Chris Evangelista
Expertise
Horror Movies, Steven Spielberg Movies, Film Festivals
- Chris hosts the 21st Century Spielberg podcast.
- Chris co-wrote two YA horror books — "The House on Creep Street" and "Beware the Monstrous Manther!" — under the pen name The Blood Brothers.
- Chris is a member of the Critics Choice Association.
Experience
Chris Evangelista lives in Philadelphia — well, technically New Jersey, but let's keep that quiet. Chris has contributed to Fangoria, Mashable, The Guardian, The Playlist, Nerdist, and more. He is the Chief Film Critic of /Film as well as an editor. He writes the daily /Film newsletter.
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Stories By Chris Evangelista
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How does the new Netflix series The Gentlemen connect to the 2019 movie of the same name? The answer isn't too complicated.
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Here are the major actors alive from John Carpenter's classic Escape From New York.
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Anne Hathaway plays a woman who ends up in a relationship with a pop star in the trailer for Michael Showalter's The Idea of You.
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Dakota Johnson is opening up about the failure of Madame Web, and she's pretty sure she'll never make a movie like that again.
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Schindler's List director Steven Spielberg has high praise for Jonathan Glazer's harrowing The Zone of Interest.
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Christopher Walken has a small role in Dune: Part Two, but he makes the absolute most of it.
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Renny Harlin brings The Strangers back for a whole new horror trilogy. Watch the trailer for The Strangers: Chapter 1.
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Our latest Blu-ray round-up features Wonka, Wish, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, and more.
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We dive into spoiler territory here talking about that big Dune: Part Two cameo - you know the one - and what it all means.
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Spaceman, in which a lonely astronaut meets a giant friendly spider, is worth seeing for Adam Sandler's dedicated dramatic performance.
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Schindler's List is one of the most important films of Steven Spielberg's career, but he had to work his way up to making it.
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While filming the Netflix sci-fi film Spaceman, some wirework left star Adam Sandler in real pain.
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The producers of the 1989 Pet Sematary adaptation had a problem with one scene, but Stephen King made sure it didn't get cut.
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Most of the cast of 1960s The Addams Family TV show are no longer with us, but here are the remaining actors alive.
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Conan O'Brien was offered a huge amount of money to go host a show on Fox, but an offer from NBC made him stay put.
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The indie horror film Lovely, Dark, and Deep has great, scary atmosphere, but is that enough? Read our review and find out.
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Dune: Part Two is massive, challenging, and overwhelming. But like the first film, it feels incomplete. Here's our review.
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Is Disney still planning to make Aladdin 2? Star Mena Massoud provided an update of sorts somewhat recently.
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The new Salem's Lot movie has been finished for years and yet still has no release date - and Stephen King wants to know why.
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There are a lot of bad Stephen King movies, and then there's The Lawnmower Man, the bad Stephen King movie that inspired a lawsuit.
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In his long, illustrious career, Stephen King only directed one movie - and the results were disastrous. Let's talk about Maximum Overdrive.
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Here are the major The French Connection actors still alive. They may not be working right now, but they're still with us.
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Stephen King and Steven Spielberg have never worked together, but they came very close with what would become the miniseries Rose Red.
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Zodiac is the very best movie of David Fincher's career. It's also a box office flop.
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In 1992, Stephen King unleashed his weirdest movie: Sleepwalkers, the story of a mother and son cat monsters who have sex with each other.
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American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis is making his feature directorial debut with a horror movie starring Joseph Quinn.
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Can Deadpool save the MCU? Let's find out by watching the Deadpool and Wolverine Super Bowl trailer, shall we?