South Korean animator Hur Bum-Wook isn't afraid to dive head first into some dark subject matter - in his 2011 short City of Good People, abstract images and a ...
Rape-revenge thrillers aren't new to cinema, with such titles as Last House on the Left (the original, not the remake), I Spit On Your Grave (again, the origina...
Based on his resume, filmmaker Stephen Cone displays a penchant for juxtaposing Christianity with the fast progressing modern world - he wrote The Wise Kids, a ...
Due to their public domain status, literary classics are subject to potentially endless film adaptations. Why make an original work when you can drape a top-rat...
Throughout my high school and college career, I plowed through multiple novels by British horror author, Simon Clark. The supermarket paperbacks were hardly lit...
"This is the oldest skull I have," says Hans Rudolph "Hansruedi" Giger, displaying his macabre prize as the Oscar he won for Alien sits off-camera, collecting d...
Before Gareth Edwards brought Godzilla back to life, he made his directorial debut with the 2010 indie hit Monsters. The revisionist monster movie – for which E...
When Desiree Akhavan first appears onscreen in her feature debut Appropriate Behavior, one thing is for sure: she's a stunner. With a statuesque figure, dark ca...
I'm happy to report that 2014 was a year brimming with standout blockbusters, worthy festival favorites, and surprising sleeper hits. I was most struck by the...
The fate of Studio Ghibli has remained uncertain since its co-founder Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement last August. Since then, rumors have swirled, with...
