In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be covering Shane Black’s underappreciated 2018 sequel/reboot, The Predator. The Predator franchise has always walked the line between action and horror, with most of the films being structured like sci-fi slashers where the victims are just badass enough to have a fighting chance. This is obviously a […]
Games will be played at the ongoing SXSW Film Festival and this time, Jigsaw won’t be behind them. Bill Posley sets up the board games with Bitch Ass, a brand new slasher being introduced to audiences at tonight’s World Premiere. Bitch Ass takes place in the late 90s where the title character, played by Tunde […]
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the directing duo known collectively as “The Daniels,” haven’t directed a feature film together since 2016’s Swiss Army Man (review), with Kwan branching off to work on television shows like FX’s Legion and Scheinert directing a feature film on his own in 2019’s The Death of Dick Long (review). Six years […]
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the directing duo known collectively as “The Daniels,” haven’t directed a feature film together since 2016’s Swiss Army Man (review), with Kwan branching off to work on television shows like FX’s Legion and Scheinert directing a feature film on his own in 2019’s The Death of Dick Long (review). Six years […]
Playing at SXSW this month, the Australian horror movie Sissy, written and directed by Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes, has been acquired by Shudder, Variety reports today. Variety notes in their report this afternoon, “Shudder will be the exclusive streamer for the film in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.” “Directors Hannah Barlow and […]
The latest actor to sign on for the Sam Raimi-produced action thriller Boy Kills World is Michelle Dockery (“Downton Abbey”), Deadline is reporting this afternoon. Deadline notes, “Michelle Dockery will play the sister of the film’s Van der Koy family. Melanie is a satirical powerhouse and sociopath who tries to project a powerful cohesive family […]
Aliens are headed to the arctic in the upcoming sci-fi invasion film Slash/Back, and the first clip today gives us our first introduction to the teen heroes doing battle with aliens. In Slash/Back, “Maika and her ragtag friends discover an alien invasion in their tiny arctic hamlet, and it’s up to them to fight back. Utilizing […]
After making over $400 million at the worldwide box office, a sequel to Dune – as planned – is on the way, and we’ve learned that Florence Pugh is in talks for a role in the sequel. Deadline reports that Florence Pugh (Midsommar) is in negotiations to play “Princess Irulan Corrino, the eldest daughter to Emperor […]
“The place stank. A queer, mingled stench that only the ice-buried cabins of an Antarctic camp know, compounded of reeking human sweat, and the heavy, fish-oil stench of melted seal blubber.” -John W. Campbell (as Don A. Stuart) in “Who Goes There?” Imagery like this is just one reason why the story that ultimately became […]
More Kraven the Hunter casting news has arrived this week, with Deadline reporting that Alessandro Nivola (The Many Saints of Newark) will play the villain in Sony’s movie. Alessandro Nivola has also been seen in Face/Off, Jurassic Park III, The Eye (2008), American Hustle, A Most Violent Year, The Neon Demon, and You Were Never […]