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Ryan, the lead singer of a late-90s rock band is haunted by irrelevance and struggling to regain visibility a decade after the band’s prime. Charlie Dupont, an eccentric super-producer, invites the band to his 1000-year-old French chateau to record a comeback album. But as tensions rise and tempers flare, Ryan and his bandmates realize they’re up against more than just the pressure to succeed.   The nightmarish rock thriller Art of a Hit is coming to digital and on-demand platforms next week on August 20th from Giant Pictures. We have an exclusive clip to share with you today. You can check it and the trailer out down below.    Art of a Hit was directed by Gaelan Draper, and written and produced by Draper and…

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No, that is not a spelling error in the title. I do not normally post obituaries but the news at Variety this morning about the passing of Hong Kong cinema legend Corey Yuen is equally tragic and bizarre.    Yuen, one of the more inconspicuous Hong Kong cinema legends, preferring to work behind the scenes on directing and action choreography, passed away – back in 2022. Yuen passed away on an undisclosed date that year due to complications from Covid-19.    His death was initially kept private at the request of his family. But on Monday, the news was revealed on Chinese-language social media by fellow action star Jackie Chan, who paid tribute to Yuen and others in the industry who had died.   Yuen,…

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Vince Vaughn stars in a role he was born to play, alongside Natalie Martinez, Meredith Hagner, Rob Delaney, John Ortiz, Michele Monaghan, Ronald Peet, L. Scott Caldwell, and Jodie Turner-Smith.

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Off the top, I don’t know if I am at odds with this. I should be. I have treasured memories tied to viewings of the 1954 classic monster movie Creature From The Black Lagoon. Specifically, watching the 3D version of the film, on print (I don’t recall what size) in the chapel at college back when our lord and master Todd and I went to school together and we’d bring David (Canfield) up from Chicago to give lectures on cinema. Isn’t that what they call a core memory?    So news from THR that horror aficienado James Wan is in talks to direct a remake of Jack Arnold’s classic Universal Monster movie should drive me insane. But I’m old, and tired, and I think there…

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Last week while I was on vacay THR announced that Patricia Arquette and Tom Felton were joining Zazie Beetz in Kirill Sokolov’s horror thriller They Will Kill You.    Zazie Beetz is toplining They Will Kill You, which is described as a horror feature laced with black humor and telling the story of a woman (Beetz) who answers a help wanted ad to be a housekeeper in a mysterious high-rise in New York City, not realizing she is entering a community that has seen a number of disappearances over the years and may be under the grip of a Satanic cult. The project has been described as being a tonal mix of Ready or Not and The Raid. THR   Today, THR has announced that…

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Steeped in a combined sense of nostalgic whimsy and melancholy, Yasuda Jun’ichi’s A Samurai in Time serves up a comedic fish-out-of-water tale of an Edo-period warrior magically transplanted to the present day and the challenges he faces as he tries to adapt to a world that becomes less familiar with every passing moment. It’s a dark and stormy night when Shinzaemon Kosaka (Yamaguchi Makiya) and Kazami Kyoichiro (Fuke Norimasa) face off on the mean streets of medieval Kyoto. Shinzaemon is a pro-shogunate samurai determined to vanquish his political rival, but just as their swords begin to clash, a burst of lightning strikes and he is knocked out. When he awakens moments later, he’s still on the Kyoto streets, but something is different. He now finds…

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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.   Mr. Perkins has been a busy boy of late. Having made a splash this Summer with their serial killer flick Longlegs, they have now joined the ranks of writers and directors who have adapted the works of Stephen King to film with their new film, The Monkey. Produced by James Wan and handled by Neon The Monkey is due out on the new year, on February 21st, 2025.    A teaser was sent out today. In it, Wan gets the bulk of the shoutouts,…

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One of India’s most hotly anticipated action films of 2024 dropped its trailer today and it looks amazing. Kanguva, headlined by Suriya and directed by Siva, has been percolating for over a year with the production team dropping numerous tantalizing tidbits via social media. With this new full trailer we get a longer look at the action and period setting, though the makers have confirmed that the film takes place in two different eras, with Suriya (at least) performing in a double role. Director Siva has carved a niche for himself making big action spetacles with some of the biggest talent in the Tamil and film industry. Over the last decade he’s had his fair share of big hits, including a trio of films starring…

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In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: four music videos by Mark Pellington. In the works of Mark Pellington, music video and film alike, words have all the power. Sometimes this is fairly literal as in his music video for U2’s One (below). It mostly focusses on imagery of buffalo and flowers, and the word one in different typefaces and languages. We are one, but words divide us? Or are we one and do words connect us? The same dichotomy between words being a force for good or evil is seen in his breakthrough films, Arlington Road and The Mothman Prophecies. Both films have scenes in which characters wholly misinterpret the meaning of…

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After a vicious assault at a party, a young woman flees the scene. And as she walks back home on a gloomy and threatening Paris night, she can’t shake the feeling that she’s being followed. As she gets closer to her residence, the presence becomes more and more bold and aggressive. And it is only by confronting her deepest inner fears that she will be able to survive the ominous threat. Now that the Olympics are over its time once again to visit the dark and seedy side of the City of Lights, just in time for the Paralympics. Mon dieu! Back in March we shared our first look at David Cholewa’s upcoming horror short, Stalker. Now, we have a teaser trailer and first poster…

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