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THE MONKEY Official Teaser: Osgood Perkins is at it Again in Red Band Teaser

The first official teaser for Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey, based off of the short story by Stephen King, is here. As expected, it kind of kills, literally and figuratively.   When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start. The siblings decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years.   By now, we’ve come to develop expectations when it comes to Perkins’ films. They’re expertly photographed, this time employing Mexican cinetmatographer Nico Aguilar whose docket includes some work on Scorcese’s Killer of the Flower Moon.    They also promise to be highly disturbing as this red band teaser promises. For crying out loud, Theo…

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The Criterion Collection’s January Lineup Includes The Mother and the Whore, Akira Kurosawa, and Anthony Mann on 4K

It’s October, which means Criterion’s already thinking about 2025. Their new year auspiciously starts with a 4K UHD release of Jean Eustache’s magnum opus The Mother and the Whore, featuring a new interview with Françoise Lebrun and a new conversation with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin and writer Rachel Kushner. Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo and Sanjuro get 4K […]

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The Best 2024 Fall Film Festival Premieres

While there’s a few more fall film festivals popping up in the next month, the major ones are behind us, which means we have a strong sense of the films to have on your radar in the coming months and even through 2025. We’ve asked our writers from across the globe to weigh in on […]

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BFI London Review: The Brothers Quay Find Stunning Textures In Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

Timothy and Stephen Quay have developed an entirely unique style in the world of stop-motion animation: vigorously kinetic yet meticulously controlled; balletic in its interweaving of aural and visual rhythms; full of the sort of trivia and esoterica that fascinated Borges and Pessoa; and given to looped sequences of pure, sensual, cinematographic abstraction. Their latest […]

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First Trailer for Andrea Arnold’s Bird Starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski

Returning to Cannes Film Festival with her first narrative feature in eight years, Andrea Arnold’s coming-of-age fable bird brought together Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, and newcomer Nykiya Adams. Now set for a theatrical release from MUBI starting November 8, they’ve dropped the first trailer and poster. See the synopsis: “The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking […]

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HEATHER Trailer Premiere: Be Careful Who You Bully

A philanderer is lured into a kinky encounter by a provocative woman, only to discover she has undergone gender reassignment and was once the boy he terrorized in high school.   Anthony Repinski’s horror thriller Heather will release on digital platforms on November 8th from Buffalo 8. We have been asked to premiere the trailer for the pic today. Check it out along with a small batch of still down below.    This transgendered-themed thriller is loosely inspired by a story told to Writer/Director Anthony Repinski by a friend who was bullied in high school.  She later transitioned and then was reunited with her bully, who ended up becoming her lover.   HEATHER was written and directed by Anthony Repinsky (A former SEAL Team 6 Chief and…

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NYFF Review: The Damned Flirts With Documentary and Reenactment in a Frigid Civil War Sojourn

Robert Minervini’s The Damned begins with two wolves tearing into a elk carcass, ripping off its fur and chewing its intestines. This isn’t a nature documentary, but such gruesome images set the harsh tone for a movie imagining what it might be like to follow a regiment of Union soldiers charting unmapped Western territories in 1862. The […]

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