Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram star in Alma Har’el’s enthralling adaptation of Laura Lippman’s mystery novel, debuting on Apple TV+.
Kim Ho-sun, one of the key directors of 1970s cinema, returned to the spotlight in the early 1990s with the sprawling period romantic epic Death Song, about the torrid affair between Korea’s first professional soprano and a playwright during Korea’s Japanese Colonial Era in the 1920s. Chang Mi-hee plays Yun Sim-deok, a Korean student studying singing in Tokyo, where she befriends a group of Korean male students preparing to tour the country with a play. Among them is the aloof playwright Kim Woo-jin (Kim Sung-min), the only member of the group not openly admiring her bountiful charms. Woo-jin eventually comes around to those charms, but since he is already married, this forces the pair down an illicit path. The pair also bond over their shared…
A model becomes obsessed with a high-profile murder trial. Pascal Plante’s thriller, Red Rooms, starts its U.S. theatrical release on Friday, September 6th in New York at the IFC Center. The official trailer was just released for it, check it out down below. Red Rooms had its World Premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic. It went on to be the opening film of last year’s edition of Fantasia, back on home soil for Plante. Our own Martin caught the film when it premiered. You will find his full review here, but here is an excerpt. Red Rooms seamlessly weaves together elements from a spectrum of genres, including home invasion, but Plante intriguingly never ventures into the eponymous…
Real estate woes, job security anxiety and social inequality, all neatly packed into a metaphorical dystopia. No doubt about it, The Tenants is definitely a Korean film. Yet by providing a novel twist on its elements and staying true to its allegorical narrative, this brooding black-and-white parable stands out as a compelling sophomore feature from director Yoon Eun-gyeong. Following its premiere late last year at the Singapore International Film Festival, Yoon’s film circles its way back for its local premiere in Bucheon, where its clear but concerning message should hit the hardest. Shin-dong is a young man just like many others in Korea. He has worked tooth and nail to land himself a job at a company, but he’s still barely making ends meet while…
While all of our attention has been focused on another Disney company property coming out next week the sci-fi horror flick of the Summer, which one of its stars said, “I really do believe that there are specific sequences in this film that will scar some kids that sneak into the movie for life,”, has been sneaking up on us. Fede Alvarez’s Alien Romulus. Due in cinemas nationwide on August 16th the final trailer came out today. Check it out down below. Let me say this, if they’re going so far as to show us more of what happens to Navarro (Alieen Wu) in this final trailer and that isn’t the scarring part, what else does Alvarez have in store for us? Advance…
Some eight years ago, I had the privilege of experiencing Mike Flanagan’s Hush in a movie theater during a film festival. And then it went away to a streaming service. Very soon, you will be able to experience Hush, which feels like a forgotten classic, when it debuts on digital for the first time ever, courtesy of Shout! Studios. I hope that you are able to turn up the volume to 11, though I’m afraid that your home may be shaken off its foundation. That was my experience when I saw the movie — played thunderously loud — at an Alamo Drafthouse cinema in Austin, Texas, where it was premiering during the South By Southwest film festival in 2016. By that point, we’d all heard…
Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, the new version stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, and Anthony Ramos.
The 28th Fantasia International Film Festival runs from July 18 to August 4 in a hot hot hot Montreal. For those of us located in North America, it is one of our favourite times of the year. Due to its generous size, and its plethora of extracurricular activities, is lovingly referred to by long time attendees as the ‘summer camp for genre nerds.’ Given the high enthusiasm, and volume, of its audiences – who are willing to embrace anything, no matter how weird or familiar, Fantasia is a welcome reminder of the pleasure of watching movies in the theatre – with an audience who would not want to be anywhere else. Over the course of three weeks, there is a veritable cornucopia of World Premieres,…
Metrograph Pictures is releasing Jérémy Clapin’s sci-fi drama, Meanwhile on Earth, in cinemas on September 13th. A 23 year-old girl is contacted by an unknown life form claiming to be able to bring her older brother safely back to Earth, who disappeared during a space mission. Metrograph released the trailer today. Check it out below the long synopsis. Meanwhile on Earth also happens to be playing at Fantasia next week on the 22nd, for its North American premiere. From the director of I LOST MY BODY (Academy Award®-nominated Best Animated Feature) comes a thrilling new sci-fi vision Metrograph Pictures will release MEANWHILE ON EARTH in theaters September 13, 2024 Elsa (Megan Northam, in her debut feature starring role), along with…
A Quebecois entry into the vast array of short film blocks that make up part of the schedule at Fantasia this year. This time we’ve got an existential comedy short called Bangs from Montreal-based comedy duo Emelia Hellman and Nancy Webb. Bangs will play during the Mieux vaut en Rire program, part of Fantasia Festival’s Fantastiques week-ends du cinéma québécois. The teaser was passed along, you can check it out down below. Montreal-based comedy duo Emelia Hellman and Nancy Webb (Hellgirl Productions) bring their paranoia-fueled short Bangs to Fantasia Festival’s Fantastiques week-ends du cinéma québécois this summer for the film’s Canadian premiere. Birthdays are hard. What is it about turning 30 that has us groping for answers in the dark, only to find…