While Tarsem Singh is currently enjoying the
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This news hit the trades a few days ago, over at Variety, and if you haven’t read up on it now is your chance. Production has begun on a new thriller in the UK called Retreat. It will be the debut feature film for deaf writer/director Ted Evans. On top of that their thriller will star an all-deaf principal cast as well. Raised in an isolated deaf community, cracks begin to appear in Matt’s seemingly idyllic world when the arrival of enigmatic outsider Eva forces him to question the realities of his identity. Is Matt prepared to discover what lies beneath the surface of his supposedly utopian community and the costs demanded to maintain it? ScreenAnarchy’s parent company XYZ Films is handling worldwide…
In an era where print magazines continue to shutter (most recently Cinema Scope and Total Film), it’s always a breath of fresh air for the industry of film journalism when a new one enters the game. Metrograph has now unveiled The Metrograph, a new biannual print publication designed by Matt Willey at Pentagram. Featuring exclusive cover artwork by […]
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Horror fans, don’t be blue! Just because the Halloween season concluded yesterday, there are still plenty of frightening flicks that await your discovery and/or revisitation. Our favorite horror-focused streamer, Shudder, announced their slate for the Fall and Holiday seasons last month. Next week will see the unveiling of Black Cab, starring Nick Frost in a truly evil role (pictured above, looking like I do every time I drive my car), with Jayro Bustante’s Rita hitting the service on November 22. Our own J Hurtado described the latter film thusly in his review from Fantasia this summer: “Though the film details horrific events in ways close enough to the true tragedy at its core, it barely skirts the horror label, rather placing itself in the world…
The best examples of this genre continue to evoke humanity’s eternal fear of social disruption.
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A year after captivating critics and audiences at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival (where it won Best Cinematography), writer-director Hannah Peterson’s poignant, yet warm feature debut The Graduates will finally open in theaters on November 1 beginning at NYC’s Metrograph. […]
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Coming off what could be a career-best in Dear Jassi and a recent 4K restoration of the passion project of all passion projects in The Fall, Tarsem Singh is now setting his sights on a thriller project set up by the AGC Studios folks, producer Scott Franklin and with the full participation of Dev Patel who will topline and produce The Journeyman. Variety reports that the crime thriller would move into production next year — so this would fall on our laps in 2026.
Written by Bryan and Alexis Roberts (aka The Roberts), Patel plays a down-on-his-luck tennis pro who is lured into an illegal match-fixing ring to support his family and finds himself trapped in a ruthless world of corruption and violence he may never escape.… Read the rest
A report from last weekend’s premiere of Chaz Ebert’s The Wellness Warrior from a former editor at the site with a personal connection to the film.
Anticipation for the next Star Wars series, Skeleton Crew, is building and this new trailer builds on top of that. By all appearances it looks like things are back on track, getting ready to deliver some good old fashioned, rollicking space adventure. We’re ignoring that online fandom is already drawing lines in the sand before a single episode airs. We have… hope… for this new series. Check out the new trailer below the official announcement. The first two episodes of Skeleton Crew air on Disney+ on December 3rd. Disney+ released a brand-new trailer and poster for Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,” a fun and exciting, original, live-action series starring Jude Law as a mysterious character (“Jod”) whose true motives are shrouded in…
The filmmakers discuss what making the documentary taught them about the nature of power.
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