It seems that with his recent death, Charles Manson has come back into vogue among purveyors of the horrific aspects of the human psyche. I for one never got the fascination as he was nothing more than a psychopathic racist who used drugs a...
For the past few years, we've all had our speculative science fiction itch scratched by the return and resurgence of Black Mirror and all of the shows it inspired. But despite having a new show with updated visuals and storytelling techniqu...
Chucky has been around for what seems like forever, I remember many a night as a wee child having trouble sleeping because I couldn't stop thinking that Chucky had conspired with my toys to kill me in my sleep. Ever since the original 1988 ...
Today we got a double whammy of looks at the upcoming adaptation of everyone's favorite childhood horror book Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The first bit was the poster that came out and I gotta say they really undersold this one. Ins...
Just last night I was saying to my significant other that it seemed like the Coen brothers had moved into a new phase of their career. We had just concluded watching Hail, Caesar! and a few weeks prior I had rewatched The Ballad of Buster S...
Well well well, look who finally came around to their senses? Going off of a report from Deadline that was confirmed by someone in the Marvel camp, James Gunn is returning to write and direct Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3. Gunn was taken o...
We're nary a month and some change away from the final chapter of Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and in case you lived under a rock for the past year, Marvel wants to make sure you know Endgame is coming with a new trailer. O...
Surprising absolutely no one, Captain Marvel lead the box office in its opening weekend coming in at a strong 153 million dollar take. Whether it be the absolute need for a new Marvel movie after the ending to Infinity War or the strategic ...
Welcome one and all to Flixist's new end of the year awards program, the Golden Cages! With Hollywood becoming increasingly out of touch with what the people like, we at Flixist have taken it upon ourselves to deliver the fair, bala...
Welcome one and all to Flixist's new end of the year awards program, the Golden Cages! With Hollywood becoming increasingly out of touch with what the people like, we at Flixist have taken it upon ourselves to deliver the fair, balance...
Longtime readers of this site will know I've had issues with the biopic genre for a while. I'm a stickler for establishing a theme and feel and following them through the entire movie. The biopic genre a lot of the time seems to forget this...
I'm one that tends to try and go into a movie as blind as possible, most movies have become so predictable at this point that I want any nuance or twists to come to me in the theater when I'm witnessing it for the first time. That being sa...
While myself and fellow Flixist staff member Matthew Razak couldn't understand all the praise lavished on Baby Driver, it's hard to deny that writer-director Edgar Wright is a fantastic filmmaker. His work on the Cornetto Trilogy was a mast...
We all had a metal phase, don't try to deny it. While most of my friends were into thrash and death metal, my late teenage rebellious years drove me towards black metal, more specifically symphonic black metal. Something about the classica...
International movies have the unique ability to share with us stories that we may not know about in easily consumable bites. It's not that every single movie ever released has to tell the story of a nation or peoples past, God knows we don'...
Robert Zemeckis is a storied director with a wonderful reputation for enjoyable and uplifting movies that also contain in them a deeper more personal tale of overcoming adversity. Forest Gump is one of my favorite movies because of its fant...
The post-apocalyptic novel and video game Metro 2033 had an adaptation planned for next year, but now it's dead like all of us in that world. Dmitry Glukhovsky, the original author of the novel series who leased the rights to MGM in 2016 t...
It's Thanksgiving, time for board games, booze, American football, and gluttony. While everyone in America is sitting on the couch processing their gigantic meal, the first trailer for Disney's CGI remake of The Lion King dropped during t...
I've always loved the road trip genre of film, it's such a nice metaphor for character growth and there are usually some very scenic second unit shots that fulfill my wanderlust. There is comfort in these films as they usually all follow th...
Disney is wasting no time with announcing shows for their streaming service that is slated to launch next year. While confirming the rumors that a show based around everyone's favorite bad boy Loki were indeed true, Disney CEO Bob Iger an...
While there was a rumor circulating that a new Super Mario Bros. movie could be coming sometime next decade, today we have proof that an animated movie is indeed in the works. Speaking with Variety, Despicable Me producer and Illumination ...
I think I need to stop doing reviews of biopics for people I love and revere because I go in with too high of expectations for the movie to cover everything about the person and make it an enjoyable filmgoing experience, which is inheren...
I had a sinking feeling this morning as I pulled into the driveway and saw that I had received an email with the subject "Important information about FilmStruck." What awaited me was my greatest fear brought to life. FilmStruck, the stre...
Gerard Butler has found himself in a hot spot again, after saving the world from climate change he's got a new job on board a submarine that uncovers a secret Russian coup that could send the world tumbling into World War III in Lionsgate's...
While this is about as surprising as Michael Myers killing people, Halloween came in at the top of the box office, knocking off Venom which had held the top spot for the past two weeks. Coming in at $77.5 million, this is the best opening w...
The pieces are starting to fall into place for Netflix's The Witcher adaptation. Today it was announced that Freya Allan and Anya Chalotra will portray the roles of Ciri and Yennefer respectively. This comes after it was announced a few w...
Garth Ennis is the best thing that ever came out of the terrible period of comics known as the 90's. There I said it. Yes, there are a few other merits from that decade but Ennis and his writing just embodies so much of the 90's while stil...
Netflix isn't messing around anymore. This awards season they are really trying to shove their success into the faces of the Academy by bringing festival darlings to their platform. The first film from Tamara Jenkins in over a decade, Priva...
DC writers have seemingly been listening to all of the feedback and backlash from their attempts at making a cinematic universe and "mature" TV shows. In the span of less than a minute, Harley Quinn (Big Bang Theory's Kayley Cuoco) and P...
As a lifelong Jersey boy, I have immense pride in my Italian-American heritage. Sure everyone thinks that we're all mobsters who only wear tracksuits and love our mothers to an almost Oedipal level, but there's something so great about t...
Subscription services have been growing in customer reach and quality over the past five years, with the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime bringing great content as well as HBO offering their programming as a standalone service. These sh...
You really have to admire DC's commitment. They shoved a cinematic universe down our throats whether we wanted it or not, they are making no less than four new movies with the Joker in it, and now they are pushing their streaming service ...
Netflix is really trying to get themselves to point where they don't need to rely on licensing agreements for their base product, going so far as to finish famed director Orson Welles' final film for their platform. Now after 40 years in pr...
Casting news continues to pour in for Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Justified's Damon Herriman was cast in a supporting role as Charles Manson, the neighbor of the characters played by Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio. W...
It's been a long nine months since I reported on the upcoming Blu-Ray release of Batman: The Animated Series and ever since then, news about the release has been kinda hush-hush. Yesterday the full details were revealed and let's just say ...
It's hard to admit that something you love is not good, it's an admittance that your beliefs are at the very least misguided, and at worst dead wrong. Seeing as how we are all well-rounded individuals here at Flixist, we are not afraid to t...
It's the middle of summer, everyone is on vacation, Matt included which is why you get my hideous face doing the box office recap. With most of the major summer blockbusters behind us, we are now in that weird part summer where studios r...
I am a staunch defender of the 2014 Godzilla soft-sequel-reboot as a worthy member of the Godzilla family. Sure it wasn't great but for a westernized adaptation of a purely Japanese creation it held onto some of the more subtle themes, su...
Despite the fact that filming on Shazam! wrapped up on May 11th in Toronto, we haven't been able to actually get a good look at anything from the set or any type of promotional materials outside of dodgy fan photos. Thankfully today the fir...
For years Disney has been known for their elaborate attractions and stage shows that run every day at their theme parks. From the mundane such as Pirates of the Caribbean to the explosive Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular, these attra...
