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Director Yorgos Lanthimos isn’t a stranger to the world of the weird cinema. From his breakout hit Dogtooth all the way to The Favourite, the man has dealt with pitch black comedies that dig into the human experience through uniquely outlandish angles. Lanthimos and writer Tony McNamara have moved into an even more ridiculous setting than their previous film together with their adaptation of Poor Things, based on the book of the same name by author Alasdair Gray.Poor Things(Image credit: Searchlight Pictures)Release…

Image via Sony There isn’t a single soul out there who won’t deny that John Carpenter is one of the most important, influential, and iconic filmmakers of the last 50 years, but it’s also unfortunately true that the 1990s and 2000s saw the legendary director suffer a massive downturn in fortunes, with Ghost of Mars endemic of his troubled period. Memoirs of an Invisible Man, In the Mouth of Madness, Village of the Damned, Escape from L.A., and Vampires all bombed at the box office while generating responses that…

via Next Entertainment World The world is swamped with disappointing sequels on a daily basis, and while it may come bearing a fairly convoluted title that has the potential to infuriate those with a penchant for maintaining grammatical etiquette at all times, those sins can be forgiven when The Witch: Part 2. The Other One is so undeniably awesome. Trying to describe writer and director Park Hoon-jung’s would-be franchise is pretty difficult considering it’s essentially a live-action anime heavily steeped in…

Image via Blumhouse Horror is an idea-driven cesspool crawling with unforgettable sub-genres and existential tropes that keep concepts constantly flowing through the blood-stained pipeline. When it comes to the notion of horror sequels, however, filmmakers can sometimes fail to tread lightly and end up crafting a follow-up film that doesn’t carry the same weight as an original piece. With that said, it’s unfair to assume that all genre sequels fall flat on their face and cease to create a monumental impact on…

via Dimension Films The prospect of horror veteran Alexandre Aja (of High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes remake, and Piranha 3D fame) tackling an adaptation of the breakout novel by second-generation genre favorite Joe Hill with fast-rising risk-taker Daniel Radcliffe sinking his teeth into another unexpected role sounded like a match made in heaven, but Horns proved to be less than the sum of its many parts. The biggest question going into and coming out of the dark supernatural tale was both the film’s biggest…

Apple TV+ has announced that it has picked up Sugar, a "genre-bending series" from creator and executive producer Mark Protosevich. The show will star Colin Farrell, with the lead also acting as executive producer. Apple TV+ confirmed the show's arrival via Newsroom post but stopped short of saying too much. We don't know when the show will premiere or what it will actually be about. Hailing from Apple Studios, the new series is set to be directed by Academy Award nominee Fernando Meirelles ("City of God," "Constant…

Over the past couple of months, Shining Girls has shown us, in rude and anxiety-ridden detail, exactly how life hasn’t been kind to newspaper archivist Kirby Mazrachi (Elisabeth Moss). When we first meet her in 1992 Chicago, she says she chose her new name because it “sounded fun.” But I convince myself it’s because Kirby’s Dream Land came out that very same year. This is probably the last glib, carefree thought I have about Kirby for the rest of the series. Apple’s adaptation of Lauren Beukes’ genre-bending crime…