Adam Wingard
To a certain degree, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has let itself go. Plot and character development are forgotten in lieu of effects and titan battles, and it sometimes works just fine. Though, when it tries to clasp to the remaining dregs of audience sympathy manipulation and world building it teeters toward collapse.
Godzilla vs. Kong Review: Attack of the Titans (Again)
Attack of the Titans delivers kaiju-on-kaiju spectacle in overabundance.
The Curse of the Blair Witch Continues
The defeated directors' commentary track on the new Blair Witch Blu-ray tells a very different story than the hopeful, feature length making-of doc on that same disc.
Blair Witch: Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett Interview
We speak with Blair Witch writer Simon Barrett and director Adam Wingard about respectfully updating one of the most popular horror films of all time.
TIFF 2016: Blair Witch Review
Blair Witch TIFF 2016 Review.
Outcast: 5 Things We Love About Robert Kirkman’s New TV Series
Outcast is premium mythology based horror, driven by characters and spiced up with just enough pulp to get away with any tropes it has to employ.
Home Entertainment Review: The Guest
The Guest (Adam Winguard, 2014) – The genre-loving writer/director team of Simon Barrett and Adam Wingard have gradually been easing themselves into the status of the best horror filmmakers of their generation. The Guest only confirms that title, while also pushing their style into other genres. Their partnership started with the brutal serial killer move […]
The Guest Review
The Guest is a genre mashing blast from start to finish.
Interview: Some Guests from The Guest
We talk to director Adam Wingard, writer Simon Barrett, and actors Dan Stevens and Maika Monroe about their work together on The Guest.
CONTEST: See THE GUEST in TORONTO!
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Contest: See The Guest!
Enter for a chance to see an advance screening of The Guest in Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver.
TIFF 2014: The Guest Review
The Guest Midnight Madness Possibly the most fun film at this year’s festival, this unabashedly hilarious and thrilling mash-up of spy flicks and 80s slashers from director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett, the minds behind previous TIFF crowd pleaser, You’re Next. Dan Stevens stars as David, an amiable and polite soldier just out of […]
TIFF 2014 Interview: Colin Geddes
It’s a sweltering late July afternoon, but I’m still sitting down over a cup of warm tea at Canteen in the lobby of the TIFF Bell Lightbox and talking to Colin Geddes the day after most of his choices for the heavily watched and buzzed about Midnight Madness and Vanguard sections had been announced. (Really […]
Interview: E.L. Katz
We talk to E.L. Katz, director of the black comedy Cheap Thrills about why he made this is first film as a director, how he second guesses himself more as a writer, why the opening of the film is almost purposefully slow, the art of escalation, how his two leads essentially became method actors, why the set was physically uncomfortable to be on, and what it’s like trying to create “a human cockfight.”
The Dork Shelf Guide to Halloween in Toronto
We take a look at some of the best goings on in Toronto this Halloween from movies, to TV, to theatre, and one really kick ass party. And we might have some surprises in store... if you dare.