Movie News
What's on TV This Week: 'Promised Land' and a Janet Jackson Special
The New York Times - 24 Jan 2022 08:00
ABC debuts a new drama about a wine-country power struggle. And a four-part documentary about Janet Jackson debuts on Lifetime and A&E.
"You've Got to Roll With the Punches" | Tania Anderson, The Mission
Filmmaker Magazine - 24 Jan 2022 19:30
The last two years have prompted much contemplation and reconsideration of the reasons why we make our films as well as the ways in which we make them. What aspect of your filmmaking--whether in your creative process, th...
Band of Outsiders: A Conversation between Reservoir Dogs Director Quentin Tarantino and In the Soup Director Alexandre Rockwell
Filmmaker Magazine - 24 Jan 2022 23:53
The following conversation between directors Quentin Tarantino and Alexandre Rockwell was published in Filmmaker‘s Winter, 1993 issue, as these films hit commercial release. It is being reprinted today, as Reservoir Do...
"The Problem Is Getting More and More Urgent": Editor David Cohen on The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales
Filmmaker Magazine - 24 Jan 2022 23:30
Abigail E. Disney, the granddaughter of Walt Disney Company co-founder Roy O. Disney, has spoken out against the treatment of Disney employees and the compensation of Disney executives in the past; with The American Drea...
"I Was Just Desperate to Bottle up My Wonderful Dad Somehow": DP Ondi Timoner on Last Flight Home
Filmmaker Magazine - 24 Jan 2022 23:00
After a patient in California makes a Death With Dignity request, there is a 15-day wait until that request can be filled. Ondi Timoner’s Last Flight Home was filmed during that period, when Timoner’s father said his...
'Immanence' Discovers a Mysterious Signal in the Deep Sea This February [Trailer]
Bloody Disgusting - 24 Jan 2022 22:52
Kerry Bellessa, director of the under-the-radar indie Amber Alert, is back with his next horror offering, a psychological terror tale that looks like Event Horizon on a boat. Immanence watches as a team of radio astronom...
Sundance 2022 Critic's Notebook: Dos Estaciones, Meet Me in the Bathroom
Filmmaker Magazine - 24 Jan 2022 22:45
In the opening sequence of Juan Pablo González's second feature, Dos Estaciones, DP Gerardo Guerra’s Steadicam roves a tequila farm’s fields as workers chop down agave plants; when they pause for lunch, the camera p...
Going on a Brutal Trip in the Hellscapes of 'Cruelty Squad' [Safe Room Podcast]
Bloody Disgusting - 24 Jan 2022 22:39
Style over substance is often a worry of mine when it comes to oddball indie games. While a game's main draw might be a unique aesthetic or art style, I'm always cautious of whether the same amount of attention has been ...
That Time Rob Lowe Went To A Basketball Game With Jack Nicholson And Got Banned From The Locker Room
Cinema Blend - 24 Jan 2022 22:34
Rob Lowe recently recalled a wild memory involving Jack Nicholson, the Lakers, and getting banned from the locker room.
Werewolf Horror Movie 'The Hunting' Now Available on VOD Outlets [Trailer]
Bloody Disgusting - 24 Jan 2022 22:25
A brand new werewolf horror movie has just been released, with director Mark Andrew Hamer's The Hunting now available on VOD outlets and playing in select theaters. In the film, "When a mysterious animal attack leaves a ...
The Real 'Fire in the Sky' - New Discovery+ Special Tells the True Story Behind the Movie [Trailer]
Bloody Disgusting - 24 Jan 2022 22:04
In the wake of their documentary special Scream: The True Story, the discovery+ series “Shock Docs” is back with a brand new upcoming episode looking at the real Fire in the Sky. Based on Travis Walton's book, The Wa...
"Make Choices With the Edit to Sculpt and Reveal an Inherent Truth": Harrison Atkins on Emily the Criminal
Filmmaker Magazine - 24 Jan 2022 22:00
A financially precarious temp worker effectively locked out of a stable job due to a minor criminal record takes a black market gig buying goods with stolen credit cards in Emily the Criminal. As its logline suggests, th...
"LDS Folk Are the Same Whether They're North Americans or Finns": Tania Anderson on Her Sundance-Debuting Doc The Mission
Filmmaker Magazine - 24 Jan 2022 21:40
World premiering January 24th in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at this year's Sundance, The Mission marks the feature-length doc debut of Helsinki-based writer and journalist Tania Anderson, who, on a cold win...
Jason Statham's Fiancée Rosie Huntington-Whitely Shows Off Growing Baby Bump In Shapely Posts
Cinema Blend - 24 Jan 2022 21:14
Jason Statham's fiancée Rosie Huntington-Whitely shows off her beautiful baby bump.
Fan-Made 'Scream' Poster Remakes the 1996 Movie's Classic Art
Bloody Disgusting - 24 Jan 2022 21:06
While the new Scream movie legs its way to $100 million at the box office, one fan has taken it upon himself to remake the original 1996 Scream poster with the 2022 movie’s new cast. Neto Ribeiro Design just tweeted ou...
"We chose to embrace the armpits of Los Angeles": DP Jeff Bierman on Emily the Criminal
Filmmaker Magazine - 24 Jan 2022 21:00
In John Patton Ford’s Emily the Criminal, a woman saddled with student debt and minimal job prospects owing to a minor criminal record turns toward the black market to make her living. As cinematographer Jeff Bierman e...
Stay Home, Watch Horror: 5 Trippy Horror Movies to Stream This Week
Bloody Disgusting - 24 Jan 2022 20:48
One quick way for a horror movie to unsettle its audience is to disorient the senses completely. Few things capture the slipping of one’s sanity like immersing the viewer in psychedelic visuals and mind-bending narrati...
"We Wanted to Keep the Film Grounded": DP Cristina Dunlap on Am I Ok?
Filmmaker Magazine - 24 Jan 2022 20:30
In Am I Ok?, the directorial debut of Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, a pair of best friends have their lifelong friendship suddenly confused by one taking a job offer in London and the other coming out of the closet t...
'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' Domestic Box Office Total Matches 2016 Movie
Bloody Disgusting - 24 Jan 2022 20:26
We’re now two months into the theatrical release of Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, with the film now available on Digital HD and coming to physical media on February 1. Across those two months, the sequel t...
The Polarizing Oddity of 'The Lords of Salem' [Horror Queers Podcast]
Bloody Disgusting - 24 Jan 2022 20:16
Satanism and Old Naked Ladies We’re nearly done with our first month of “Underseen or Underrated” on Horror Queers and it’s been a blast going year by year through the 2010s, beginning with Scream 4 (2011) and Am...
"I've Always Loved the Editing Style in a Lot of 1970s American Films": Editor Suvi Solja on The Mission
Filmmaker Magazine - 24 Jan 2022 20:00
The Mission focuses on four missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints working in Finland. In addition to the often frustrating day-to-day missionary work, director Tania Anderson also captures the m...
'Master': Ghosts of the Past Haunt a College Campus This March
Bloody Disgusting - 24 Jan 2022 19:42
After having its World Premiere at the ongoing Sundance Film Festival, Mariama Diallo‘s “haunting thriller” Master will make its way to Amazon’s Prime Video on March 18, 2022. The Amazon Studios film "follows thr...