Month: January 2024

Filmmaker Rose Glass has an audacious way of exploring obsession, pushing it to extremes in beguiling, genre-defying ways. Her feature debut, Saint Maud, centered on a nurse who took her religious fanaticism to extremes, compounded by an obsession with her latest patient. Glass’s sophomore effort, Love Lies Bleeding, wields obsession as a destructive coping mechanism for the pain that
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So, here we are in mid-January, and though we’re staring down the barrel of a tough year ahead, it’s not all wintry doom and gloom on an international box office (and combined global) level.  While we’re not in blockbuster holdover territory, we should celebrate the wins when they come. To wit, there was a new
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Death isn’t forever in comics. In 2003, Jean Grey died during an iconic run on New X-Men by acclaimed writer Grant Morrison. Since then, that version of Grey has been dead, but this December, Grey will return in the five-issue miniseries Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey. Gallery The new story written by Matthew
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This year marks the 45th anniversary of Don Coscarelli’s horror classic Phantasm, and Coscarelli has joined forces with Dark Delicacies for new book PHICTION: Tales from the World of Phantasm. The book is described as “a new limited collector print edition of original stories written by Don Coscarelli, the creator of the Phantasm films.” PHICTION
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Today Skybound and Image Comics, in collaboration with leading toy and game company Hasbro, debuted an all-new trailer showcasing upcoming Energon Universe storylines in Void Rivals, TRANSFORMERS, Duke, and Cobra Commander.  In the new trailer, dark forces rise across the galaxy. New heroes embrace their destiny. And Shockwave intends to create his own. The Decepticons have made their
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Forget the body doubles, merkins and modesty socks. There are plenty of high-profile movie stars so committed to a project, punchline, or character that they’ll happily stand before the cameras wearing only their birthday suit. Over the decades, full-frontal nudity has become increasingly normalized in mainstream movies. It’s no longer the exclusive domain of NC-17-rated
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Dark secrets, resentment, and jealousy raucously bubble up to the surface in writer/director Greg Jardin’s feature debut, It’s What’s Inside. A pre-wedding reunion amongst former college friends begins with easy revelry as eight gather to reminisce and imbibe in mind-altering substances. Only none knew just how mind-bending the night would become when a suitcase emerges to introduce
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It seems like no time since I was reviewing the original Asterix & Obelix: Slap Them All!, and while it didn’t exactly set the world on fire, that hasn’t stopped a sequel from being created.  Yes, Mr Nutz Studio and Microids have decided that what the world needs is yet more Roman slapping action featuring
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Marlena Shaw — best known for her song “California Soul” — has died … according to her daughter. The legendary jazz and R&B singer passed away Friday afternoon Marlena’s daughter Marla said in a video she posted to Facebook. She did not give a cause of death. Waiting for your permission to load the Facebook
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Last year I told everyone who would listen about a book I was reading—Breath by James Nestor—and how radically it had impacted my thinking. Most of us breathe poorly, and it’s a real problem. Another excellent, easy-to-browse resource to get your breathing back on track is Jean Hall’s Breathe: Simple Breathing Techniques for a Calmer,
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Unsane director Steven Soderbergh reunites with Kimi screenwriter David Koepp (Stir of Echoes) to give an innovative new spin on the quintessential ghost story. Presence frames its haunted events entirely from the perspective of its ghost. From the opening frame until the end credits, audiences see the thrilling story unfold through chilling narrative twists via Soderbergh’s experimentation with form and technique. Using the camera’s
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The next upcoming A24 movie to look forward to is Alex Garland’s thriller Civil War, a film about a team of journalists traveling across the United States while the country is going through a second civil war. While watching the trailer may make you feel like you’re having a weaponized panic attack, on a nicer
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With Thor: Ragnarok coming to theaters on Friday, November 3, you may be wondering who some of the secondary characters are in the upcoming film. Over the course of the next week, we’ll be taking a look at where some of these heroes and villains came from and their comic book origins. Heimdall, who is
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Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview releasing to the Alpha ring today. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We will continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes
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In the pantheon of cool horror movie locations, the bowling alley is an overlooked gem. Unsurprisingly, the tendency to feature a disembodied body part being flung down the lane means that such films are frequently horror comedies (think Anna and the Apocalypse, Cabin Fever, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama and Fright Night 2). Last
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Neon is opening Origin on 130 screens and plans to expand the Ava DuVernay film, which premiered in Venice and had a excellent qualifying run in December. Neon took global rights on Origin before its Venice premiere where it received an eight-minute standing ovation and DuVernay became the first Black American woman to have a selection there.
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