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From ‘Annabelle’ to Chucky: How horror became summer’s hot ticket

April 30, 2019 at 11:14 a.m.

Why so scary, summer? From creepy dolls to water-borne predators to more mysterious and murderous frights, horror is heading to multiplexes in a big way this season. No longer relegated...

Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’: 11 surprising influences behind the horror hit

March 31, 2019 at 10:51 a.m.

Like Adelaide Wilson, the heroine of “Us,” Jordan Peele was a wide-eyed kid poring over all things pop culture in the 1980s, when everything from scary movies to Michael Jackson’s...

The ending of ‘Us’: Jordan Peele on who the real villains are

March 28, 2019 at 10:05 a.m.

If you were among the scores of moviegoers who helped push “Us” to a record-breaking $71.1 million debut over the weekend, then now you know: The real villains in Jordan...

Jackie van Beek, left, and Madeleine Sami wrote, directed and star in the unconventional rom-com "The Breaker Upperers."

Meet the female Kiwi comedy duo killing rom-com cliches in Netflix’s ‘The Breaker Upperers’

March 18, 2019 at 2:43 p.m.

For New Zealander comedy collaborators Madeleine Sami and Jackie Van Beek, it all started with an idea, a friendship, and one magical ingredient: Celine Dion. Van Beek was making coffee...

"Us" writer-director Jordan Peele, left, with stars Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke: "I wanted to make a movie that allows everybody to face their demons."

This is ‘Us’: Jordan Peele’s follow-up to ‘Get Out’ holds a mirror up to America, again

March 15, 2019 at 9:24 a.m.

The Sunken Place was just the beginning. In “Us,” the monsters Jordan Peele wants his audience to confront are right there in the mirror — glaring straight back. While our...

"Captain Marvel" co-directors (and co-writers) Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.

‘Captain Marvel’ directors bring feminism, the ’90s to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

March 5, 2019 at 8:29 a.m.

Directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck had a lot of fun pouring a dizzying array of zippy zingers and sci-fi action into “Captain Marvel,” the 1990s-set Marvel Cinematic Universe prequel...

Director M. Night Shyamalan is seen in his office at Blinding Edge Pictures in Media, PA.

M. Night Shyamalan strikes back … again … now with his own cinematic universe

January 11, 2019 at 9:40 a.m.

The ultimate M. Night Shyamalan twist was one no one saw coming. After scoring a critical and commercial breakthrough with 1999’s Oscar-nominated “The Sixth Sense,” Shyamalan had more than his...

In environmentally conscious ‘Aquaman,’ the villain has a point

December 23, 2018 at 1:05 p.m.

In Warner Bros.’ “Aquaman,” the titular comic book superhero, Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa), seeks to unite the world while his villainous half-brother, King Orm (Patrick Wilson), crusades to keep it...

"Mary Queen of Scots: director Josie Rourke, right, and stars Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie, far left.

In ‘Mary Queen of Scots,’ a modern feminist spin on the frenemy queens who fought to rule Europe

December 11, 2018 at 7:39 a.m.

From the moment she became queen of Scotland at 6 days old, the world never stopped scrutinizing Mary Stuart’s every move — or pitting her against Elizabeth I of England,...

"Venom" brings together Tom Hardy and Riz Ahmed for Sony's new Marvel super-antihero movie.

‘Venom’ stars Tom Hardy and Riz Ahmed inhabit a superhero saga for our dark times

December 12, 2018 at 3:50 a.m.

In Sony’s Marvel action standalone “Venom” they battle it out as super-enemies over the fate of humanity as we know it. Last week in Beverly Hills, stars Tom Hardy and...

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