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One of a pair of character posters for Kane Parson’s upcoming, creepy-pasta meets liminal terror horror film, Backrooms, that places Academy Award-nominated actors into some unorthodox and tight framing.   The original poster for the big-screen blow up of the YouTube series of mystery-box meets by way of found footage viral videos with a dedicated cult following, perhaps leaned too far and too clean into negative space, to the point of being novel, but rather boring. This one, which has more texture, more grain, and a distressed Renate Reinsve, with unkempt hair, fingernails of unequal length, pushed into the sickly yellow wallpaper that is the hallmark of the series, is a far better use of said negative space, and you feel the negative here more fulsome, more…

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World-renowned stars Fan Bingbing and Yakusho Koji will be honoured with Lifetime Achievement Awards in Udine.

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Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama sits somewhere between much of Lars von Trier’s output and Sean Price Williams’s The Sweet East on the artful edgelord spectrum; albeit closer to the latter’s live action South Park than the sometimes incisive work of the former. The Drama is a fantastically constructed film that, for the most part, threads a delicate needle of unnerving and broadly funny; largely sidestepping cringe comedy to create something more unique, and certainly more affecting. While the opening scenes almost lull viewers into a state of knowing comfort with the trappings of a romantic comedy (Nancy Meyers interiors and cultural, high-paying jobs included), surprisingly sharp editing, Daniel Pemberton’s prickly woodwind score, and some bold sound design choices hint at something darker looming. During a…

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Watch the red band trailer for the Audience Award Winner from the headliners at SXSW206

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Dave Canfield aka The Creature Feature Preacher here to opine on all things physical media. I’ve got titles from The Criterion Collection, Warner Brothers and Kino and a very special vinyl release from Made By Mutant. It’s a rich mix of the new, the retro and the arthouse. I’ve been waiting for Dante’s Peak to hit 4K for awhile. It has the perfect blend of kitschy earnestness and spectacular disaster effects as well as a first rate cast featuring Pierce Brosnan as the hunky volcano expert and Linda Hamilton as the hot single mom. The secondary cast isn’t bad either, featuring John Carpenter regulars Charles Callahan and Peter Jason. This has a lengthy ‘making of’ documentary and an audio commentary featuring director Roger Donaldson.   …

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Fantasia is celebrating its 30th anniversary this Summer and have unvealed the poster art for this year’s edition.

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William Wyler’s 1959 classic stars Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd. Features on the new 4K edition showcase more details of vivid filmmaking and cinematography.

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François Ozon adapts Albert Camus’ classic novel, giving a deeper context of understanding the protagonist’s senseless actions, based on France’s racist colonial history.

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Two decades after her brother mysteriously disappeared on Vancouver Island, a documentary filmmaker sets out to solve his missing person’s case. When a disturbing piece of evidence is revealed, she comes to believe he might still be alive.

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At this point we are fully committed to seeing this promotion blitz for Faces of Death through to the end. We are not in it to win it, but, if we do not see this all the way through we do not know what would happen to us.   Accidents do “happen”.   In Faces of Death, the exploration of the original film’s infamous “is it real or not?” conceit continues as a woman (Ferreira) working as a content moderator for a major video platform discovers what appears to be re-enactments of murders from the original film. In an online world where nothing can be trusted, she must determine whether the violence is fiction, or unfolding in real time.   With just over a week…

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