“I always thought the only alien in this high school was me.” In 1985, John Hughes set a template for high school archetypes in his classic film The Breakfast Club. The brain, the athlete, the basket case, the princess and the criminal became part of our collective consciousness while expanding ideas of adolescent identity. But […]
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Oh, balls. After concluding June with discussions of the wacky space antics (and commando drag queens) of Leprechaun 4: In Space (listen) and the underseen-but-very-good trans vampire film Bit (listen), we’re heading into grindhouse cinema with Robert Rodriguez‘s first half of the Grindhouse double-bill: Planet Terror (2007)! In the film, an experimental bio-weapon is released that turns the […]
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Grindhouse is one of the most influential box office failures of the 21st century. Despite grossing a paltry $25.4 million at the box office on a budget of around $60 million, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s 2007 love letter to exploitation cinema has managed to spawn four spin-off movies — Machete, Machete Kills, Hobo with […]
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After being released in theaters earlier this month, the Robert Rodriguez-directed action thriller Hypnotic has been released on Digital platforms at home today, May 30, 2023. The Ben Affleck thriller is now available on Digital on all major streaming platforms. Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Robert Rodriguez forgoes his usual playfulness and […]
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Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez broke out in the ‘90s with pulpy action thrillers and horror hits Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn. The premise for his latest, Hypnotic, suggests a return to his early works in attitude and scale. Instead, Rodriguez forgoes his usual playfulness and sense of rebellious fun in favor of a Christopher Nolan-like mind-bender, complete with an overly serious […]
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Up next from Robert Rodriguez is the action thriller Hypnotic, which stars Ben Affleck and will be releasing on 2,000 screens here in the United States by Ketchup Entertainment. You can expect the film in theaters on May 12, 2023. Watch the official trailer for Hypnotic below. In the film, “Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective […]
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Up next from Robert Rodriguez is the action thriller Hypnotic, and Deadline reports today that the film – which was previewed at SXSW – will be releasing in theaters this coming May. Ben Affleck stars in Hypnotic, which will be released on 2,000 screens here in the United States by Ketchup Entertainment. You can expect […]
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We’re not aliens, we’re discontent. For the final installment of this season’s Randy’s Recs, which finds the Halloweenies dissecting a film that inspired the Scream franchise, the gang heads to Ohio. No, not Springwood, but the small town of Herrington, where young Midwestern teens are having close encounters with the third kind. The only way […]
His story is only beginning. Teased in the Season 2 finale of “The Mandalorian,” Boba Fett is getting his own spinoff solo series with “The Book of Boba Fett,” and it’s coming to Disney+ on December 29! When we last saw Boba Fett, played by the returning Temuera Morrison, he had invaded Jabba the Hutt’s […]
Nostalgia is a curious thing, especially when it comes to film. Multi-media empires have been built on filmmakers revamping the entertainment of their youth for new audiences, but it’s extremely difficult for modern productions to capture the spirit of older movies without turning into exaggerated parodies. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, and […]
Robert Rodriguez is a genre friend who has directed everything from the vampire classic From Dusk till Dawn to The Faculty, Sin City, Grindhouse, and Machete, and even produced Predators. The Austin-based filmmaker clearly had a relationship with Fox in the past, but has now inked a first-look deal HBO and HBO Max, reports Deadline. […]
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez collab From Dusk Till Dawn, a true mashup of styles from two of the coolest filmmakers out there. The 1996 vampire film notably put the big screen spotlight on a young George Clooney, who starred alongside Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Salma Hayek and of course, Tom Savini. From Dusk Till Dawn spawned two […]