Would you consider All Of Us Strangers to be a horror movie? Well that’s how it’s classified by the Critics Choice Super Awards.
The Critics Choice Association just announced the nominations for the 2024 Critics Choice Super Awards and some fans are surprised by the film being nominated in the horror categories.
The movie earned a nomination for Best Actor in a Horror Movie for Andrew Scott. Other nominees include Knock at the Cabin‘s Dave Bautista, Saw X‘s Tobin Bell, Dream Scenario‘s Nicolas Cage, and Beau Is Afraid‘s Joaquin Phoenix.
Beau is Afraid and Dream Scenario were both classified as comedies at the Golden Globes.
While some fans are baffled by All of Us Strangers being considered a “horror” film, others are voicing that they understand it getting the nomination.
Keep reading to find out more…
“All of Us Strangers being in horror is hilarious,...
The Critics Choice Association just announced the nominations for the 2024 Critics Choice Super Awards and some fans are surprised by the film being nominated in the horror categories.
The movie earned a nomination for Best Actor in a Horror Movie for Andrew Scott. Other nominees include Knock at the Cabin‘s Dave Bautista, Saw X‘s Tobin Bell, Dream Scenario‘s Nicolas Cage, and Beau Is Afraid‘s Joaquin Phoenix.
Beau is Afraid and Dream Scenario were both classified as comedies at the Golden Globes.
While some fans are baffled by All of Us Strangers being considered a “horror” film, others are voicing that they understand it getting the nomination.
Keep reading to find out more…
“All of Us Strangers being in horror is hilarious,...
- 3/7/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
When a movie becomes a massive success, the star better be planning his next move. For Rrr’s Ram Charan, he’s dreaming big–like, Marvel and Quentin Tarantino big.
With Rrr still a hot title during awards season, star Ram Charan is hoping to capitalize on its success. And why not try to get in on the action of some of the biggest franchises going? For starters, Charan wants in on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, saying, “Marvel is the biggest franchise in the world, and I’m a big fan of Tony Stark. The youngsters follow these Marvel stories so closely, and it’s a huge franchise in India.” Hey, he might be a good fit–after all, our own Jason Adams called Rrr “the greatest superhero movie of 2022.” And although it could very well be winding down, Charan also wants in on the Mission: Impossible series. He also...
With Rrr still a hot title during awards season, star Ram Charan is hoping to capitalize on its success. And why not try to get in on the action of some of the biggest franchises going? For starters, Charan wants in on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, saying, “Marvel is the biggest franchise in the world, and I’m a big fan of Tony Stark. The youngsters follow these Marvel stories so closely, and it’s a huge franchise in India.” Hey, he might be a good fit–after all, our own Jason Adams called Rrr “the greatest superhero movie of 2022.” And although it could very well be winding down, Charan also wants in on the Mission: Impossible series. He also...
- 2/9/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
by Jason Adams
Let me just stop you right here, at the start, and admit that I am going to be terribly biased in this review of writer-director Laura Moss’ horror film birth/rebirth. Why? Do I know the director? Have I played ping pong with the cinematographer? Did the boom mic operator donate a kidney to my mum? No no nothing like that – it’s just the entirely sane fact that I love love love the actress Judy Reyes with all of my being and seeing her be given a leading role in a movie is too much for me to bear, qualitatively speaking.
Here at The Film Experience, within this safe space of actressexuals, I know I can admit this freely. But I just feel an upfront warning is due...
Let me just stop you right here, at the start, and admit that I am going to be terribly biased in this review of writer-director Laura Moss’ horror film birth/rebirth. Why? Do I know the director? Have I played ping pong with the cinematographer? Did the boom mic operator donate a kidney to my mum? No no nothing like that – it’s just the entirely sane fact that I love love love the actress Judy Reyes with all of my being and seeing her be given a leading role in a movie is too much for me to bear, qualitatively speaking.
Here at The Film Experience, within this safe space of actressexuals, I know I can admit this freely. But I just feel an upfront warning is due...
- 2/1/2023
- by JA
- FilmExperience
by Jason Adams
Usually when I write about getting “representation” on-screen I’m talking about the gay stuff – like when Call Me By Your Name knocked me flat with its warmly lyrical depiction of a neurotic gayling’s first same-sex longings. And there was gay stuff at Sundance this year that I felt deep in my bones – the darkly funny internalized homophobia of Sebastián Silva’s Rotting in the Sun squarely hit the mark. But no movie felt more like a mirror at this year’s fest than did writer-director Laurel Parmet’s debut film The Starling Girl, which explores the world of rural Christian fundamentalism with the crystal cold precision of one who barely survived that very thing. I speak from my own experience...
Usually when I write about getting “representation” on-screen I’m talking about the gay stuff – like when Call Me By Your Name knocked me flat with its warmly lyrical depiction of a neurotic gayling’s first same-sex longings. And there was gay stuff at Sundance this year that I felt deep in my bones – the darkly funny internalized homophobia of Sebastián Silva’s Rotting in the Sun squarely hit the mark. But no movie felt more like a mirror at this year’s fest than did writer-director Laurel Parmet’s debut film The Starling Girl, which explores the world of rural Christian fundamentalism with the crystal cold precision of one who barely survived that very thing. I speak from my own experience...
- 2/1/2023
- by JA
- FilmExperience
by Jason Adams
Sneaking up on you like an A train out of a dark subway tunnel, first-time feature writer-director A.V. Rockwell’s A Thousand and One (which just won the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and is hitting screens on March 31st) is one of those magical small movies that plays its big dramas so low-key that the tumult you find your heart in by its last act comes as a total surprise. With a tremendous and blessedly unsentimental performance at its heart from singer-turned-actress Teyana Taylor, A Thousand and One wears its Moonlight influences proudly on its sleeve but still manages to be its own thing - and what a beautiful thing it manages...
Sneaking up on you like an A train out of a dark subway tunnel, first-time feature writer-director A.V. Rockwell’s A Thousand and One (which just won the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and is hitting screens on March 31st) is one of those magical small movies that plays its big dramas so low-key that the tumult you find your heart in by its last act comes as a total surprise. With a tremendous and blessedly unsentimental performance at its heart from singer-turned-actress Teyana Taylor, A Thousand and One wears its Moonlight influences proudly on its sleeve but still manages to be its own thing - and what a beautiful thing it manages...
- 1/30/2023
- by JA
- FilmExperience
by Jason Adams
Blessedly patient with its could’ve been wacky and wild premise, writer-director Sing J. Lee’s The Accidental Getaway Driver opts to be a methodical mood piece. This based-on-a-true-story tale is about an elderly Vietnamese driver named Long (Hiep Tran Nghia) who takes the wrong phone call at the wrong time and gets dragged into a crime-drama he has no place being in the middle of. You can see the 90s Jackie Chan high-concept version of this story staring in, but Lee’s film aims for and hits something much deeper. Something that speaks to assimilation and generational divides in hushed tones, and with a genuine tension that remains unshowy at every turn. I loved it...
Blessedly patient with its could’ve been wacky and wild premise, writer-director Sing J. Lee’s The Accidental Getaway Driver opts to be a methodical mood piece. This based-on-a-true-story tale is about an elderly Vietnamese driver named Long (Hiep Tran Nghia) who takes the wrong phone call at the wrong time and gets dragged into a crime-drama he has no place being in the middle of. You can see the 90s Jackie Chan high-concept version of this story staring in, but Lee’s film aims for and hits something much deeper. Something that speaks to assimilation and generational divides in hushed tones, and with a genuine tension that remains unshowy at every turn. I loved it...
- 1/30/2023
- by JA
- FilmExperience
by Jason Adams
The blonde woman in expensive clothes explodes into the dowdy brunette’s life like fireworks. She just appears one day, flung out of space, and nothing will ever be the same for the Plain Jane working girl again. Everything is upended in Midcentury America, surprise feelings warming in the brunette's belly she doesn’t even have a name for, inspiring a sudden need to run. And yes you’d be forgiven if you thought I was speaking about Carol, Todd Hayne’s 2015 masterpiece about a love affair between Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, who no matter what Harge says were not ugly people.
No I speak of a different lesbian potboiler that just popped off at Sundance this year, director William “Lady Macbeth” Oldroyd’s Eileen, based on Ottessa Moshfegh’s 2015 novel...
The blonde woman in expensive clothes explodes into the dowdy brunette’s life like fireworks. She just appears one day, flung out of space, and nothing will ever be the same for the Plain Jane working girl again. Everything is upended in Midcentury America, surprise feelings warming in the brunette's belly she doesn’t even have a name for, inspiring a sudden need to run. And yes you’d be forgiven if you thought I was speaking about Carol, Todd Hayne’s 2015 masterpiece about a love affair between Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, who no matter what Harge says were not ugly people.
No I speak of a different lesbian potboiler that just popped off at Sundance this year, director William “Lady Macbeth” Oldroyd’s Eileen, based on Ottessa Moshfegh’s 2015 novel...
- 1/29/2023
- by JA
- FilmExperience
A new episode of the Black Sheep video series has just been released, and in this one we’re directing some praise toward an underappreciated entry in Full Moon’s Puppet Master franchise. That entry is the 1993 release Puppet Master 4 (watch it Here), and you can find out why we think it deserves more respect by checking out the video embedded above!
Directed by Jeff Burr from a script crafted by Charles Band, Steven E. Carr, Todd Henschell, Keith S. Payson, Jo Duffy, and Douglas Aarniokoski, Puppet Master 4 was shot back-to-back with the following year’s Puppet Master 5. The synopsis for Part 4 goes like this: The mini-menaces Blade, Tunneler, and Pinhead go toe-to-toe with their most menacing enemy yet – a team of terrifying, gremlin-like creatures known as “Totems” that are sent by the evil Egyptian demon Sutekh to recapture the magic stolen by Toulon. The demons target a young scientist,...
Directed by Jeff Burr from a script crafted by Charles Band, Steven E. Carr, Todd Henschell, Keith S. Payson, Jo Duffy, and Douglas Aarniokoski, Puppet Master 4 was shot back-to-back with the following year’s Puppet Master 5. The synopsis for Part 4 goes like this: The mini-menaces Blade, Tunneler, and Pinhead go toe-to-toe with their most menacing enemy yet – a team of terrifying, gremlin-like creatures known as “Totems” that are sent by the evil Egyptian demon Sutekh to recapture the magic stolen by Toulon. The demons target a young scientist,...
- 1/26/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
by Jason Adams
See one horror movie about grief and you've seen every horror movie, or so it feels sometimes. Dead children, siblings, parents, spouses -- the genre is littered with beloved corpses winking back at us from the other side of oblivion. I'm writing this on day one of virtual Sundance and I've already seen three movies of this sort! But we keep coming back to the Babadook Special because it works. It's what we fear the most. Death for ourselves is one thing, but seeing the people we love the most slip away is something tangible; something that we'll all experience and then be expected to exist on the other side of. When I was little it was losing my parents that I feared the most of all.
For teenager Mia (newcomer Sophie Wilde), the lead in the Philippou brothers' unsettling new horror flick Talk To Me (playing...
See one horror movie about grief and you've seen every horror movie, or so it feels sometimes. Dead children, siblings, parents, spouses -- the genre is littered with beloved corpses winking back at us from the other side of oblivion. I'm writing this on day one of virtual Sundance and I've already seen three movies of this sort! But we keep coming back to the Babadook Special because it works. It's what we fear the most. Death for ourselves is one thing, but seeing the people we love the most slip away is something tangible; something that we'll all experience and then be expected to exist on the other side of. When I was little it was losing my parents that I feared the most of all.
For teenager Mia (newcomer Sophie Wilde), the lead in the Philippou brothers' unsettling new horror flick Talk To Me (playing...
- 1/22/2023
- by JA
- FilmExperience
by Jason Adams
If you look at the episodes of Shudder’s documentary series “Behind the Monsters” – each of which was devoted to its own Horror Icon – one thing became painfully clear right up front: Where the hell are our female horror icons? I don’t mean the survivors – we all know our Final Girls, they are legion. I mean the villains. Where is our Jasine Voorhees? Our Frederica Krueger? Why does nothing happen if I say “Candygal” five times in the mirror???
Well the past couple of years have finally begun to right that gendered wrong, bringing us the return of Isabella Fuhrman’s Esther in her Orphan franchise as well as Mia Goth’s ax-welding and Oscar-worthy turn in Pearl (in both the titular prequel as well as X). Finally some iconic Halloween costumes for the Lizzie Borden lovers among us! And now this weekend makes for three with M3GAN,...
If you look at the episodes of Shudder’s documentary series “Behind the Monsters” – each of which was devoted to its own Horror Icon – one thing became painfully clear right up front: Where the hell are our female horror icons? I don’t mean the survivors – we all know our Final Girls, they are legion. I mean the villains. Where is our Jasine Voorhees? Our Frederica Krueger? Why does nothing happen if I say “Candygal” five times in the mirror???
Well the past couple of years have finally begun to right that gendered wrong, bringing us the return of Isabella Fuhrman’s Esther in her Orphan franchise as well as Mia Goth’s ax-welding and Oscar-worthy turn in Pearl (in both the titular prequel as well as X). Finally some iconic Halloween costumes for the Lizzie Borden lovers among us! And now this weekend makes for three with M3GAN,...
- 1/4/2023
- by JA
- FilmExperience
for Veronica Lake's centennial we're revisiting a few of her films...
by Jason Adams
Veronica Lake’s final words on film are “Heil Hitler.”
Nothing in the first sixty-five minutes of first-time director Brad F. Grinter’s schlocky 1970 mad scientist flick Flesh Feast will really prepare you for the final five minutes when a plot twist makes that line of dialogue possible, so I don’t feel particularly guilty spoiling the film’s ending up front – its ending is all it really has going for it...
by Jason Adams
Veronica Lake’s final words on film are “Heil Hitler.”
Nothing in the first sixty-five minutes of first-time director Brad F. Grinter’s schlocky 1970 mad scientist flick Flesh Feast will really prepare you for the final five minutes when a plot twist makes that line of dialogue possible, so I don’t feel particularly guilty spoiling the film’s ending up front – its ending is all it really has going for it...
- 11/14/2022
- by JA
- FilmExperience
by Jason Adams
I never got to see my grandfather’s farm. The land was sold off and the barns and the stables were all torn down before I was born, all so a series of electricity transmission towers could be built across the middle of it. When I was a little kid my father and I would visit my grandparents small home perched astride where the farm used to be and my father would walk me out and point up at the towers in a field out behind their house, telling me how those towers stretched across the entire state. He always seemed proud, strangely in awe of them, as if those were our inheritance somehow. And I couldn’t stop thinking about those towers while watching Carla Simón’s melancholy and moving Alcarràs at NYFF this week.
This film, about peach farmers on the other side of the...
I never got to see my grandfather’s farm. The land was sold off and the barns and the stables were all torn down before I was born, all so a series of electricity transmission towers could be built across the middle of it. When I was a little kid my father and I would visit my grandparents small home perched astride where the farm used to be and my father would walk me out and point up at the towers in a field out behind their house, telling me how those towers stretched across the entire state. He always seemed proud, strangely in awe of them, as if those were our inheritance somehow. And I couldn’t stop thinking about those towers while watching Carla Simón’s melancholy and moving Alcarràs at NYFF this week.
This film, about peach farmers on the other side of the...
- 10/8/2022
- by JA
- FilmExperience
by Jason Adams
How many wood puns would a reviewer chuck into his review of a movie about wood puns? Admittedly not quite as tight a tongue-twister as the “how much wood would a woodchuck” original, but we work with what we’ve got. And I’ll try to rein myself in when it comes to queer sensualist and provocateur João Pedro Rodrigues’ Will-o’-the-Wisp (aka Fogo-Fátuo) as far as such woody things go, but when he’s got his own characters talking about the trees being “tumescent with sap” I can only be so discreet. But I know when I’ve been beaten, and this wood master already beat me at my own game. Point João once more!
At sixty-seven minutes Will-o’-the-Wisp is as slight as is its central figure, a dazzled Portuguese princeling named Alfredo (Mauro Costa) in an alternate-reality timeline...
How many wood puns would a reviewer chuck into his review of a movie about wood puns? Admittedly not quite as tight a tongue-twister as the “how much wood would a woodchuck” original, but we work with what we’ve got. And I’ll try to rein myself in when it comes to queer sensualist and provocateur João Pedro Rodrigues’ Will-o’-the-Wisp (aka Fogo-Fátuo) as far as such woody things go, but when he’s got his own characters talking about the trees being “tumescent with sap” I can only be so discreet. But I know when I’ve been beaten, and this wood master already beat me at my own game. Point João once more!
At sixty-seven minutes Will-o’-the-Wisp is as slight as is its central figure, a dazzled Portuguese princeling named Alfredo (Mauro Costa) in an alternate-reality timeline...
- 10/7/2022
- by JA
- FilmExperience
by Jason Adams
The worlds that writer-director Kelly Reichardt grants us access to with her movies are special places. Even if they’re filled with terrors, as they very often are – her wonderful 2013 eco-thriller Night Moves is not as out of place as it might initially seen – they’re all so delicately spun you might find yourself not breathing lest the spell be broken. The grace on display in her work is meditative, plaintive, lovely even in the most dire of straits. They are quite simply always one of my favorite places to visit.
And her latest titled Showing Up, which reunites Reichardt with actress Michelle Williams for the first time since 2016’s Certain Women, is another wondrous, delicate world – one I know I’ll be returning to time after time, year after year, to soak in, to absorb whatever wonders and mysteries I can from someone whose view of...
The worlds that writer-director Kelly Reichardt grants us access to with her movies are special places. Even if they’re filled with terrors, as they very often are – her wonderful 2013 eco-thriller Night Moves is not as out of place as it might initially seen – they’re all so delicately spun you might find yourself not breathing lest the spell be broken. The grace on display in her work is meditative, plaintive, lovely even in the most dire of straits. They are quite simply always one of my favorite places to visit.
And her latest titled Showing Up, which reunites Reichardt with actress Michelle Williams for the first time since 2016’s Certain Women, is another wondrous, delicate world – one I know I’ll be returning to time after time, year after year, to soak in, to absorb whatever wonders and mysteries I can from someone whose view of...
- 10/6/2022
- by JA
- FilmExperience
by Jason Adams
Do you ever find yourself zoning out to one of those surgery shows they sometimes have on basic cable? Titles like Botched or Plastic Surgery: Before and After where they stick their reality-show cameras into people’s literal guts and poke around? Yeah me neither. A lurid dramatization like the series Nip/Tuck I could handle, but the real stuff’s always been a bridge too far. But then I’ve always had that line drawn in the sand when it came to Horror Movies as well – I’ll watch all sorts of gruesomeness as long as I know it’s fake but you’d have to tie me down to get me to watch one of those Faces of Death videos.
So why then did I find myself so lulled into hypnotic contemplation by directors Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s surreal-ish surgery documentary De Humani Corporis...
Do you ever find yourself zoning out to one of those surgery shows they sometimes have on basic cable? Titles like Botched or Plastic Surgery: Before and After where they stick their reality-show cameras into people’s literal guts and poke around? Yeah me neither. A lurid dramatization like the series Nip/Tuck I could handle, but the real stuff’s always been a bridge too far. But then I’ve always had that line drawn in the sand when it came to Horror Movies as well – I’ll watch all sorts of gruesomeness as long as I know it’s fake but you’d have to tie me down to get me to watch one of those Faces of Death videos.
So why then did I find myself so lulled into hypnotic contemplation by directors Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s surreal-ish surgery documentary De Humani Corporis...
- 10/4/2022
- by JA
- FilmExperience
by Jason Adams
Like how The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was really about Vietnam, they say horror movies reflect the big anxieties of their times. And the Orphan franchise -- which I can giddily now call a "franchise" thanks to the gleefully ridiculous sequel Orphan: First Kill hitting Paramount+ this weekend -- is like a dollop of arsenic foamed across the surface of our collective pumpkin-spice latte fetish. In other words, it's a poison dart tossed straight at Big Mommy Blog to puncture the heart of the Social Media Wellness Cult. The diabolical Esther (played to utter perfection by Isabelle Fuhrman again) is a sweet-faced and ribbon-laced Trojan Horse sneaked onto your curated feed and set to blow up your pretty pictures from the inside out. She's Bo Burnham's "White Woman's Instagram" song plucked by ice pick across harp string.
But first, let's step back. (And yes this review...
Like how The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was really about Vietnam, they say horror movies reflect the big anxieties of their times. And the Orphan franchise -- which I can giddily now call a "franchise" thanks to the gleefully ridiculous sequel Orphan: First Kill hitting Paramount+ this weekend -- is like a dollop of arsenic foamed across the surface of our collective pumpkin-spice latte fetish. In other words, it's a poison dart tossed straight at Big Mommy Blog to puncture the heart of the Social Media Wellness Cult. The diabolical Esther (played to utter perfection by Isabelle Fuhrman again) is a sweet-faced and ribbon-laced Trojan Horse sneaked onto your curated feed and set to blow up your pretty pictures from the inside out. She's Bo Burnham's "White Woman's Instagram" song plucked by ice pick across harp string.
But first, let's step back. (And yes this review...
- 8/18/2022
- by JA
- FilmExperience
by Jason Adams
A very happy 42nd birthday to the queen Eva Green today! I was going to take this opportunity to do what I usually do whenever Eva Green comes up -- complain about her being under-used and under-appreciated, because she is! -- but she does actually have several big projects lined up to come out possibly this year, so let's try to be positive and celebrate those...
A very happy 42nd birthday to the queen Eva Green today! I was going to take this opportunity to do what I usually do whenever Eva Green comes up -- complain about her being under-used and under-appreciated, because she is! -- but she does actually have several big projects lined up to come out possibly this year, so let's try to be positive and celebrate those...
- 7/6/2022
- by JA
- FilmExperience
by Jason Adams
If you're into egregious public humiliations (and who isn't) then has Sophia has got a doozy for you. Jon Kasbe and Crystal Moselle's new documentary about the inventor David Hanson and his quest to perfect "the most realistic humanoid robot" has a scene so cringe that I nearly crawled right out of my own humanoid skin suit and called it a day. It's obviously a testament to the filmmakers skill that I found myself so emotionally invested in this verité science doc when it's basically just a portrait of how the sausage gets made. The "sausage" in question is a twitchy real-doll with feelings named Sophia... ...
If you're into egregious public humiliations (and who isn't) then has Sophia has got a doozy for you. Jon Kasbe and Crystal Moselle's new documentary about the inventor David Hanson and his quest to perfect "the most realistic humanoid robot" has a scene so cringe that I nearly crawled right out of my own humanoid skin suit and called it a day. It's obviously a testament to the filmmakers skill that I found myself so emotionally invested in this verité science doc when it's basically just a portrait of how the sausage gets made. The "sausage" in question is a twitchy real-doll with feelings named Sophia... ...
- 6/21/2022
- by JA
- FilmExperience
by Jason Adams
Weirdly conservative and as profound as a midnight tweet-storm during a Dexedrine binge, I give you actor B.J. Novak’s writer/director debut Vengeance. This feels like a movie that Elon Musk will just absolutely adore... and please never defile my memory by thinking I mean that as a compliment. A wannabe Coens-esque satire of red-state/blue-state warfare and the champagne simps caught in the middle, Vengeance ultimately reads like a love letter to "Both Sides"-ism that ventures nothing so gains a great plains worth of nothing in bold-type return...
Weirdly conservative and as profound as a midnight tweet-storm during a Dexedrine binge, I give you actor B.J. Novak’s writer/director debut Vengeance. This feels like a movie that Elon Musk will just absolutely adore... and please never defile my memory by thinking I mean that as a compliment. A wannabe Coens-esque satire of red-state/blue-state warfare and the champagne simps caught in the middle, Vengeance ultimately reads like a love letter to "Both Sides"-ism that ventures nothing so gains a great plains worth of nothing in bold-type return...
- 6/16/2022
- by JA
- FilmExperience
by Jason Adams
Like many of you I have deeply embedded childhood memories of watching The Wizard of Oz on television as a child. And probably also like many of you the film was presented to me as a generational hand-off, a passing of the cinematic baton. My mom was a lifelong fan, and now twas my turn to become the latest Friend of Dorothy (if she only knew). That yellow brick road stretches in one ear and out the other across eighty entire years of movie-lovers, mother to son to son to daughter and on to every Auntie Em adjacent, with something in there for everybody. I can trace my love of Horror Movies right to it – how many nightmares have those short-jacketed cater-waiter flying monkeys stormed through? Others, probably you, can trace your love of the Movie Musical from sepia-toned Kansas where Judy first regaled us of rainbows.
Like many of you I have deeply embedded childhood memories of watching The Wizard of Oz on television as a child. And probably also like many of you the film was presented to me as a generational hand-off, a passing of the cinematic baton. My mom was a lifelong fan, and now twas my turn to become the latest Friend of Dorothy (if she only knew). That yellow brick road stretches in one ear and out the other across eighty entire years of movie-lovers, mother to son to son to daughter and on to every Auntie Em adjacent, with something in there for everybody. I can trace my love of Horror Movies right to it – how many nightmares have those short-jacketed cater-waiter flying monkeys stormed through? Others, probably you, can trace your love of the Movie Musical from sepia-toned Kansas where Judy first regaled us of rainbows.
- 6/13/2022
- by JA
- FilmExperience
by Jason Adams
A splendidly surreal spin on the immigrant experience, Land of Dreams stars the always-great Sheila Vand, best known as the burqa-rocking vampire in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. In the new film she plays Simin, an Iranian-American artist turned census worker in the near-ish future.
She's been tasked with recording the dreams of the people the government’s keeping track of. Not dream as in “The American Dream,” not dream like, “One day I hope I will become a doctor.” But the actual literal dreams that these people dream as they sleep at night...
A splendidly surreal spin on the immigrant experience, Land of Dreams stars the always-great Sheila Vand, best known as the burqa-rocking vampire in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. In the new film she plays Simin, an Iranian-American artist turned census worker in the near-ish future.
She's been tasked with recording the dreams of the people the government’s keeping track of. Not dream as in “The American Dream,” not dream like, “One day I hope I will become a doctor.” But the actual literal dreams that these people dream as they sleep at night...
- 6/12/2022
- by JA
- FilmExperience
by Jason Adams
Time is a funny thing, slippery. An elastic band behind our eyes that can stretch as far back as we can remember before snapping us back to here and now -- sometimes gentle, sometimes with centrifugal violence like a start. There's no logic to what lingers longer than it lasted, and to what whooshes by -- the best moments a single glance etched in stone, while the worst nightly nestled beside us. To John Lennon his eighteen month romance with his personal assistant May Pang circa a 1973 split with Yoko Ono he called it "a lost weekend" -- meanwhile for Peng here she is fifty years later recounting the experience for the documentary called The Lost Weekend: A Love Story, premiering this weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival.
That slippery sense of time weaves its way through directors Eve Brandstein, Richard Kaufman, and Stuart Samuels' fascinating ninety-seven-minute doc.
Time is a funny thing, slippery. An elastic band behind our eyes that can stretch as far back as we can remember before snapping us back to here and now -- sometimes gentle, sometimes with centrifugal violence like a start. There's no logic to what lingers longer than it lasted, and to what whooshes by -- the best moments a single glance etched in stone, while the worst nightly nestled beside us. To John Lennon his eighteen month romance with his personal assistant May Pang circa a 1973 split with Yoko Ono he called it "a lost weekend" -- meanwhile for Peng here she is fifty years later recounting the experience for the documentary called The Lost Weekend: A Love Story, premiering this weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival.
That slippery sense of time weaves its way through directors Eve Brandstein, Richard Kaufman, and Stuart Samuels' fascinating ninety-seven-minute doc.
- 6/11/2022
- by JA
- FilmExperience
"She's not interested in money." Strand Releasing has debuted an official trailer for a film titled An L.A. Minute, from writer/director Daniel Adams. More importantly, the film stars the very talented up-and-coming actress Kiersey Clemons, who also appears in Hearts Beat Loud - which is now playing in theaters (go see it!). In this film, Clemons plays "an avant-garde performance artist" who befriends a best-selling author who wants to write more personal books rather than the stuff that got him famous. Gabriel Byrne (seen in Hereditary) also co-stars in this film about celebrity and fame and how it works and how fake it all is. The cast includes Bob Balaban, Katherine Kendall, Ed Marinaro, Ned Bellamy, Brianna Baker, Jake Adams, and Ash Adams. Doesn't look that great. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Daniel Adams' An L.A. Minute, direct from YouTube: An L.A. Minute is a satirical look at fame,...
- 6/19/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Tribeca Film Festival wrapped this weekend and I want to hear a huge round of applause for Manuel Betancourt and Jason Adams who filed so many reports. The festival's main narrative competiton was juried by Anne Carey, Chris Nashawaty, and the actors James Le Gros, Mya Taylor and Jennifer Westfeldt. Additional juries handled documentaries, new directors, and international narrative features.
this Persona-riff won Best Actress for Mackenzie DavisFestival Winners Reviewed
Dean (Manuel) -Best Narrative Feature
The Fixer (Nathaniel) -Best Actor Dominic Rains
Always Shine (Jason) -Best Actress Mackenzie Davis
Women Who Kill (Jason) -Best Screenplay Ingrid Jungermann
Contemporary Color (Jason) - Documentary Cinematography Jarred Alterman and Documentary Editing Bill Ross
Madly (Manuel) - Actress in an International Feature Radhika Apte in "Clean Shaven," a segment in Madly
Other Films Reviewed
All We Had (Manuel)
Califórnia (Manuel)
Charro de Toluquilla (Manuel)
Detour (Jason)
Elvis & Nixon (Jason) *now in theaters*
Equals (Jason)
Everybody Knows.
this Persona-riff won Best Actress for Mackenzie DavisFestival Winners Reviewed
Dean (Manuel) -Best Narrative Feature
The Fixer (Nathaniel) -Best Actor Dominic Rains
Always Shine (Jason) -Best Actress Mackenzie Davis
Women Who Kill (Jason) -Best Screenplay Ingrid Jungermann
Contemporary Color (Jason) - Documentary Cinematography Jarred Alterman and Documentary Editing Bill Ross
Madly (Manuel) - Actress in an International Feature Radhika Apte in "Clean Shaven," a segment in Madly
Other Films Reviewed
All We Had (Manuel)
Califórnia (Manuel)
Charro de Toluquilla (Manuel)
Detour (Jason)
Elvis & Nixon (Jason) *now in theaters*
Equals (Jason)
Everybody Knows.
- 4/28/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard, Lisa Pelikan, Ashley Johnson. Brian Thompson, Voyo Goric, Michel Qissi, George McDaniel, Eric Karson, Ash Adams, William T. Amos, Roz Bosley, Dennis Rucker, Billy Blanks | Written by Sheldon Lettich, Jean-Claude Van Damme | Directed by Sheldon Lettich
When looking at eighties action heroes Jean-Claude Van Damme managed to make a name for himself in a genre built upon already big names and even bigger egos. Although A.W.O.L. (aka Lionheart) was released in 1990 I think it is fair to still class it as an eighties movie, the fashions shown on-screen pretty much confirm it (they are bad). Released this week on Blu-ray as part of 101 Films Cult Movie Collection it stands as a perfect example of everything that made Van Damme a star of the action genre.
When Lyon Gaultier discovers his brother is injured and the Foreign Legion with which...
When looking at eighties action heroes Jean-Claude Van Damme managed to make a name for himself in a genre built upon already big names and even bigger egos. Although A.W.O.L. (aka Lionheart) was released in 1990 I think it is fair to still class it as an eighties movie, the fashions shown on-screen pretty much confirm it (they are bad). Released this week on Blu-ray as part of 101 Films Cult Movie Collection it stands as a perfect example of everything that made Van Damme a star of the action genre.
When Lyon Gaultier discovers his brother is injured and the Foreign Legion with which...
- 5/21/2015
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
The 2012 ConCast! Matt Damon! Thomas Jane! Click above to Listen Now! From the moment I say "Welcome to the JoBlo Movie Podcast..." this show is nothing but pandemonium. Recording in front of a live audience, at the great Tilted Kilt in the heart of San Diego, the Podcast welcomes JoBlo.com's official Comic Con team to help bring you all the details of what we covered this past weekend. Jimmy O, Eric Walkuski, Jason Adams, Nick Bosworth, Rusty...
- 7/16/2012
- by Jim Law
- JoBlo.com
While Matt Damon and I were chatting it up (harumph!), my man Jason Adams was kicking some ass and taking names. well, actually he was interviewing some of the people behind the upcoming Looper. Frankly, I was a bit jealous as I am a huge fan of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and have yet to interview this crazy talented dude. He also spoke with Emily Blunt, Noah Segan and the film.s writer/director Rian Johnson. There was talk about the awesomeness of Bruce Willis and how Rian wants to take on every...
- 7/16/2012
- by JimmyO
- JoBlo.com
While I stepped out of the Sony press line at Comic Con to chat with Matt Damon, my good buddy Jason Adams filled in for a bit. Between the two of us we spoke to two of the stars of Total Recall along with the film.s director. Yes, it was pretty absurdly cool to chat with Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale and Len Wiseman. To be honest, I.m very curious to see how differently the film is handled from the original and whether it will satiate fans of Schwarzenegger.s classic feature. This of course...
- 7/15/2012
- by JimmyO
- JoBlo.com
Teen Wolf! Click above to Listen Now! Law and Moreno welcome Jason Adams in to celebrate the awesomeness of Teen Wolf. Come in and join us as we worship Stiles, wonder if Boof is banging Scotty's dad, notice that Mick is almost as hairy as Teen Wolf, and generally rip apart one of our favorite 80's films of all time. How many kids died van surfing after this came out? Why is that dude's pants undone at the end? How does Stiles get to open a store In the school?...
- 7/5/2012
- by Jim Law
- JoBlo.com
Jason Adams Reviews Ted & Brave! Click above to Listen Now! JoBlo.com veteran, Jason Adams joins the show to tell us whether or not Ted is worth checking out this weekend. He also teams up with Law for a double take on Brave. Jason takes in a Nicholas Cage double-feature with Ghost Rider 2: Nobody Cares About Your Subtitle and Seeking Justice. Then Moreno decides to put Eddie Murphy on Movie Jail trial after listening to Law tear apart A Thousand Words....
- 6/25/2012
- by Jim Law
- JoBlo.com
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"ExTerminators" (2010)
Directed by John Inwood
Released by Image Entertainment
Also appearing on VOD, Heather Graham, Amber Heard and Jennifer Coolidge team up to launch a service that will permanently wipe away your exes from your address book (and life) under the cover of Coolidge's bug extermination business in this comedy from cinematographer-turned-director John Inwood.
"Bad Ass" (2009)
Directed by Adamo Cultraro
Released by Well Go USA
A hitman (Tom Sizemore) has a change of heart when his latest job leaves the nurse of an aging mob boss as the prime suspect in Adamo Cultraro's feature debut. Frank Stallone co-stars.
"Centurion" (2010)
Directed by Neil Marshall
Released by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Following "Doomsday," Marshall returns to Hadrian's Wall in England for the story of surviving group of Roman soldiers in 117 A.D., including Michael Fassbender, Dominic West and Liam Cunningham among their ranks, who defend...
"ExTerminators" (2010)
Directed by John Inwood
Released by Image Entertainment
Also appearing on VOD, Heather Graham, Amber Heard and Jennifer Coolidge team up to launch a service that will permanently wipe away your exes from your address book (and life) under the cover of Coolidge's bug extermination business in this comedy from cinematographer-turned-director John Inwood.
"Bad Ass" (2009)
Directed by Adamo Cultraro
Released by Well Go USA
A hitman (Tom Sizemore) has a change of heart when his latest job leaves the nurse of an aging mob boss as the prime suspect in Adamo Cultraro's feature debut. Frank Stallone co-stars.
"Centurion" (2010)
Directed by Neil Marshall
Released by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Following "Doomsday," Marshall returns to Hadrian's Wall in England for the story of surviving group of Roman soldiers in 117 A.D., including Michael Fassbender, Dominic West and Liam Cunningham among their ranks, who defend...
- 11/1/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
There are three horror or thriller titles releasing next week beginning November 2nd. The period action piece Centurion will release on DVD and Blu-Ray formats, with the Blu-Ray offering nine special features. Also releasing is the Blu-Ray copy of the 2007 sleeper hit Funny Games, which will only offer bare extras. Finally, Once Fallen will release through First Look International; the film stars Ed Harris (Waking the Dead), Richard Tyson (The Fear Chamber), and Peter Weller. Have a look at each of these titles in more detail below.
Centurion - DVD, Blu-Ray
Director/writer: Neil Marshall.
A partial synopsis for Centurion is here:
"Ad 117, the Roman Empire stretches from Egypt to Spain, and East as far as the Black Sea. But in northern Britain, the relentless onslaught of conquest has ground to a halt in face of the guerrilla tactics of an elusive enemy: the savage and terrifying Picts."
*The full...
Centurion - DVD, Blu-Ray
Director/writer: Neil Marshall.
A partial synopsis for Centurion is here:
"Ad 117, the Roman Empire stretches from Egypt to Spain, and East as far as the Black Sea. But in northern Britain, the relentless onslaught of conquest has ground to a halt in face of the guerrilla tactics of an elusive enemy: the savage and terrifying Picts."
*The full...
- 10/31/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Check out a Movie Jungle Exclusive red band clip from "Once Fallen" starring Brian Presley, Taraji P. Henson, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Peter Weller, Ash Adams and Chad Lindberg. Ash Adams directs and writes the First Look distributed, action-packed film which is being sent out on Blu-ray and DVD on November 2nd. When Chance (Brian Presley, Home of the Brave, Streets of Blood, Borderland) returns home after five years in jail, he is determined to escape his past, start a new life and make peace with his father, (Ed Harris, Academy Award ® nominee and Golden Globe® winner, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, A History of Violence), who is the head of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang and serving a life sentence for murder. Upon his release, his dreams of a crime-free future begin to disintegrate when he is forced to assume his best friend’s outrageous debt to a local mobster.
- 10/28/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Mother and Child
Opens: 2010
Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Summary: A tale of a mother and daughter, separated at birth, who struggle with the damage done by the most important person missing in their lives while a young African-Americn woman deals with an unwanted pregnancy and the adoption process.
Analysis: Scoring rave reviews in Toronto, the $7 million latest effort of Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives," "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her") once again shows off his skill at weaving multiple narratives together in clever and unexpected ways. At its heart it's an emotional family drama, but Garcia excels with his female characters which makes the involvement of Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and especially Annette Benning thrilling.
The few criticisms levelled at the film were toward some pacing and credibility issues in the last act, but otherwise praised it for not...
Opens: 2010
Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Summary: A tale of a mother and daughter, separated at birth, who struggle with the damage done by the most important person missing in their lives while a young African-Americn woman deals with an unwanted pregnancy and the adoption process.
Analysis: Scoring rave reviews in Toronto, the $7 million latest effort of Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives," "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her") once again shows off his skill at weaving multiple narratives together in clever and unexpected ways. At its heart it's an emotional family drama, but Garcia excels with his female characters which makes the involvement of Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and especially Annette Benning thrilling.
The few criticisms levelled at the film were toward some pacing and credibility issues in the last act, but otherwise praised it for not...
- 12/29/2009
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Mother and Child
Opens: 2010
Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Summary: A tale of a mother and daughter, separated at birth, who struggle with the damage done by the most important person missing in their lives while a young African-Americn woman deals with an unwanted pregnancy and the adoption process.
Analysis: Scoring rave reviews in Toronto, the $7 million latest effort of Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives," "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her") once again shows off his skill at weaving multiple narratives together in clever and unexpected ways. At its heart it's an emotional family drama, but Garcia excels with his female characters which makes the involvement of Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and especially Annette Benning thrilling.
The few criticisms levelled at the film were toward some pacing and credibility issues in the last act, but otherwise praised it for not...
Opens: 2010
Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Summary: A tale of a mother and daughter, separated at birth, who struggle with the damage done by the most important person missing in their lives while a young African-Americn woman deals with an unwanted pregnancy and the adoption process.
Analysis: Scoring rave reviews in Toronto, the $7 million latest effort of Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives," "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her") once again shows off his skill at weaving multiple narratives together in clever and unexpected ways. At its heart it's an emotional family drama, but Garcia excels with his female characters which makes the involvement of Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and especially Annette Benning thrilling.
The few criticisms levelled at the film were toward some pacing and credibility issues in the last act, but otherwise praised it for not...
- 12/29/2009
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Brian Presley and Taraji Henson topline "Once Fallen," a drama that also stars Ed Harris and Amy Madigan.
Ash Adams wrote and is directing the crime saga about a father and son struggling with loyalty, family and prison.
Shannon Gardner and Derek Beumer are producing along with George Furla of Emmett/Furla Films. Adams also is producing through his Bravado Pictures.
The film is currently shooting in Los Angeles.
Presley, who is repped by Apa and Kritzer Levine Wilkins Entertainment, recently starred in "Borderland" and "Home of the Brave."
Credits for Henson, repped by UTA and Vincent Cirrincione Associates, include "Hustle & Flow" and the forthcoming "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."
Harris, repped by CAA, most recently co-wrote, directed and starred in "Appaloosa."
Madigan, repped by Innovative Artists and Industry Entertainment, most recently appeared in "Gone Baby Gone."
A TV and film actor since the 1980s, Adams has directed "After...
Ash Adams wrote and is directing the crime saga about a father and son struggling with loyalty, family and prison.
Shannon Gardner and Derek Beumer are producing along with George Furla of Emmett/Furla Films. Adams also is producing through his Bravado Pictures.
The film is currently shooting in Los Angeles.
Presley, who is repped by Apa and Kritzer Levine Wilkins Entertainment, recently starred in "Borderland" and "Home of the Brave."
Credits for Henson, repped by UTA and Vincent Cirrincione Associates, include "Hustle & Flow" and the forthcoming "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."
Harris, repped by CAA, most recently co-wrote, directed and starred in "Appaloosa."
Madigan, repped by Innovative Artists and Industry Entertainment, most recently appeared in "Gone Baby Gone."
A TV and film actor since the 1980s, Adams has directed "After...
- 11/6/2008
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Brian Presley and Taraji Henson will star in "Once Fallen" alongside Ed Harris and Amy Madigan. Ash Adams directs from his own screenplay a crime film which tells of a father and son and their struggle with crime, family and prison. Adams also has a part in the film and is producing with his Bravado Pictures company. Also producing are George Furla of Emmett/Furla Films and Shannon Gardner and Derek Beumer. Filming is taking place in L.A., California. Henson's credits include the Terrence Howard starrer "Hustle & Flow" and the upcoming "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Elias Koteas, Elle Fanning, Jason Flemyng and Julia Ormond.
- 11/5/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Brian Presley and Taraji Henson will star in "Once Fallen" alongside Ed Harris and Amy Madigan. Ash Adams directs from his own screenplay a crime film which tells of a father and son and their struggle with crime, family and prison. Adams also has a part in the film and is producing with his Bravado Pictures company. Also producing are George Furla of Emmett/Furla Films and Shannon Gardner and Derek Beumer. Filming is taking place in L.A., California. Henson's credits include the Terrence Howard starrer "Hustle & Flow" and the upcoming "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Elias Koteas, Elle Fanning, Jason Flemyng and Julia Ormond.
- 11/5/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Brian Presley and Taraji Henson will star in "Once Fallen" alongside Ed Harris and Amy Madigan.Ash Adams directs from his own screenplay a crime film which tells of a father and son and their struggle with crime, family and prison. Adams also has a part in the film and is producing with his Bravado Pictures company. Also producing are George Furla of Emmett/Furla Films and Shannon Gardner and Derek Beumer. Filming is taking place in L.A., California. Henson's credits include the Terrence Howard starrer "Hustle & Flow" and the upcoming "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Elias Koteas, Elle Fanning, Jason Flemyng and Julia Ormond. Adams has helmed twice before in his career - firstly, the 2004 drama "After the Past" which he wrote and then the documentary "The Distance" in 2006.
- 11/5/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Brian Presley and Taraji Henson will star in "Once Fallen" alongside Ed Harris and Amy Madigan. Ash Adams directs from his own screenplay a crime film which tells of a father and son and their struggle with crime, family and prison. Adams also has a part in the film and is producing with his Bravado Pictures company. Also producing are George Furla of Emmett/Furla Films and Shannon Gardner and Derek Beumer. Filming is taking place in L.A., California. Henson's credits include the Terrence Howard starrer "Hustle & Flow" and the upcoming "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Elias Koteas, Elle Fanning, Jason Flemyng and Julia Ormond.
- 11/5/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Ed. Note: "Awfully Good" is a weekly column, running every Wednesday at our sister site The DVD Clinic, that brings you the best of the worst in movies. This week Jason Adams came up with a column so (please pardon the pun) awfully good, I had to share it with you here. You can check out the full archive of "Awfully Good" here. The Happening (2008) Director: M. Night Shyamalan Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, Mother Nature Is there a plot? Something.s...
- 10/29/2008
- by Jason Adams
- JoBlo.com
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