It’s M3GAN’s world, but never forget Brahms of The Boy

In the new horror sequel M3GAN 2.0, the killer robot doll from the first movie meets the memes where they live. She gets taller and faster and more fashion-forward; she flies through the air in a high-tech wingsuit; she sings Kate Bush; and, with a self-consciousness that threatens to ruin...

The real bridge between 28 Days and 28 Years Later isn’t a zombie movie

As divisive reactions to 28 Years Later continue to take shape, the movie has inspired some side chat about how, exactly, we’re expected to think about 28 Weeks Later, the other 28 Days Later sequel. Now that Boyle and Garland have made their own sequel, it feels like 28 Weeks...

Even The Witcher author is dogpiling on George R. R. Martin now

George R. R. Martin just can’t catch a break, huh?The author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, which adapted into the HBO show Game of Thrones, is suffering from perhaps the worst case of writer’s block in recorded history; Martin published A Dance with Dragons, the fifth...

Why 28 Months Later didn’t happen

Nearly 22 years after Danny Boyle shook up the zombie genre with 28 Days Later, the director makes a return to the saga of the infested with this week’s 28 Years Later. As the title implies, it’s been a long time coming. After making future Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy a breakout...

Hitchcock’s only R-rated movies are on Netflix and make a wild double feature

Ask five random people to name one Alfred Hitchcock movie, and chances are good they’ll all say Psycho first, whether they’re classic-movie superfans who could name all his works going back to the British silent-movie days, or they couldn’t pick Hitch out of a crowd in one of his famous...

28 Years Later breathes new life into zombie horror yet again

2002’s 28 Days Later objectively revitalized the zombie genre through fast-paced action and human drama. In fact, director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) and writer Alex Garland (Civil War) inspired so many imitators that it’s hard to believe there could be more life to wring out of the survivors of a...

DC casts its Clayface actor, who shouldn’t take that personally

DC Studios has found its Clayface: the handsome Tom Rhys Harries.According to Variety, the Welsh actor known for his role in Apple TV’s Suspicion and Netflix’s White Lines has officially joined the cast as the lead role for the upcoming title focused on the Batman villain. Harries secured the role...

Netflix’s new reality show is Pokémon Snap with sharks

There are only so many ways to capture the majesty of sharks in reality television programming. In a genre all-but dominated by Discovery Channel’s Shark Week and National Geographic’s SharkFest, how can a contender like Netflix make a splash in the shark space? How about steal the hook of the...