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10 More Times Oscar Memorably Snubbed Genre Movies

Scream | Official Trailer (HD) - Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Drew Barrymore | MiramaxBack in 1996, the best a hit high-school slasher movie with a bitingly clever, self-referential script (directed by a genre legend in Wes Craven) could hope for was dominating the MTV Movie Awards. But if franchise-starter Scream was released today, especially now that Oscar has expanded the real estate on its Best Picture nominee list, who’s to say this nominated-for-nuthin’ title wouldn’t have claimed one of those 10 spots? Stream on…

The Last of Us 10th Anniversary Vinyl Box Set Looks Awesome

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic TrailersThere’s already a 4K version of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock but a new version is coming soon. That’s because this year is the 40th anniversary of the seminal Trek movie’s release. The Digital Bits reports that Paramount plans to re-release Spock on May 28th; the outlet notes that it will “likely be the same remastered disc released recently, just in new packaging.” In other words: If you already have this disc, you can definitely…

10 Extremely WTF Sci-Fi and Fantasy Movies Streaming on Peacock

THE VISITOR Trailer - 1979' Sci-Fi Movie HDThis batshit Italian import involving humans descended from an evil alien overlord, a telekinetic girl, professional basketball, and conspiratorial Satanists stars a cast of aging legends (John Huston, Shelley Winters, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Sam Peckinpah) who were hopefully well-compensated for their participation. You, too, will be well-compensated for your time, because the singularly bizarre The Visitor is truly out of this world. Watch on Peacock. THE VISITOR Trailer -…

Poor Things and 22 Frankenstein Adaptations in Pop Culture

Phantom Of The Paradise (1974) - Clip: Life At Last (HD)Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise is a Phantom of of the Opera and Dante’s Inferno send-up, but within it there’s an homage in a fake play where one of the film’s most standout characters, Beef, performs a Frankenstein-inspired song “Life at Last,” penned by the film’s songwriter, composer, and star Paul Williams (who also wrote The Muppets’ “Rainbow Connection”). Phantom Of The Paradise (1974) - Clip: Life At Last (HD)Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the…

10 May Day Lessons We Learned From The Wicker Man

“You wouldn’t want to be here on May Day,” a character cautions Edward Woodward’s rigidly Christian, notably prudish Sergeant Howie in folk-horror classic The Wicker Man. After he travels to the isolated Summerisle to investigate reports of a missing child, he’s shocked—shocked!—to discover a community steeped in …Read more... “You wouldn’t want to be here on May Day,” a character cautions Edward Woodward’s rigidly Christian, notably prudish Sergeant Howie in folk-horror classic The Wicker Man. After he travels to the…

James Corden Auditioned to Play Sam in The Lord of the Rings

Image: Jordan Strauss/Invision (AP)Peter Jackson’s original Lord of the Rings movies are acclaimed to this day for many reasons, with its cast chief among them. It’s the series that helped introduce audiences to longtime actors such as the late Christopher Lee or Ian McKellan, and greatly boosted the profile of relative unknowns like Orlando Bloom or Elijah Wood. Now imagine that cast is largely the same, except instead of Sean Astin in the role of Frodo Baggins’ longtime BFF Samwise Gamgee, it’s current late night talk