Author: Michael

Angel Gómez Hernández’s arachnophobic new film “Crawlers” is like that classic “Kids in the Hall” sketch about a horror author whose latest book, “Hey, There’s a Spider on Your Back!” consists of only seven words: “Hey, there’s a spider on your back.” It was, needless to say, a bestseller. Say what you will about the lack of poetry, but telling someone they’ve got a spider on them is an effective and efficient delivery mechanism for terror. “Crawlers” takes place in a California apartment complex, where a UCLA professor returns from an international trip and dies horrifically in his own kitchen.…

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When Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy’s whirlwind tenure at Warner Bros. ended on the sourest note possible with the estimated quarter-billion loss of “Digger”, it kicked off a bigger question: Who left in Hollywood is willing to take big creative risks? It’s a relevant question with many C-suite studio execs shaking their heads at the perceived recklessness, even as cinephiles and creatives mourned Abdy and De Luca’s departure. The former co-chairs and CEOs of the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group are a rare breed in this town, and what can’t be denied by anyone is that they took big…

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