The Cinema Spot

After the breakthrough of Oddity in 2024, the horror community eagerly anticipated what Irish genre filmmaker Damian McCarthy would do next. And here he is with his first sizeable studio release, Hokum, a movie that fits well within the “elevated horror” tropes of shrouding the entire thing in mystery during its marketing campaign and asking audiences to dis...

An action-comedy film with hints of horror, led by Samara Weaving and Jason Segel, produced by David Leitch and Kelly McCormick’s 87North Productions along with Karen Gillan, written by two dudes whose work was posted on CollegeHumor’s (now rebranded as Dropout) website, and directed by one-third of The Lonely Island comedy trio. Altogether, these ingredients should comprise ...

What if your daughter were a mummy? This is the question that Irish filmmaker Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground, Evil Dead Rise) dares to ask in his take on The Mummy. This is mostly in jest, as the film has more going on under the hood than that, but it does point to the larger trend of classic horror movies as more intimate family affairs that th...

Sometimes, all you need to rekindle your passion for filmmaking is actor and producer Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad, Fargo Season 1, Nobody, Better Call Saul, The Bear, Nobody 2) with a gun, almost ten years after the release of your best film. Such is the case with Ben Wheatley, whose post-Free Fire career was…um…ba...

The sun-drenched countryside of Tuscany isn’t a bad place to find oneself when life feels directionless. In Kat Coiro (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 13, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law), executive producer Ryan Engle, and associate producer Kristin Engle’s charming and upbeat romantic comedy, You, Me & Tuscany, Halle Bailey’s Anna embarks o...