Brett Simmons’ You Might Be The Killer is not Cabin In The Woods 2.0, but that doesn’t stop stay-up-late genre manipulation from scoring uptempo playground thrills. Remember Fran Kranz? Drew Goddard’s lovable cabin stoner with an extendable, collapsing bong? Travel seven years into our future (from the 2011 release), and he’s lambasting horror norms once […]
Tag: Fantastic
Fantastic Fest Day 2: ‘Border’ is a Beautifully Executed Bad Idea, ‘Apostle’ Delivers Vicious Thrills, and ‘One Cut of the Dead’ is the Best Zombie Comedy in Years
(Welcome to The Fantastic Fest Diaries, where we will be chronicling every single movie we see at the United States’ largest genre film festival.) Welcome to Fantastic Fest, day two. In this diary entry: a deranged stop-motion allegory, an unpredictable thriller from the writer of Let the Right One In, a new horror movie from The […]
Superhero Bits: The Defenders Facebook Page Rebranded, Iron Fist References Fantastic Four & More
What happened to The Defenders Facebook page? Would you like to see Matt Bomer as Superman? Why was the “Fuck Batman” line put into the Titans trailer? How did Brie Larson react to her own Captain Marvel figure? Did you catch the cool Fantastic Four Easter egg in Iron Fist season 2? Want to see […]
Michael Giacchino Directed a Short Film Starring Patton Oswalt and Ben Schwartz That is Playing at Fantastic Fest
Michael Giacchino has made a name for himself as one of Hollywood’s hardest working film composers, and maybe he can add hardest-working director to his resume. The Oscar-winning composer of Up will finally make his directorial debut with a short film that will be playing at this month’s Fantastic Fest in Austin. Giacchino’s first short film, Monster […]
Move Over, Porgs: Baby Nifflers Are Coming to ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’
Star Wars: The Last Jedi introduced us to one of the most adorable creatures in pop culture with the little island-dwelling birds known as porgs. But when there’s a franchise with the title Fantastic Beasts, the battle for cutest fantasy creature isn’t an easy one, and that’s especially true with the inclusion of baby Nifflers […]
Daily Podcast: Comic-Con 2018: Aquaman, Shazam, Wonder Woman 1984, Godzilla 2, Fantastic Beasts 2, and The LEGO Movie 2
On the July 22, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film Managing Editor Jacob Hall, Weekend Editor Brad Oman, and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about everything that happened during the Warner Bros. panel during San Diego Comic-Con 2018. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it). […]
'Russia will put a fantastic show on, just like Sochi' – Arsenal and England legend Sol Campbell
Legendary England and Arsenal footballer Sol Campbell has visited Russia ahead of this summer’s 2018 World Cup and has already got acquainted with some of the country’s most famous faces, past and present. On a visit to Volgograd, where England will play Tunisia on June 18 at Volgograd Arena, Campbell was snapped with Russian literary […]
Superhero Bits: Fantastic Four Returns to Marvel Comics, Death of Superman Clip & More
Will there be a fifth season of Gotham? Want to see clips from the upcoming animated movies The Death of Superman and Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay? Are you ready for Fantastic Four to return to Marvel Comics? Was Sean Penn ever offered the role of The Joker in The Dark Knight? Who is playing […]
Exclusive: Find All the Easter Eggs at Ape Meets Girl & Vance Kelly’s Fantastic New Art Show
Hero Complex Gallery is doing spring the right way with the kind of Easter egg hunt that cinephiles like you and me enjoy the most. Artists Ape Meets Girl (AKA Kevin M. Wilson) and Vance Kelly are teaming up for a special gallery show called Easter Eggs, and if you’re familiar with their artwork, like the […]
VR headsets have become the new arthouse—the best of SXSW’s fantastic VR festival
After roughly three years of commercial viability, virtual reality seems to have excelled within a different realm than the one I typically wonder about: the film festival. Events like Sundance, Tribeca, and South By Southwest already overflow with weird, not-quite-accessible films about real-world drama, emotions, and nonsensical stories. And today, the only venue that fits […]