I can think of no better way to kick off the Halloween season than with a celebration of frights and friendships — oh, and bloody murders. Razor sharp, with a c...
With Hold the Dark, Saulnier widens his canvas in exciting ways, tackling his first adaptation and embracing a unique narrative propulsion seldom found in genre cinema. ...
The cult thriller is back in style! The first trailer has arrived for Apostle, the new film from writer and director Gareth Evans. The Welsh director made a...
Don’t Leave Home has an opening composition reminiscent of a postcard and a closing moment like a strange dream. Between these moments is a film that turns idyl...
We sat down with Cosmatos to discuss crafting a tone and steady pace for Mandy to build emotions, recognizing different sides of Nicolas Cage to show on screen, finding commonalities with the late Jóhan Jóhansson during their collaboration, and shattering the delusional self-image of egomaniacal men....
“ is the best revenge.” Does this sound familiar but incomplete? That’s perhaps a good template to consider when going into What Keeps You Alive, a dark and bum...
Mile 22 is perhaps the least sentimental action film of the decade. Any whiff of internal conflict is undercut by an "Are you done with this yet? We have real s...
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich will turn some heads, but it will surely turn more stomachs. These feel like the most crystalline goals of writer S. Craig Zah...
At its height, Summer of '84 sings like a sandy page-turner you end up finishing in the fall, with the wind swirling and mischief night just around the corner. ...
If it can, should a film lay its foundation on intertextuality? The question being: can you believe two people are in love because you are told, not because you...
Mike Mazzanti is a content project manager at a digital marketing firm by day and a screenwriter at heart. A lover of the outré and the everyday, he is the Resident Genre Enthusiast at The Film Stage and is currently based out of Washington, D.C.
