Jim Vorel

1 week ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

The slasher legacy sequel pipeline is still apparently chock full of new iterations, even after 2022’s surprisingly effective Scream reboot gave us a lasting satire on the shallowness of “requel” culture. Be that as it may, it was never going to stop studios from producing new horror legacy sequels of any film that still has lasting name recognition, and that meant another I Know What You Did Last Summer was always going to be in the cards.

1 week ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

At the nexus between horror cinema and the commercial, capitalistic essence of American day-to-day life, there exists a relatively underexplored subject matter for the genre. We live in a society where the levers of consumer protection–the government agencies and regulators meant to man the walls between order and chaos–can increasingly be moved by the determined application of either the corporate dollar bill or (and this is painfully timely) pure, stark ignorance.

2 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. It’s still rather difficult to believe in general that the long-delayed sequel to Mel Brooks’ classic sci-fi spoof comedy Spaceballs is actually moving forward, but today’s announcements will finally make the project feel a bit more concrete. Some 37 years after the original, we’re set for what will hopefully be another inspired Star Wars parody, with the most unlikely of antagonists returning to the limelight: Rick Moranis.

2 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Happiness is a concept so elemental and basic to the human experience that it can actually be rather difficult to define when we step back far enough to attempt to consider it in the abstract. What does it mean to be happy? Is happiness an ephemeral, fleeting thing, or an underlying state? How does one earn happiness, or deserve to receive it? What are we willing to sacrifice for it?

3 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Jim Vorel

Ever since John McTiernan’s Predator bowled its way into cinemas in 1987 and established its cult-classic action sci-fi credentials against the backdrop of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s rippling musculature, fans of the series have more or less waited for a future entry to deliver on the implication of its simple premise: That the intergalactic species of big game-hunting aliens known as the Yautja–or simply as “predators”–have hunted the most deadly human warriors throughout our entire existence.