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By now, most of us are familiar with the myth of the wish-granting genie: Find a magic lamp, rub the side of it and out pops a smoky creature who will make your dreams come true. Popularized by stories like Disney’s Aladdin and Sidney Sheldon’s I Dream of Jeannie, these whimsical apparitions we have come to love have their origins in the much darker tales of the djinn.Although the exact origin of the djinn is unknown, myths surrounding these supernatural creatures date back to pre-Islamic Arabia. Tales of their characteristics vary from benevolent beings capable of great magic, to evil shape-shifters who can possess the vulnerable and steal children. Islamic era scholars have described the djinn as beings made of a smokeless fire, created by God himself, eventually cast out and forced to
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“The day I come to believe the world is just a hunting ground, life will lose all meaning for me.”Jorge Grau’s Hunting Ground is a nasty bit of nihilism that combines a crime thriller with a home invasion film. While most of the film is played fairly straightforward, the third act plunges headfirst into exploitation territory with some truly heinous acts depicted in their full glory. The tale follows Adele (Assumpta Serna), a defense lawyer who has a very analytical and logical view on crime and criminals. In her mind, many criminals are victims of their poor environments and lack of money and upbringing, and she fights for them to get lighter sentences with a chance for rehabilitation. While the points she brings up are excellent (and in real life are backed up with research and stu
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There is a lot to unpack in the allegory of Annette, a collaborative effort between director Leos Carax and the band Sparks, whose music breathes through the film as a living entity and whose screenplay infuses the narrative with metatextual, Nietzschean philosophical concepts and emotional metaphors. Framed as a voyeuristic fantasy, Annette tells the story of the forces of both internal and external angst, driving egotistical male rage as it stuffs the already-overflowing celebrity skin with hubris and empty cruelties. As its characters descend into a madness that chains them to the blackest depths of the abyss – an abyss that stares back into them, as much from the real-world theatre as it does their own metaphysical realities – we are witness to the deterioration of personhood as
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Let's start this off by saying we're not reporting that he's going to star as the title character. But it's breaking that George Clooney and his Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov have just boarded the Legendary Pictures reboot of Buck Rogers as producers on the upcoming slate of projects. It's been in the developmental phases for some time now. While we cannot confirm any of the news other than what The Hollywood Reporter has posted tonight, rumors are swirling that Clooney is also looking to star as the classic science fiction adventure character. Legendary is working on numerous projects including a television series, a movie franchise and an animated show. Brian K. Vaughan is currently writing the first project which seems to be the TV part of a continued Buck Rogers
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As The Duffer Bros. begin to wind down work on their final, extended season of the hit show Stranger Things, it looks like they're officially beginning to develop a new project for Netflix. The pair have now signed a deal alongside Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment to turn Stephen King's The Talisman into a new series on the streaming outlet. Paramount Television Studios is actively pushing to adapt the book as a multi-season show on the streamer. Stranger Things writer and executive producer Curtis Gwinn will be writing and serving as the showrunner on the series. Matt and Ross Duffer will be on board as producers via their Monkey Massacre Productions creative banner. Apparently, Spielberg himself may be also boarding in a producer role for The Talisman. Stephen King him
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photo courtesy WB The U.S. domestic box office showed signs this weekend in the form of two mega-monsters. The film from Warner Bros. and director Adam Wingard has gone on to gross the biggest opening weekend since the beginning of the global pandemic. As people get a little more comfortable heading back out into the public, theaters are finally seeing some lifeblood flow in the form of ticket sales. The long awaited dual between Godzilla and Kong ended up bringing in roughly $48 million over the extended Easter weekend which means the summer blockbuster season may start to heat up. This is also a good sign that the dual streaming and theatrical openings are actually working. While it's not nearly what the movie would have done during normal times, it's definitely a step in the right
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Courtesy of Warner MediaAs the streaming wars rage on, HBO Max is bringing in a heavy hitter to assure streaming dominance. After only a few years, they've already announced an upcoming True Blood reboot that will hit their HBO Max streaming service. Not only that but now they are looking to bring back Carrie Bradshaw and her friends for a new limited event run of Sex and the City, known as And Just Like That. The show, which ran for six seasons, spawned two movies, a CW spin-off, and a Chinese version that only ran for one season in 2012. Now, the media outlet is going to bring back the show as a sequel to the original run that will continue the stories of Bradshaw and her friends as they traverse the New York landscape, sipping drinks and shopping for the latest fashions. And
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When it comes to killers, there are all different kinds: male, female; young, old; handsome, hideous. While there are patterns many of them follow, you can never quite be certain if the person walking past you on the street is a murderer based on looks alone. They usually look like us, go to the same places as us, and do the same activities as us.In Vicious Fun, we see this notion brought to screen, coated with a thick layer of '80s horror nostalgia for added style. Joel (Evan Marsh) is a horror film critic whose life essentially becomes a horror film after a night of bad decisions. Pining after his beautiful roommate, Joel’s compelled to follow her dreamy, charismatic boyfriend Bob (Ari Millen) to a Chinese restaurant, where he gets so drunk t
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Steven Adam Renkovish's feature debut is a landmark dissertation on the nature of bereavement and the private, unknowable terrors of mental illness. Working with virtually no budget, Renkovish and his rogue's gallery of cast and crew have managed to create a singular work of art that blends the sensitivities of Bergman, the nihilism of Von Trier, and the subtle wrongness of Roeg. The result is a cinematic dirge that explores grief as a character more than a concept and how its existence affects those who remain in the wake of a tragedy. Featuring an unforgettable central performance, an ambiance of dread, and immaculate visual compositions, The Awakening of Lilith is one of the most sobering viewing experiences of the year. Lilith loses a loved one unexpe
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The post Asian Movie Review – Jiang Ziya (姜子牙) appeared first on The Scribbling Geek.Jiang Ziya (2020) review. An inventive expansion of the ending of Investiture of the Gods. One that manages to include several modern themes.The post Asian Movie Review – Jiang Ziya (姜子牙) appeared first on The Scribbling Geek.
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With theaters still hurting from the pandemic, re-releases of big budget movies seem to continue drumming up interest. It's been announced that the Lord of the Rings trilogy remaster will be in IMAX cinemas beginning tomorrow. The Peter Jackson film trilogy went on to earn nearly $3 billion in its theatrical run and will now get another proper cinematic jaunt as it hits most major theater chains beginning on Friday, February 5th 2021. Considering there are no big studio releases this weekend, this could prove to be a success with no other real competition. After this trilogy garnered such massive successes, Jackson went on to a three movie arc around The Hobbit. Amazon is currently working on their very own Lord of the Rings television series that is said to have a massive budg
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Not too long ago a new Resident Evil movie and television series were announced. When the pandemic broke out, things went awfully silent for a while. Well it looks like we're finally starting to get more details about the brand new RE movie as horror director Johannes Roberts is finally breaking his silence about his movie. His previous works include the two 47 Meters down shark attack movies and the sequel The Strangers: Prey at Night. He's moved on to bigger things by taking on the Resident Evil franchise and will hopefully continue on with more sequels. Just yesterday it was announced that the new film will be called Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City. It's been said that this will play much more closely to the source material. Roberts revealed at SXSW that this will be
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Stop me if you think you've heard this one before..... This spring’s release of Shoplifters Of The World drops on streaming this weekend after several delays amid a global pandemic that’s seen the indie film world struggle to cope. This tongue in cheek copycat of Airheads (1994) is a disappointing effort that won’t even satisfy die hard Smiths fans like myself. Instead, the movie is a ninety minute affair in the purest of annoyances. The dialogue is not natural and stilted. Characters are one sided caricatures of routinely standard ‘80s tropes, personal sexuality is assaulted by terrible cliches and branding, all the while attempting to cash in on current retro trends.Paired with awful acting and writing all around, the only saving grace is the soundtrack by The Smiths, whi
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After seeing the trailer a while back for UNDERGODS I couldn’t wait to check out the movie that looked different from a lot of the movies that I’ve been watching, it looked dark and sinister. In a futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, K and Z roam the streets on the lookout for corpses and something even more […]
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We’ve got some more movie release, poster and trailer news for you today folks as Lightbulb Film Distribution has shared with us the poster and trailer for the new horror film, My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To, which will be coming to Digital Download from June 28. Following its world premiere at […]
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Amazing news in the charts this week as it’s God Vs King as Godzilla vs. Kong battles to Number 1 on the Official Film Chart, stomping up two places from its Number 3 debut last week. On digital downloads only the film triumphs over two big recent releases; former Number 1 Zack Snyder’s Justice League […]
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The post Movie Review – The Hunt (2020) appeared first on The Scribbling Geek.The Hunt movie review. Absurd, over-the-top, and suitably gory, this socio-political satire is all out to mock. With not an ounce of reservation.The post Movie Review – The Hunt (2020) appeared first on The Scribbling Geek.
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The post Singapore Halloween 2020 | Still a Pumpkin-full of Things to Enjoy appeared first on The Scribbling Geek.We are still in Phase 2 of the COVID-19 reopening. But that doesn’t mean there are no activities and games to enjoy for Singapore Halloween 2020.The post Singapore Halloween 2020 | Still a Pumpkin-full of Things to Enjoy appeared first on The Scribbling Geek.
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Courtesy: Scream Factory1976's King Kong has enjoyed quite the critical re-evaluation in recent years, and deservedly so. For a long time its sole cultural legacy was that of a notorious Hollywood flop that almost ended Jessica Lange's career before it started, and stood alongside Dune as proof for many that producer Dino De Laurentiis could not be trusted to successfully helm a Hollywood blockbuster. But in recent years, the internet discourse around De Laurentiis's Kong has changed significantly, as people have revisited the film for the first time in years and had the collective reaction, "hey, wait a second, this is actually pretty good!" That was certainly my experience when I watched it in the early days of social distancing about a year ago.Courtesy: ParamountTo be clear, it
