Those were the days? <p><strong>The Background</strong>: Sarah El-Mahmoud has been with CinemaBlend since 2018, starting as a freelancer shortly after graduating from Cal State Fullerton with a degree in Journalism. In college, she was the Managing Editor of the award-winning college paper, The Daily Titan where she specialized in writing/editing long-form features, profiles and arts &amp; entertainment coverage, including her first run-in with movie reporting, with a phone interview with Guillermo del Toro for Best Picture winner, The Shape of Water.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>What She's Into</strong>: Sarah is CinemaBlend's resident YA enthusiast, often bringing her lifetime love of books and the stories behind their often contentious adaptations to the site. Deeply into when music and movies intersect, from knowing the hype musical tracks of Mamma Mia!, beautiful scores of Michael Giacchino and yes, the absolute banger Twilight soundtrack way too well. She is also passionate about highlighting and interviewing voices within the industry to help open the door for Hollywood to better represent the world through movies and television. Horror, she really loves horror movies. The world of animation as well... OK don't make her pick one genre.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>What She's Excited About Right Now</strong>: The continued resurgence of horror and musicals. The next Hunger Games movie, Mike Flanagan's upcoming shows, the Wicked movies and the final Spider-Verse animated film.&nbsp;</p>

Meet the Spartans made a lot of money despite poor reviews, and is remembered for Carmen Electra wearing nothing but pizza.

Hot on the heels of Gerard Butler's How to Train Your Dragon casting, an excellent choice has been landed for his second in command.

It's pretty darn hard not to be completely charmed by the new sci-fi rom-com Save Yourselves! from writer/director team Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson. Blending the traditional beats of an alien invasion movie and a unique kind of existential dread many Millennials are more than familiar with, Save Yourselves! is ultimately a charming and poignant look at how visitors from another planet will make you realize you're not the center of the universe — and fast. [caption id="attachment_932831" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Bleecker Street[/caption] Save Yourselves! has arguably one of the …

Folks, Edgar Wright does a lot of things. Direct the British sitcom Spaced, for example. Burst, blood-covered, into feature filmmaking with Shaun of the Dead, for another. Crossover between multiple genres while combining distinctive soundtracks, eye-blurring editing, and a whip-crack comedic timing to form a distinctive style, for a third. But what Edgar Wright does not do, in my humblest opinion, is miss. We here at Collider dot com rank the filmographies of our favorite filmmakers—like David Fincher, James Wan, and Guillermo del Toro, for example—because we were all born with the incurable medical defect …

Here's how to beat the mini-boss Oggdo Bogdo on the planet Bogano in Respawn's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, including how to slice his tongue.

Congratulations Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, and Evan Alex...ya played yourselves. And it actually turned out pretty okay: Jordan Peele's doppelgänger horror flick Us carved up $29 million on Friday night, coming in above expectations and headed toward an impressive $67 million+ debut weekend. A bit of perspective on that number — Us' numbers are mightily impressive in the R-rated horror realm, landing among top openers like Andy Muschietti's IT ($123.4 million) and David Gordon Green's Halloween sequel ($76.2 million). But if you're talking an original idea, not a …