Director William Friedkin had never seen an actual exorcism when he made the canonical possession film The Exorcist. No one seems to think the material suffered...
In director Ted Geoghegan’s debut We Are Still Here, the subtlest horrors came from quiet images of nature. Within its context, creaking trees and beautiful lan...
For me, cinema remains not a source of escape, but of essential existence. Through this, my top pick is a film that calls lovingly back to cinema’s roots while still stunning with modern beauty....
While he's perhaps most notable on screen in films such as The World's End and Bourne Ultimatum, Paddy Considine wrote and directed his debut feature film T...
In 2007, Rob Zombie, for his third feature, took on a beloved horror franchise — helmed at its inception by genre maestro John Carpenter — and dug his grime-coated nails into Halloween with tenacity....
What if a revenge road movie met an internally-focused study of grief? What if the hard-bitten, anti-sentimentality of a Southern noir was blended with the sinc...
With summer rapidly passing by, a plus side has reared its head in the form of a new clip from Steven Soderbergh's first cinematic outing in four years, Log...
Since conspiracy and controversy in regards to Russia hasn't dominated the airwaves enough, a new Netflix-distributed documentary, Icarus, takes a different...
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography winds up feeling in many ways like the much-talked about concept of its protagonist. That is to say, the stuff l...
After making a splash with In a World.. a few years back, a trailer has now just arrived for I Do Until I Don't, an ensemble comedy from writer-director Lak...
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.
