Ayo Edebiri and John Malkovich square off in a film pitting a culty pop musician against the critics, but Opus needs far more focused ideas.

In the new horror movie "Opus," we are introduced to Alfred Moretti, the biggest pop star of the '90s, with 38 No_ 1 hits and albums as big as "Thriller," "Hotel California" and "Nebraska."

Dorchester’s Ayo Edebiri plays a young journalist who’s invited to the desert compound of Malkovich’s cultish character, Moretti.

Casting is important. I feel like I’ve seen dozens of interviews with directors who humbly suggest that once you hire the right actors and let them do their thing, brilliance follows. It’s rare these days to see a truly rotten pairing of performer and role,

The iconic actor and writer-director Mark Anthony Green discuss the thriller and who inspired Malkovich's maleficent Moretti, a man who puts the cult in pop culture.

The famously intense actor is a bad fit for the role of a dance-pop megastar in Mark Anthony Green's debut film.

Only Ariel seems to think any of this weird stuff is suspicious. To everyone else it's just show business. Artists are oddballs and that comes with the territory. What are obsessive fans if not cultists,