Promising Young Woman (2020)
Emerald Fennell was the director, executive producer, and showrunner for season 2 of the darkly comedic TV show “Killing Eve” and works as an actor, most recently as Camilla Parker Bowles in “The Crown.” ...
Category: Thriller
The Little Things (2021)
The Little Things finds John Lee Hancock directing a mystery-thriller screenplay he’s kicked around for a few decades. The origin of the story began in 1992 after Steven Spielberg had read the script for...
Bad Boys for Life (2020)
Bad Boys 3 has been in the works for over ten years, with the script phase beginning in 2009. Columbia Pictures assigned Peter Craig, co-writer of Ben Affleck’s The Town, for the first pass,...
Parasite (2019)
After two films done primarily in English in 2013’s Snowpiercer and the 2017 Netflix release Okja, Bong Joon-ho returns to purely Korean-language filmmaking for the first time since 2009 with his black comic satire, Parasite, arguably...
Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020)
Birds of Prey is directed by former Wall Street Journal reporter Cathy Yan, who follows up her acclaimed indie film, Dead Pigs. The film is a spin-off from the commercially successful but critically maligned...
Uncut Gems (2019)
Edgy sibling filmmakers Benny and Joshua Safdie had their hearts set on making Uncut Gems shortly after the release of their acclaimed semiautobiographical 2009 dramedy Daddy Long Legs (aka Go Get Some Rosemary). It’s...
Outrageous Fortune (1987)
Although the subgenre had been around almost as long as talkies were, Outrageous Fortune is notable for being the first “buddy comedy” from Hollywood to boast two female actors as the stars. There are...
Knives Out (2019)
Genre-hopping writer-director Rian Johnson has done a neo-noir teen flick in Brick, a family crime dramedy in The Brothers Bloom, a twisty time-travel sci-fi excursion in Looper. More famously, he also ushered in the...
Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989)
Who’s Harry Crumb? is a ridiculous slapstick comedy in the vein of the later Pink Panther films, where most of the laughs come from how sophomoric the makers of the film are willing to go to...
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
The biggest novelty of Curse of the Pink Panther (which was the original title of 1978’s Revenge of the Pink Panther before they changed it) is that it attempts to introduce us to a replacement...