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In order to escape police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a metaphysical farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking points.   Magnet Releasing will release Things Will Be Different in theaters and on digital October 4th, 2024. The time travel thriller was written and directed by Michael Felker. It stars Adam David Thompson, Riley Dandy, Chloe Skoczen, Justin Benson, Sarah Bolger, and Jori Lynn Felker.    “I made Things Will Be Different for people who love thrillers, noir, and science fiction they can think about. It’s a giant mystery box of a movie with a strong familial core that’s inspired by my own family….

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During the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland, in times of military dictatorship, a group of torturers violently breaks into a home and kidnaps a group of young people to take them to a clandestine detention center.   What begins as an inhumane interrogation turns into a true martyrdom: the wrong group of people have been kidnapped. They turn out to be part of a macabre cult guided by an unknown supernatural force.   The clandestine detention center will become hell itself…   Nicolás and Luciano Onetti’s new horror flick, 1978, will have its world premiere at Sitges next month. On the heels of that announcement the official trailer has been released, and as expected it looks like the hard horror flick we’ve come…

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Ziggy is Kanyen’kehà:ka, a member of the Mohawk tribe living in the big city of Toronto. Ziggy’s goal is to be an influencer, to quit her job shuttling meals around town on her bike. After work and making her videos she relaxes by watching reruns of a Canadian true crime show from the late 90s, Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science, hosted by Ziggy’s ‘spirit guide’ of sorts, Graham Greene. At her side sits her emotional support animal, Potato.    Ziggy’s big break finally arrives when the biotech company Nature’s Oath hires her to be a spokesperson for the company, offering big money for the first time in her life. At the same time though she’s called back to the reservation. Ziggy’s cousin Wiz needs…

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There is one line of dialogue repeated, over and over, in David MacKenzie’s Relay, like a mantra: “Go Ahead.” It is spoken by nearly every major character as they communicate via anonymous telephone operators, to preserve each other’s privacy. This alone makes for a superbly crafted thriller with its own unique rhythm. It offers a view of the modern day surveillance thriller in an interesting new light. Its use of older technology, in this case legacy telephony, along with aging government institutions, and boots-on-the-ground street smarts all hacked together. Relay adds an interesting layer of digital-to-analog obfuscation, and the imperfect liminal handshakes between government services, to keep its protagonist in the shadows, literally and figuratively.

 For the first thirty or so minutes, Ash, played by the always riveting Riz…

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Over the weekend, one of our most anticipated films of the year dropped an absolutely incredible trailer. TIFF Midnight Madness award winner, Vasan Bala (Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota / The Man Who Feels No Pain) returns to the big screen with Jigra, a big budget thriller starring Alia Bhatt (Gangubai Kathiawadi) and relative Vedang Raina (Netflix’s The Archies) in his feature film debut.  Produced by the legendary Dharma Productions studio in Mumbai, Jigra will be Vasan Bala’s fourth feature overall, but his first to get international theatrical distribution, an incredibly exciting prospect that will hopefully put the filmmaker on some new radars as a talent to follow. Back in 2012, Bala’s debut feature, Peddlers, was a Cannes Critics Week selection back in 2012, but…

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In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: the music videos and films that Alex Ross Perry made for Ghost and Pavement. Alex Ross Perry is a rock and roll scholar. He knows his stuff when it comes to the history of music videos, recorded live shows and music-image-hybrids. This might be partly why after a string of successful indie-films in a diverse array of styles, like The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip, Queen of the Earth and Golden Exits, he has been carving a niche that is all about the intertwinement of sound and vision. This niche started in earnest right around the release of Golden Exits. Alex Ross Perry directed his first…

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In the near future, a space garbageman, Andriy, is solo-piloting an aging space junker tasked with disposing of several kilotonnes of spent radioactive waste on one of Jupiter’s moons. Mid-journey, he gets the full Arthur Dent experience: First he finds out he is fired for cutting corners on proper disposal procedures, and lying about it. His angry boss (ominously) scolds him, “Fate does not like liars,” He then learns that the entire planet earth has been destroyed.   Either due to nuclear war, or nuclear mismanagement, or something else entirely beyond Andriy’s control, this makes him the last man in space. Or at least the last human in his neck of the solar system. With only his onboard computer and his vinyl record collection to…

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The experience of watching Anora is akin to a spontaneous and unexpected invite to a epic house-wrecking party. It starts off with surprise and wonder, plunges into drunken euphoria, loses all your friends, projectile vomits on you in a car ride around town, lands you in court after dawn, and eventually, a stranger dumps you, broken, at your doorstep. Maybe the experience leaves a silver-lining, where you learn to never do that again. These are not plot spoilers. They are the inevitabilities of maturing into an adult human. Not all of us make it through the ringer.   Sean Baker’s Palme D’Or winner at one point name-checks Cinderella. Its visual language and layered bedlam evoke a re-envisioning of Pretty Woman (or perhaps more interestingly the 0.01% of Eyes Wide Shut)…

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They say Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Equally so, the wrath of an aging woman who loses her internal compass or purpose is a terrifying thing.   I have an fiery aunt who struggles with a neural issue that has her trapped in her own broken body. When in her presence, you can feel the force-lines of her rage (and fear) emanating in all directions at this debilitating condition and lack of a pragmatic solution to it. To say Hard Truths spoke to me is a bit of an understatement.   On the fifth anniversary of their mother’s passing, two sisters and their families come together for lunch and bonding. You probably know that the latest film from Mike Leigh is not…

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Ziggy is offered her first gig as an online influencer, promoting for Nature’s
Oath, a seed and fertilizer company. When her cousin summons her back to
the rez, she is forced into a battle to save her people’s legacy, finding her
power along the way.

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