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Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Presented by Oaklawn Announces Film Line-Up for Its 32nd Edition   (October 6-14)  

PRESS RELEASE Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Presented by Oaklawn announces film lineup for its 32nd edition (October 6-14) Adam Harbottle and Brian Hill’s RELENTLESS RIDE opens,  Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’s THE MISSION is the Centerpiece selection, and Michèle Stephenson & Joe Brewster’s GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT gets the closing slot Mary…

Movie Review: Hercule Poirot Overcomes the Ghosts of His Past in A Haunting in Venice’s Suspenseful Atmosphere

The most timeless, classic crime thrillers are those that possess the ability to highlight their characters’ humanity in all situations, even the most dangerous or criminal ones. Agatha Christie became the most widely published author of all time in part because of her innate ability to show empathy to all of her characters, no matter…

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Final Trailer : Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone

Apple Original Films today unveiled the key art for Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated “Killers of the Flower Moon,” and announced that the film will open wide, simultaneously in theaters around the world, in partnership with Paramount Pictures, on Friday, October 20. Following its global theatrical run, the film will debut on Apple TV+. Starring a…

Brad Anderson to Direct Seventh Film in the ‘Living Dead’ Franchise

Shooting is expected to begin later this year on Twilight of the Dead, the “seventh and final installment” of the Living Dead franchise. Brad Anderson will be sitting in the director’s chair, says an exclusive story in the Hollywood Reporter. The screenplay for the new film is being written by a trio of scribes: Joe…

HBO Pushes ‘True Detective: Night Story’ Debut To January 2024

HBO’s True Detective: Night Country is being delayed until January 2024, probably due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strikes, though no reason has been officially given. The fourth installment in the crime anthology series starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis was originally slated to debut earlier in 2023. The series, which features different sets of investigators…

‘Equalizer’ Director Antoine Fuqua Open to ‘De-Aging’ Robert McCall in a Prequel

Antoine Fuqua, the director of The Equalizer 3, hints that he is open to using de-aging technology to making a prequel film about a younger Robert McCall. In a recent interview with Chris Bumbray of JoBlo, Fuqua suggested that likely candidates for the role might be Michael B. Jordan or John David Washington, Denzel’s son….

Fantastic Fest Announces a Sinfully Good 2023 Feature Programming Lineup and More!

FANTASTIC FEST ANNOUNCES A SINFULLY GOOD 2023 LINEUP, OPENING THE FEST WITH THE WORLD PREMIERE OF LEGENDARY PICTURES’ OUTRAGEOUS ‘THE TOXIC AVENGER’ AND THE WORLD PREMIERE OF PRIME VIDEO AND BLUMHOUSE’S TIME-TRAVELING SLASHER ‘TOTALLY KILLER’ AS CLOSING NIGHT FILM Paramount+’s PET SEMATARY: BLOODLINES, 20th Century Studios’ THE CREATOR, NEON’s EILEEN, Netflix’s THE FALL OF THE HOUSE…

WIF : Q&A with Actress Sally Field, Producers Tamara Asseyev and Alexandra Rose on “Norma Rae”  

WIF (Women in Film) hosted a screening of Norma Rae (1979) at Vidiots in Los Angeles. The screening served as the kickoff to WIF’s Screening Series celebrating iconic films by the decade made by women and people of underrepresented genders in honor of the organization’s 50th anniversary. Lake Bell moderated a panel discussion with the film’s…

Interview With Barrett Wissman on The 69th Taormina Film Festival

Italian writer Leonardo Sciascia in his novel The Day of the Owl (Il giorno della civetta) wrote “You must go to Sicily to see how incredible Italy is.” The book — adapted for the screen by Damiano Damiani in 1968 — is about a series of murders committed by the Mafia and the struggle of…

Japan Cuts / Tokyo Melody: A Film about Ryuichi Sakamoto : Exclusive Interview with Director Elizabeth Lennard

Synopsis : Filmmaker and photographer Elizabeth Lennard secures unprecedented access to Ryuichi Sakamoto during the recording of his 1984 album Ongaku Zukan in this brief-yet-insightful Franco-Japanese television co-production. A sampling of studio sessions and performances (including a piano duet with then-wife Akiko Yano), archival footage and talking head interviews, Tokyo Melody finds the eccentric artist at…