This post contains spoilers for "Five Nights at Freddy's."
It's been nearly a decade since it was announced that a film adaptation of "Five Nights at Freddy's" was coming our way, and for fans who have been there since the beginning, it's hard to accept that it's finally here. The first "Five Nights at Freddy's" game launched in 2014, and has since become a pop culture phenomenon. Considering we no longer have a monoculture (outside of "Star Wars" and some superhero properties), it might be hard for non-fans to understand just how huge the fandom truly is. Trust and believe — the "FNaF" fandom rivals any group with a cute nickname but with a hell of a lot more fan art. People have been theorizing and dissecting every last crumb of promotional material for months, but now, it's time to finally step inside Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, "a magical place for kids and grown-ups alike,...
It's been nearly a decade since it was announced that a film adaptation of "Five Nights at Freddy's" was coming our way, and for fans who have been there since the beginning, it's hard to accept that it's finally here. The first "Five Nights at Freddy's" game launched in 2014, and has since become a pop culture phenomenon. Considering we no longer have a monoculture (outside of "Star Wars" and some superhero properties), it might be hard for non-fans to understand just how huge the fandom truly is. Trust and believe — the "FNaF" fandom rivals any group with a cute nickname but with a hell of a lot more fan art. People have been theorizing and dissecting every last crumb of promotional material for months, but now, it's time to finally step inside Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, "a magical place for kids and grown-ups alike,...
- 10/27/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
The latest horror film from Blumhouse concerns a security guard tasked with safeguarding a long-shuttered family-themed pizza restaurant whose giant animatronic animal characters spring to life and go on murderous rampages.
And that’s the most credible element of the story.
Based on, what else, a hugely successful video game franchise, Five Nights at Freddy’s, premiering simultaneously in theaters and on Peacock, never quite figures out what it wants to be. It seems to be aiming for cult status, but isn’t nearly transgressive enough to achieve it. It promises a gore fest, but keeps the violence sanitized enough to secure a PG-13 rating. And rather than expand on the sort of mayhem contained in the video game experience, it provides a tragic backstory that seeks to provide emotional depth but instead just slows the proceedings to a crawl. The ultimate result is a snooze.
Beaten to the big-screen...
And that’s the most credible element of the story.
Based on, what else, a hugely successful video game franchise, Five Nights at Freddy’s, premiering simultaneously in theaters and on Peacock, never quite figures out what it wants to be. It seems to be aiming for cult status, but isn’t nearly transgressive enough to achieve it. It promises a gore fest, but keeps the violence sanitized enough to secure a PG-13 rating. And rather than expand on the sort of mayhem contained in the video game experience, it provides a tragic backstory that seeks to provide emotional depth but instead just slows the proceedings to a crawl. The ultimate result is a snooze.
Beaten to the big-screen...
- 10/26/2023
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
shot piecemeal between July 2018 and April of the following year, Adam Leon’s “Italian Studies” may be set along (and expertly stolen from) the crowded sidewalks of London and New York, but it’s unmistakably suffused with the woozy dislocation and “we have to make something” life-force of a Covid film. No one is wearing masks or social distancing in the heat of lower Manhattan on a summer afternoon, yet Leon’s heroine — a successful author played by Vanessa Kirby at a time just before people on the street would recognize her as one of the gutsiest actresses of her generation, or as anyone at all — is lost in a fugue state that vividly reflects the isolation and uncertainty of the last 18 months.
Alina Reynolds (Kirby) can’t tell if she’s in crisis, or if she’s just confused. She can’t tell if she remembers the world around...
Alina Reynolds (Kirby) can’t tell if she’s in crisis, or if she’s just confused. She can’t tell if she remembers the world around...
- 6/13/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
You know what everyone could use in the sweltering summer months? A nice, cold glass of…anime. At least that’s the particular theme that comes up in Netflix’s list of new releases for June 2021.
Netflix has been quietly expanding their anime offerings for awhile now but June is a particularly anime-heavy month. The absolutely metal sounding Record of Ragnarok arrives this month. So too do parts 1 and 2 of the newest Sailor Moon film on June 3 and Godzilla Singular Point on June 24.
Read more TV Yasuke Review: Netflix Anime Reclaims The Story of a Black Samurai By Caroline Cao TV Anime For Beginners: Best Genres and Series to Watch By Daniel Kurland
But for those who aren’t ready to dip their toe in the anime pool yet, Netflix has some other originals of note in June. Sweet Tooth, the ambitious comic adaptation starring Will Forte premieres on June 4. Then,...
Netflix has been quietly expanding their anime offerings for awhile now but June is a particularly anime-heavy month. The absolutely metal sounding Record of Ragnarok arrives this month. So too do parts 1 and 2 of the newest Sailor Moon film on June 3 and Godzilla Singular Point on June 24.
Read more TV Yasuke Review: Netflix Anime Reclaims The Story of a Black Samurai By Caroline Cao TV Anime For Beginners: Best Genres and Series to Watch By Daniel Kurland
But for those who aren’t ready to dip their toe in the anime pool yet, Netflix has some other originals of note in June. Sweet Tooth, the ambitious comic adaptation starring Will Forte premieres on June 4. Then,...
- 5/31/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
A superstar by all definitions of the word, Hwang Jung-min was last seen in tv drama back in 2012 in the severely underperforming political drama “Hanbando” aka “Korean Peninsula”. So below expectations did “Hanbando” perform that the initially planned 24 episodes run had to be shortened to 18 and the actor shied away from other tv projects since.
But that is all to change in December, 2020, with the airing of “Hush”, a new drama set in the world of journalism which sees Hwang Jung-min play Han Joon-hyeok, a ‘stagnant’ reporter. For 12 years, Han Joon-hyeok, who dreams of becoming a journalist seeking justice and truth, has been a reporter whose passion is hotter than anyone else’s but cools down faster than anyone else in the face of a reality filled with compromise and lies.
The actor claims he chose “Hush” because “I felt a strong attraction when I saw the script, a realistic and unique material,...
But that is all to change in December, 2020, with the airing of “Hush”, a new drama set in the world of journalism which sees Hwang Jung-min play Han Joon-hyeok, a ‘stagnant’ reporter. For 12 years, Han Joon-hyeok, who dreams of becoming a journalist seeking justice and truth, has been a reporter whose passion is hotter than anyone else’s but cools down faster than anyone else in the face of a reality filled with compromise and lies.
The actor claims he chose “Hush” because “I felt a strong attraction when I saw the script, a realistic and unique material,...
- 10/17/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
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