The hits, the misses, and the downright classics from a filmmaking great.

John Carpenter is an old man, and he makes old man films. In one way that’s refreshing. He knows where to put his camera in a sequence with multiple people. He knows when to use a close up, and never …

With director John Carpenter’s The Ward opening in limited release this weekend, I recently conducted an extended interview with Jared Harris.  In The Ward, Harris plays Dr. Stringer, the head of a mental institution which houses a young girl (Amber …

The Ward, horror master John Carpenter’s first feature film in about 10 years, is a psychological thriller about a young woman locked in a mental institution in the 1960s. Unsure of who she is and what has happened to her, …

Actress Amber Heard wanted to be a part of The Ward because she loves the genre, loves the director (John Carpenter) and loved the script, making it the perfect combination. And, the added attention it gets for being Carpenter’s first …

John Carpenter will always be a filmmaker to watch, even when all there is to watch is a half trailer of sorts for his latest, The Ward.  The Ward premiered earlier this year at the Toronto International Film Festival, and …

Legendary horror filmmaker John Carpenter has ended his nine-year hiatus with his latest feature film, The Ward, debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival. Set in the 1960s, the thriller follows a distraught young woman named Kristen (Amber Heard), who …

Continuing our first-look image series of movies playing at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, we have images from John Carpenter’s The Ward starring Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker, Jared Harris, and Lyndsy Fonseca.  The Ward is Carpenter’s first …

James Gunn’s Super will make its world premiere as part of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival “Midnight Madness” line-up.  Super centers on Frank (played by Rainn Wilson), a regular guy who decides to become a superhero when his wife …

When speaking to Danielle Panabaker earlier this year at the set-visit for “The Crazies”, she didn’t seem at all bothered with getting labeled a “scream queen”.  In fact, she seemed to revel in it and didn’t see why the connotation …