By Long before she became a filmmaker, Mary Bronstein developed an interest in therapy and what they call “the talking cure.” Psychology is what she got her master’s in prior to attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; and in her second feature as a writer-director, the cryptically titled If I
Predator: Badlands Producer Defends PG-13 Rating
The Predator franchise is built on blood, violence, and ugly mf’ers. That’s why every movie in the franchise, from the 1988 original to the animated film Predator: Killer of Killers has had the same rating: a hard and well-deserved “R.” But that’s going to change with the latest entry. The
STRANGE JOURNEY Is a Sweet If Insubstantial Time Warp Through Rocky Horror History
There’s really no way to overstate the mark that The Rocky Horror Picture Show, now fifty years old, has made on the psyches of generations of queer people. I personally first saw the film alone in my room when I was thirteen, finally losing my shadowcast virginity a few years
Marvel Fans Defend Their Favorite “Unpopular” MCU Movies
Every Marvel fan has that one hill they’ll die on, even if everyone else disagrees with them. Recently, subreddit r/Marvel went up the same hill and ended up putting a rather positive spin on some of the more “unpopular” MCU movies. The thread in question ultimately became a bit of
“There’s Blood Everywhere”: The Wild Audition That Sealed Scarface
Michelle Pfeiffer has recently opened up about a pivotal moment in her career: during her audition for Scarface, she unintentionally injured Al Pacino, and it may have been the moment that convinced him she was right for the role of Elvira Hancock in the 1983 classic. Appearing on the SmartLess
