Joe Russo

John Carpenter famously admitted to writing HALLOWEEN II drunk. Forty-five years later, HALLOWEEN II is still a beloved horror sequel. That’s how fucking good John Carpenter is.

Oopy, goopy vigilante fun, CLAYFACE delivers on the promise of bringing squirm-worthy horror to James Gunn’s DC universe in the BEST comic book movie since SUPERGIRL. No tricks, just a Halloween treat.

RIP, Tom Skerritt. A top gun talent.

Carved a pumpkin of a guy who’s seen THE EXORCIST 167 times and it keeps getting funnier every single time he sees it!

Three years ago today, the BloodList script that helped launch my writing career, SOUL MATES, hit theaters… against Taylor Swift. lol. Fall in love with it on Tubi !!

Not trolling: Thirty-five years later and ERNEST SCARED STUPID is STILL a FIVE STAR Halloween movie. Know what I mean?

By Friday evening, I’d already seen WHALEFALL, STREET FIGHTER, THE DEVILS *and* YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING. Catch up slackers.

NO CONNING: THIS IS THE BEST DOCUMENTARY I’VE EVER SEEN.

Absolutely insane that 2026’s most indicting movie about America’s current religious-fascist state was produced fifty-five years ago. THE DEVILS isn’t just pure cinema. It’s immediate, timely and an incredibly bold announcement from WB’s new label, Clockwork.

I was worried STREET FIGHTER was going to be dumb. And it is. But it also KNOWS it’s dumb. And fully embraces it. It packs a punch of infectious fun and anyone who disagrees can street fight me.

Hey Fighters, the Streets are calling THIS the BEST video game movie since Zach Cregger’s RESIDENT EVIL! #MortalCombat

Like nothing you’ve ever seen before, WHALEFALL is why we go to the movies. Get swallowed in theaters.

Unlike all you Carrie White losers who binged it in a day, I — a cool, Chris Hargensen-type with a robust social calendar — took a week to savor Mike Flanagan’s CARRIE. It’s beautiful and so modern and relevant, it’s scary. Every generation deserves to have its own CARRIE.

You can’t reason with a headless man. Halloween 2026 Carving #3

If you’ve finished all eight episodes of Mike Flanagan’s CARRIE already, I genuinely think you must have nothing going on in your life and are as big a loser as Carrie White and you deserve to have pig’s blood dumped on you.

It’s kind of incredible that the last movie ever released by Warner Bros. before being gobbled up by billionaires was a satire about billionaires *trying* to force the world to bend to their will.

Heaven just gained another Saint. RIP to the best Hitchcock Blonde, Eva Marie Saint.

I just want MAGA people to have food on the table, a roof over their head and healthcare. As a Californian, they want me dead.

Words aren’t enough: This is what MAGA wants for LA.

I can only imagine all the bros who made their entire personality for the last year “David Ellison is going to fire James Gunn and reinstate Zack Snyder to run DC” are drinking heavily right now.

Hollywood magic still exists. Your script can land your top choice to star. You can work with dream producers. Bidding wars can still happen. And all that’s made even more special because you get to make a studio movie with your best friend from film school. LFG, LGF.

M. Night Shyamalan's REMAIN is the culmination of his last decade of work - work he's paid for himself, mind you - and this self-professed "interesting chef" has been searching for the exact right ingredients. He found them here. It's his best work since SIGNS and THE VILLAGE.

My mother asked if my latest pumpkin carving was a samurai…

Chris Hansen in the theater watching Primetime:

Caught A24’s PRIMETIME at the Opening Night of Beyond Fest with over a thousand sickos and, listen up, perverts: this is one apex predator of a movie you’re gonna want to catch.

“Welcome to Primetime, bitch.”

The financing in the Paramount / Warner Bros. deal feels about as strong as superglue and popsicle sticks.

On the eve of his debut feature’s 20th Anniversary, FLYBOYS star David Ellison now owns both Paramount AND Warner Bros.

“Paramount had settled with the states.” —Bloomberg

The first Fall 2026 carving. It begins.

In this house, we celebrate National Pepperoni Pizza Day.

In the script for RESIDENT EVIL, Zach Cregger and Shay Hatten literally write: EVERYONE WHO’S PLAYED THE GAMES WILL JIZZ THEIR PANTS HERE. And the people who played RE did in fact jizz their pants so much it made $100m in three days. Only tourists say it’s RE in name only.

No drama, but Julianne Moore gives the BEST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR in THE DEBUT, which filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg screened last night for “all the most important people in LA that weren’t at TIFF.” In fact you could say: this movie is my new obsession.

Raves for I PLAY ROCKY coming out of TIFF. Looks like you can (green) book it at The Oscars.

Rewatched the #1 movie on HBO Max and confirmed that loud, insecure chuds aren’t good arbiters of quality. SUPERGIRL isn’t just a “good movie”, it’s the best comic book movie of the year — but some of you still aren’t ready for THAT conversation.

Rewatched the #1 movie on HBO Max and confirmed that loud, insecure chuds aren’t good arbiters of quality. SUPERGIRL isn’t just a “good movie”, it’s the best comic book movie of the year — but some of you still aren’t ready for THAT conversation.

On top where she always belonged. Eat it, incels.

THANK GOD FOR ZACH CREGGER. HORROR WAS SO OVER. NO ONE LIKED HORROR OR WATCHED HORROR. NO HORROR MADE MONEY. NOW HORROR IS NOT JUST BACK — HORROR IS SO ZACH.

“I didn’t vote for Donald Trump, I’m an independent.”

Recession Indicator: George Lucas has movie stars working staff gigs at his new museum.

As *probably* one of their most successful alumni: I really wish ASU film would prioritize teaching storytelling over pushing students into the latest content bubble.