Image: Warner Bros./DC Comics This year’s Sundance film festival featured the documentary Super/Man, which chronicles the late Christopher Reeve, who played the DC character from 1978-1987. With how beloved the actor’s take on Superman was for a certain generation, it’s no surprise that studios are trying to snatch it up, and it may have found … Read more
Earlier in io9’s 2024 Sundance Film Festival coverage, we reviewed In a Violent Nature, one of the most unconventional slasher movies ever made. That theme continues with Handling the Undead—a most unusual zombie movie, and one that offers proof (yet again) that the genre still has the ability to innovate. Does Mali Elfman Believe in … Read more
A modern folk horror tale that draws upon Australia’s troubled history to enhance its monstrous elements, The Moogai also includes an exploration of postpartum depression. Unfortunately, its one-dimensional plot ultimately detracts from the elements that make it an otherwise unique story. Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror Movie It’s rare to see a … Read more
Malia Obama is making her Sundance Film Festival debut and red carpet debut all at once! Malia, 25, directed the short film The Heart, which premiered at the Park City, Utah-based film fest as part of the U.S. short fiction films programming block. The young writer-director — who is also the eldest daughter of Barack … Read more