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Whistle: Exclusive Video Interview with Director Corin Hardy

©Independent Film Company Check out more of YouTube Channel  Horror comes in many forms. And while the dead/death has prayed on unsuspecting teens for quite some time, it has always stalked from some very specific sources. Now, death has a very special all, in the form of an Aztec death whistle. Such devices are part…

Austin Butler to Play Lance Armstrong in Biopic from Director Edward Berger, Producer Scott Stuber

Photo by Kyle Kaplan/Focus Features/Kyle Kaplan/Focus Features – © 2024 Focus Features, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Austin Butler is about to begin his Tour de France, portraying Lance Armstrong, the racing legend who lost his reputation due to a doping scandal. Edward Berger, who directed “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Conclave,” is set to…

Sundance Film Festival Video Review: Josephine

Check out more of Our YouTube Channel  Matthew Schuchman : In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an early age, he would turn…

Lionsgate Reportedly Greenlights Colman Domingo’s ‘Unforgettable’ Biopic About Nat King Cole

Photo by David Lee/Netflix – © 2022 Netflix, Inc. Two-time Oscar nominee Colman Domingo is reportedly set to star in Unforgettable, a musical biopic about the life of singer Nat King Cole. According to Deadline, Domingo will also be directing and producing the film for Lionsgate. Domingo had also co-written the script for the stage play…

Monarch : Legacy of Monsters / Season 2 Official Trailer / Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Anna Sawai

©Courtesy of Apple TV+ At the Apple TV Press Day, the cast of “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” took the stage to unveil the official trailer for the highly anticipated second season of the global hit Monsterverse series from Legendary Television. Starring Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Joe Tippett…

Dandelion’s Odyssey, at Animation First 2026

“Life finds a way” Dr. Ian Malcolm (a.k.a. Jeff Goldblum) famously said in Jurassic Park. He was talking about sterilized dinosaurs, but it applies to post-apocalyptic dandelions as well. They might be one man’s weeds, or another man’s flowers, but four intrepid seed-bearing pappi will travel the universe in search of a safe place to…

Meryl Streep Reportedly Set to Play Joni Mitchell in Cameron Crowe’s Biopic

©Courtesy of 20th Century Studios According to record producer Clive Davis, Meryl Streep will play the role of Joni Mitchell in Cameron Crowe’s upcoming biopic about the iconic singer. Streep had been rumored to be starring in the film since last summer, when it was also reported that Anya Taylor-Joy would be playing the younger…

Sundance Film Festival : Burn / Exclusive Interview with Writer/Director Makoto Nagahisa

Burn : When runaway teen Ju-Ju is embraced by a tribe of misfit youths in Kabukicho, she finds belonging for the first time — until betrayal and despair twist her haven into a prison, and she’s left with one way to take back control. An extreme juxtaposition of formal radiance and narrative dread, Makoto Nagahisa’s…

Sundance Film Festival: Chris Pine Shines In Disappointing Drama Carousel

@Courtesy of Sundance Film festival After Sometimes I Think About Dying starring Daisy Ridley, the director Rachel Lambert comes back to the Sundance Film festival with another movie exploring the complexity of human relationships. Carousel tells the story of Noah (Chris Pine), a divorced doctor living in Cleveland, struggling with his job and in particular…

“The Youth Killer”, “The Man Who Stole the Sun,” Director Kazuhiko Hasegawa Passed Away

©Courtesy of “The Youth Killer” Film director Kazuhiko Hasegawa, known for works such as “The Youth Killer” and “The Man Who Stole the Sun,” died yesterday, January 31, at a hospital in Tokyo due to multiple organ failure caused by aspiration pneumonia, Kyodo News reported. He was 80. Born January 5, 1946, in Hiroshima Prefecture,…

Sundance Film Festival: Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! Dances Gracefully Through Grief and Renewal

Dancing can have a profoundly inspiring effect on anyone willing to embrace its transformative benefits. That’s certainly the case for the protagonist of Haru, a recent widow who uses the physical movements to come out of mourning, in the new romantic dramedy, Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! Josef Kubota Wladyka directed and produced, and also co-wrote…