A look back at the seminal Blaxploitation classic, now given new life with a 4K restoration.
A review of the second season of Netflix’s The Diplomat.
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We have your first look at the official trailer for Samuel Haun’s supernatural thriller Wicked Season. Uncork’d Entertainment is releasing the flick on Digital and On Demand on November 5th. Take a gander down below and see if this is up your alley. Three detectives follow the trail of a copycat serial killer to an abandoned insane asylum, only to find they’ve been lured there by something far more sinister. Ah, the irresistable lure of the abandoned insance asylum. Other than summer camps and shopping malls few structures are such a beacon for disaster. Supernatural Thriller WICKED SEASON Available On Digital and On Demand November 5 Uncork’d Entertainment is releasing WICKED SEASON, a supernatural thriller On Digital and On Demand November…
The Graduates is a quiet film. Written and directed by Hannah Peterson, it tells the story of a high school one year after a deadly shooting. Genevieve (Mina Sundwall)––whose boyfriend Tyler was one of the victims––has been struggling to get through her final year, anxious to graduate and hopefully start anew at college. Her mother […]
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American indie filmmaker Zachary Wigon (2014’s The Heart Machine and 2022’s Sanctuary) is not wasting time getting back into the saddle — Deadline reports that Wigon will re-team with Margaret Qualley for a book-to-film psychological horror-thriller project titled Victorian Psycho. Production is set to begin in March of next year and is backed by Traffic’s Dan Kagan with Wigon also producing alongside Sebastien Raybaud. Nick Shumaker also re-teams with Wigon as an executive-producer with Bard Dorros.
Based on author Virginia Feito’s upcoming novel, this is set in 1858, the film will follow a young, eccentric governess named Winifred Notty (Qualley) who arrives at the remote gothic manor known as Ensor House.… Read the rest
A tribute to the legendary Teri Garr, star of Young Frankenstein, Mr. Mom, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Tootsie, and so many more.
When is Luca Guadagnino not on a role? The director made waves this year by making moviegoers swoon and thirst over the love triangle in his smash hit Challengers. Now he’s back with another tale of lust and longing that […]
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Writer-director Hannah Peterson effectively suffuses the film with a mournful absence of life.
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Robert Zemeckis’ Here arrives with an ambitious framing device in that the entire story is told through one static camera placement. Through this fixed position we witness the early days of Earth when dinosaurs roamed freely. But like his fellow filmmakers from the Baby Boomer generation, Zemeckis’ primary interest lay not in the Mesozoic Era, […]
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Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada premiered at Cannes this past spring, and although the subject matter, surrounding a dying filmmaker grappling with his own mortality, led to speculation that this was the final film from the aging filmmaker, Schrader is wasting little time setting up his next projects. Schrader has just begun writing a script that […]
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