The trailer for M. Night Shayamalan’s Glass debuted this afternoon following a panel about the film at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, featuring Sarah Paulson as a psychiatrist who lays out the backstory for Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, and James McAvoy’s characters in the film, all now imprisoned in a mental…
Not only was Split the first M. Night Shyamalan movie in a number of years that didn’t completely suck, but it was also the first to draw a direct link to another film in the director’s oeuvre. In the film’s post-credits scene, we see Bruce Willis reprise his role as David Dunn from Unbreakable and name check Samuel…
Even for a director known for twist endings, the final reveal of M. Night Shyamalan’s Split was a doozy: That it was actually the second installment in a trilogy begun 17 years earlier with Unbreakable. Given Split’s critical and commercial success, a third installment was inevitable, and Entertainment Weekly has just …
M. Night Shyamalan gets a lot of shit. He’s been called a one-trick-pony and a one-hit-wonder, and pretty much everything he’s done since The Sixth Sense has been ridiculed to death online (though Unbreakable has received a much-deserved reevaluation in recent years). But, in his newest video essay, YouTuber Ryan…
Wayward Pines may be in limbo at Fox, but that just leaves M. Night Shyamalan with time to develop a new thriller series for Apple TV. According to Variety, the Split director is executive producing an untitled show that’s being written by 24: Live Another Day and Berlin Station alum Tony Basgallop. Shyamalan will…
People who watch Fox in the summer are going to have to find a new twisty mystery show to watch, as TVLine is reporting that a “network insider” has admitted that it’s “unlikely” that Wayward Pines will be getting a third season. Of course, dedicated Wayward Pines fans probably found a new twisty mystery show already,…
Historically and annually speaking, January is a bad month for Hollywood movies. It’s a “dump month,” that time of year when the major studios offload the projects in which they have no faith. Sandwiched between the holidays and the Super Bowl, these four weeks are generally treated like a write-off season, as bad…
There’s nothing people love more than a good plot twist, whether it’s a season-ending about-face on a TV show or a horror flick that pulls the rug out from under viewers in the last minute. But there’s also nothing people hate more than a shitty plot twist—hence the ongoing critical dogfight over M. Night Shyamalan’s…
M. Night Shyamalan’s 2000 superhero movie Unbreakable is the rare film that’s still cool to like, even if it wasn’t a commercial or critical smash on its original release, but due to an unfortunate series of events that can only be described as “his next few movies,” Shyamalan has had trouble recreating that level of…
Variety reports that Sarah Paulson, star of almost every Story Ryan Murphy seems to want to tell, has joined the cast of another expanding property. The Cult actress will make her way to M. Night Shyamalan’s own superhero universe as part of Glass, the sequel/crossover event that will merge his hits, Split and …
[Fair Warning: This post contains spoilers for Split.]
Ghoul evening, kiddies! It’s your old pal the Cryptkeeper, here with a madness report on my favorite TV scare-ies, Tales From The Crypt! Buried in today’s announcement that TNT is driving a stake through its TV adaptation of Let The Right One In, you may have missed the boos that the network is also putting M. Night…
In the lead-up to M. Night Shyamalan’s new take on the Tales From The Crypt series, there’s been one question weighing heavily on our minds here at The A.V. Club: Will there be a Cryptkeeper? You know, a musty dude with an undead attitude whose rotting corpse serves as a vessel for gloriously cheesy puns to bookend…
[This post contains information that may ruin Split for you, but this movie has been out for multiple weeks now.]
The big game may have ended with a twist worthy of M. Night Shyamalan (and a big metaphor for America right now, if everyone’s Twitter feed is to be believed), but Super Bowl weekend played out pretty much as everyone expected at the box office. Without any stiff new competition, Shyamalan’s latest thriller, Split,…
With the release of his new film Split, M. Night Shyamalan is enjoying something of a renaissance after years as a critical punching bag. Both Split and 2015’s The Visit were successful returns to the director’s roots: stylized takes on pulp films with the sort of twist endings he made, and then lost, his name on. His…
(Acknowledging the existence of a spoiler can often act as a spoiler itself, so let’s just say that the following story will contain spoilers for every single M. Night Shyamalan movie ever made. If you have not seen every single M. Night Shyamalan movie ever made and do not want to be spoiled, back out now.)
(Acknowledging the existence of a spoiler can often act as a spoiler itself, so let’s just say that the following story will contain spoilers for every single M. Night Shyamalan movie ever made. If you have not seen every single M. Night Shyamalan movie ever made and do not want to be spoiled, back out now.)
Turns out America still likes M. Night Shyamalan. The reputation of the former next great hope of Hollywood fizzled out after a string of poorly received films and ill-conceived forays into effect-driven blockbuster fantasy, but now the low-budget thriller Split has proven to be his critical and commercial comeback.…
At last, M. Night Shyamalan has decided to let his freak flag fly, and made the sort of unapologetic B-movie one always suspected he had pent up inside of him; it swerves from dark comedy to 1970s-esque psycho-horror as the irresistibly preposterous script struggles for attention against a delirious lead performance…
