Feasts

via Universal Using nothing but cold, hard, facts to determine the findings, putting two of the most popular genres on the streaming circuit together and then parachuting the end result onto one of the most high-profile platforms was always destined to yield success, with Bordello of Blood delivering exactly as promised. Horror is always an artform that at-home audiences are willing to spend a little time with, and so is the erotic thriller for reasons that probably don’t have to be explained. Throw them into a…

Image via Universal Pictures Evil Dead Rise, the latest installment in the classic horror franchise, is eating up the box office but doesn’t have enough of an appetite to dethrone the box office behemoth that is the Super Mario Bros. Movie. Estimates Friday for Rise are around $10.3 million, per Deadline, and it’s expected to coast to around $23 million, recouping the $19 million it cost to make the film and turn a profit. The movie’s getting great reviews, and Warner Bros. is getting praise for pivoting the…

via Netflix One of last year’s best movies was undoubtedly The Menu, director Mark Mylod’s jet-black and acerbically gnarly takedown of classism and the elites, all framed through the lens of a horror-tinged comedy set in the cutthroat world of fine dining. Whether by accident or design, Netflix has gotten in on a piece of the action following the release of Hunger. While there’s little chance director Sitisiri Mongkolsiri’s dramatic thriller was explicitly crafted and given a green light on the basis of…

via 20th Century Fox It’s remarkable that the Predator franchise remains as popular as it does when you consider just how many stops, starts, sequels, prequels, reboots, refreshes, reinventions, and crossovers the sci-fi saga has been through since John McTiernan and Arnold Schwarzenegger conspired to deliver an all-time action classic more than 35 years ago. The drastically underrated Predator 2 is the only direct continuation of the bunch, with 20th Century Fox then spending decades throwing everything at the…

If talent were an indicator of a movie’s quality, then Year One would probably rank as one of the best efforts of the 2000s. Unfortunately, it turned out to be an unmitigated and unbridled disaster on every imaginable level. Co-written and directed by the legendary Harold Ramis, the screenplay was penned alongside Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, who would go on to become key cogs in a little workplace comedy known as The Office. The biblical undertones presented plenty of scope for biting wit and broad humor, and we…

Image Source : INDIA TV Elon Musk Elon Musk is still in the firing mode at Twitter amid the Thanksgiving festivities, as several coders who were brought back after a massive layoff as part of a "knowledge transition", are being shown the door again in the name of "code review". Ikuhiro Ihara, a highly-respected Twitter coder who made the transition from 140-character…

This illustration provided by Tel Aviv University depicts hominins preparing Luciobarbus longiceps fish on the shores of the ancient lake Lake Hula. A recent study found the oldest evidence of using fire to cook, dating back to 780,000 years ago. Credit: Ella Maru/Tel Aviv University via AP If you're cooking a meal for Thanksgiving or just showing up to feast, you're part of a long human history—one that's older than our own…

Timothee Chalamet’s cannibalistic urges are proving intriguing for the box office, with Bones and All seeing spectacularly high rates of young people in screenings. Luca Guadagnino’s latest romance film packs a real bite as it sees Chalamet star as a cannibal in a road-trip romance movie because we’ve all been waiting for a movie about cannibals falling in love. According to Deadline, the film’s limited premiere in cinemas saw 79 percent of audiences in the 18-30 demographic, while 54 percent were women. Chalamet is a…

via 20th Century Fox You know a franchise has made a lasting impact on the zeitgeist when sequel chatter hasn’t disappeared 15 years after the last installment, with the team behind 28 Days Later and sequel 28 Weeks Later very recently waking the rumor mill from its slumber once again. While Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s second chapter may not be as impactful or influential as Danny Boyle’s opener, which proved to be a landmark entry in the zombie genre for a number of reasons, it more than stands on its own as a…