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DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL Trailer Exclusive: Kristanna Loken And Martin Kove Star in Thriller

We have an exclusive trailer launch from our friends at Entertainment Squad to share with you this afternoon. S.J. Creazzo’s thriller Dark Night of the Soul is coming to VOD and Cable platforms on November 12th.   The thriller stars Kristanna Loken (Terminator 3) and 80s cult figure Martin Kove (Karate Kid / Cobra Kai). Loken plays a scientist who is transporting the cure of a prehistoric bacteria when they get into an accident and are trapped under their car. It is a race against time as she tries to save her life and the lives of everyone else left alive in the world.    Check out the trailer below.    DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL Trailer Promises Gripping Tension   Entertainment Squad to release…

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All 2024 Films Having Awards-Qualifying, One-Week Releases

As we get closer to the end of 2024 and various critics and voting bodies collate their year-end lists and ballots, the question of what is eligible for such selection often crops up. It’s become common practice for distributors to give a quiet, one-week awards-qualifying run divorced from the standard promotion a theatrical rollout will […]

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Michelangelo Antonioni’s Early Triumph Il Grido Receives New Restoration and Trailer

Whatever acclaim––nay, outright-legendary status––is foisted upon Michelangelo Antonioni typically comes from a small selection of films produced in the 1960s. While I continue awaiting just desserts for Mystery of Oberwald and Beyond the Clouds, we can now cross off Il Grido, his 1957 feature that’s been restored by The Film Foundation, Cineteca di Bologna, and […]

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“100 Clichés Move Us”: Rumours Directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson on Finding Humor in a World in Crisis

Canadian director Guy Maddin embraces absurdity. Along with his co-writers and directors Evan and Galen Johnson, Maddin has added to his surrealist oeuvre with Rumours, a comedy satirizing the G7 Summit. Bringing together a lauded cast led by Cate Blanchett playing the Chancellor of Germany, the film follows the seven world leaders as they get […]

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DARK MATCH: New Poster Revealed, Wrestling Horror Comedy Streams on Shudder Early 2025

A small-time wrestling company accepts a well-paying gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader with devious plans for their match.   Lowell Dean’s wrestling horror comedy Death Match will start streaming on Shudder in the new year, on January 31st. A new poster was revealed today. Front and center is our story’s heroine Ayisha Issa as her character Miss Behave. The rest of the cast are in and around a cutout of the cult’s iconography.    Death Match had its world premiere at Fantasia this past Summer. I’m kind of surprised that we don’t have a review for it already as it’s good fun for what it is. I’m in the position…

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Sound And Vision: John McNaughton

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: The Resident’s Floyd, directed by John McNaughton. John McNaughton has been working on the periphery of the mainstream with films like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Wild Things and Mad Dog and Glory, but I have the impression he rather would fly somewhat under the radar and be part of the counterculture. This impression harkens back partly to passion projects like the Rebel Highway-episode Girls in Prison, a deliciously raunchy romp in the exploitation-genre, like Wild Things is too. But it also is because of his film Condo Painting, a documentary about George Condo, the counterculture painter and artists whose style is immediately recognizable. Condo…

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CARVED Retro Teaser: Justin Harding’s Horror Comedy Premieres Tonight on HULU

Justin Harding’s horror comedy, Carved, premieres today on HULU. A short retro teaser was sent out the other day. No time like the present to share that with you now, ahead of the premiere.    When a heartbroken teenage playwright, her younger brother, and a disparate group of survivors become trapped in a historical reenactment village on Halloween night, they must band together to survive a relentless assault by a sentient and vengeful pumpkin.   Carved stars Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Corey Fogelmanis, Wyatt Lindner, Carla Jimenez, Sasha Mason, Jonah Lees, DJ Qualls, Marc-Sully Saint-Fleur, Elvis Nolasco, Matty Cardarople, Jackson Kelly, and Chris Elliott….

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New York 2024 Review: WHO BY FIRE (COMME LE FEU), Bad Times at the Cabin in the Woods

Does anything good ever come out of vacationing in the woods? In genre cinema, going away for a weekend to a remote location is a recipe for all kinds of unpleasantness to happen. In festival dramas – eh, it usually forebodes much the same. The difference is, the horrors that await the characters in that case, are usually of the emotional variety; it’s toxicity, awkwardness, insecurities, narcissism and alternating self-hatred or lack of self-awareness. Really, from watching all the movies, the nature doesn’t seem like a therapeutic setting at all. But therapy is a process, not an immediate result, and so, having come out of the woods with not much changed but a few things learned about yourself might not be a happy ending -…

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Blitz | Review

Blitz | Review

London Has Fallen: McQueen Explores Life During Wartime

Steve McQueen Blitz ReviewFollowing his extensively researched 2023 documentary Occupied City, which details WWII atrocities waged against the Dutch during Amsterdam’s Nazi occupation, it would seem Steve McQueen has been motivated to continue his exploration of the period with Blitz, reenacting the catastrophic blitzkrieg (aka ‘lightning war) of Britain during the 1940s. While an ensemble cast of characters intertwine in this saga, McQueen focuses on the separation of a mother and her child, each facing their own unique cultural intersections which were difficult even before the onset of the second world war. There are few contemporary examples of films about the London Blitzkrieg, more often than not a backdrop looming over more intimate human struggles, such as Atonement (2007), Their Finest (2016), or even the rehash of Graham Greene’s swooning The End of the Affair (1999).… Read the rest

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Pedro Almodóvar Plans Early 2025 Shoot for Next Feature Bitter Christmas

Although his illustrious career has been ongoing for decades, this year marks quite a major milestone for Pedro Almodóvar. He premiered his very first English-language feature The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, at Venice Film Festival where he was feted with his first top festival prize: the Golden Lion. While much […]

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