Nick Schager

United States

Entertainment Critic at The Daily Beast

Entertainment Critic @thedailybeast / @beastobsessed Member: @nyfcc, @TheNSFC, @CriticsChoice, @ofcs Endlessly opinionated

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‘Bring Her Back’ Is the Resurrection Nightmare That Will Haunt Your Dreams

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Nick Schager

As in their ferocious Talk to Me, the dead haunt the living in Danny and Michael Philippou’s Bring Her Back. However, whereas the sibling directors’ debut was concerned with communion, their sophomore effort, in theaters May 30, revolves around resurrection—a feat that requires some serious monstrousness.
The Resurrection Nightmare That Will Haunt Your Dreams

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Nick Schager

As in their ferocious Talk to Me, the dead haunt the living in Danny and Michael Philippou’s Bring Her Back. However, whereas the sibling directors’ debut was concerned with communion, their sophomore effort, in theaters May 30, revolves around resurrection—a feat that requires some serious monstrousness.
‘Succession’ Creator Eviscerates Corrupt Elon Musk Tech Bros

2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Nick Schager

Four chummy tech titans take their self-anointed status as masters of the universe all-too-seriously in Mountainhead, the directorial debut of Succession creator Jesse Armstrong. Still fascinated with the psychological make-up of the ultra-rich and influential, Armstrong segues from the newsroom to a remote snowbound getaway where megalomania begets schemes that threaten the planet and aim to consolidate global power in the hands of a select few.
These Prom Queen Wannabes Keep Getting Murdered at the Dance

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Nick Schager

Netflix’s gimmicky Fear Street trilogy was a minor sensation when it debuted in the summer of 2021, but its cultural footprint is zero because the films were, in the final tally, hackneyed rehashes that neither scared nor amused. Four years later, the streamer attempts to resurrect the brand (based on R.L. Stine‘s novels) with Fear Street: Prom Queen, a stand-alone feature premiering May 23 that mimics and remixes innumerable superior efforts to fatally formulaic ends.
This Indiana Jones Knock-Off Is Just Plain Embarrassing

2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Nick Schager

As proven by everything from his breakthrough Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels to his recent Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Guy Ritchie loves stories about cocky wisea-- rogues who assemble ragtag teams for heists, schemes and quests. That fixation continues with Fountain of Youth.
These Prom Queen Wannabes Keep Getting Murdered at the Dance

2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Nick Schager

Netflix’s gimmicky Fear Street trilogy was a minor sensation when it debuted in the summer of 2021, but its cultural footprint is zero because the films were, in the final tally, hackneyed rehashes that neither scared nor amused. Four years later, the streamer attempts to resurrect the brand (based on R.L. Stine‘s novels) with Fear Street: Prom Queen, a stand-alone feature premiering May 23 that mimics and remixes innumerable superior efforts to fatally formulaic ends.
Everyone Should Be Embarrassed About This Indiana Jones Knock-Off

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Nick Schager

As proven by everything from his breakthrough Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels to his recent Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Guy Ritchie loves stories about cocky wisea-- rogues who assemble ragtag teams for heists, schemes and quests. That fixation continues with Fountain of Youth.
Netflix’s ‘Sirens’ Will Be Your Summer Beach Read TV Obsession

2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Nick Schager

Sirens is the latest in what’s become a long streaming-service line of glamorous beach-read melodramas. Like its predecessors, the series is at once enthralled with, and disgusted by, the well-off, whose lives are full of bizarre customs, unnatural social dynamics, and deep dark secrets that speak to their (supposed) malevolence.
‘Lilo & Stitch’ Is Finally a Disney Remake That Isn’t a Total Travesty

2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Nick Schager

The Disney remake machine is an insatiable beast that will ultimately consume every one of the studio’s animated classics and regurgitate it as a live-action copy. While such efforts have to date been uneven (to say the least), the fact remains that, in aiming for rigid fidelity over novel flights of fancy, they are doomed, by definition, to be no better than pale imitations of their superior forefathers.
In the picture | In the picture | thenews.com.pk

2 weeks ago | thenews.com.pk | Nick Schager

Starring: Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Justin Cornwell,Timothy Olyphant, Yeo Yann Yann, Quelin Sepulveda and Forest WhitakerDirection by: Gareth EvansHavoc is a perfect title for Gareth Evans’ latest extravaganza, whose stock in trade is merciless, concussive chaos.