazine selects from athletes, artists, business leaders, political leaders, and other sectors to be featured as the best and brightest of the year, with fellow contemporaries tasked with penning short-but-sweet tributes to the listees.
