Like clockwork, the annual Academy Awards, now in their 91st year, are hours away. Also like clockwork, filmmakers, pundits and audiences spread across all continents are tuning in to see what films the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will officially recognize as the best of 2018 while lamenting …
Read More »Trailer Breakdown: On Venice’s Eve, The Witches Are Back in ‘Suspiria’ Marketing Blitz
It’s been a while since a horror movie’s remake achieved the levels of anticipation like the kind Luca Guadagnino’s forthcoming remake of Suspiria has wracked up this last year. Since its official announcement two years ago, many questions and equal the trepidation about what the Call Me by Your …
Read More »Trailer Breakdown: ‘Suspiria’ Teaser Unleashes Your Next Nightmares
one of those classics considered as the genre’s holy grails is Italian maestro Dario Argento’s seminal 1977 film Suspiria, which meant the day anyone announced plans to remake it would surely to be a dark one for fans worldwide. Hit the jump to read more!
Read More »With Trailers and Premieres, Lars von Trier Promises Audiences a Savage “House That Jack Built”
“For many years I’ve made films about good women, now I did a film about an evil man.” It certainly seems you have, Lars.
Read More »A Final Look at 2017’s Best Picture Oscar Lineup
The annual Oscars are just two, three sleeps away and one of the nine nominated films selected from 2017’s numerous releases will join eighty-nine predecessors as the ninetieth film to be awarded Best Picture by the voting body of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. People will tune …
Read More »An IMAX Experience Worthy of ‘Blade Runner’
Regardless of whether it’s seen in IMAX or viewed in standard DCP, if one considers themselves a Blade Runner aficionado or simply excited to see what Mr. Villeneuve does to expand the Blade Runner mythology, they must make the effort to check this out so experiences like this ultimately “aren’t lost in time, like tears in rain,” to quote Mr. Hauer’s iconic final monologue.
Read More »The Monsters Under Your Bed and Skin: A Saturday of 70mm Horrors
Much like the 3-D craze around the same time, 70mm “blow-up” prints became something of a “go-to” in the 1970s until the mid-1990s for major blockbusters and any number of prestigious event films that remain popular today. The trend is making something of a resurgence now thanks to filmmakers like Tarantino (The Hateful Eight)
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