When Hollywood says based on a true story—okay, what percentage?” asks Mick McNamara, one half of Canada’s first team of action heroes. “Is it 98 or two percent bullshit?  According to Mick, the movies he made with his brother Martin ...

It’s now a truism that liberals run Hollywood. Survey and polling data suggests that Democratic political candidates outperform Republicans to a significant degree among creatives and business people in Hollywood. And for the tech-addicted among us, there’s anecdotal evidence in ...

Possession films have inhabited the minds of horror fans since the release of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973). Friedkin’s film shaped how we think of possession and, in turn, how we make movies about it. Possession films are judged for ...

What do you think of when you see the words “erotic” and “thriller” placed together in sequence? Is it Glenn Close telling Michael Douglas “I’m not going to be ignored, Dan!”? Or is it Shannon Whirry, in lingerie, staring at ...

1980 was a pivotal year for New York City. It hosted the Democratic National Convention, flooding the city with thousands of tourists. New construction was also beginning to change the landscape and attract young people back after decades of abandonment. ...

The good news: Jordan Peele’s Us (2019) broke records with its opening weekend haul of $70 million, guaranteeing we are likely to see more horror films in theaters in the immediate future. The better news: Jordan Peele’s Us isn’t a ...

William Sachs didn’t set out to make the definitive mockumentary on the paranormal. “I was approached by Donn Davison, the producer and host of the film, about making a documentary about UFOs and other related phenomenon,” he wrote via email. ...

Project Blue Book is a brain-sucking worm lodged in the zombified skull of America, incessantly jamming the fear button in what’s left of our parasite-eaten gray matter to provoke us into shadowboxing hallucinations of the Deep State and Russian spies.

It’s easy to fear what you don’t understand. History is full of examples of people acting irrationally because of superstitions. The strigoi, for example, has been a target of scorn in Romania since the mid-seventeenth century. Part ghoul, part ghost, ...

In a recent interview with Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, Jamie Lee Curtis revealed that the 2018 remake/reboot/sequel/reanimated corpse of Halloween (2018) underwent re-writes before making it to the screen. Most significantly, the opening of the film changed from a ...