Over the course of a career (which is close to going on a quarter of a century now), Lee Daniels has been something of a polarizing figure as far as filmmakers tend to go. Some view him as a genuinely gifted, original voice that aims to elevate stories of marginalized communities and the people who…

As a sub-genre of horror, the slasher film has had quite a storied history. Much like film noir and screwball comedy, it has been the subject of a lot of debate, both around the specific criteria that go into the creation of a particular film, and when it first started. By the time Sean S….

“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate” There have been many notable quips based on the concept of fame over the years, but the one above by Emily Dickinson (whose own interactions with public life and her efforts to recede into as much obscurity as she could as a notable figure are fascinating…

In a conclusion to what has proven to be one of the most singularly peculiar, and some would argue wholeheartedly unnecessary, film trilogies in recent memory, Ti West has produced MaXXXine, a film that brings an end to a series of films in which the self-styled 21st-century schlockmaster experiments with different styles of horror, following…

A common trend for the past decade or two has been to proclaim at least one film every year as somehow the most terrifying ever made – it is a marketing tactic based around a small sample size, and done to stir interest and draw audiences into the cinema. Yet, very rarely do we find…

Every generation has a small set of directors that go on to define a particular era in cinema, but it can be difficult to discern who will become the iconoclasts and which ones will just be seen as reliable artists, which can really only happen once some distance has been created between an era and…

Few directors have undergone a more drastic shift in perception than M. Night Shyamalan, who went from being seen as a wunderkind with his breakthrough directorial effort, the remarkable The Sixth Sense, as well as supremely ambitious films like Unbreakable and Signs, both of which have a lot of merit in spite of some clear…

Television has always been promoted as the medium through which anything is possible – depending on your interests, there is some programming to fit your every need and desire, particularly as we have seen the medium flourish into a seemingly endless stream of ideas in which every niche is given a place. However, if we…

To recapture the genre that they helped define nearly a century ago, Universal has been actively working over the years to reconstruct their monster movie department, setting out to revive their reputation for making wildly entertaining horror films that hearken back to the studio’s heyday, when they came to be known as the pioneers of…