https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU854_5itOk&feature=youtu.be Netflix just released a teaser trailer for their upcoming limited drama series The Queen’s Gambit, starring Anya Taylor-Joy as a chess prodigy battling addiction in the 1950s. Everything about this brief 30-second preview has me constantly refreshing the streaming service to see if I can add it to my queue yet. Based on the novel by Watler Tevis, the series follows Beth Harmon (Taylor-Joy), who was abandoned at a young age and grew up in a Kentucky orphanage. There, she discovers she has an incredible …
If there's one well that horror writers just love turning to for inspiration, again and again, it's the terrors of parenting. Last year was a banner year for the parental anxiety brand of horror, with films like Hereditary and A Quiet Place (not to mention Netflix's incredible Haunting of Hill House series) finding inspired new ways to explore the well-traversed subject matter. But when it comes to the most popular brand of parental nightmares, there's no doubt that the evil child subgenre reigns supreme. The latest in the long (long) line of bad seed movies, …
Sure, the Super Bowl is the main entertainment attraction on this Sunday, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start looking ahead to the week of movies.
I love a good horror gimmick. The genre has always been a home to hucksterism and it's always a thrill when a movie gets that flourish of good old fashioned promotion right. Leave it to the good folks at Fons PR to put together something as bonkers as a private pregnant-only screening of The Prodigy, hosted at the Alamo Drafthouse (home of the women-only screening of Wonder Woman and the clown-only screening of IT). Orion Picture's maternal horror movie The Prodigy stars Taylor Schilling as Sarah, mother to a young son who starts exhibiting signs …