Cinema of the United States

You never know what you’re going to get from writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour—creator of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, a black-and-white feminist Western vampire movie, as well as apocalyptic cannibal tale The Bad Batch. Her next movie just dropped a new trailer and once again it has us asking “WTF?” in a good way. Behold, Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon.Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon Official Trailer (2022) - Kate HudsonYes, that is Kate Hudson as a single mom dwelling on the seedier side of New Orleans, as well as Jun…

Photo: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images)After receiving news that Warner Bros. Discovery has canceled their film late in production, Batgirl directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah found they had already lost complete access to the movie they’d worked on for so long. According to a new interview, Fallah attempted to record even a bit of the footage on their smartphone after being told that HBO Max would not be moving forward with the film. However, the directors discovered the servers containing the work they had done was…

Image: Cartoon Network/Warner Bros. AnimationSince the sudden cancellation of the Batgirl and Scoob films back in July, both of which were basically done, the newly rechristened Warner Bros. Discovery has been mired in questionable business choices. In addition to maintaining a pretty transparent desire to use The Flash as a cinematic reset despite Ezra Miller’s troubling recent history, the megacorporation has been on a tear removing series, film, and people from HBO Max.For fans of Warner Media’s animation slate, a good…

Image: Warner Bros.The word “plan” in relation to the film industry, particularly as it pertains to IP blockbusters, is a dirty word at this point. Executives have used it so often that it’s not only lost all meaning, it can actively kill any excitement you may have for an upcoming film, because it’s basically advertising that something in that movie will take up way too much time in order to set up a franchise that only exists in the mind’s eye of someone who’d like to keep their job for the next few years.Yet here’s…

Leslie Grace as Batgirl.Image: Warner Bros.You’re never going to see that new Batgirl movie. According to reports, Warner Bros. has decided to cancel the nearly finished project and not release it either in theaters or on HBO Max, which was the original plan. There are multiple reports as to the reasoning behind this and io9 has reached out to Warner Bros. for comment. We’ll update this piece if and when we hear back. For now though, the New York Post, which broke the news, says test screenings of the film were so bad…

It’s that time of year when Spirit Halloween stores begin popping up in formerly empty retail spaces—and the one-stop shop for all things spooky has another way to announce its arrival this year, thanks to Spirit Halloween: The Movie. Christopher Lloyd stars, and the first trailer has arrived.Honestly, Lloyd’s role looks more like a cameo (you literally see his character die in the trailer), but for a haunting to happen, you gotta have at least one dead person, and Spirit Halloween: The Movie could do a lot worse than the…

Ride, OJ, ride!Image: Universal PicturesA year has passed since Jordan Peele first let the world know the ominous title of his next movie; ever since, we’ve all been wondering what the heck Nope was going to be about. Each trailer pulled back the curtain a little bit, but when the film finally opened this past weekend, all was revealed. And it was a lot.Written and directed by Peele, Nope is about a brother and sister (Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer) whose family owns a legendary horse ranch. When something mysterious…

In Ti West’s X—a sleeper hit after its release earlier this year—a late-1970s porn shoot goes terribly wrong when the filmmakers decide a rural Texas farm is the perfect place to shoot their raunchy masterpiece. Now the slasher sensation is getting a prequel, and honestly, we did have some lingering questions about the character it’ll be focusing on.It’s called, of course, Pearl, and it brings back the hardworking Mia Goth (who co-wrote with West) as the young version of her (spoiler alert!) elderly character in X. (Not…

Image: Lionsgate John Wick movies come out with a reliable amount of frequency and impressively realized violence, and the first look at the fourth film will make you wish it was March 2023. The preview dropped in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con when leading man Keanu Reeves showed up at a panel featuring returning Wick director Chad Stahelski. So how does John Wick: Chapter 4 look?It looks like...more. More recognizable actors in well-tailored suits, more of Reeves’ stony, measured line deliveries, and more gonzo action.…

From writer-director James Bird comes Wifelike, a sexy sci-fi thriller starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Good Neighbor, The 12th Man) and Elena Kampouris (Sacred Lies, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2). The trailer seems suitably strange, with Kampouris affecting some Stepford Wives/Ex-Machina android posing and positioning, creating an oddly compelling character that feels like a weird commentary on previous sexy AI machine films. WIFELIKE | Official Trailer | Paramount MoviesFrom the official PR, Wifelike is about “a…