What we do in the Shadows - Kiwi director extraordinaire Taika Waititi was making us laugh long before Thor: Ragnarok with films like What we do in the Shadows. Far more comedy than horror, the film is a mockumentary about a group of ancient vampires living in a sharehouse in New Zealand.
TODAY'S WORD is voracious . Example: Big Bob has such a voracious appetite that the local buffet locks the doors and turns out the lights when they see his car roll into the parking lot.
Superhero properties are continuing to be the most profitable genre in filmmaking, so there's plenty of comic book adaptations coming to the silver screen. While most of them are in behemoth properties like the Marvel Cinematic Universe or DC Extended Universe, there are certain franchises operating on their own.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, may claim to be hard-pressed to find the time to debate his Democratic opponent, Rep. Beto O'Rourke, ahead of the midterm election, but he apparently has plenty of time to waste on a war of words with popular horror novelist Stephen King. The following exchange occurred on Twitter this week between Stephen King, the acclaimed author of classic novels like "Carrie" and "It," and Cruz, who attempted to reference some of King's oeuvre in his rebuttal even though at least one of those allusions - to the line "Heeeeere's Johnny!" - comes not from a King book, but from a film adaptation of that book .
Ryan Eggold and Samira Wiley, stars of the hit series "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Blacklist" respectively, joined forces to announce 12 of the nominees for the 70th annual Emmy Awards.
The debate about whether Ridley Scott's Alien or James Cameron's Aliens is the better movie will likely rage on until humanity is eventually wiped out by a real life species of acid-bleeding killer aliens. But until then, we can also argue about the best poster that pays tribute to the ongoing sci-fi film franchise, and a couple of new contenders have come along from artist Rory Kurtz that make a strong case for Aliens .
Neve Campbell, best known for starring in the hit '90s show "Party of Five," as well as the 1996 horror film "Scream" looked glamorous on the red carpet for the New York City premiere of "Skyscraper." Marlo Thomas was spotted braving the wintry elements.
When art director Bill Jersey reflects on the making of The Blob , the cultish 1958 film in which a young Steve McQueen saves his town from a huge, gooey, people-eating blob , what he treasures most is not the cinematography but the close-knit community of Phoenixville that brought the movie to life. "It [was] a kind of wonderful sort of community experience about something that probably [didn't] have any great significance socially, cosmologically, etymologically, or any other logically," says Jersey.
It might surprise you, but Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson wasn't always the most bankable action star in the world. There was a time when the pro-wrestler-turned-actor was trying to stay afloat doing sequels to bad franchises and playing the lead in straight-to-DVD movies.