The Career Frustrations That Pushed Paul Newman Into The Director's Chair
Paul Newman is a legendary actor of the New Hollywood era, but his run of fascinating and critically lauded directorial efforts are curiously under-appreciated.
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HBO Max Controversies Serve As A Reminder Of Why Physical Media Matters
HBO Max took some streaming movies off their platform, and any streamer can do something like this at any time. That's why we still champion physical media. -
12 Best Performances In Martin Scorsese Movies
Few directors respect an actor's craft quite like Scorsese, and these performances are the best of the best. -
The Maltese Falcon Was Just The 'Miracle' Humphrey Bogart's Career Needed
A whole lot of accidents and bad decisions and fateful choices had to happen for Bogart to take on his most iconic role. -
Why Annihilation Bombed At The Box Office, And What We Can Learn From It
The story behind the box office 'failure' of Alex Garland's arthouse sci-fi movie is more complicated than you'd think. -
5 Psychological Horror Movies The Average Person Would Never Survive
So you think you can survive a psychological horror movie, huh? Wanna bet? -
The Stephen King Easter Egg You May Have Missed In Wrong Turn
Stephen King's reach in the horror world is unlimited. There are even a couple easter eggs in the 2003 Eliza Dushku starring film Wrong Turn. -
As We Know It: Everything We Know So Far About The Nuclear Zombie Apocalypse Movie
By now, aren't we all zombie movie lovers? A new film nuclear apocalyptic zombie film starring the legendary Pam Grier is coming soon to a theater near you. -
It Took Steven Spielberg Years To Get Daniel Day-Lewis In Lincoln
It was a rare case where Spielberg had to actively pursue an actor who said 'no.' -
The Daily Stream: A Perfectly Unnecessary, Itemized Batch Of 70 Stranger Things Notes
In which one /Film writer gets caught up on this little show called Stranger Things. -
True Grit's TV Rights Sparked A Legal Battle With John Wayne
True Grit would win John Wayne his first Oscar, thus making the film much more valuable when it came to selling the TV rights. -
Sci-Fi Horror Movies Most People Could Actually Survive
Survival isn't always a surefire thing in a horror movie, but these sci-fi entries are ... uniquely survivable. -
A Legal Battle With Francis Ford Coppola Could Have Been The End Of Contact
That he had the audacity to file the lawsuit when he did is shocking. -
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies Review: The Gen Z Horror-Comedy Romp Is Fast, Funny, And A Tonally On-Point Terror
Real life will always be bloodier than fiction. -
How Steven Soderbergh Shaped The Russo Brothers' Filmmaking Style
'A common thread in our style is that we like to not have a common thread.' -
The Himeji Castle Horror Story That Inspired The Ring And Ringu
If you remove the cursed VHS tape, The Ring starts to resemble classic Japanese ghost tale... -
The Other Silent Movie Star That Took Buster Keaton Under His Wing
'Well, he said, come on down, try a bit with me, and see how you like it.' -
One Of 12 Angry Men's First Shots Was More Complex Than You Think
Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men is a deceptively simple movie — getting all those tight shots in a small, cramped room required a lot of planning. -
How Mahershala Ali Talked His Way Into True Detective's Leading Role
He was originally eyed for the role played by Stephen Dorff. -
The One Thing Walton Goggins Found Most Difficult About His Justified Character
Walton Goggins started in a small part on FX's Justified but quickly grew into one of the series' most beloved characters -- despite his dark origins. -
DC League Of Super-Pets Director Jared Stern Built The Story Around Superman's Best Friend [Interview]
DC League of Super-Pets co-director Jared Stern chats about country music, evil guinea pigs, and Keanu Reeves as Bruce Wayne. -
Ari Aster Wanted Midsommar To Leave The Audience Laughing
Midsommar was at the forefront of the 2010s folk horror revival, but it isn't as frightening as Hereditary, nor is that its aim, to hear Aster tell it. -
Comedy Horror Movies The Average Person Would Never Survive
Think horror comedies are all fun and games? Think again. There's a whole list of horror comedies the average person couldn't survive, and we checked it twice. -
The Money Was Never What Drew Sidney Poitier To Acting
'...I could pour out some of my confusion and other ills into a fictitious character." -
Bullet Train Director David Leitch Has A Unique History With Brad Pitt
They once bought a mysterious pair of pants that miraculously fit them both, and they shared the pants equally the first summer they spent apart. (Not really.) -
Found Footage Horror Movies The Average Person Would Never Survive
Demons, zombies, evil computers -- there's no way we'd make it out of these found footage movies alive. -
Vin Diesel's Pitch Black Contact Lenses Were A Punishing Costume Choice
Not only were Diesel's contacts incredibly painful to wear, they also ended up sending him to the hospital.
