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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, the new version stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, and Anthony Ramos.

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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An out of the blue announcement from Frontieres but it totally makes sense. One of the often unnoticed parts of making a movie are the invaluable contributions of music composers and editors. Frontieres is going to bring some much needed attention to the topic with a newly announced music section.   Two composers and two editors from Montreal will be introduced to the market attendees next week. They are listed in the announcement below.    FRONTIÈRES ANNOUNCES NEW MUSIC SECTION   With one week to go before we gather in Montréal at our Co-Production Market, Frontières is proud to announce a new pitching section dedicated to music. The Music Pitches will introduce our audience to Montréal-based music composers and music editors.    This new section…

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Damian McCarthy’s supernatural thriller stars Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Jonathan French, and Steve Wall.

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