With Halloween landing on a Wednesday this week, you might have found yourself in a dilemma: You spent the entire Halloweekend gorging yourself on spooks and scares, and now with the actual day fast approaching you have nothi...   read

  Watch Video Nicole Kidman isn't one to shy from darker films like last year's crippling The Killing of a Sacred Deer, but Destroyer may see her at her most transformed. She's as scorched as the desert surroundings, more than a few screws short, and on a path to violent retribution. It looks to be a blistering, emotionally exhausting ride.   read

It was recently announced that the Channing Tatum Gambit movie was going to be a romantic sex comedy. This is an inherently ridiculous idea that I'd love see coming to screen, but we all need to stop fooling ourselves right...   read

  Watch Video With a lack of any cursing, the latest Titans trailer is far less quotable than the first. It is pretty fun, though, to see Beast Boy grin and say, "That's Robin" with a tone of hero-worshiping admiration just as Robin stomp...   read

The original RoboCop was a gut punch of violence to little baby Kyle, when I first saw it as part of an all-night marathon of the RoboCop trilogy. The scene of officer Murphy being gunned down haunted and stuck with me to thi...   read

  Watch Video Death Kiss is a weird movie. Not so much for its content, which is the grindhouse standard, but for its star's uncanny resemblance to the late Charles Bronson. Perhaps stranger than using CGI to bring a dead actor to life,...   read

  Watch Video How can a sentient carousel unicorn kill a group of unsuspecting youths? Oh, let me count the ways: by cleaver, by horn, by hoof, by car, by axe, by arrow, by pizza cutter, and by laser vision of course. It seems no method i...   read

  Watch Video With a trailer that promised surreal, neon-lit landscapes as a backdrop to an unhinged spree of violent revenge, I marked Mandy as the one movie I needed to experience no matter what this year. I had seen Beyond the Black Rai...   read

  Watch Video The Puppet Master series has been consistently running for almost 30 years. With The Littlest Reich, there are now 12 films to the slasher franchise. And with that many sequels comes a precipitous drop in quality and budget...   read

  Watch Video [Fantasia 2018 has officially come to a close! Be sure to hit up Flixist for our coverage of the weird and wonderful films of the festival.] A mythic force is spiriting people away in a rundown Mexican town, leaving drov...   read

Here's an idea you're definitely not high enough to think is any good: Fox is going to remake Home Alone but with an R rating and starring Ryan Reynolds with a concept that sees him missing his plane to a ski trip, lighting ...   read

About twelve years ago, I wrote a screenplay. I was overloaded with creative energy, because my dad got drunk and passed out on the floor in front of my bedroom door, so I couldn't sneak out to go smoke on a bridge. Instea...   read

UK scientists have cracked the code to box office success, and you won't believe the results! After combing through the emotional arcs of over 6,000 scripts and feeding the data through a bunch of algorithms (naturally), t...   read

Take a moment to consider how you would imagine a movie about cowboy-ideal-personified Sam Elliott as a man who kills both Hitler and Bigfoot in that order. Fire, tanks, action, Nazis, and then two major showdowns against one...   read

  Watch Video The first trailer for the DC Universe streaming service exclusive show, Titans opens with a clear lie. It says that, because of its violence and cursing, the show might not be suitable for anyone under 18. No way. This sho...   read

The Fantasia International Film Festival will be kicking off its 22nd iteration from July 12 through August 2 this year in Montreal, and it's packed with the strange and wonderful. I’m a big fan of the strange and won...   read

There's a belief that one equation exists that can explain all of the workings of our physical universe. It can predict the movements of huge intergalactic bodies all the way down the minutia of every planet--or something l...   read

When Legendary Entertainment and Nintendo announced a Detective Pikachu movie, the internet was given the chance to wonder what the iconic yellow chubster would sound like speaking real English words. Sure, your basic Pikac...   read

  Watch Video I don't know if you know this, but subscription services are pretty hot right now. Basically, if you want to pay for anything from food, to razors, to T-shirts, to just random boxes of junk every month with little control...   read

  Watch Video Mandy, the second feature from director Panos Cosmatos, has just released its first trailer, and it is a spectacular showing of surreal horror and violence. The plot takes place in 1983 and shows Red (Nicolas Cage) work t...   read

  Watch Video The new red band trailer for Shane Black's The Predator has all the blood and cursing you could ask for--in that it doesn't have much blood and cursing at all. What it does have, however, is the titular Predator fa...   read

  Watch Video Hey, do you not live in China but still want to watch the bonkers Animal World? Well, you're in luck, because Netflix just acquired its international rights. Everywhere outside of China is due to get this dose of clown-boy L...   read

MoviePass has lead a fraught existence. At first a seemingly too-good-to-be-true subscription scheme where a moviegoer could see all the movies he or she wanted for just $10 a month, it soon proved to be, yeah, too good to...   read

Not to be confused with the mega-hit film already out, Jurassic Games, a weird knockoff film called Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is doing whatever it can to get some sort of attention from the general public. And what bet...   read

Now, I know what we all thought when we saw the Venom trailer: "Boy, do I want to eat Tom Hardy." Not the person Tom Hardy, no. He looked at his absolute most edible when the tar-like symbiote spread across him like a fine...   read

  Watch Video Creepy Crawlers are the reason I didn't learn to cook until I was in my mid-twenties. The anti-Easy-Bake Oven left a deep impression in me that anything I cooked should spurt neon green guts when I smashed it under my fist...   read

In a bizarrely written statement, Damon Lindelof, show runner for the upcoming HBO Watchmen series, stated that this isn't going to be the Watchmen we're used to. On why he won't cover the beats of the original, Lindelof expl...   read

In a move destined for failure, Redbox will soon be allowing rentals of certain movies in 4K Ultra HD. You know, the definition so high that only enthusiasts want it enough to pay near a thousand dollars for a setup? Well,...   read

  Watch Video Jackie Chan has greyed. He's gotten older, and because of that, he's dipped from the limelight. Holder of the Guinness World Record for most stunts performed by a living actor, he's more than earned his rest. But, in this t...   read

Anthology horror shows have a soft spot in my heart. I devoured Tales from the Crypt, Monsters, and Masters of Horror as they lit up the small screen. You give me a werewolf Jerry Stiller, and I'm hooked for life. There's so...   read