Germain Lussier

Writer-director Matthew Vaughn is well known for turning giving franchises a good kick in the ass. He did that with a movie literally called Kick-Ass, but also by rebooting the X-Men franchise with First Class, and updating the spy franchise with Kingsman. In between, Vaughn has been attached to, or at least contemplated, working on just about every other major franchise out there but his idea for one in particular would cause wild fan outrage. Or, at least, one would assume. Way back in around…

One of Disney’s darkest shows may soon get a live-action revival. James Wan, the man who helped reinvent horror with Saw and Insidious (and made the mega-blockbusters Furious 7 and Aquaman) is teaming up with frequent collaborator Gary Dauberman to turn the 1990s Disney cartoon Gargoyles into a live-action series for Disney+. According to the Hollywood Reporter, which broke the story, Dauberman will act as showrunner, writer, and executive producer with Wan, as part of his Atomic Monster compan…

It’s October, which basically means it’s Halloween, which basically means it’s Thanksgiving, which basically means it’s Christmas. So yes, it’s Christmas time, and that means it’s also time to pick out the geekiest holiday ornaments Hallmark has in store for 2023. Every year the team at Hallmark goes all out on pop culture, hitting mega-popular franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek with dozens of new designs, but also lots of deeper cuts from smaller properties or random ones from newer stuff…

Over the decades, few film debates have endured as much as Demolition Man’s three seashells. The weird, seemingly throwaway detail in the 1993 film starring Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock, and Wesley Snipes has long been a point of contention among fans and now we can at least put one aspect of that debate to bed: where, exactly, that detail came from. To briefly recap, Demolition Man (which was released 30 years ago this week, actually) is about a 1996 cop (Stallone) who is frozen and rean…

So this is a little odd. Over the weekend, I saw a new TV spot for The Marvels and was struck by something: it was almost completely devoid of Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris), both of whom were massive, massive parts of the previous two trailers released for the film. Instead, this clip focused heavily on Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), making it very clear this movie is a sequel to Captain Marvel while mostly ignoring its connections to the Disney+ shows Ms. Marvel a…

When you think “Casper” you think friendly. You think animation. Maybe you even think of Devon Sawa and Christina Ricci. What you don’t think of is actually being scared, but maybe that’ll change after you watch this trailer. Toronto-based filmmaker Jared Pelletier has created a proof-of-concept trailer that imagines Casper, the friendly ghost, as the being at the center of an A24-type horror movie. Talk to Me, Hereditary, Midsommar, imagine that kind of vibe, but with Casper. The idea is to ta…

Whether it’s sinking the Titanic, inventing new technology to make Avatar, or making VFX history with Terminator 2, filmmaking is never easy for James Cameron. Almost every film he makes raises the bar in some way, usually with wildly successful results. And yet, when that happens no one making the movie is ever really in danger—except for Cameron himself on his third film, The Abyss, which at the time was his most ambitious. Cameron appeared at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles, CA Wednesday after a…

We may not ever see the end of Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman series on film, but his next movie looks like it fits right in. This February, the man who directed Kingsman, Kick-Ass, Layer Cake, and X-Men: First Class returns with his latest spy film, Argylle, and the trailer has to be seen to be believed. Seriously. If you don’t know what this movie is about, watch this trailer and we’re sure the smile on your face will grow bigger and bigger. And not only because with each scene, a new mega-star is…

My biggest problem with The Creator is that it didn’t make me cry. That seems like an odd thing to say, I understand, but let me explain. You see, I’m a softie. The kind of person who cries rewatching their favorite movies for the 500th time. Sometimes the nostalgia just hits me so hard, I can’t help but tear up. The same goes for sappy movies. Give me a happy or touching moment, accented by the right music and editing, and there’s a good chance the waterworks are coming. Now, it’s not like al…

45 years ago next month, movies were changed forever by a man in a white William Shatner mask. John Carpenter’s Halloween was released in October 1978 and shifted independent film and horror forever, introducing the world to Michael Myers and setting the stage for decades of similarly supernatural killers like Freddy, Jason, and Chucky. To celebrate, “Halloween: 45 Years of Terror” will be taking place in Pasadena, CA this weekend (get info and tickets here), with all manner of Michael Myers go…