Jim Vorel

Decatur

Movies Editor at Paste

Movies editor @PasteMagazine. Crotchety elder millennial. Writer of booze, B-movie, horror and food-related geekery. Century of Terror author, google it!

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Articles

Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell Embark on Trailer for A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

4 days ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

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The 50 Best Movie Deaths of All Time

1 week ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. For as long as we’ve depicted narratives on film, we’ve been killing human beings in movies. Not literally, of course–fear not, because you haven’t stumbled upon a list of prominent snuff films here.
Mountainhead Serves up Ice Cold Tech Bro Satire

1 week ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

For years, writer-director Jesse Armstrong made us privy to the back-room dealings and familial drama of the Roy clan on HBO’s Succession, drawing us in almost against our will to a place of empathy for an assembly of ultra wealthy people who fell somewhere on a spectrum between “embarrassing” and “detestable.” In his new HBO Max feature film Mountainhead, which was conceived, filmed and released in rapid succession since the start of 2025 for maximum timeliness, Armstrong returns to the same...
Senior Sleuths Are on the Case in First Trailer for Netflix's The Thursday Murder Club

1 week ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

Septuagenarian sleuths, assemble: Netflix has unveiled the first teaser trailer for would-be senior blockbuster entertainment, the murder mystery The Thursday Murder Club. Sporting an extremely impressive ensemble cast of well-seasoned Hollywood performers, and directed by none other than … Chris Columbus? … one gets the sense that Netflix is really trying to tap a major, unexploited market for older streaming audiences on this one.
Tornado Is an Attractive Thriller That Reaches Too Hard for Genre Cred

1 week ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

It’s interesting how a filmmaking choice that imbues a movie with instantly gripping tension can also, simultaneously burden the same film with unfortunate baggage later on. Such is the case with Scottish director John Maclean’s attractively made but haphazardly structured and paced Tornado, his sophomore film coming a decade after the similarly lustrous, well-received revisionist western Slow West.
Fear Street: Prom Queen Wears a Flimsy, Plastic Crown

2 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The thing that made Netflix’s 2021 trilogy of Fear Street meta-slasher films unique–beyond the fact that they were all written and directed by Leigh Janiak, only her second (huge) project after the vastly underseen and underappreciated 2014 horror film Honeymoon–was the fact that they were unusually ambitious, both in a narrative and content-warning sense.
Aquatic T-Rexes Terrorize Latest Jurassic World Rebirth Trailer

2 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. After Jurassic World Dominion left a particularly foul taste in the mouths of audiences and critics, one might have hoped that the Jurassic series would lope off for an extended hiatus.
Transcendent Aussie Drama The New Boy Is Sparsely Beautiful

2 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Is it possible to earnestly share one’s faith to someone who has no choice but to listen? If I’m determined to share my religious views with you, it will of course be within your scope of options to simply disregard or disengage.
Maybe Not Every Public Domain Character Needs Their Own Horror Film?

3 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

As Paste’s longtime resident genre geek, it should probably go without saying that I love horror cinema. I also love schlock, whether we’re specifically talking about cheapo, exploitative horror fare or so many other little niches of the film world that qualify on a schlocky front.
Sydney Sweeney Has Money on Her Mind in Trailer for Western Crime Caper Americana

3 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

It sometimes feels that in recent memory, the Coen-esque small town crime thriller or darkly comedic crime caper is a genre that is in some danger of overexposure, but at the same time it’s hard to break away from them entirely. This is a niche with some serious staying power, and they’ve always provided an entertaining way for recognizable performers to “break bad” in particular.