Gen Z takes a lot of heat for the current apathy toward mainstream movies that divide audiences and fail at the box office. But it’s not their fault… We’ve had some box office dynamite this year, with audiences flocking to see Deadpool’s latest outing and the Xenomorphs up to their old tricks again. Generally, though, […]
Is Cinema On Its Last Legs?
After some notable big-budget bombs, is the big screen experience on its last legs? Remember Barbenheimer? It felt like a shot of adrenaline that could reinvigorate a struggling big screen industry with audiences preferring to catch films on streaming. Had you been asked about your expectations for the success of a three-hour biopic of Oppenheimer […]
The Cult Film of 2023: Saltburn
It’s time to look back at the dazzling, stylish and shocking cult film Saltburn (spoilers follow)… 2023 was a pretty interesting year in cinema. It may just be that we saw a turning point in audience tastes, with comic book films and franchise sequels mostly underperforming, whilst the grand success of Barbenheimer showed two things. […]
Ranking the Major Best Picture Contenders for the 2024 Oscars
EJ Moreno looks at films heading for the 2024 Oscars… As we enter the New Year and the 2024 award season begins, the contenders for Best Picture are starting to take shape. While anything can happen from now to the Oscars in March, we have over ten films that most likely play a part in […]
Barry Keoghan recalls the infamous Saltburn ending: “It’s ownership. This is my place”
Spoilers ahead for Saltburn, but if you’ve been on the internet this weekend, you’ve heard all about the ending of Saltburn. As the twisted Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) lies, cheats, and steals his way into owning Saltburn, he takes a stroll around his new house. After slurping up bodily fluids and making love to graves, […]
Saltburn director Emerald Fennell looks back at her cancelled Zatanna movie for DC
Emerald Fennell has joined the long list of filmmakers once attached to a DC project that will never see the light of day. We initially reported back in 2021 that the Saltburn writer/director was set to pen a Zantanna movie that would’ve fallen under the Dark Universe banner for DC. As we know, James Gunn […]
Exclusive Interview – Saltburn composer Anthony Willis
To celebrate the release of Saltburn we spoke with composer Anthony Willis about re-teaming with Promising Young Woman director Emerald Fennell for the film’s score. He discussed marrying the mid 2000s setting with a more classical gothic sound and some of the influences behind the musical themes. Firstly, congratulations on Saltburn it went down very […]
Exclusive Interview – Emerald Fennell talks Saltburn
At the 59th Chicago International Film Festival, writer/director Emerald Fennell’s twisted and depraved dark social class comedy Saltburn (the follow-up to her phenomenally sharp rape-revenge social commentary thriller Promising Young Woman that won her an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay) was selected as the centerpiece, with Fennell receiving an honorary tribute and the festival’s Visionary […]
Barry Keoghan enters a world of privilege and desire in trailer for Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn
Academy Award winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) takes us to a beautifully wicked world of privilege and desire in her sophomore feature Saltburn, which has just a dropped its first full trailer. Starring the white-hot Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin) and Jacob Elordi (Euphoria) in a story about a student at Oxford […]
First trailer for Saltburn teases debauchery and a scheming Barry Keoghan
Filmmaker Emerald Fennell is following up her Academy Award-winning film Promising Young Woman with another challenging dark comedic drama. If the first trailer for Saltburn is anything like the full film, viewers are in for a debaucherous and devious film filled with some of the hottest actors working today. Leading the pack is Barry Keoghan […]
