The creepy festivities begin in first Midsommar trailer

Posted 7 years ago

Director Ari Aster made a big splash on the scene with last year’s horror gem HEREDITARY, one of the best-reviewed movies of the year and starring Toni Collette in a jaw-dropping performance. Now one short year later he’s back with...

A24 releases a poster and another promo for Ari Aster’s Midsommar

Posted 7 years ago

HEREDITARY writer/director Ari Aster's second feature is being released by A24 later this year, and a couple days ago the distributor shared a promo image that simply said "Sommar", making me think that was the new title of the project,...

A24 shares promotional image for Hereditary director’s Sommar

Posted 7 years ago

Update: The promotional image had confused me into thinking SOMMAR was the title of the film, but it's actually MIDSOMMAR.   HEREDITARY writer/director Ari Aster and distributor A24 are working together to bring us another horror offering later this year,...

TV Review: The Little Drummer Girl

Posted 8 years ago

SYNOPSIS:  Brilliant young actress Charlie (Pugh) strikes up an acquaintance with an intriguing stranger while on vacation in Greece, but it rapidly becomes apparent that his intentions are far from romantic.  The man is Becker (Skarsgård), an Israeli intelligence officer,...

Featurette takes us behind-the-scenes of The Little Drummer Girl mini-series

Posted 8 years ago

It's hard to beat good slow-burning spy thriller and John le Carré can definitely deliver in that regard. The latest adaptation of the author's work will come in the form of the upcoming BBC/AMC mini-series The Little Drummer Girl, based...

Grudge reboot re-scheduled, Ari Aster’s new film gets a release date

Posted 8 years ago

Release dates have been announced for a couple horror films that are coming to us from two interesting new genre directors; Nicolas Pesce, who made his feature directorial debut with 2016's THE EYES OF MY MOTHER, and Ari Aster, whose...

Trailer: Ghost hunters encounter a MaleVolent spirit in Netflix movie

Posted 8 years ago

This Friday, October 5th, the Netflix streaming service will be releasing a film that looks to be quite an intense take on the haunted house scenario. Directed by Olaf de Fleur from a screenplay by Ben Katai and Eva Konstantopoulos,...

Laura Dern in talks to join the cast of Greta Gerwig’s Little Women

Posted 8 years ago

Oh boy, should I cue the JURASSIC PARK theme for this story? Perhaps "Holdo's Resolve" from Rian Johnson's STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI is more fitting? Actually, now that I think about it, neither appears to match the tone and...

Florence Pugh leads the cast of Hereditary director’s new film

Posted 8 years ago

Having earned $79 million at the worldwide box office (to date), writer/director Ari Aster's HEREDITARY is distributor A24's biggest theatrical success – and by the time the film achieved that honor, Aster and A24 were already in production on their...

First look: Florence Pugh encounters a Malevolent spirit

Posted 8 years ago

Three years ago, we shared the news that actress Sophie Cookson had signed on to the star in the genre project HUSH, to be directed by Olaf de Fleur Johannesson. Since then, there has been a bit of a shake-up,...