Ever since he was a little boy, Cameron Cade wanted to be the quarterback of the San Antonio Saviors. He remembers him and his dad watching the Super Bowl back in the day, when their star quarterback, Isiah White (Marlon Wayans), led the team to a last-minute victory before sustaining …
Read More »Marlon Wayans Plays an Ultra-Intense Football Coach in Dark 'Him' Trailer
“What are you willing to sacrifice?” Marlon Wayans repeats hauntingly in the new Him teaser, which dropped on Friday. The two-minute teaser for the Jordan Peele–produced film follows Isaiah White (Wayans) training a quarterback, Cameron Cade (Tyriq Withers), as he pushes him to stardom regardless of the cost. “If you …
Read More »Jordan Peele's Fourth Film Appears to Be Set for 2026
Jordan Peele appears to have landed on a release date for his next horror flick: Oct. 23, 2026, according to a Monday social media post. The project marks Peele’s fourth feature film as a director, just in time for spooky season. A cast, synopsis, and other details have been yet …
Read More »'There Were Punches I Didn't Want to Pull': Why Dev Patel Needed to Make 'Monkey Man'
All Dev Patel knew was: The man was wearing a rubber monkey mask. Past that, everything else was a mystery. The 33-year-old actor had this image stuck in his head. There’s a young man, sweaty and battered, standing in a crude wrestling ring located in what Patel excitedly describes as …
Read More »'Monkey Man': Welcome to the Action-Movie Pantheon, Dev Patel
Revenge, we’re constantly told, is a dish best served cold — unless you’re a modern genre-flick fanatic, in which case you need payback to be served piping hot and preferably moving at 120 mph. Monkey Man is, on the surface, a fairly simple tale of vengeance: Man has vendetta. Man …
Read More »Dev Patel Goes On a Vengeful Rampage In Directorial Debut With First 'Monkey Man' Trailer
Dev Patel‘s directorial debut comes in the form of a bloody, violent revenge story as he punches his way through hoards of bad guys in the first trailer for his upcoming film Monkey Man. Jordan Peele is producing the movie through his production company Monkeypaw, and the movie is set …
Read More »Liam Neeson Turned Down 'Atlanta' Cameo — Until Jordan Peele Helped Donald Glover Convince Him
Coming back from admitting to having a deeply unsettling racist revenge fantasy is something Liam Neeson had to figure out in real-time in 2019. Two months after issuing an apology for sharing a story about carrying a weapon while seeking out “some ‘black bastard’” after a female friend was raped, …
Read More »Why 'The Black Guy Dies First' in Horror Movies
When there is a Black principal actor in a scary movie, we all know what their fate entails. Enter Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman and vet movie critic Mark H. Harris, who have made it their duty to hunt down the controversial cultural schisms in horror cinema from 1968 on …
Read More »'Wendell & Wild' Finally Gives Us a Key & Peele Reunion! (Sort Of)
Let’s lead with the good news first: Key and Peele are back! Kind of. The sketch comedy duo who once gave us the greatest college-football roll calls of all time, and repeatedly mentioned that Liam Neesons (plural) were their jam, have briefly reunited in the name of giving future Goth …
Read More »Jordan Peele's 'Nope' Is Now Streaming Online — Here's Where You Can Watch It
It’s not a bad miracle that Jordan Peele’s sci-fi horror spectacle is finally available to watch at home, with Nope now on VOD rental streaming platforms with never-before-seen deleted scenes. Nope, written and directed by Peele was one of the must-see movies this summer, and marks the filmmaker’s third feature …
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