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Found footage horror is making a comeback with 2023's "Frogman," proving the subgenre is far from over. "Frogman" keeps the filmmaking amateur to enhance the viewer's immersive experience. By revealing the monster in all its glory, "Frogman" stands out among other found footage films.

The Frogman movie is a 2023 found footage horror film, and it's convinced me that the subgenre isn't over. As a whole, horror is a genre that is never going to die. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of awful horror movies, and while these films are often dismissed, and even looked down on in some cinephile circles, they tend to be at the forefront of innovative and thought-provoking storytelling. Just look at the embarrassment of riches that is A24's horror movie catalog. But the problem with the genre is that when one movie does well, copycats often follow.

So when a favorite subgenre of mine,...

Stars: Nathan Tymoshuk, Benny Barrett, Ali Daniels, Chari Eckmann, Chelsey Grant, Liam Hage, Stephen Hage, Michael Paul Levin, Arden Michalec | Written by Anthony Cousins, John Karsko | Directed by Anthony Cousins

If you follow my writing in any way, you probably know that The Blair Witch Project is one of my favourite ever movies. Not just horror movies. It was the first horror movie I watched at the cinema and it was probably the first film I really got into in a big way. I bought the books, the t-shirt, read the newspaper articles and followed what I could on the website (I’m not sure I even had the internet at home at the time). So any film that is clearly influenced by the found-footage classic is going to get some love from me.

And Frogman is clearly influenced by The Blair Witch Project. There’s plenty of other stuff...

Ellen DeGeneres’ emotional goodbye to daytime ended her flagship talk show on a ratings high note.

The May 26 series finale of “Ellen” yielded a season high 1.8 rating among adults 18-49, according to live + same day Nielsen data. The number marks a 30 percent improvement from the ratings of the show at the same time last year, and a 64 percent improvement over ratings for the show from the week prior. The run of episodes that week garnered a 1.3 rating, up 18 from the week before.

“Ellen” had been steadily improving in ratings as the show reached its announced end date. Over a two week period prior to the show’s end date, the show’s rating rose by 44 percent and averaged a daily growth of 568,000 viewers in its audience. Its final ratings make it the third highest rated daytime talk show during the week, behind “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (1.6) and “Dr Phil...

The Seattle Story Award recognizes an emerging, independent filmmaker who not only embodies diversity, innovation and uniqueness of vision, but has a history of transforming people through rich stories — exactly what Seattle does for anyone who spends time there.

This year’s recipient, Lael Rogers, embodies all of that while bringing a fresh female perspective to filmmaking.

Rogers is a writer, director and creative director for Seattle-based studio All is Well. She directed the narrative short “Collision” (2015) and episodes 1-3 of the online series Northern Belles (2016-2017). Both projects played film festivals nationally.