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Late last year, A24 signed a multiyear deal with Warner Bros. Discovery—the main takeaway from which is that Max subscribers now have easy access to some of the award-winning film company’s biggest titles. While A24's offerings aren’t all sci-fi, horror, or fantasy, many do fit that description. Here are 10 to get…Read more... Late last year, A24 signed a multiyear deal with Warner Bros. Discovery—the main takeaway from which is that Max subscribers now have easy access to some of the award-winning film company’s…

Image: Sony, LionsgateThe eternal question—“Who you gonna call?”—has come back around thanks to Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Ray Parker Jr.’s 1984 anthem has us thinking about the pop songs so prominently featured in some of our favorite sci-fi, animated, and superhero movies, they’ve become just as well-known as the movies they’re featured in. Sometimes, soundtrack cuts become even more popular than the theme songs themselves—like with The Lost Boys’ sax-man jam “I Still Believe” overshadowing “Cry Little Sister (Theme…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeA new horror film is making waves for completely flipping the slasher genre on its head.The first trailer for the film – titled In a Violent Nature – has been released online, proving why exactly the film received a rapturous response at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2024.In a Violent Nature screened in the US festival’s “Midnight” strand, which is where films including The…

Comedian El Es Fede couldn’t figure out how to make his stand-up routines work on TikTok. Sometimes, he’d post silly storytime-style videos or he’d play with viral sounds, getting a couple thousand views. But nothing ever took off like he wished it would. Then, in January, he decided to try something completely different. He created a hilarious sketch imagining what happened when the popular duranguense act Alacranes Músical made their hit “Por Tu Amor” in the early 2000s. He played every role himself: the singer…

The colossal horror genre has notably made a ton of questionable, yet wildly entertaining decisions over the years. And while the deranged concept of beloved childhood figures such as Bambi and Winnie the Pooh being transformed into blood-thirsty horror villains might seem far-fetched, imagine how bizarre an entire universe will feel. Luckily, horror fanatics who have beenlicking their chops and rubbing their hands together for years won’t have to wait too much longer — just one year, in fact. For those who have sat back…

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…

It’s six hours before showtime and a queue of teenagers already lines the street outside east London’s EartH arts venue. They are sitting patiently on the pavement and finishing their homework or playing Uno, hoping to get to the front of the stage for the first of three sold-out shows by 24-year-old singer-songwriter Laufey Jónsdóttir. Overhead, the grey February afternoon threatens to break into rain.Inside, sitting next to the peeling walls of her dressing room in a pristine gingham dress, Jónsdóttir is unfazed by the…

After over five years in development, developer Inflexion Games is set to release its whimsical survival-crafting title Nightingale. Earlier this month I spoke with three Inflexion Games developers—CEO Aaryn Flynn, Director of Production Leah Summers, and Art Director and Head of Audio Neil Thompson—about the upcoming release, the road to get there, and the road ahead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtyK4EQxK0o The Game DESTRUCTOID: Hello everyone! I had the opportunity to spend some time hands-on with Nightingale …

Private Division Of the three games available for no additional cost with a PlayStation Plus Essential subscription this February, the best game isn’t the highest-profile one. A lot of attention is going to Foamstars, the odd multiplayer game Square Enix launched free on PS Plus, but the real gem of February 2024’s PS Plus Essential lineup is Rollerdrome from Roll7 and Private Division. First released for PS5 and PC in August 2022, I previously described this game as Max Payne meets Skate. Essentially, Rollerdrome is…

Ever since Netflix declared the return of the moribund studio romcom with its “Summer of Love” in 2018, the company has churned out a steady stream of formulaic – or, to quote the burn in many a review, “algorithmic” – at-home fare. The genre didn’t so much reboot as mutate for a new streaming home with a now distinctive style: baseline watchable, sheen-y, disposable. I’ve reviewed probably a dozen of them and can only recall a handful. The few that have stuck – To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Set It Up – have endured…