Hollywood Features

Now Playing: THE BRIDE Provokes, DOLLY Drags, HEEL Clicks, HOPPERS Delights

Plus: 'Andre Is an Idiot' and 'I Live Here Now.'

Opening This Week: THE BRIDE! Goes Bold, DOLLY Fights Back, HEEL Rebels

Plus: 'Andre Is an Idiot' and 'Hoppers.'

Now Playing: SCREAM 7 Not So Scary, GHOST ELEPHANTS Not a Myth

Plus: 'Dreams,' 'Micro Budget,' 'Bring the Law,' 'The Napa Boys,' 'EPiC,' 'A Better Tomorrow.'

Opening This Week: SCREAM 7, DREAMS, A BETTER TOMORROW

Plus: 'Ghost Elephants,' 'Microbudget,' 'Bring the Law,' 'The Napa Boys,' 'EPic.'

Now Playing: BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS and Some Other Movies

Spoiler: 'Psycho Killer' is quite awful, and 'How to Make a Killing' is not much better. Plus: 'This Is Not a Test,' 'Redux Redux,' 'The Dreadful' and two 'One Mile' films.

Echoes: How WICK IS PAIN Redefines the Cost of Creation

Wick Is Pain is a 2025 documentary that chronicles the making of all four John Wick films. The journey from an independent film to a billion-dollar franchise is directed by Jeffrey Doe. It details the struggles the independent production endured,...

Opening This Week: PSYCHO KILLER vs. HOW TO MAKE A KILLING

Plus: 'This Is Not a Test,' 'Redux Redux,' 'The Dreadful,' 'One Mile' (both chapters), 'Kokuho.'

Now Playing: BY DESIGN, CRIME 101, GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN DON'T DIE

Also in theaters: 'Wuthering Heights,' 'Cold Storage,' 'The Mortuary Assistant.' Plus, on VOD: 'Broken Bird' and 'Sweetness.'

Echoes: Temet Nosce in THE MATRIX, Why Self-Knowledge Is the Real Red Pill

Nearly three decades after its release, The Matrix remains as relevant as ever, and likely always will be. It's one of my all-time favorite action films. When I first watched it, though, I was captivated less by its philosophy and...

Opening This Week: Indies Dominate, While Luck and Fun Battle Love

'Crime 101,' 'Sweetness,' 'Broken Bird,' 'Cold Storage,' 'By Design,' and 'The Mortuary Assistant' compete with two wide releases.

Now Playing: THE INFINITE HUSK, PILLION, JIMPA, More

Plus: Luc Besson's 'Dracula' and Renny Harlin's 'The Strangers: Chapter 3.'

Opening This Week: Luc Besson's DRACULA, Renny Harlin's THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 3

Plus: Aaron Silverstein's 'The Infinite Husk,' Alexander Skarsgard in 'Pillion,' Olivia Colman and John Lithgow in 'Jimpa.'

Now Playing: SEND HELP, ARCO, SHELTER, BACK TO THE PAST

Plus: 'July Rhapsody,' 'The Love That Remains,' 'Islands,' 'Bitter Rice,' 'The Moment,' 'A Poet.'

Friday One Sheet: CRIME 101, And Character Work

A gritty-glossy (and subtly distressed) series of character posters dropped recently for Bart Layton's (The Imposter) adaptation of Don Winslow's (The Savages) heist potboiler about literal highway robbery, Crime 101, in anticipation of its February release. Framed in ultra close-up,...

Playback: Sam Raimi, Seesaw Inclinations, from THE EVIL DEAD to SEND HELP

We track the director's entire career, starting in horror and quickly embracing all other genres.

Opening This Week: Sam Raimi's SEND HELP, Ann Hui's JULY RHAPSODY, Much More

Plus: 'The Love That Remains,' 'Islands,' 'Shelter,' 'Bitter Rice,' 'The Moment,' 'Arco,' 'Back to the Past,' 'A Poet.'

Now Playing: DOOBA DOOBA, THE WELL, HARD BOILED

Let's start with spoilers: two new, wide-release genre films proved to be disappointments, as the reviews linked below reveal. Bummer! So, let's first focus on two new releases of festival films that we truly enjoyed, as well as a Hong...

Opening This Week: MERCY, RETURN TO SILENT HILL, DOOBA DOOBA, IN COLD LIGHT, THE WELL

Plus: John Woo's classic 'Hard Boiled,' in special limited engagements.

Now Playing: 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE Rules in Blood

Plus: 'Night Patrol,' 'Space/Time,' 'Killer Whale,' 'All You Need Is Kill,' 'A Private Life,' 'Sound of Falling,' 'Maldoror.'

Friday One Sheet: WUTHERING HEIGHTS

After some rather underwhelming key art for Emerald (Saltburn) Fennell's upcoming adaptation of Bronte's cult-lit classic, Wuthering Heights, the character posters come through with a cold and tactile pair of character posters. I have highlighted Margot Robbie's Catherine Earnshaw here...