That comedian Jordan Peele, late of Key & Peele, would choose horror for his directorial debut – he also wrote the screenplay – comes as a surprise. Yet it's only the first of many surprises in store in the weird, wild, and unpredictable Get Out. Daniel Kaluuya stars as Chris, a black New York photographer whose white girlfriend (Allison Williams) invites him to her parents' mansion upstate,… read more!

Get Out, Jordan Peele's debut feature as writer-director, was a perfect blend of social commentary and genre thrills. His follow-up Us certainly had its moments, but for me it reeked of Peele buying into his own hype and thus biting off more than he could chew. (In interviews, he's a little too eager to explain his films' symbolism and point… read more!

I've gotta hand it to Jordan Peele: after the astounding critical and financial success of his debut feature Get Out, the Oscar-wielding writer/director could have easily said, "Now I'm abandoning genre film and my next picture is going to be a boring historical epic." Instead he double-downed on his allegiance to genre, and Us is at least ten times as scary… read more!