On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark honors fringe cinema in the streaming age with midnight movies from any moment in film history. First, the BAIT: a weird genre pick, and why we’re exploring its specific niche right now. Then, …
Tag:
Genre
-
-
IPTV
Crime 101 writer-director Bart Layton reveals his Mount Rushmore of crime genre movies: ‘they’re endlessly brilliant and rewatchable’
Crime 101 is ready to stake its claim for a place in the pantheon of crime films. One of 2026’s crop of new movies, Crime 101, based on Don Winslow’s …
-
Kairo Keyz has taken the long way around. The Croydon rapper has been renowned in UK rap circles for years, and has already seen tracks like “Gang”, “Went Up” and …
-
What Happens in the “Leave The Gun, Take the Cannoli” Scene? In one of the most memorable scenes from The Godfather, Peter Clemenza, a trusted caporegime in the Corleone family, …
-
After more than a decade of impassioned — and often maddeningly semantic — debate over the concept of “elevated horror,” it doesn’t feel like a coincidence that the most exciting new …
-
IPTV
This “captivating” new TV series on Prime Video is a fresh and fun take on the action thriller genre
As titles go, The Assassin is pretty generic. But Prime Video’s new action thriller is a fresh and fun take on the genre, as the hitwoman of the title is …
-
Behind Scenes
“The Whole Movie is Doing an Impression of the Genre”: Akiva Schaffer on The Naked Gun
Liam Neeson in The Naked Gun In the early 1980s, Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker pioneered a niche of slapstick- and wordplay-heavy spoof-comedies with films like Airplane! …