Jim Vorel

Decatur

Staff Writer at Paste

Staff writer @PasteMagazine. Crotchety elder millennial. Writer of craft beer, spirits, B-movie, and food-related geekery. Century of Terror author, google it!

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Articles

Nonnas Has Just Enough Sauce (and Cheese) for its Dramedy

6 days ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. When a film is as determined to set its emotional and nostalgic hooks in you as Netflix’s Nonnas, there’s really no reason to beat around the bush–you might as well begin your film with an all-out aesthetic assault on the senses (and the visual taste buds).
Finally, We Bury the Warrens in the First Trailer for The Conjuring: Last Rites

6 days ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

It’s finally to finally let some old spirits lie mouldering in their graves: Nine films and more than a decade into what we’ve taken to calling the “Conjuring cinematic universe,” following the original release of James Wan’s The Conjuring in 2013, the main series will finally come to a close with September’s The Conjuring: Last Rights.
This Materialists Trailer Is the Most '90s Thing We've Seen Since the 1990s

6 days ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

Hit play on the new trailer for Celine Song’s Materialists below, and tell us the first thing that stands out to you about it. No, your ears are not deceiving you. That is indeed an omniscient narrator voice, unexpectedly barging into the trailer for the A24 romantic comedy in the first three seconds, to intone “In the world of matchmaking … no one plays the game better than Lucy.”Romantic comedy trailer voiceover? In 2025? With an opening phrase that is almost “IN A WORLD…”?
Watch the Skies Is a Heartfelt Nordic Ode to Spielbergian Sci-Fi

1 week ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

As Watch the Skies glides into a limited engagement in select AMC Theatres locations this weekend, it would be interesting to know precisely what percentage of its audience is aware of the fact that the film was originally released in its native Swedish, in 2022, as UFO Sweden.
Margaret Qualley Tangles with Chris Evans in First Trailer for Ethan Coen's Honey Don't!

1 week ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

It’s always good to see a Coen brother at work, even if the iconic directorial duo isn’t working together at the moment. The last film from the Coen Bros. as a unit remains 2018 Netflix western anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, at which point they’ve diverged to pursue some of their own projects.
Clown in a Cornfield Delivers on its Title, And Little Else

1 week ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

A title like Clown in a Cornfield would seem to portend one of two things, to a wizened genre geek. The most likely possibility is that we’re talking about a zero budget, sub-Asylum tier piece of dreck intended solely for a streaming market where it’s hoping to rope in a few curious viewers who can’t resist a saucy title, ultimately gathering dust next to other quasi-features like Zoombies or Amityville in Space.
Spike Lee and Denzel Reunite in First Teaser for Apple TV+ Feature Highest 2 Lowest

1 week ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

The new Spike Lee joint–the first for the iconic, formerly more prolific director in the last five years–looks to recapture some of the filmmaker’s classic mojo by reuniting Spike with one of his muses, in the form of Denzel Washington.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy at 20: Filming the Unfilmable Comedy

2 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

The reasons for a property to be considered unadaptable or “unfilmable” are capable of being just as specific, eclectic and difficult to pin down as the rationales behind why any given person loves or hates a specific piece of art, but this is likely particularly true when it comes to the work of author Douglas Adams.
Dwayne Johnson Finally Disappears Into a Role in First Trailer for The Smashing Machine

2 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

For as long as pro wrestling icon-turned-actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has been acting in Hollywood, he’s been dogged by the same shade of complaint: That he has perpetually played one-note characters getting by on the performer’s well-honed charisma, all of whom are essentially extensions of his already existing persona. This has been the case through countless blockbusters in the vein of Skyscraper, or franchises like the Fast & Furious saga, and even his voiceover work as Maui in Moana.
Eli Craig on the Generational Culture Clash of New Slasher Clown in a Cornfield

2 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

The perennial clash between kids (by which we mean teens) and adults has always been the stuff of horror movie fodder, particularly in the slasher genre. Go all the way back to John Carpenter’s Halloween in 1978, and how helpful exactly are the most prominent adult figures? Laurie Strode’s parents are in the film for about 10 seconds. Her friend Annie Brackett’s father is the sheriff, and that doesn’t stop her from being murdered by Michael Myers.