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The Wait (La espera), the third feature film by Spanish director F. Javier Gutiérrez has found a North American home with Film Movement. They have not announced a date yet but have said that they’re planning a digital and cable release in the Fall.    From the announcement over at Variety…   The film is set deep in the Andalusian countryside, where Eladio works as the groundskeeper of a hunting estate owned by the powerful Don Francisco. After taking a bribe from a veteran hunter, Eladio’s normal life falls apart, plunging him into the depths of guilt, hatred and revenge.   Gutierrez said, “I’m truly excited to share with American audiences this unsettling story of guilt, loss, revenge and class divides. Deeply human and rich…

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3P0: Oh! They fly now. Finn: They fly now?  Po: They fly now.   Shark mutations in the indie horror scene are seemingly endless. There is no stopping filmmakers from making up different ways for the toothy bastards to be more dangerous than they already are. Dustin Ferguson does it as good as anyone else in the micro indie horror arena and he has done it once again with Apex Predators 2: The Spawning.    Cheap, fast and done in a hurry, a movie like Apex Predators 2 exists for nothing more than a bit of fun. Wild Eye Releasing is putting it out on VOD and DVD in November, and they sent along the trailer. It is exactly what you think a horror movie…

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After the misfire that was The Falcon and The Winter Soldier Marvel is looking to get back on track with Captain America: Brave New World. The Captain America movies have arguably been some of the better Marvel movies since the new era of the franchise launched with Iron Man back in 2008.   Perhaps the mix of the fantastical elements rooted in contemporary geo-political intrigue is what made them easier to consume than straight up alien invasions, wayward gods and wizards. There is that and the Captain America films have also featured the best action elements as well, which looks to be the same in this first teaser for the next chapter in the Sam Wilson saga.    The teaser plays up the political intrigue,…

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When you have a film as gorgeously composed and framed as one by Robin Campillo (120 BPM), and set in one of the most beautiful places on earth (Madagascar), one of the best practices is to simply use a frame as the key art. That is the case in this poster for Red Island, a semi-autobiographical account of Campillo’s childhood on a French military base in the 1970, where innocence is lost, and infidelity, colonialism, and coming-of-age are ground in the crucible of the tropical sun.

 A kind of Euro-Spielbergian tableaux, as the entire case is framed between the palms and the water, from behind, as the look up. The foliage offers a great spot to nestle the typography of a pull quote, and festival…

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Variety has reported that tonight, in the furture, in South Korea, Francis Galluppi’s crime thriller The Last Stop in Yuma County took home the top prize at BiFan (Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival) the Best of Buchean, and the Audience Award as well.    The Méliès International Festivals Federation (MIFF) Award for Best Asian Film went to Kazakh crime thriller Steppenwolf. A couple films that our intrepid ex-pats James and Pierce reviewed, Pig That Survived Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Idiot Girls and School Ghost: School Anniversary respectively, both won awards as well.    From the article at Variety,   “The Last Stop in Yuma County,” a crime thriller directed by Francis Galluppi and set around a restaurant in Arizona, won the KRW20 million ($14,500) Bucheon Choice feature award. The jury called…

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What can be said about UHF that hasn’t been said before? “Weird Al” Yankovic and his manager/the director of the film, Jay Levey, pulled off something that was originally released in 1989. Oh, simpler times. The film is a ridiculous, over-the-top film that has ascertained near-legendary cult status. The comedy features Yankovic as George Newman in a classic village idiot scenario — walking into opportunities that should never come to him, failing way, way up, and somehow coming up on top, because in America, chaos reigns. Because his rich uncle won a local TV station in a poker game and didn’t know what to do with it, he and his wife (really, the wife’s decision) gives it to Newman to manage.  At the same time,…

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Located just 30 miles from New York City on the Hudson River, the Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a 200-year-old maximum security prison, incarcerates what the criminal (in)justice system considers the worst of the worst, repeat, violent offenders serving decades-long sentences. The men sentenced to Sing Sing are rarely if ever, seen as worthy of rehabilitation, let alone capable of rehabilitation and rejoining society one day. They were — and mostly still are — out of sight and out of mind where, to most, they belong. Something changed, however, when Katherine Vockins founded the RTA (Rehabilitation Through the Arts) program at Sing Sing prison in 1996. As the name implies, the program allows long-term inmates to find creative expression through the arts (performing, dancing, writing), in…

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As we continue to highlight Canadian short films playing at Fantasia as word gets to us, the next one on our list is Dirty Bad Wrong, from writer/director Erica Orofino. It is having its World Premiere on Monday, July 29th, during the shorts program, Perilous Ports: Tours of Northern Terrors 2024.    Desperate to keep her promise to host the best superhero party for her 6-year-old, young mother Sid, a sex worker, takes extreme measures and books a last-minute client with a dark fetish. Check out the small seletion of stills after the official announcement.    Erica Orofino (She Keeps Me, Tampon, and the upcoming short Internet Friend) is thrilled to announce that her short film, Dirty Bad Wrong, which she wrote and directed, will…

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