Loud, ludicrous and full of blood and anguish with only a modicum of insight or intelligence, the Scream franchise has long since become what it used to satirize. A copy of a copy of a copy, Scream VI is a degraded photostat lacking all definition, showing only the rough contour of its antecedent but nothing in the interior. Whatever bite…
Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies and Point Grey Productions today revealed the teaser trailer for the new CG-animated theatrical film, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. An original story following the crime-fighting Ninja Turtles as they protect the sewers and streets of New York City, the film is set to hit theaters August 4, 2023. You…
Paramount Pictures has released a hilarious new Dungeons & Dragons clip in which Chris Pine’s character, Edgin the Bard, gets to ask a corpse five questions. Well, he attempts to at least. You can watch the Dungeons & Dragons clip using the player below. The big-screen adaptation is will open in theaters on March 31,…
With the anticipated Scream 6 movie coming to theaters on March 10, Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group have released 12 character posters. You can view all the posters by scrolling. In case you missed it, you can still watch the new Super Bowl spot for the film here. Fans will be the first to…
Ahead of the Big Game, Paramount Pictures has shared the Super Bowl spot and character posters for Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. You can view the posters below and you’ll find the Super Bowl spot underneath. The anticipated adaptation is scheduled to open in theaters on March 31, 2023. In Dungeons and Dragons: Honor…
Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group today revealed the Scream VI Super Bowl spot and announced a 3D Fan Event, to be held on Thursday, March 9th. With tickets now on sale, we’ve also got special posters for Dolby Cinema, RealD 3D and 4DX. You can watch the Scream VI Super Bowl spot using the…
While Smile is a horror film that plays for a crowd and gives us jumps and intense moments, it’s also a story about trauma and how our past can torment and haunt us just as much as any movie monster. At Fantastic Fest, I was fortunate to speak with director Parker Finn and star Sosie…
There’s a trend going on in horror cinema that’s been happening for several years now – the exploration of past traumas and how they inform the present, often done metaphorically. That movie monster or thing that creeps in the shadows of the room isn’t just a monster – it’s something horrific from the past that…
Bombastic, over the top, and unapologetically fun, Top Gun: Maverick is the Platonic ideal of an entertaining studio film, a standard bearer for what those words mean and how they can be achieved. Of course, what they mean is different for different people. Slick, lacking rough edges or idiosyncrasy with dialogue forever in search of…
As one does not simply walk into Mordor, one does not simply review Jackass Forever without context. These movies and television shows are the definition of “Not for everyone.” If there’s any story arc that links these films, it’s all that has happened offscreen. One of the members has passed away. Another was involved with…
Franchise movies with the word origins in the title don’t have the best track record of quality, but that doesn’t stop studios from making them; a case in point is Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins, which promises to tell the backstory of the fan-favorite character from the GI Joe animated series and Hasbro toy line….
Vital Thrills got a chance to attend the press conference for the upcoming sci-fi action film The Tomorrow War, starring Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, and J.K. Simmons. The movie will launch exclusively on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories on July 2, 2021. In The Tomorrow War, the world is stunned when a group of time…
As a refugee from another planet, Sonic the Hedgehog has spent most of his life in hiding on Earth. While he keeps himself hidden from the town of Green Hills by using his super speed, he feels close to its residents. Sonic feels particularly fond of the local sheriff, Tom Wachowski, whom he dubs “Donut…
In The Rhythm Section, Blake Lively stars as Stephanie Patrick, whose family has been killed in a plane crash. That crash, however, was not an accident, and Stephanie is out for revenge. The film also stars Jude Law and Sterling K. Brown. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Mark Burnell, from director…
If the Terminator films have taught us anything, it’s that freezing an object makes it brittle and easily broken, and putting it back together again requires a lot of molten steel to come pouring out of the smelter you’ve just driven a tanker truck into. At least one of those observations is pertinent to Terminator:…
Gemini Man, starring Will Smith, Clive Owen, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, opens in theaters on October 11, and we got a chance to check out the press conference featuring director Ang Lee, Smith, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Owen, Weta VFX supervisor Guy Williams, and VFX supervisor Bill Westenhofer. Gemini Man is an innovative action-thriller starring Will Smith (Disney’s Aladdin, Suicide…
Surely, the most dreaded words in all of feature film development must be “it needs a new direction.” [Followed closely by “I have a few notes”]. Not that searching for a new direction is bad; some fantastic films have come from creatives throwing out what came before and, in the process, re-discovering an original truth….
I am a massive Stephen King fan. Pet Sematary is one of my favorite King novels & films. When I heard they were remaking this, I had the knee-jerk reaction that most of the internet had: “No! Hollywood is remaking yet another classic yet again instead of coming up with fresh ideas. Nothing is sacred!!…