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Years before taking on screenwriting gigs like the 2019 Disney live action remake of Lady and the Tramp, writer-director Andrew Bujalski was known among early-2000s cinephiles as the ‘Godfather of mumblecore’. That subgenre of film not too dissimilar from Trier & Vinterberg’s Dogme 95 Manifesto for its emphasis on shoestring budgets and improvised dialogue or performances, mumblecore caught fire in 2002 with Bujalski’s debut Funny Ha Ha. Generally his films are set in the present day and concern younger characters, but with his fourth feature film Computer Chess he embarked on his first period piece with acute attention to minute details signifying the dawn of what would or would not evolve into what we know as the digital age. Set in 1980, Computer Chess begins
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Image Courtesy of Third Window FilmsUjicha is not well known outside of Japan, with his films not getting much play outside of film festivals. He uses a style of animation called Gekimation which consists of stylized and detailed cut outs that are paraded around over lush backgrounds. Gekiga, the root word, refers to adult-oriented manga and Ujicha's work is similar in that it uses whimsical and colorful deigns to tell brutal and nihilistic stories. On paper it sounds simplistic, but in practice, it is quite striking and compelling. Each character has hundreds of variations and Ujicha likes to use real liquids to represent body fluids like blood, vomit, and pus. This mixed media style approach feels like fourth-wall breaking, taking the characters from paper to organic real life.Burning B
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As the world is readied for a new cinematic G.I. Joe film centered around Snake Eyes, it looks like Amazon will continue to expand on the mythology surrounding the franchise. The streaming service is readying a new project that will bring the heroic Lady Jaye to the front lines in a new live action television series. Word just broke via Deadline a few minutes ago that Amazon is in the early stages of creating a new project that is being developed by Erik Oleson, who is currently attached as showrunner on Carnival Row. Paramount Television Studios has partnered with eOne and Skydance Television to get the latest G.I. Joe media release off the ground. G.I. Joe was last seen in two films that didn't really light the box office on fire. The first one was critically ravaged and starred Ch
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The fates haven’t been particularly kind or fair to Nicholas Jarecki’s ensemble opioid epidemic drama Crisis. Shot in early 2019 in Detroit and Montreal, the film was delayed for a year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic followed by a still developing scandal involving one of the film’s principal actors. That’s a real shame because at the end of the day, Jarecki’s film is a quite good offering in the drug war subgenre of films as well as prominently featuring yet another stellar performance from the gifted actor Gary Oldman. The film isn’t quite up to par with Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic but finds its own footing in the genre anyhow. Concerning three interlocking stories, Crisis follows a drug trafficker/federal agent named Jake Kelly (Armie Hammer) who arranges a
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Distrust of the government has been an amplifying theme of American culture since its revolutionary inception. Cultural themes are constantly reflected in cinema, expressions of generations in distress, lost in the political machinations of the rich and powerful. The 1970's is widely considered to be the most daring decade of American film. Studios, not yet absorbed by theme park illusion, backed maverick auteurs and reputed madmen, allowing them to make passion projects and scathing refutations of the systems in which they labored. From this creative miasma, the conspiracy thriller rose to prominence. While Russia and the USA shadowboxed, citizens lived in fear of spies, communists, governments, and other media born nightmares and a rogue's gallery of
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Courtesy of HasbroThis week has been a lot of good news for fans of Paramount and their intellectual properties. We've learned about new shows, movies, and so much more. And the ride isn't over yet. Autobots roll out, there is a new animated Transformers series on the way. Yes, another animated Transformers series is coming. Nickelodeon and Hasbro’s Entertainment One are teaming up to produce at least twenty-six half-hour episodes. The show is described as an action-comedy about a new group of Transformers trying to find their place in world full of Autobots, Decepticons, and the humans they befriend along the way. The new series will be produced by Ant Ward and Nicole Dubuc, who have been involved with previous Transformers and Ninja Turtles shows for the network and Hasbro.&nb
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image courtesy MTVIt's been years since Beavis and Butthead left their mark on the pop culture landscape, but now it seems that the pair of trouble making doofuses will be landing back in cinemas and streaming via Paramount. The two have just posted to the internet that they are making a comeback in the form of a new movie from the giant film production house. With details highly scarce on we're they're heading this time, it looks like Mike Judge may return as writer, producer, and voice actor. The duo wouldn't be the same without their creator at the helm and behind the voices. There is no release date set in stone yet but they did leave their own message on the web that teases their upcoming relaunch. (function() { var zergnet = document.createElement('script');
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Beavis and Butthead signed new contracts to come back for a new movie!
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Paramount has ordered a new Pet Sematary Movie
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image courtesy Universal PicturesWe live in an era when nostalgia is all the rage, seemingly every franchise is getting a high-profile movie reboot, and after about a decade of lying dormant, Doom is once again alive and well as a current fan-favorite series. It seems like the obvious choice for a big-budget, big-screen rebooted Doom movie to come out right about now, to go with the Mortal Kombatreboot coming to theaters and HBO Max this April, and the Resident Evil reboot that is right around the corner. But for some reason, that's not what Universal Studios was interested in doing – instead, a bit over a year ago, at what would seem like the height of the revived video game franchise's resurgence, they chose to quietly slip a low-budget, direct-to-VOD Doom reboot out into the world with
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Writer-director Jacob Chase produced and directed a number of short films over the last decade before unleashing the terrifying 2017 short horror film Larry about a parking lot attendant who one night receives a mysterious children’s book on his cellphone that seems to summon a demon. As the pages turn, lights flicker in the booth and a shadowy silhouetted figure begins to appear in the parking lot. So effective was this little five-minute short film, it was only a matter of time before the film’s writer director would inevitably reshape this short film into a feature. That feature, now including newly added supporting characters and a fully fledged plotline which still includes but expands upon the ingredients of the short film, ultimately became the 2020 PG-13 ra
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image courtesy Constantin FilmThe trend of modern horror remakes continues with the release of the latest movie in the long running Wrong Turn franchise. This latest effort looks to kick start the entire property all over from a fresh launching point that abandons much of what was the core idea of the original series. In 2021, we've traded in one genre trope for another in a reboot that's a pure hybrid of slasher terror, folk horror, and brain bashing gore. Although it's nowhere near perfect, it's an ambitious little gem at the beginning of the year that bare minimum serves up a plateful of modern social commentary alongside its full spectrum of carnage, torture and flesh tearing mayhem. When a fresh group of liberal minded college grads head into the Appalachians for some
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image courtesy Disney/LucasfilmIt's been an insane couple weeks for fans of The Mandalorian. It appears that galactic civil war is breaking out via social media over Disney's firing of Gina Carano from the hit streaming series. Again, this isn't a political page, so we're not going to comment on either side of the story because that's just not our place and we'd rather keep it straight and simple and clean. Now, Carano has attempted to hit back at the global entertainment conglomerate with details on how some of the drama shook out. After her divisive social media posts about anti-masking and voter fraud were posted, Disney attempted to tighten their grip on the actresses' social media posting. She continued. There's where things began to get ugly. She ultimately refused to bend
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The graphic novel has generally made for some incredible and daring big screen cinema or televised adaptations over the last decade, including but not limited to A History of Violence and Oldboy. Nine times out of ten a hit comes out of the illustrated book form. In the case of The Empty Man, however, based on the Boom! Studios graphic novel of the same name by writer Cullen Bunn and artist Vanesa R. Del Rey, the film which came of it was completed in 2017 only to sit on the shelf for another three years before being dumped into empty theaters in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. What happened here? On the surface it looks like another modern supernatural thriller about an ex-cop named James (James Badge Dale) still coping with witnessing the death of his wife
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(Image Courtesy of Shudder)What would you do for 15 minutes of fame? Would you give up your friends? Your family? How well do you even know the people around you? These are the questions asked of Mia (Daisye Tutor) during one horrific evening of dog sitting in Jennifer Harrington's Shook. Mia is a burgeoning social media superstar. Becoming semi-famous after regularly promoting cosmetic products on her various socials under the name @makeupbymia, she and her friends go to elaborate lengths to keep up the facade, including staging red carpet premieres and lying to each other about their occupations. Unknown to her friends, Mia's mother has just passed away from a rare condition known as Livingston's Disease. Not much is known about the illness other than it causes a swift deterioratio
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“Are you there God? It’s me, Maud.”As someone who grew up very religious and then became atheist in my early twenties, I understand that the world feels completely different when you are religious. You see signs everywhere, demons could be anywhere, and mysticism permeates your viewpoint. Deconverting felt like getting out from the pool, the cold clarity of logic and reality hitting my senses like a shock to the system. Saint Maud (2021) explores what can happen when religious fervour overtakes one’s perception and the consequences of completely detaching from reality. Katie (Morfydd Clark), a young nurse, has a traumatic experience trying to save a dying patient. Afterwards she converts to Roman Catholicism and changes her name to Maud (possibly a reference to Saint Matilda, t
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image courtesy WBAhead of its premiere on HBO Max, the upcoming animated series called Gremlins: The Secrets of the Mogwai is being greenlit for a second season. Deadline has reported that the show is already being handed more episodes ahead of its initial release. Just a day ago it was confirmed that Ming-Na Wen, BD Wong, and Matthew Rhys have all joined the voice cast of the prequel series. This new animated run will take place in the 1920s and will tell of a ten year old Sam Wing (Mr. Wing in the original movie) as he learns to raise a baby Mogwai. The show will be an adventure based series that will see him traverse the countryside battling creatures from Chinese lore. His adventures see him paired with a young Gizmo as they confront an evil industrialist and his band of vicious
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Despite having worked recently on the aging drama Edie back in 2017, you probably haven’t heard of British writer-director Simon Hunter. Though only having two other feature film projects to his name including Mutant Chronicles, the filmmaker struck out on his own in 1999 with the largely forgotten Cornwall set gothic slasher Lighthouse or Dead of Night depending on the territory. An ensemble survival horror thriller which came years before Robert Eggers’ mystifying horror film of the same name, Lighthouse is that rare overlooked debut which doesn’t reinvent the wheel but offers up a lush gothic horror tale in one of the most remote settings for a horror film that isn’t within the arctic. A simple an
