Pete Davidson's well-being is a cause for concern again after canceled stand-up shows were revealed to be predated by an on-set outburst.

The Vast of Night is a mystery that can't sustain itself. It's fine to try and build up to a big reveal, but along the way we need to be invested in more than just "the answer." Unfortunately, the script for The Vast of Night is wholly invested in two teenagers chasing down a mysterious signal, but fails to show interest in their interior lives, their wants, desires, or really any kind of conflict beyond, "Let's find out what this signal means." The film's saving grace is director Andrew Patterson, who gives his low-budget feature …

Rick & Morty, created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, began as a Back to the Future riff, but the Carton Network series has since evolved.

A winner has been chosen in the 1917 One Shot Challenge contest, a partnership between NBCUniversal and Ideas United to promote the release of the World War I thriller 1917 from director Sam Mendes. Ohio-based filmmaker Conrad Faraj’s entry “Wedding Runner” was selected by Mendes from a pool of over 100 submissions. A playlist of the finalists can be viewed here, and all of the submissions can be found on YouTube under the hashtag #1917OneShotChallenge. [caption id="attachment_796845" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Universal[/caption] Aspiring filmmakers were tasked with creating a 2-minute short (including beginning …

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Oops, the teens went and did a dystopia again. If you're a fan of the YA genre, you've no doubt seen this story before: a group of teenagers stranded without the structures of adult society are forced to remake the world in their own image to survive. From William Golding's 1954 literary classic Lord of the Flies to The 100, The Woods, and so forth, there's no shortage of stories about youth confronting the perils of leadership. That overfamiliar quality might leave a wash of "meh" in viewers' mouths when they first turn to Netflix's …

From writers and executive producers Jordan Rubin (who also directed the episodes) and Al and Jon Kaplan, the deadly hairy balls known as Crites are back in Critters: A New Binge (available to stream at Shudder), having returned to Earth to search for one of their kind who was left behind. Upon landing in Burbank, Calif., they immediately start to wreak havoc among a group of high schoolers and their families, while consuming as much flesh as they can. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, filmmaker Jordan Rubin talked about how this series evolved, why he thinks …