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Since its release in April 2025, "Sinners" has proven to be a box-office behemoth and a bona fide mainstream hit. However, along with its more conventional accolades, it has also solidified a spot in the niche but expanding canon of unconventional vampire movies. Sure, Ryan Coogler's horror flick revels in its blood and guts, but if you were to watch the first hour alone, you wouldn't realize you were watching a vampire movie. The word "vampire" isn't even dropped until well over an hour in. Those qualities don't even address the vampires themselves, which are far from the caped and cowled creepers of gothic staples like "Dracula" or "Dark Shadows."

For the record, we're not complaining. Most folks associate the vampire with horror movies and period pieces, but this fanged, folkloric creature is far more malleable than you might realize. For every remake of "Nosferatu," there's a "Reinfeld" or an "El Conde" or an "Abigail,...

Angela Bassett is no stranger to iconic roles, but one of her most enduring performances remains her fierce turn as Lornette "Mace" Mason in Strange Days. Speaking with Collider’s Steve Weintraub during press for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Bassett was delighted (and slightly surprised) to hear that Kathryn Bigelow’s cult cyberpunk thriller turns 30 this year. For Bassett, the film is a milestone in more ways than one. Directed by Bigelow and co-written by James Cameron, Strange Days is a neo-noir set in the final days of 1999 Los Angeles, where society teeters on collapse and technology allows users to experience other people's memories through illegal recordings.

Bassett's character, Mace, is a bodyguard and single mother who reluctantly gets pulled into a conspiracy involving her ex, Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes), a black-market dealer of memory clips. The movie was widely ahead of its time, and it has only...

Nearly 40 years on from the release of Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark, a TV remake is on the way from A24.

While it’s well known that vampires never age, the same is true to some extent for vampire films – the really good ones anyway. Surely belonging to that coterie is Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark, the 1987 neo-western horror that marked Bigelow as a huge future talent. A promise she’s been making good on over since, with the likes of Blue Steel, Point Break, Strange Days and The Hurt Locker.

It’s also well known that boutique indie studio A24 has been on the hunt for material to develop its growing television division. A Friday The 13th prequel series titled Crystal Lake is already on the way, and according to The InSneider, a TV version of Near Dark is set to follow. If that wasn’t promising enough, the...

Your Forma director Takaharu Ozaki confirms that the sleeper-hit anime was inspired by a fan-favorite science fiction series.

Speaking to Anime News Network, director Ozaki recalled how reading the original Your Forma light novel series brought him right back to his comfort zone in terms of similar sci-fi stories. "When I first started reading Your Forma, I thought of typical cyberpunk stories like Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runner, and The Matrix—I was thinking of cyberpunk movies from the '80s and '90s," Ozaki said. "As I read on in the novel, other works came to mind. There is a TV series called Westworld, which is all about what it means to be human," he added, before also referencing iconic films such as Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days and 2006's French animated tech-noir thriller - Renaissance.

The Critically Acclaimed Cyberpunk Series Your Forma Was Inspired by Westworld, The Matrix...

We’ve always loved setting trends at The Film Stage and are accordingly chuffed that, nine months after we screened a 35mm print at the Roxy, Roman Polanski’s late-career triumph The Ghost Writer comes to the Criterion Channel in next month’s Coastal Thrillers, a series that does what it says on the tin: The Lady from Shanghai, Key Largo, The Long Goodbye, The Fog, and the other best film of 2010, Scorsese’s Shutter Island. It pairs well with Noir and the Blacklist featuring films by Joseph Losey, Fritz Lang, Jules Dassin, and so on. Retrospectives are held for Terry Southern, Kathryn Bigelow, Jem Cohen, and (just in time for Caught By the Tides) Jia Zhangke, while Spike Lee gets his own Adventures In Moviegoing.

For recent restorations, Antonioni’s Il Grido and Anthony Harvey’s Dutchman appear. Criterion Editions include The Runner, Touchez pas au grisbi, Godzilla vs.

Nicky Katt, whose TV and film credits include Boston Public and Dazed and Confused, has died. He was 54.

The news of Katt’s death was confirmed Saturday by his attorney, John Sloss, to our sister site The Hollywood Reporter.

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*Update* Katt’s sister Elise Ravenscroft revealed to Deadline Monday that the actor died by suicide.

“He died by suicide after battling with depression — one that he fought bravely but quietly,...

Updated with cause of death: More on the death of Nicky Katt, who faded from view around the time of the pandemic. His family confirmed on Monday, April 14, that Katt died by suicide earlier this month. His bio information was furnished by his family, and Deadline can follow with some quotes by the directors he worked with most often.

Katt was born on May 11, 1970, the son of Carol Katt, a costume designer originally from South Dakota, and Agustin Islas, the bass player for the Mexican band El Klan. Though he was born in Acapulco, he spent his childhood in Los Angeles, where he was raised by his mother. He attended Wonderland Elementary in Laurel Canyon, St. Paul’s Lutheran School in North Hollywood, and graduated from Providence High in Burbank in 1987, a year early.

Katt was named Agustin Islas, after his father, at birth, but took his mother’s surname when...

Nicky Katt, who appeared in both segments of Grindhouse, has passed away at the age of 54. No cause of death was given.

In addition to Planet Terror and Death Proof, Katt’s genre credits include Gremlins, Insomnia, The ‘Burbs, Phantoms, Riding the Bullet, and “V.”

With 75 credits across film and TV, Katt is perhaps most widely known for playing Harry Senate in the first three seasons of “Boston Public.”

Other notable roles include Dazed and Confused, Sin City, A Time to Kill, School of Rock, Strange Days, Boiler Room, Rules of Engagement, The Brave One, The Dark Knight, and Batman & Robin.

“You could always count on Nicky Katt for many things,” Robert Rodriguez, who directed Katt in Planet Terror and Sin City, wrote on Instagram. “He’d come in incredibly prepared for a role with costumes and props. He’d come full of inventive and creative ideas that would...

Nicky Katt, the actor who appeared in films like Dazed and Confused, Boiler Room, and subUrbia, has died at the age of 54.

Katt’s attorney John Sloss confirmed the actor’s death to the Hollywood Reporter; no cause of death was provided.

The South Dakota-born Katt appeared frequently on the big screen in the Nineties and early 2000s, ofter playing tough guy or antagonistic roles. As a child actor, Katt appeared in Gremlins and The ‘Burbs before his breakout role as high school bully Clint Bruno in director Richard Linklater...

Nicky Katt, an actor recognized for his work in film and television across several decades, died on April 8 in Burbank. He was 54. His death was confirmed by friends and attorney John Sloss. Official confirmation and cause of death have not been publicly disclosed.

Katt began performing as a child, with early appearances on television and small roles in Gremlins and The ’Burbs. He went on to become a regular presence in films that favored intense, edgy characters. He was known for portraying antagonists, loners, and unpredictable figures, often grounding those performances in realism and sharp timing.

One of his most widely recognized roles came on Boston Public, where he played Harry Senate, a geology teacher assigned to a group of troubled students in a basement classroom referred to as “the dungeon.” The series, created by David E. Kelley, aired in the early 2000s. After three seasons, the character was written...

Nicky Katt, who played teacher Harry Senate on “Boston Public” after starting as a child actor and going on to play an assortment of tough guys in movies including “Dazed and Confused” and “Boiler Room,” died April 8 in Burbank. He was 54.

The Los Angeles medical examiner’s office reported that the cause of death was suicide.

His death was reported by his friends and by attorney John Sloss.

Often playing heavies and villains, Katt worked with Richard Linklater, appearing in “Waking Life,” “SubUrbia” and “School of Rock.” For director Steven Soderbergh, he appeared in “The Limey” as Stacy the Hitman, as Hitler in “Full Frontal,” and had one of his final roles in “Behind the Candelabra.” Christopher Nolan cast him in “Insomnia” and “The Dark Knight,” in which he played a S.W.A.T. team member.

On “Boston Public,” Katt played the popular geology teacher Harry Senate, who taught troublemaker kinds in “the dungeon.

Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third installment in James Cameron's blockbuster science fiction series, is set to hit theaters this winter. But if you can't want to return to Pandora, Disney+ is ready to take you to another one of Cameron's alien worlds. The Abyss, Cameron's groundbreaking 1989 deep-sea thriller, will stream in 4K on the service starting on April 11, 2025.

The Abyss was Cameron's first film after his megahit Aliens, and he was given a $43 million Usd budget to work with. The production of the film was harrowing for both cast and crew, as the extensive underwater scenes proved to be exceptionally difficult and exhausting to shoot. Actor Ed Harris refuses to speak about it to this day, while co-star Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio has simply stated "The Abyss was a lot of things. Fun to make is not one of them." The film also features one of the first ever...

The directors that popular culture considers to be the greatest of all time — Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, for example — are almost always men. While female directors have spearheaded successful films across genres like superhero, action, and horror, it is men who typically receive the funding, global attention, and prestige projects that cement their legacy in film history.

There have only been 10 women nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards, and it wasn't until 2021 that more than one woman was nominated in the category: Chloé Zhao for "Nomadland" and Emerald Fennell for "Promising Young Woman." In the 95-year history of the Academy Awards, only three women have won the Best Director prize: Chloé Zhao, Jane Campion, and Kathryn Bigelow.

There are so many incredible films made by visionary female directors, even ones that haven't received Oscar attention. Many of these films appear on Metacritic's highest-rated list. Metacritic celebrates...

In Kathryn Bigelow’s “Strange Days,” the cusp of the millennium promises beauty and chaos. There’s a sliver of hope urging the populace of L.A. to dream about better days, but the dark cloud of rampant digital addiction and social injustice looms as the clock strikes 12. For those standing at this cusp, the 2000s were heralded as a time of change, and it was, in some ways. But it was also a decade that heightened anxieties like never before, especially in America, with the aftereffects of 9/11 and an alarming financial crisis permeating the lives of many. Even on a macrocosmic level, the 2000s were a rather mean-spirited decade, spotlighting problematic attitudes that were exacerbated due to an internet culture that (still) rewards bad-faith cynicism.

Jacy Mairs’ “Trash Baby” explores a hyper-specific aspect of said 2000s culture, examined through the lens of a coming-of-age tale that relishes in the...

The leading Spanish podcast platform, iVoox, announces its integration with Spotify Open Access, an initiative that allows creators to distribute their exclusive content also on Spotify. The company continues to work to promote the professionalization of the industry, offering creators the opportunity to reach a broader audience, increase the visibility of their content and maximize their income. This is one of the first integrations launched by the company, and very soon it will also be available on the rest of the podcast listening platforms.

With this new functionality, the platform reaffirms its commitment to allowing podcasters to maximize their audience growth and continue to monetize their content with their biggest fans. Likewise, unlike other solutions, iVoox allows creators to combine free and paid episodes into a single show, without the need to duplicate content or divide the audience between those who pay and those who do not.

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After taking a look back at the John Ratzenberger cameo in House II: The Second Story, the beginning of House of 1000 Corpses, the awesomeness of Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight, the leg smashing in the Stephen King adaptation Misery, three separate moments from John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China, the “Jason vs. Tina” battle in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, the “all hell breaks loose” sequence from the start of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake, the opening sequence of Pitch Black, a cool moment from The Crow, a memorable shark attack from Jaws 2, a creepy moment from Lost Highway, the climactic factory chase sequence from Child’s Play 2, the “Stigmata Martyr” dance scene from Night of the Demons, the beginning of Strange Days, and the Tech Noir club scene from The Terminator, JoBlo’s own Lance Vlcek is...

Robert De Niro is set to make his TV debut in “Zero Day.” The Netflix series follows a former U.S. president who’s tapped to lead a commission tasked with tracking down the perpetrators of a devastating cyberattack responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans, only to discover a vast web of lies and conspiracies.

The limited series, which premieres Feb. 20, comes from co-creators Eric Newman (“Griselda”) and Noah Oppenheim (“Jackie”). Lesli Linka Glatter is an executive producer and director of all six episodes. De Niro, Michael S. Schmidt and Jonathan Glickman also executive produce the series.

Below is a round-up of the star-studded “Zero Day” cast joining De Niro in the political thriller and where else you may have seen them.

George Mullen (Robert De Niro) Robert De Niro in “Zero Day” (Netflix)

George Mullen is a hugely popular but complicated former US president who’s pulled...

Ralph Fiennes, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast — which was recorded last week in front of 2,000 people at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, where Fiennes was honored with the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award in recognition of his Oscar-nominated performance in Conclave — has been widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest screen actors for more than 30 years.

To name just a few of the films in which the Englishman has shined: Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, Robert Redford’s Quiz Show, Kathryn Bigelow‘s Strange Days, Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient, István Szabó’s Sunshine, Neil Jordan’s The End of the Affair, David Cronenberg’s Spider, Fernando Meirelles’ The Constant Gardener, Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges, Stephen Daldry’s The Reader, Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash...

After taking a look back at the John Ratzenberger cameo in House II: The Second Story, the beginning of House of 1000 Corpses, the awesomeness of Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight, the leg smashing in the Stephen King adaptation Misery, three separate moments from John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China, the “Jason vs. Tina” battle in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, the “all hell breaks loose” sequence from the start of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake, the opening sequence of Pitch Black, a cool moment from The Crow, a memorable shark attack from Jaws 2, a creepy moment from Lost Highway, the climactic factory chase sequence from Child’s Play 2, the “Stigmata Martyr” dance scene from Night of the Demons, and the beginning of Strange Days, JoBlo’s own Lance Vlcek is continuing his The Best Scene video series by...

When the sci-fi action flick “Virtuosity” was first released in the summer of 1995, it opened to mixed reviews and modest box office. It was the kind of mid-range studio programmer (it came from Paramount under the Sherry Lansing regime) that came out with dependable frequency in those days, a movie enjoyed by some but quickly forgotten by most before it left theaters to make way for other genre films like “Desperado,” “The Tie That Binds,” and “Hackers.”

Looking back now, studio slates like the ones Lansing oversaw — release schedules that made room for an abundance of medium-budget comedies (“Clueless”), thrillers (“Primal Fear”), sci-fi films (“The Relic”) and adult dramas (“Nobody’s Fool”) in between large-scale blockbusters like “Mission: Impossible,” “Braveheart,” and “Titanic” — seem far more varied and artistically fruitful than they did at the time, when we never knew such range was in any danger of disappearing. It was easy at...

Contains brief discussion of murder, sexual assault, and racial violence.

The 1995 James Cameron-written cyberpunk thriller Strange Days proved to be a box office flop in its time and has failed to gain a cult following even now—in fact, barely anyone remembers this great 1990s action movie in spite of its big names. However, with its thematic relevance to present-day events, Strange Days deserves another look from modern audiences. Starring Ralph Fiennes as black market virtual reality (VR) dealer Lenny Nero, the film explores the societal impact of technological advances and mass violence.

Many great sci-fi movies got the future wrong, but oddly enough, Strange Days managed to predict quite a few things about the turn of the century as well as the American zeitgeist 30 years later. Civil unrest, police brutality, political corruption, and societal desensitization to mass violence are just a few themes from Strange Days, and while...

Quick Links 'Strange Days' Shows Virtual Reality as a Drug Ralph Fiennes and Others Make 'Strange Days' an Unforgettable Film 'Strange Days' Is Not on Streaming?

The Godfather. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Back to the Future. These three titles are only some in the fortunate group of films that have received four out of four stars from widely known critic and analyst Roger Ebert, and for good reason. Anybody who has watched these celebrated cinematic classics would agree that they hit on all fronts: they have characters that we connect with, camera work that seamlessly brings us into the scene, and emotional punches that stick with us long after the credits roll.

But as much as you would think that this list is logically made up of box office successes, some of those on Ebert’s highest-praised list are actually major commercial failures. A massively...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series shining a spotlight on the scripts behind the year’s buzziest awards-season movies continues with Searchlight’s A Complete Unknown, James Mangold’s micro-biopic of Bob Dylan that stars Timothée Chalamet. Mangold adapted the script with two-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter Jay Cocks, working from Elijah Wald’s book Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties.

The film hit theaters December 25 and grossed $31.7 million over the holiday frame. It has also been racking up nominations on the awards circuit, with Best Picture, Best Actor (for Chalamet) and Best Supporting Actor (for Edward Norton) nominations from the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards.

In addition to Chalamet, the film stars Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Norton as Pete Seeger, Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie and Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash.

The focus of the story...

If the recent trailer success of 28 Years Later has shown us anything, it's that sometimes you can't find some of your favorite movies on streaming. After the trailer broke records, many people started seeking out 2002's 28 Days Later on any streaming platform, only to find it wasn't on one. Social media lit up when fans realized the film wasn't streaming anywhere and the matter was eventually rectified. Perhaps with Ralph Fiennes getting major Oscar buzz for Conclave, fans can start making noise about bringing his 1995 sci-fi thriller Strange Days to streaming because it's also missing. Plus, given the fact that it's New Year's Eve today, it would've made for the perfect viewing as we head into 2025.

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow from a screenplay by her ex-husband James Cameron and Jay Cocks, Strange Days is a cyberpunk film set in Los Angeles during the last two days of 1999. The film follows Fiennes' Lenny Nero,...

After taking a look back at House II: The Second Story (a favorite of mine since childhood), House of 1000 Corpses (which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year), the awesomeness of Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight, the leg smashing in the Stephen King adaptation Misery, three separate moments from John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China, the “Jason vs. Tina” battle in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, the “all hell breaks loose” sequence from the start of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake, the opening sequence of Pitch Black, a cool moment from The Crow, a memorable shark attack from Jaws 2, a creepy moment from Lost Highway, the climactic factory chase sequence from Child’s Play 2, and the “Stigmata Martyr” dance scene from Night of the Demons, JoBlo’s own Lance Vlcek is continuing his The Best Scene video series – and...

Two years after being released from the 30 Rockefeller basement, and nearly eight years since co-writing his first feature, Kyle Mooney has made his long-awaited directorial debut with Y2K. Mooney’s hilarious comedic sensibility, first demonstrated at the Good Neighbor YouTube channel where he made skits with fellow SNL player...

A James Cameron-produced $405 million action movie has landed on Netflix's global chart five years later. Cameron is one of the most commercially successful filmmakers of all time, having written and directed Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Titanic three of the top five highest-grossing films of all time. Collectively, James Cameron's movies have made over $8 billion worldwide, making him the second-highest-grossing director of all time behind Steven Spielberg, though Cameron has only directed 13 movies to Spielberg's 34.

Cameron occasionally produces and pens projects that he doesn't direct. As the co-writer and director of The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Cameron produced and co-wrote the story for 2019's Terminator: Dark Fate. During the 1990s, Cameron produced the projects Point Break and Strange Days, which were directed by his ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow. Over the years, there have also been many movies that Cameron wished to direct, but was unable to,...

Ralph Fiennes is the type of actor that’s so consistently excellent that it’s paradoxically easy to take him for granted. Equally at home as a supporting player as a leading man, Fiennes has steadily been turning in great onscreen turns for three decades since his 1993 breakout, and he’s been celebrated with two Oscar nominations. But he hasn’t been recognized since the ’90s, despite a growing body of immaculate, perfectly-calibrated performances.

For many, Fiennes is most famous as a villain, utilizing his icy blue eyes for menacing effect. He broke out and received his first Oscar nomination in 1993 playing infamous Nazi war criminal Amon Göth in “Schindler’s List,” giving a pitiless and terrifying performance. In 2005, he was introduced to a whole new generation of audience members as the serpentine, ghastly, resurrected Voldemort in “Harry Potter,” which remains perhaps his best known role.

Yet Fiennes, an actor who...

Director Kathryn Bigelow has a handful of cult films to her credit including Strange Days and Point Break. Her career reached a new peak with 2008's The Hurt Locker, the film that earned her an Oscar win.

Paramount+ will be streaming The Hurt Locker this November. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the 2008 war drama was critically acclaimed for its visceral depiction of foreign conflict and the soldiers who deliberately seek out and diffuse it. The film follows a bomb disposal team's operations to neutralize improvised explosive devices across hot spots in the Middle East. Tension comes to a head when the team's leader gets killed and replaced by a maverick operative. The Hurt Locker boasts a stacked cast headlined by Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, David Morse, Brian Geraghty, and Evangeline Lilly. The film also stars Anthony Mackie and Jeremy Renner in their first onscreen team-up before Avengers: Age of Ultron.

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There aren’t many actors whose filmographies can stack up against Ralph Fiennes. Think about it – Schindler’s List, Strange Days, Quiz Show, The English Patient, The Constant Gardener, The Grand Budapest Hotel, etc. Plus, he was M in the Daniel Craig James Bond movies and Voldemort. In recent years, Fiennes seems to be getting better and better, with The Menu an art-house smash, while he’s also appearing in Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later.

Add to that already impressive list of credits Edward Berger’s Conclave, in which he plays a Cardinal presiding over a Papal election who turns into a sleuth when he discovers backstabbing amongst the candidates. An adaption of the novel by Robert Harris, I absolutely loved this movie when I saw it at TIFF (read my review). I was excited to get the chance to briefly speak with Fiennes and Berger about the film,...

Fans of the Critters franchise probably already own all the movies but Arrow Video is looking to tempt us all with the announce of a brand new 4-movie Blu-ray collection this week.

Critters: A Four Course Feast is a limited edition UK offering, and it features the first four movies in the Critters franchise housed together in a special Blu-ray box set.

The set will be released on December 2, and it’s up for UK pre-order now.

Arrow Video previews, “The Krites have landed! Carnivorous creatures from outer space! Vicious vermin with very sharp teeth! The beloved sci-fi/comedy-horror franchise makes its UK Blu-ray debut in this special edition box set from Arrow Video. A four course feast of fun, fur, fear and fangs, served with a platter of new and archive extras to whet your appetite!”

The 4-disc limited edition contents include…

– High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of all...

The 90s was a great time for adaptations. Jurassic Park is the gold standard, of course, but there was so much more. That book’s author, Michael Crichton, also had Sphere and Congo get greenlit and released while we would see non-horror output like Forrest Gump and Shawshank Redemption, which account for the greatest film of all time… and Forrest Gump. On the horror side we would have Silence of the Lambs, the wonderful It TV miniseries, Exorcist III, and a fun little monster movie throwback called The Relic. At the time, I just thought it was a cool creature feature designed specifically for 12-year-olds like me but looking back all these years later I found out it was an adaptation of a book by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child in what would be the first of 22 separate stories for one of the chief protagonists. That’s all well and...

In the 1990s -- back when the internet was new and smartphones didn't yet exist -- there was a healthy amount of skepticism about new technology. "Cyberspace," a term coined by sci-fi author William Gibson, was a terrifying new concept for some, and many Luddites feared it. A stationary network of millions of unknown users? And they're all tapping into the same ineffable, electric realm of information that's Not inside my personal computer? It's like someone peeled back a layer of reality and revealed a whole new dimension. Indeed, Brett Leonard's 1992 sci-fi/horror film "The Lawnmower Man" refers to the 'net in those exact terms. That film also posited that Virtual Reality would come to replace real reality.

Throughout the decade, audiences were treated to numerous paranoid cyberthrillers that alternately vaunted the possibilities of the internet while also pointing out its potential for destruction. This was the age that...

Recently, I wrote an article about how Ron Howard’s Cocoon was hard to find in any format. It came out on DVD many years ago but went out of print and has never been issued on Blu-ray. You also can’t find it digitally on any platform. This is a perfect example of why you should always hang on to your physical media, as I’m lucky enough to own the now out-of-print DVD of that movie, and while it’s far from an ideal copy, it’s something.

But that got me thinking. What other movies are hard to find? I opened up the forum on Twitter, and I was shocked by how many prominent films aren’t available digitally and have gone out of print on disc, making them all the more precious for collectors. At the same time, there are some happy endings, such as Martin Campbell’s No Escape,...

Some intriguing Marvel movies almost happened but never came to fruition due to poor timing and disagreements about casting. The McU's success has come at the expense of some potentially unique and original Marvel films that were never made. From Quentin Tarantino's Luke Cage to James Cameron's Spider-Man, many visionary directors had ambitious Marvel projects that never saw the light of day.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine.

Marvel films have become an essential part of the superhero movie landscape, although many exciting projects never made their way to or through production. Marvel has been involved with major films since 1986, when Howard the Duck was released to disappointing results. Following this, the publisher attempted to work with several studios to make feature films based on its properties. Some, like Blade and X-Men, worked out wonderfully, while other Marvel movies failed to connect, like 1990's Captain America...

There was almost a version of “Batman: Caped Crusader” without any opening credits, just a title card.

“I really didn’t have any idea of what we were going to do for the main titles,” executive producer and co-showrunner Bruce Timm told IndieWire. “It was something that we kept kicking down the road because making the show itself was a 40-hour-a-week job, plus eating up all my mental bandwidth. Our executive in charge of production, Peter Girardi, kept saying, ‘We got to get started on the main titles.’ And at one point, I was so busy with the show I said, ‘Do we even have to have a main title?’ And he said, ‘Technically no; on streaming, some shows just have a card.’ I was like, ‘Let’s just do that.'”

Thank god Girardi pressed the issue, because the noir-tinged, Deco-charged black and white opening credits are a stark...

Kathryn Bigelow is directing a new untitled Netflix movie set at the White House amidst a national crisis. The director hasn't released a film since Detroit in 2017, further growing the hype surrounding her next project. Bigelow previously worked on a movie called Aurora for Netflix, but it was canceled.

Netflix is producing a film that will be directed by the award-winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow, and aside from the movie's premise and impressive cast, I'm most excited by the fact that Bigelow is involved. Unfortunately, the upcoming film does not have a title (that we know of) as of the writing of this article since it is in its early development stages. However, Netflix has released some information regarding its premise and who is set to star in Bigelow's next movie.

Kathryn Bigelow won Best Picture and Best Director at the Oscars in 2009 for The Hurt Locker, making her the first...

Katheryn Bigelow will be getting back in the director’s chair for the first time since 2017’s historical drama Detroit. Bigelow was known for some beloved titles in the 90s, including Point Break and a movie that we’ve featured on a video about films that are hard to find — Strange Days. Bigelow reached new success when she directed The Hurt Locker in 2008, which would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. She would then follow that film up with Zero Dark Thirty. Deadline reports that not only is Bigelow directing a new film for Netflix, but she may lock down two stars for her film with Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson.

As of now, the roles that Elba and Ferguson are playing have not been disclosed. Neither has the plot or title of the upcoming film. According to Deadline, the only known detail of the movie...

Netflix has teamed up with Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow for a harrowing ticking-clock thriller.

The streamer has greenlit a film centered on a group of White House officials scrambling to deal with an incoming missile attack on the U.S.

Sources say the story will be told in real time and that its tone harkens back to Bigelow’s foreboding 2012 hit Zero Dark Thirty, which chronicled the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the Navy Seal mission to kill the terror leader.

Netflix wouldn’t confirm any details about the project, merely announcing an untitled Bigalow movie at their upfront presentation to advertisers in New York City on Wednesday.

The film — along with a Happy Gilmore sequel announced today — is the first movie greenlit by the streamer’s new film division head Dan Lin. However, the film’s development began during the division’s previous regime led by Scott Stuber,...

Actress Juliette Lewis (“Yellowjackets”) poses for the Warby Parker Summer 2024 eyewear collection, photographed by Paola Kudacki:

Lewis made her film debut in the feature “My Stepmother Is an Alien” (1988). This was followed by bigger parts in “National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation” (1989) and Martin Scorsese's “Cape Fear” (1991), earning her an ‘Oscar’ nomination for ‘Best Supporting Actress’.

Subsequent credits include “Husbands and Wives” (1992), “Kalifornia” (1993), “What's Eating Gilbert Grape” (1993), “Natural Born Killers” (1994), “Strange Days” (1995), and “From Dusk Till Dawn” (1996).

She received an ‘Emmy Award’ nomination for the television film “Hysterical Blindness” (2002), and went on to co-star in the mainstream features “Picture Claire” (2001), “Enough” (2002), “Cold Creek Manor” (2003). “Old School” (2003) and “Starsky & Hutch” (2004).

She started a musical career in 2003, forming the rock band “Juliette and the Licks” and continues to release Since 2009, material as a solo artist.

Her film credits also include “Conviction” (2010), “The Switch” (2010), “August: Osage County” (2013), and “Ma” (2019).

Lewis has worked...

Mahal Empire releases new teaser trailer for the upcoming horror action film, Bikers vs Werewolves starring Jake Busey, Robert Lasardo, Michael Pare, Glenn Plummer & James Duval.

Michael & Sonny Mahal are known as the kings of crowdfunding on the indie film circuit. They’ve successfully funded films including Cursed Waters, Alien Storm, Devil’s Knight, Bermuda Island, Bloodthirst, Night of the Tommyknockers, Arena Wars, Attack of the Unknown, Death Count, Bridge of the Doomed, Art of the Dead, and Bus Party to Hell. They are currently running an Indiegogo campaign to finish Bikers vs Werewolves.

Indiegogo Campaign:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bikers-vs-werewolves-finishing-funds-campaign?

Los Angeles, CA – June 23: Michael Pare attends the 37th Annual Saturn Awards at The Castaway on June 23, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images)

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Tech noirs blend sci-fi technology with film noir's moral ambiguity, exploring societal issues in a futuristic setting. Directors like Ridley Scott and James Cameron shaped the tech noir genre, leading to masterpieces like Blade Runner and The Terminator. Films like Strange Days, A Scanner Darkly, and Minority Report delve into themes of prejudice, surveillance, and free will in dystopian worlds.

From Blade Runner to The Terminator to Ghost in the Shell, some of the greatest science fiction movies of all time belong to the fan-favorite “tech noir” subgenre. Tech noirs combine the futuristic technology of science fiction with the moral ambiguity of film noir. They often have a neon-drenched aesthetic, an intriguing mystery, and an ethically questionable antihero at the center of their storylines. Tech noirs give filmmakers an opportunity to explore societal issues from the present day, like human identity, technocracy, and the dangers of artificial intelligence, in a speculative sci-fi setting.

Much like the central monsters throughout the film, director Kathryn Bigelow’s acid-soaked vampire Western Near Dark seems to be hiding in plain sight, waiting for horror fans to feast upon the 1987 cult classic. Although the film has developed a cult following in the decades since its release in a manner similar to Bigelow’s action masterpiece Point Break and hard-to-find sci-fi fable Strange Days, Near Dark remains one of the most haunting and hallucinogenic films in the vampire subgenre. Rather than portraying the central monsters as devilishly proper Transylvanians with capes and fangs, Bigelow renders the vampire as a rural nomadic figure more akin to one of Immortan Joe’s road warrior minions in Mad Max: Fury Road than a traditional blood-sucking fiend. Through Bigelow and co-writer Eric Red’s singular conception of the vampires as undead Southern Gothic punks, Near Dark both humanizes the monstrous by making the...

It’s ironic that memory is the central theme of Piero Messina’s Berlin Competition title “Another End,” when so many of its twists and turns are so directly lifted from other films that it feels like you’ve seen them before; even watching it for the first time feels like rewatching. But if that makes this elegiac literalization of the timeless theme of “what is grief but love persevering?” a rather edgeless experience it’s not a wholly unpleasant one. Less designed to provoke than to soothe, perhaps the very familiarity of much of the movie is a virtue, letting us enjoy its sleek surfaces safe in the knowledge that there’s nothing much lurking in the depths to alarm us.

Indeed, the story’s central alarming incident has happened some time before the film even begins: a car crash for which Sal (Gael García Bernal) believes he was...

A scheduling problem knocks Benedict Cumberbatch out of A Complete Unknown – with Edward Norton stepping in instead.

James Mangold is coming off the back of Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, and has signed up to direct a future Star Wars movie as well. But slotted between the two is a project he’s been interested in for some time: a biopic of Bob Dylan, that he’s looking to press ahead with this year.

Timothee Chalamet – still riding high off the back in the title role of Wonka – has been cast in the role of Bob Dylan, and he’s still on board the movie. But one person who’s made an exit before filming has begun is Benedict Cumberbatch.

Scheduling problems have counted Cumberbatch out of the movie, in which he was set to play Pete Seeger. No matter, as it turns out: Edward Norton has been...

Some movies can be so iconic that they accidentally end up damaging their own genre in the long run. For instance, we’re all aware of how cyberpunk has been living in the shadow of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner since 1984, with it being nearly impossible to tell a story about a futuristic dystopia without bringing out the flying cars and neon signage. Fortunately, there are exceptions to this rule, and one of my personal favorites happens to be Kathryn Bigelow’s 1995 sci-fi thriller Strange Days.

A genre-bending murder mystery that takes place in the “distant” future of 1999, this special little film has aged spectacularly well despite its pre-millennial DNA, tackling pertinent issues like race relations and police corruption while also telling a surprisingly engaging love story. This is precisely why I think revisiting this retro-futuristic New Year’s extravaganza is the perfect way to start off 2024 with a bang.

Production designer Ruth De Jong and costume designer Ellen Mirojnick have worked on projects helmed by incredible filmmakers. De Jong earned an Emmy nomination for David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return and worked as the production designer on Jordan Peele’s Us and Nope. Mirojnick, meanwhile, earned an Emmy for Behind the Candelabra — one of her six collaborations with Steven Soderbergh — and designed costumes for Steven Spielberg (Always), Richard Attenborough (Chaplin), Kathryn Bigelow (Strange Days), Oliver Stone (Wall Street) and Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Showgirls and Starship Troopers).

So the pair know a thing or two about what makes a great director. But it’s Oppenheimer writer-director Christopher Nolan whom De Jong and Mirojnick call the ultimate filmmaker.

“There is no other director like him, and I’ve worked with some of the best,” says Mirojnick. “His method of collaboration is very generous, and he shares a massive amount by comparison to anyone else.

The end of the 1990s was an odd time for cinema and in general. We were in the midst of Y2K, a panic over clocks and computers needing to roll over from 99 to 00, something people feared more than monsters and cults, something people really feared and fearmongered about. It was expected to be something of an apocalypse by some. So of course, Hollywood ran with it. Technology gone wrong, end of days, Satan coming to Earth, etc. We got films like Strange Days, Stigmata, eXistenZ, Virus, The Matrix, and End of Days (watch it Here), our movie today.

Following a dry patch of work for Arnold Schwarzenegger following Batman & Robin and heart surgery, he didn’t get all that many offers and eventually, it seemed like he would not be coming back. Then, End of Days came his way, and it seemed like a good, if darker than his then-recent work,...

Something interesting happened the other day. I reached out to Arrow Video to get a review copy of their upcoming Conan the Barbarian 4k release, The Conan Chronicles (which also features Conan the Destroyer). I was told their retail stock of the much-anticipated title had already sold out (don’t worry – more is on the way). To me, this is a very promising sign, with interesting companies like Arrow, Scream/Shout Factory, and Kino Lorber making really thoughtful, beautifully assembled 4K collector’s editions of cult hits on physical media that, despite being more niche than they were twenty or so years ago, are actually selling really well.

Studios have all but abandoned physical media, at least as far as library titles go. Some studios, like Paramount, still re-release their classics through labels like Paramount Presents, but for many companies, these titles are an afterthought, even for their biggest movies.

El 2023 toca a su fin, y la plataforma española presenta su iVoox Rewind con los audios y listas más populares en España y Latinoamérica de 2023. Además, por primera vez los oyentes pueden echar la vista atrás y sorprenderse con el tiempo que han pasado escuchando durante el año, y como venía siendo habitual en ediciones anteriores también ofrecen un resumen personalizado para creadores con los hitos de su podcast.

El podcast se sigue consolidando como alternativa de aprendizaje y entretenimiento para cada vez más gente, y 2023 ha sido un gran año para el podcasting donde iVoox acumula más de 800M de escuchas, más de 17M de episodios publicados y más de 330.000 nuevos podcasts, de los cuales 115.000 son en español.

Por su parte, los oyentes han interactuado con sus podcasts favoritos con más de 7M de comentarios, más de 4M de me gusta, 7,6M de suscripciones, más de 500.000 listas seguidas y...