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Will This Absurdist Flick Topple Chris Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’?

Image via Warner Bros. Pictures The new Barbie trailer is reminding everyone that it’s the most absurdist of movies these days that have the highest chance of winning the box office competition. Now that folks are realizing this strange live-action adaptation is squaring off against the genre maestro himself, they’re not sure which movie will end up reigning supreme in theaters. Meanwhile, we’ve learned that James Gunn remains salty over Avengers: Endgame teaming Thor up with the Guardians, a development that…

Early ‘Renfield’ Reviews Promise a Flick Good Enough To Sink Your Teeth Into As Concerns Grow Around an Upcoming Peacock Series

Image via Universal Pictures Happy Friday, fear fanatics! As we rapidly approach the long-awaited summer months (and get a little closer to spooky season), April is ushering in a wealth of genre goodies that will only seek to catapult the catalog’s popularity. As to be expected, we’re more than happy to showcase these treasures in today’s daily horror roundup right here at We Got This Covered. In today’s collection of juicy news, early Renfield reviews have quickly painted the film in a positive light, while…

The New Wes Anderson Flick in Danger of Flopping

Focus Features Wes Anderson is bringing the entirety of Hollywood to bear on the box office through his new sci-fi rom-com Asteroid City, but the inclusion of Margot Robbie might bode ill for the flick when it premieres in theaters later this year. From across the geekdom, MCU fans are mourning the loss of certain characters all over again. More specifically, a lot of them regret the fact that some iconic character duos will never happen. Check out these beats and more in today’s sci-fi roundup down below. This…

New Shudder Horror Starring Lachlan Watson

After undergoing a procedure aimed at restoring her hearing after 12 years of silence, college student Chloe (Chucky’s Lachlan Watson) heads to her family’s Cape Cod cottage to recuperate. It’s lonely—but as The Unheard explores, she finds she’s not alone, seemingly in both natural and supernatural ways.Deafness is a surprisingly common theme in horror, used to make a character more vulnerable, and/or empower them in unexpectedways (see: Mike Flanagan’s Hush, the A Quiet Place series). The Unheard taps into that but also

The Irish Mob review – cat and mouse with the gardaí in knock-off gangster flick | Film

‘How someone can inflict such sadistic brutality on another is beyond me.” So says Dublin ganglord Valentino “Val” Fagan (Rob McCarthy) when one of his underlings is raped – but it’s rich coming from someone seen executing his own men, dousing innocent security personnel in petrol and slapping his wife. But Patrick McKnight’s crime thriller isn’t overburdened in the self-awareness department – it’s too busy trying to romanticise the Irish capital as a tempestuous urban battlefield of cops and robbers. But with its…

How an insect using its butt to flick pee droplets could keep your smartwatch dry

The glassy-winged sharpshooter is an insect so impressive when it pees it could inspire more efficient designs for water-resistant devices.Saad Bhamla was in his vegetable garden in Atlanta, Georgia, when he first noticed the feat. The sharpshooter forms neat, round pee droplets that it flicks away with lightning speed. Bhamla, a Georgia Tech assistant professor of biomolecular engineering, whipped out his iPhone to take some slow-motion videos.“The more I zoomed in, the more I realized that it was doing something…

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’, new ‘Indiana Jones’ flick likely for Cannes

‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’, New ‘Indiana Jones’ Film Likely To Go To Cannes(Photo Credit –Still From Movie) Organisers for the prestigious Cannes Film Festival hope that Hollywood will decamp the festival. Though their ambitions could collide with a new spirit of economising that’s making studios hesitant about shelling out the hundreds of thousands of dollars it takes to pull off a Riviera bow. Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Fremaux has barely gotten over his jet lag after a whirlwind trip to Los Angeles this…

The Best Valentine's Day Movies for Nerds

When it comes to romantic movies, most folks can content themselves with swooning over The Notebook or taking a trip on the Titanic. But but nerdy genre film fans appreciate a little time-jumping or severed limbs or robots to spice up their love stories. We’ve scoured all the streaming services to find this master…Read more... When it comes to romantic movies, most folks can content themselves with swooning over The Notebook or taking a trip on the Titanic. But but nerdy genre film fans appreciate a little time-jumping…

Bizarre Horror Action Flick ‘Dog Soldiers’ Is Finally Available to Stream

Image via Pathé Neil Marshall has had an interesting career in horror, with his 2008 film The Descent leading to widespread acclaim for its masterful claustrophobic horror. But before he was sending a group of women into a cave to get blitzed by inbred cave people, he was having people fight mutant soldiers. Marshall’s directorial debut Dog Soldiers is turning 21 this year, and it is now finally freely available to stream in the United States. The cult British horror throws in a mixture of horror, comedy, and…

‘Barbarian’ Director Sights Set on Next Genre Project While 2023 Might Have Already Found Its Best Horror Flick

Photo via 20th Century Studios Happy Thursday, gorehounds! It’s been another exciting week in the spooky world, and that momentum doesn’t appear to be slowing down as more genre goodies are blasted into the public. We’re certainly not going to complain, of course, since many of these projects provide plenty of updates to be included in our daily horror roundups here at We Got This Covered. And if today’s roundup is of any indication for how extensive the horror genre is at this moment in time, then diehards are…