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Writer/Director Nick Cassavetes channels the same grit of Alpha Dog for his latest, God Is a Bullet, adapted from Boston Teran‘s based-on-true-events best-selling novel. Only this time, the filmmaker doubles down on the bone-shattering violence… and the runtime. God Is a Bullet uses the sleazy criminal world, a talented pair of leads, and visceral violence to offset a straightforward narrative. Bob Hightower (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) lives a simple life in an affluent suburban town. He’s a desk cop and a doting dad who still has a close relationship with his ex-wife. That changes when Bob finds his...

That Legendary Television and Netflix’s animated series “Skull Island” comes from creator/writer/executive producer Brian Duffield makes perfect sense. The writer behind Underwater, Love and Monsters, and Spontaneous has already established an affinity for larger-than-life monsters, a sense of adventure, and an uncanny knack for tugging at the heartstrings in the process. All three of those elements capture the essence of the monstrously sized yet tender-hearted King Kong, and they’re at the core of “Skull Island,” a lighthearted standalone series that goes big on nonstop monster mayhem. “Skull Island” hits the ground running with an action-heavy sequence introducing...

It used to be that video game adaptations were limited to big budget franchises, with household names like Super Mario Bros. and Mortal Kombat getting blockbuster movies while more niche experiences like Dino Crisis and System Shock were mostly ignored by non-gamer audiences. Not only that, but corporate expectations and bloated production budgets meant that these big screen adaptations would often misunderstand what made these franchises popular in the first place. Fortunately, it seems that the days of the “video game curse” are far behind us. Not only are recognizable...

Earlier this year, M. Night Shyamalan signed a multi-year first-look directing and producing agreement with Warner Bros., with mysterious thriller Trap up first. Thanks to Warner Bros’ CineEurope show, the first plot details for Shyamalan’s upcoming feature are here. Deadline reports that “M Night Shyamalan and his daughter Ishana sent a video to talk up their respective projects: her feature directing debut, The Watchers (a ‘gothic fairy tale’) and his Trap (a ‘psychological thriller set at a concert’). The pair said how ‘excited’ they are to have joined the Warner Bros family.” As...

Move over “Yellowjackets,” there’s a new survival thriller involving a plane crash and cannibalism in the works. THR reports today that  J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage, A Monster Calls) is reteaming with his Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom composer, Michael Giacchino (The Batman), for Society of the Snow (La sociedad de la nieve), a Netflix Spanish-language thriller based on true events. Society of the Snow will tell “the story of the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. The survivors...

Move over “Yellowjackets,” there’s a new survival thriller involving a plane crash and cannibalism in the works. THR reports today that  J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage, A Monster Calls) is reteaming with his Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom composer, Michael Giacchino (The Batman), for Society of the Snow (La sociedad de la nieve), a Netflix Spanish-language thriller based on true events. Society of the Snow will tell “the story of the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. The survivors...

AMC’s “The Walking Dead” has crawled back out of its shallow grave following the series finale that aired back in November with “The Walking Dead: Dead City.” The first of many spin-offs on the horizon, “Dead City” follows Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they venture into a walker-infested New York City to rescue Maggie and Glenn’s son Hershel who has been kidnapped by a former-Savior.  Set a few years after the flagship series’ strong finale, Maggie and Negan have gone their separate ways since their intensive...

Genre filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Crimson Peak) made headlines last week when he announced via THR that he plans to soon focus exclusively on animated films. “Animation to me is the purest form of art, and it’s been kidnapped by a bunch of hoodlums. We have to rescue it. I think that we can Trojan-horse a lot of good shit into the animation world,” del Toro candidly told the outlet. He’s not wrong; a rich world of stunning animation exists beyond films targeting young audiences. That includes horror, of course. This week’s streaming...

The long-awaited story-based DLC for The Callisto Protocol has finally been revealed in “The Final Transmission”. The DLC will launch as a timed exclusive on PlayStation consoles on June 27, with other platforms getting the DLC on June 29. Accompanying the announcement is a teaser for “The Final Transmission”, which doesn’t reveal much in terms of the “heart-pounding final chapter” of the story for The Callisto Protocol. One can speculate from the trailer, which appears to tease cybernetically-enhanced Biophages. Despite the disappointing sales of The Callisto Protocol, developer Striking Distance...

The long-awaited story-based DLC for The Callisto Protocol has finally been revealed in “The Final Transmission”. The DLC will launch as a timed exclusive on PlayStation consoles on June 27, with other platforms getting the DLC on June 29. Accompanying the announcement is a teaser for “The Final Transmission”, which doesn’t reveal much in terms of the “heart-pounding final chapter” of the story for The Callisto Protocol. One can speculate from the trailer, which appears to tease cybernetically-enhanced Biophages. Despite the disappointing sales of The Callisto Protocol, developer Striking Distance...

“Stranger Things 5” will be the FINAL season of Netflix‘s hit series, and Netflix has announced during their TUDUM event that Terminator icon Linda Hamilton will star! No word yet on Hamilton’s role in “Stranger Things 5,” which is currently on pause while writers fight for fair wages as part of the ongoing WGA Strike. Stay tuned for more. The Season 4 finale set the stage for a season that will bring the action entirely back to Hawkins, with the rift between Hawkins and the Upside Down now completely opened up...

Scooby-Doo character Velma Dinkley got her own “adult animated series” over on Max earlier this year, and Max has confirmed this week that “Velma” Season 2 is on the way. Deadline reports, “Suzanna Makkos, EVP, Original Comedy and Adult Animation, Max and Adult Swim, revealed the renewal during Annecy International Animated Film Festival.” “Velma” is an adult animated comedy series telling the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unsung and underappreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang. An original and humorous spin that unmasks the complex and colorful past...

Beware! Spoilers for the work of Stephen King abound.  Stephen King has always been a self-referential writer. In addition to his poignant memoir On Writing and a multitude of forwards and afterwards in his Uncle Steve voice, the Master of Horror tends to inject his fiction with characters that bear a striking resemblance to his own persona. Equating writing with therapy, he often seems to be working through issues that underlie his novels and one can often pick out themes and seasons of life peeking through the windows of his...

Following the one-two punch of 1986’s Witchboard and 1988’s Night of the Demons — both of which yielded sizable profits in the video store market — filmmaker Kevin Tenney was eager to return to his independent roots and make a movie without interference. He and his team managed to raise $400,000 with the caveat that it had to be used within a short time frame. As a result, Tenney wrote the script in a mere six days. The result is 1989’s Witchtrap, so named in a thinly-veiled effort to capitalize...