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Exploring Irish Horror Films for St. Patrick's Day
Horror fans will pull out a movie from the Leprechaun franchise to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but that can get old after a few years. There are so many more great scary movies that build on the mystical folklore of Ireland without relying on misinterpreted cultural tropes. I'm talking about movies made in Ireland, movies made by Irish people, and movies that give us a real insight into the culture without making a mockery of it. You think leprechauns can be scary? How about a changeling? Ancient Irish vampires? The Red Caps? Or the terrifying control of the Catholic church? The A.V. Club has culled the best of Irish horror in a list of 12 movies that will scare the daylights out of you, with a description and trailer for each. Let's be honest, looking for new horror films to watch shouldn't be limited to one day. But you have time to pull up at least one of the 12 Irish horror films on this list to watch on St. Patrick's day, and you'll still have eleven more to watch in the weeks ahead.
Our First Look at The Crow
People who haven't seen the 1994 movie The Crow mainly remember it because lead actor Brandon Lee died in a firearms accident while shooting the film. Those who have seen it are wildly divided on whether it was the best movie ever made or the worst movie ever made. Its three sequels are universally considered dreck. So what kind of expectations does that set up for the 2024 remake? Today we have the first trailer for The Crow. More than ten years in the making, the new movie will star Bill Skarsgård as the Crow. FKA twigs and Danny Huston are his co-stars. Will it be different from the 1994 film? Yes. Will it be better? That's hard to tell from the trailer. The only thing that is perfectly clear is that it will be full of truly graphic violence. The Crow will open nationwide on June 7.-via Geeks are Sexy
Oppenheimer Reigns at the Academy Awards
The movie Oppenheimer went into the 96th Academy Awards with 13 nominations, and took home seven Oscars, including those for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey, Jr.), Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing. Poor Things had a great evening as well, with an Oscar for Emma Stone as Best Actress, plus Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Production Design. The Zone of Interest won Best International Feature Film, as well as Best Sound, and 20 Days in Mariupol won Best Documentary Feature. Even Godzilla got an Oscar, with Godzilla Minus One taking Best Visual Effects. Killers of the Flower Moon, despite ten nominations and a bunch of Golden Globe awards, won no Oscars at all. Barbie, with eight nominations, won only the Best Song award, for “What Was I Made For?” The movie had two nominations in that category. The other song was "I'm Just Ken," which didn't win but was performed by Ryan Gosling in a thoroughly pink production number at the awards ceremony.
The Intense Trailer for the Fallout TV Series
We've been playing Fallout in its various incarnations on our computers and game consoles since 1997, and now that universe is finally coming to TV! The TV series Fallout has been in development since Amazon bought it in 2020. the premise is that earth was devastated by nuclear war, and the lucky ones went into underground bunkers to ride it out. For 200 years. What's that world like after all that time? It's not civilized. Follow Vault-dweller Lucy as she explores the earth above, and encounters the survivors who hate her, want to use her, and maybe a friend or two. All eight episodes of Fallout will drop on April 11 on Amazon Prime video. -via Geeks Are Sexy
What Order to Watch the King Kong/Godzilla Films
They call it the MonsterVerse: the Legendary Pictures/Warner Bros. Godzilla and King Kong franchise that was launched in 2014. It may be hard to keep them straight, especially with the Toho-produced Godzilla Minus One that is not included in the MonsterVerse. Neither is the TV show Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Neither are the several dozen Godzilla movies -and King King movies- produced before 2014. But that still leaves six monster movies to catch up on. If you are going to see all six, in what order should you see them? SlashFilm says they are best of you watch them in chronological order by release date, with one exception. This order is:Godzilla (2014) Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023) Kong: Skull Island (2017) Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) Godzilla vs Kong (2021) Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)Why should you watch Monarch: Legacy of Monsters so early in your binge-watching weekend? The justification is explained in deep detail at SlashFilm.
An Honest Trailer for No Country for Old Men
I always had a hard time distinguishing No Country for Old Men from There Will Be Blood, because they were both violent movies that came out in 2007 that I never saw. No Country for Old Men is the one by the Coen brothers that starred Javier Bardem as the big bad. Oh yeah, and it also won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. While Bardem as Anton Chigurh sucked up all the promotional material for the movie, it also starred Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Kelly Macdonald, and Woody Harrelson. The film was a big hit, but it was so tense and intimidating that it would take a special kind of movie fan to watch it twice. Screen Junkies did, and they bring us a refreshing Honest Trailer that takes the terror down a notch by pointing out the cliches, tropes, and contradictions in No Country For Old Men that the audience missed because they were cringing in their seats.
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