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The Film: Writer/director Damian McCarthy, who had primarily been known for making short films up until recently, gave us his first feature in 2020 with "Caveat," an effort that received a mixed reception, but was enough to lead to his next project, "Oddity" in 2024. It received better reviews, but in all honesty, it wasn't a particularly memorable horror outing, though it continued to show that he had some potential as a filmmaker. This brings us to his latest effort, "Hokum

The Film: There are very few entertainers in the history of music that have reached the level of superstardom that the great Elvis Presley achieved. With incredibly popular hits like "Love Me Tender," "Jailhouse Rock," and "Hound Dog," his songs (and renditions of others' songs) have delighted & entertained millions around the world for the past 70 years, and as we've recently seen, have captivated the mind of filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, who gave us a biopic of The King back in 2

The Film: Back in 2023, a little game called "The Exit 8" popped up from Kotake Create with a rather simple premise that had players walking through a metro station tunnel as they try to spot inaccuracies or anomalies in order to make it to the exit. The game received mostly positive reviews, with many praising its realism & horror aspects, while others deemed it too short with little replay value. However, despite such criticisms, filmmaker Genki Kawamura decided to try his

The Film: Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, who has brought us such classics as "Sex, Lies, and Videotape," "Erin Brockovich," and "Traffic," has been going through a bit of a dry spell lately. His last three outings have included the poorly-received "Magic Mike's Last Dance," the bland haunted house drama "Presence," and "Black Bag," a spy thriller that was more interested in being clever than it was in telling a compelling story. It's been unfortunate to see him st

The Film: Back in 2007, a small Canadian web series called "Nirvana the Band the Show" was released starring Matt Johnson and Jay McCarol as fictionalized versions of themselves who are members of "Nirvana the Band," with the entire premise focusing on their attempts to land a gig at a venue called The Rivoli. Eight years later, they launched a TV show called "Nirvanna the Band the Show," which lasted two seasons and followed the same plot. At this point, you would think that

The Film: Writer/director Osgood Perkins has had something of a questionable career thus far, delivering a collection of middling-to-sub-par horror films that are typically forgettable and have a number of issues to them, including such works as "Longlegs," "The Blackcoat's Daughter," "I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House," and most recently, "The Monkey." For his next feature, "Keeper," he has opted to fill only the director's chair and leave writing duties to Nick

The Film: Time and time again, we've seen how filmmakers have struggled greatly to do anything new or interesting in the horror genre, but another genre that suffers just as much from this lack of originality is the romantic-comedy. It seems like 99% of the time we'll see the same tired formula over and over again, which has the audience ahead of the film every step of the way, leading right up to its easily predictable conclusion. Try as they might, they find it extremely di

The Film: Body horror has always been a rather strange little sub-genre, one that has been used to great effect in the past, most notably by filmmaker David Cronenberg in projects like "The Fly," "Videodrome," and "The Brood," but one that can also go awry if a film's story isn't quite up to a certain level of quality. Now writer/director Michael Shanks looks to throw his hat in the ring by using it for his feature debut "Together," in which a couple going through a bit of a

The Film: As I've said time and time again, horror is perhaps the most difficult genre to do anything the least bit original in, which is...