Posts Tagged ‘Leigh Whannell’
Episode 35 – The Invisible Man
For this week’s episode of the podcast, we review Universal‘s reboot of The Invisible Man. We also talk about the 2017 crime thriller, Good Time, starring Robert Pattinson. And there’s a lot of discussion about hand washing. Download episode here.
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Film Review – The Invisible Man (2020)
The Invisible Man (2020) is a terrifically made, terrifying, and smart horror film. Writer/director Leigh Whannell – who last gave us the fantastic Upgrade (2018) – returns with a movie that is an edge of your seat thriller while also delving into issues so timely…
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Film Interview – Leigh Whannell – Upgrade
I was given a chance to speak with writer and director Leigh Whannell about his new film, Upgrade, while he was on a press tour in Dallas, Texas. We touched on the filming effects for Stem, one of the themes of the film, a change…
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Film Review – Upgrade
The opening credits of Upgrade immediately immerse you in the world of its future. A woman speaking the production companies’ names along with sound waves accentuating the speech pattern sets the film apart from all others from the beginning. With Upgrade, writer and director Leigh…
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Double Feature Showdown – The Faculty vs. Cooties
I’m going to be honest with you; I am not a fan of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. (I kind of like the books, but I haven’t read them in about twenty years, so who knows what I think now.) The movies are…
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Film Review – Insidious: Chapter 2
Insidious: Chapter 2 comes off of an original film that, on one hand, had one of the strongest opening halves of a horror film in recent memory, but which also lost a fair amount of steam and its audience’s enthusiasm as it struggled to the…
READ MORETop Horror Films – #12 – Saw
Saw 2004; directed by James Wan; screenplay by Leigh Whannell; story by James Wan and Leigh Whannell Mike: Saw is in my top 5 favorite movies of all time. It’s wonderfully clever while remaining incredibly suspenseful and terrifying at the same time.
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