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The band Suicide Disease is in a creative rut. They have not played a show in ages, nor have they written any new material. Lead singer Jay is convinced writing new songs is the answer. Bandmates John, Menace and Juan feel very strongly about getting back on the road and touring. However, there is a compromise they can all agree on. Their manager AJ has found someone through their socials that has offered to direct a music video for them, for free. That is an enticing offer when you have not been touring, making any money. The band is broke and a free music video can keep them current.    The band travels out of state, with some of their girlfriends along for the ride….

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The series is now streaming on Apple TV+.

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Talia Zucker and Ashley Zukerman star in a demented and nutty thriller, directed by Will Howarth and Tom McKeith.

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In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: Fran Perea’s Carnaval, directed by Álex de la Iglesia. Álex de la Iglesia’s sole music video, for Fran Perea’s Carnaval, seems fitting almost to the extent of self-parody. If any word would describe a lot of De la Iglesia’s movies, it’s carnivalesque. The Last Circus has clown characters, Witching and Bitching has a heist in weird costumes (there is a Jesus bank robber and a Spongebob bank robber) and pagan parties, and Veneciafrenia is a slasher based on bal masques in Venice. There is a sense of excess to the films of De la Iglesia, with a focus on the grotesques, caricatures and silliness. Costumes, circusses,…

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Recently restored, Murdering the Devil is a Czech film from 1970. It’s an absolute delight. Art director and costume designer Ester Krumbachová’s first and only film was credited with shaping the look of the Czech New Wave. It packs a strong satirical punch to domesticity and gender roles, with most of the scenes taking place in a woman’s house. Namely, she’s unnamed. Played by Jirina Bohdalová, she isn’t as young as she once was. She wants romance and, ideally, a husband. She’s an excellent cook, and this movie will make you gungy. Many of the shots linger on roasted meats, bubbling sauces, sugary desserts. She will seduce him through his stomach. “Him” is Mr. Theo Devil (Vladimír Mensikí). Mr. Devil, a supposed heartthrob from her…

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Professional couple Sage and Diego check in to their weekend rental, a literal mansion by a lake. Before they can say that it is almost too good to be true a younger, hotter couple, Matt and Cin, walk through the door. Seems they have been booked the same weekend. Rather than give up a whole weekend in a luxurious home they agree to share, there is more than enough room for everyone. Good times are had but soon inhibitions are challenged and truths are twisted. Someone has come to this weekend rental with deadly intentions and a game of survival has begun.    Sex and Violence. It is track 7 on the 1981 album Punks Not Dead by Scottish punk band The Exploited. Mercedes Bryce…

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Typography is no stranger to the design of Brady Corbet’s “Monumental” new film, The Brutalist. The credits in both the film, and its recent trailer, do interesting things. This carries into this iconic poster, with the Statue of Liberty upside down, and framed in a spiral of type, from the one word pull-quote to the title, cast, and above the line credits. 2024 is shaping up to be the year where poster designers stop putting the full traditional credit bocks in their key art….

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Masahiro Shinoda’s 1979 folk-horror apocalypse enters the Criterion Collection.

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If you hike or bike in city, state, or federal parks regularly, you’re likely familiar with a simple, potentially life-saving rule: Always, and we do mean always, leave information behind as to where you’re hiking or biking and when you’re expected back. That way, at least, your loved ones and/or whoever comes looking for you (i.e., a co-worker when you stop showing up for work) knows where to look and how long you’ve been missing. And if you didn’t know that rule, you know it now. In Adam Schindler and Brian Netto’s backwoods thriller, Don’t Move, Iris (Kelsey Asbille, Wind River), a grieving mother and wife, disregards that rule, awakening one morning, her brain fogged by the loss of her preteen son (seen via photo…

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We’re always on the lookout for any Indigenous genre projects from anywhere around the World, but specifically here in Canada and Turtle Island. When news of a teen sci-fi called Dream Walker from Algonquin filmmaker Sarah Kelley crossed our desk we knew we had to share it with you.   … Finley Green embarks on a perilous journey to find her mother, navigating the turbulence of foster care and betrayal. Arriving in the misty town of Oceanside, Oregon, she forms a fragile bond with her roommate Charlotte, and is drawn to the charming but deceptive Jude. Just as she begins to hope for a brighter future, Jude’s betrayal shatters her world—he drugs her and delivers her to The Foundation, where teens with extraordinary abilities are held against…

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