Tag: Jason Blum
Interview: Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
Whiplash receives a 10th Anniversary re-release - reissued with a new 4K DCP via Sony Pictures Classics and coming directly from a showcase at...
Dashcam | Review
Arrhythmia of the Night: Savage Triumphs with Delightfully Bizarre Socio-Horror
There’s an art to successful presentations of unlikeable characters, further complicated when a protagonist is...
Freaky [Video Review]
The Killer Inside Me: Landon Continues Recycled Tropes for Latest Buffet of Thrills and Kills
Director Christopher Landon, now a revered alum at Blumhouse Productions...
The Craft: Legacy [Video Review]
Magic, the Gathering: Lister-Jones Misplaces a Mythos with Missed Opportunity Sequel
There’s no inherently proper way to engage in genre, which is what makes the...
Nocturne | Review
Faustabout: Quirke Dances with the Devil in Moody, Familiar Debut
Satan might be one of the most prolific talent scouts in this realm or any...
Evil Eye | Review
Lover Come Back: The Dassani Brothers Explore Obsessive Love Through Genre Veil
For their feature film debut Evil Eye, brothers Elan and Rajeev Dassani straddle...
Black Box | Review
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die: Osei-Kuffour Explores Emotional Resonance in Savvy Medical Thriller
Horror and science-fiction have often been stomping grounds for exploring fantastic ideas...
The Lie | Review
Where Is It?: Sud Mines the Ethical Decay of the Privileged in Familiar but Fashionable Debut
Resorting to a continual, if varied tradition of remaking...
The Hunt | Review
The Most Capitalist Game: Zobel Skewers Class Consciousness with Ribald Satire
Social satire is perhaps the only conducive way to narratively navigate the ills...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Justin Simien’s Bad Hair, David Bruckner’s The Night House & Bill Benz’s The Nowhere Inn in Midnight Section
Last year's Midnight section gave us Greener Grass, The Lodge and Sweetheart. In 2020, it appears that the section is more "worldly" with four...
Ma | Review
Misery Loves Company: Spencer Reigns Supreme in Bizarre Portrait of Madness
“Hell hath no fury like a (black) woman scorned,” could have been a...
Us | Review
Seeing Double: Peele Turns his Camera on Us
In the best possible way, Us feels like a Jordan Peele movie -- his sophomore feature offers...
J.D. Dillard’s Sweetheart | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Seeing that he signed up for Sweetheart not that long after Sleight had premiered at Sundance in 2016, we now understand why the Blumhouse...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #29. J.D. Dillard’s Sweetheart
Sweetheart
2019 should be a considerable leap year for J.D. Dillard, as both his sophomore film Sweetheart and the project he co-wrote in Joe Sill's Stray...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #45. Jacob Estes’ Relive
Relive
In his previous pair, Jacob Estes worked narratives that overlapped in genres and that featured dissension within group, so while he has patched together a rather...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #81. J.D. Dillard – Sweetheart
The only J.D. Dillard related news to drop in 2018 was that he co-wrote Joe Sill’s directorial debut project Stray. Another tight-lipped Blumhouse production...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #64. Jacob Estes – Only You
Jacob Estes could be making it a Sundance trifecta with Mean Creek (2004) and The Details (2011) being joined Only You - a horror, sci-fi, thriller that...
Halloween | Review
To Grandmother’s House We Go: Green Succeeds with Obedient Resurrection of the Carpenter Classic
The original tagline for John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic Halloween, which...
West Wants Revenge; “In a Valley of Violence” Lassoes Travolta & Hawke
Set about half a century after Kelly Reichardt's wagon wilderness Meek's Cutoff, Ti West is switching gears. A planned move away from the comfort...