Jack Giroux

Los Angeles

Writer at /Film

Interviewer at High Times

Incompetent writer for The Film Stage + Film School Rejects + DVD Talk

Articles

Interview: CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD Author Adam Cesare on the Power of YA Horror

1 week ago | dailydead.com | Jack Giroux

The kids are not all right in Clown in a Cornfield. Based on Adam Cesare’s bloody breeze of a book, which spawned a trilogy, the horror comedy goes big on kills and laughs. Behind all the carnage, though, there’s a John Hughes-esque respect for the teens, the heroes in Clown in a Cornfield. The problem isn’t “kids today.” It’s adults today.
Interview: ROSARIO Director Felipe Vargas Returns Home For His Feature Debut

1 week ago | dailydead.com | Jack Giroux

Felipe Vargas roams free with Rosario. Although the lean, 88-minute horror movie is set largely in one location, the camera moves with the sort of calculated recklessness and relentlessness akin to an early Sam Raimi picture. It’s no surprise The Evil Dead, both the original and remake, were an influence for Vargas.
From Script to Scream: Stephanie Allain on Producing Blumhouse's Latest Nightmare, "The Woman in the Yard"

3 weeks ago | motionpictures.org | Jack Giroux

| Stephanie Allain is a trailblazing producer.
From Wings to Stars: Gersha Phillips on Redesigning Captain America

2 months ago | motionpictures.org | Jack Giroux

Costume Designer, Featured Story, Movies Gersha Phillips is no stranger to the kind of immediately recognizable costumes that tell a viewer immediately what world she’s in, like the intergalactic looks and Starfleet designs she crafted for the recent Star Trek feature Section 31 and the Star Trekseries Discovery and Strange New Worlds. Skewing to the realism side of the closet, Phillips has designed the duds for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 and director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s historical epic...
"Captain America: Brave New World" Composer Laura Karpman Crews a New Beat for a New Cap

2 months ago | motionpictures.org | Jack Giroux

Composer, Featured Story, Interviews, Movies The Academy Award-nominated composer Laura Karpman is now a consistent voice in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She scored Ms. Marvel, The Marvels, and What If?
Interview with THE MONKEY Cinematographer Nico Aguilar

2 months ago | dailydead.com | Jack Giroux

For a movie with a lot of blood and guts, The Monkey is full of life. Through filmmaker Oz Perkins and cinematographer Nico Aguilar’s eyes, the world is bright. Greens are lush. Houses are full of color, time, and history. Even the titular monkey is a bright light to the eyes. Death looms large over the James Wan-produced Stephen King adaptation, but so do vibrant color and joy.
Live Review of Sunset Blvd. in New York

2 months ago | musicconnection.com | Jack Giroux

St. James Theatre New York, NYContact: [email protected]: sunsetblvdbroadway.comPlayers: Nicole Scherzinger; Andrew Lloyd Webber, composerNicole Scherzinger’s latest work is her finest hour to date. The Pussycat Dolls singer and X-Factor host has been a Broadway sensation for months now, thanks to her moving performance in the latest vision of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Blvd.
Interview: HEART EYES Cinematographer Stephen Murphy is All For Blood and Guts

2 months ago | dailydead.com | Jack Giroux

Heart Eyes is a winning romance and a killer slice of slasher movie fun. Not an easy balance to pull off. The team behind the hit—which made even more money in its second weekend at the box office—succeeded with sincerity. Not for a second do genres clash in the hands of director Josh Ruben and cinematographer Stephen Murphy. Murphy is a seasoned pro behind the camera, having shot excellent episodes of Atlanta and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Live Review of Hell's Kitchen

2 months ago | musicconnection.com | Jack Giroux

Shubert Theatre New York, NYContact: [email protected]: hellskitchen.comPlayers: Maleah Joi Moon, Kecia LewisJukebox musicals are a tricky beast. Too many shows deliver the hits but lack enough narrative drive and juice to make classics truly sing in a theater setting.
Interview: Osgood Perkins Sings a Bloody Pop Tune with THE MONKEY

2 months ago | dailydead.com | Jack Giroux

Osgood Perkins is proud of the fact that The Monkey isn’t Longlegs 2.0. The Stephen King adaptation goes hard and macabre for belly laughs. The premise is inherently funny – wind up a toy monkey, people die – and Perkins doubles and triples down on that fact whenever and wherever he can. For the filmmaker, the key to consistency these days is variety.