Tag: comedy

VAMPIRE ZOMBIES... FROM SPACE! The Retro Sci-fi Horror Comedy Invasion is Coming January 20th!

Dracula has devised his most dastardly plan yet, turning the residents of the small town of Marlow into his personal army of vampire zombies! A motley crew consisting of a grizzled detective, a skeptical rookie cop, a chain-smoking greaser, and a determined young woman band together to save the world.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Universal Monsters with New 4K UHDs

Four comedy/horror classics come to 4K from Kino Lorber, plus new 4K horror releases of 'Dead of Night,' 'Scars of Night,' and 'The Cat and the Canary' (!!!!)

THEY WILL KILL YOU Official Trailer: New Horror Comedy From WHY WON'T YOU DIE? Director, Kirill Sokolov

The official trailer for the horror comedy They Will Kill You, the new film from Kirill Sokolov (Why Won't You Die?) has arrived, and you need to check it out. Just like Sokolov's breakout feature film and festival fave from...

Now Streaming: MARSHMALLOW, Deeper Than It Looks

Also debuting this week: strangeness in 'A Desert' on Shudder, Sydney Sweeney in 'Americana' on Starz.

FYC 2025: Daddy Issues in HAMNET, TRAIN DREAMS, JAY KELLY

For your consideration: Of absent fathers, grief, shame, and forgiveness in three notable films.

ANACONDA Review: Jack Black & Paul Rudd's Meta Take On A ClaSSSSic

A quartet of loveable losers strike out into the Amazon jungle in a foolhardy attempt to reboot a ‘90s creature feature classic in director Tom Gormican’s meta narrative comedy, Anaconda. Ron (Paul Rudd) is an actor whose career isn’t turning...

Friday One Sheet: The Best Posters of 2025

Welcome to the final Friday One Sheet column of the year.  Like 2025 cinema, it was a great year for quality, but without too much thematic cohesion, so I will keep the text short and sweet. Presented in no...

Playback: Park Chan-wook, Pushed to the Limit, from JOINT SECURITY AREA to NO OTHER CHOICE

Park Chan-wook studies how vengeance and obsession can narrow the mind, reducing problems to a single, violent answer. The Korean director returns to characters consumed by the promise of moral clarity. Park is perhaps best known for his exacting compositions...

FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER Review: Very Slight, Very Familiar, Very Jarmusch

Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat star in Jim Jarmusch's new film.

Opening This Week: ANACONDA Bites, NO OTHER CHOICE Hunts Jobs, THE PLAGUE Plunges Into Terror

Plus: 'The Testament of Ann Lee,' 'Marty Supreme,' 'Song Sung Blue,' 'The Choral.'

ELLA MCCAY Review: James L. Brooks' First Film in 15 Years Flounders, Stumbles, Flops

Emma Mackey stars, supported by Albert Brooks, Ayo Edebiri, James Lowden, Jamie Lee Curtis, Julie Kavner, Kumail Nanjiani, Rebecca Hall, Spike Fearn, and Woody Harrelson.

Tallinn 2025 Review: NO COMMENT Finds Marital Comedy in a Political Crisis

Norwegian director Petter Næss turns to political satire to explore how a marital crisis intersects with the machinery of contemporary governance.

HIS GIRL FRIDAY 4K Review: Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell Wage One Battle After Another

Directed by Howard Hawks, Criterion's new 2-disc edition includes Lewis Milestone's 'The Front Page,' making for easy comparison between original and remake.

READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME Poster & Trailer Debut: Samara Weaving Returns in Horror Comedy Sequel

Samara Weaving returns as Grace the doomed bride in Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, the sequel to Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett's 2019 hit horror comedy, Ready or Not. The poster and first trailer debuted earlier today. Check them both out...

Now Playing: ETERNITY Romance, HAMNET Grief, WAKE UP DEAD MAN Mystery

Plus: 'Zootopia 2' from Disney, and 'The Thing With Feathers,' coming Friday.

ETERNITY Review: Shockingly Charming Afterlife Love Story That Shouldn't Work, But Does

Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner, John Early and Da'Vine Joy Randolph star in director David Freyne's film.

Now Streaming: GOOD BOY, SANGRE DEL TORO, TRAIN DREAMS

Plus: 'After the Hunt' and 'The Roses.'

THE RED SPECTACLES Review: Mamoru Oshii's Absurdist Take on Authoritarianism Gets a Second Life

Memory hardens around those who experience violence, turning guilt or pain into an armor they must carry long after the wounds close. That burden is the doorway into Mamoru Oshii's The Red Spectacles, a film where guilt materializes as a...

RENTAL FAMILY Review: Brendan Fraser Delivers Another Unimpeachably Winning Performance

Sometime in the 1990s, rental agencies in Japan spontaneously formed around the singular idea of renting people — or to be more exact, renting their time — to act as stand-ins, role-players, and/or performers in everyday events, from marriages to funerals...