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Zach Cregger has a look of horror on his face. He has said something he should not have said. When the writer-director first penned what would become Barbarian, his 2022 Airbnb-set horror movie that turned into a word-of-mouth phenomenon, he was coming off years of work as an actor for …

In her nearly 50-year career, Jamie Lee Curtis says she’s only improvised one single line: “Make good choices.” These are the words her character, Dr. Tess Coleman, yelled out the car window to her daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) in the 2003 body-swap comedy Freaky Friday. That beloved, heavily-memed quote is …

The clock strikes 2:17 a.m., and as if heeding some sort of pied piper’s call, 17 children run away. They just get up out of their beds, flee their houses and, arms outstretched, bolt into the night. No one has a clue as to where these kids went. The only …

“Somewhere in this city, possibly among these people, is a man… so close to the edge that when he breaks, it could change your life forever.” The city is New York at the end of era, poised between being the place that a sitting President implied should “drop dead” and …

Among the locals old enough to remember, it’s known as “the ’97 Massacre”: A handful of deaths at the hands — well, specifically, at the hook — of a killer dubbed “the Fisherman.” There was this incident, see, where four teens were driving back from a summer night at the …

Hailey Freeman, the matriarch at the center of 40 Acres, can take care of herself. You know this even before you get the scoop on who this woman is, where she’s come from, and the people and the land she’s willing to risk life and limb to defend. But just …

You can be an actor who stars in more than 200 movies in your career, with parts ranging from leads to glorified cameos, and yet it’s just one film that people associate with your name for the rest of your natural-born life. And occasionally, the role you’re lucky enough to …

Something’s wrong with Agnes. It’s hard to pinpoint, at first. She’s got a lot going on. Agnes is smart, wicked funny, and, given she’s just been promoted to a full-time English professor at the college where she works, what you might traditionally characterize as successful. It’s the same northeastern liberal …

Horror sequels tend to operate on a rinse-and-repeat cycle: You loved it when Michael/Jason/Freddy/Ghostface/Chuckie did the thing. Now here’s them doing it for the second time. Or the third. Or the 10th. Occasionally, creators get ambitious and/or ridiculous — hey, let’s do a crossover! And then send one of them …

“I mean, this is our culture?” Danny Boyle asks, rhetorically. “Right?” Or maybe he’s not being rhetorical — the British director has a tendency to pose as many questions as he does provide answers during an interview, and seems genuinely interested in having a conversation rather than simply being the …