Paolo Sorrentino, the Oscar-winning Italian director, returns with Parthenope, a visually opulent that serves as both a love letter to Naples and a very male exploration of womanhood through the intertwining lenses of myth and modernity.
Early on in Bookworm, a doctor struggles to have a conversation with a child about her injured mother. The medical professional tries to ease the child’s anxiety and kind of makes a fool of himself, because the young girl just wants a straight answer, “I just want to be told the truth.” Right out of the gate, it is clear that Ant Timpson’s ‘anti-bubble-wrap’ wilderness adventure is going to be about words, and how they matter, as much (perhaps more) than the outdoor adventure put up on screen. The child at the centre of the film is Mildred (Nell Fisher), a precocious 11 year old. She is the kind kid who reads Charles Dickens, and is comfortable using big words and crisp, cutting diction…
Two members of a defunct neo-Nazi metal band reunite at the site of their bandmate’s suicide. One sinks into depravity and grievance and one tries to atone for what he has done. What ensues is an occult battle of wills between two men who have done terrible things as one tries to lure the other back into the movement, unleashing the animals that hide inside them. Wolves Against The World, the second film in Quinn Armstrong’s ‘Fresh Hell’ trilogy will be available On Demand and in select theaters starting September 3rd. A red band trailer was sent out today, check it out down below. The first film, a converison horror flick called The Exorcism of Saint Patrick, will be coming out (no pun intended)…
I remain ever a fan of taking a compelling still frame form the film itself, and composing it into key art. Below is the poster for Yakuza drama, Tatsumi, in which leads Yûya Endô and Kokoro Morita offer each other intense stares. Above is the source image which is presumably taken directly from the film, and not a publicity shot. I love how the vertical crop frames her hair. The graphic designer has upped the saturation, contrast, and grain of the image for effect, but preserves the core image, without adding additional layers. The title card is nested between the bridges of their noses (including a vertical column of english text). The arm of her sweater has been ‘pinked up’ a bit to provide contrast…
Nikou opened up about the process how his film got made with help from Cate Blanchett, the influence of Charlie Kaufman, rom-com and the inevitable topic, Yorgos Lanthimos.
Ella Rae Peck, Rigo Garay, John Speredakos and Lorraine Farris star in the home invasion thriller, directed by Chris Skotchdopole, from Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix.
Here is something to keep an eye out for, Purgatory Jack, a Canadian ‘neo-noir mystery thriller set in the afterlife’ from The Butler Brothers, Brett and Jason. Private detective Jack Marlin is working on a new case. He has to help a pop star find her mother who committed suicide twenty years earlier. Purgatory Jack had a lengthy and successful festival run, picking up some awards while on tour, and now its up for international sales from Black Mandala. The pic was produced by our friends over at Hanger 18 Media, the production arm of Raven Banner Entertainment and 9 Light Entertainment. Check out the trailer and a trio of stills down below. Black Mandala presents a neo-noir mystery thriller, “PURGATORY JACK”,…
Unfortunately for all of us in the Northern hemisphere Summer is still heating up but cooler months are on the horizon. Shudder is also bringing some heat to small screens with three noteworthy feature films, televison and repertory programming. Hell Hole is having its World Premiere at Fantasia this month then will stream across all territories on Shudder. You may want to refer to our links of coverage below of Kimo Stamboel’s horror flick Dancing Village: The Curse Begins. And one of last year’s more unique offerings from the festival circuit was Eddie Alcazar’s Divinity. We can assure you there is nothing like it playing on Shudder that month. The series Horror’s Greatest looks at the best that horror has to offer, from around the…
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…