Adam Wingard

Our faces just melted off out of pure shock.

Adam Wingard will direct.

The Japanese trailer shows the hometown hero fighting back.

It’s a blockbuster brawl for monster supremacy.

One of the fun parts of film criticism is trying to identify which blockbuster movies that open to middling reviews will undergo a critical re-appreciation in the years to come. For example, while audiences were generally disappointed with Ridley Scott’s Prometheus on its release, the movie h…

In Netflix’s ‘Death Note,’ Nat Wolff plays Light Turner, a high schooler who discovers a mysterious notebook that gives him the power to kill anybody.

You’ll certainly find gruesome violence in Netflix’s Death Note adaptation, but director Adam Wingard doesn’t view his film as a horror movie. For the You’re Next and Blair Witch filmmaker, Death Note is more of a genre mashup: part thriller, part comedy, and part teen ro…

For years now, Death Note has been one of the more popular franchises in Japanese popular culture. Originally a manga series, Death Note has since spun out into multiple television shows and four live-action feature films, making it all-but-inevitable that the franchise would eventually find its way…

In just a few years the movies’ most famous gorilla will clash with the biggest and baddest kaiju in a giant monster movie mashup. Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong will be the fourth entry in Legendary’s MonsterVerse – no, not that monster universe – which will fin…

Adam Wingard’s adaptation of popular anime series Death Note drew a lot of heat before the public even saw a single frame, as fans of the original were displeased to learn he’d set the film in the U.S. instead of the original Japan and make the Asian lead into a white guy, a move we sh…