In the pilot of Soft Boil, director Alec Goldberg and lead actress and co-writer Camille Wormser sketch a tightly observed portrait of early adulthood that channels contemporary American indie comedy through anxiety, volatility, and low-stakes personal collapse.
Thales Banzai’s feature-length debut, TONY ODYSSEY, is an ode to the “more provocative Brazilian films of the ’60s and ’70s”. Its world premiere is happening at Slamdance, and we have an exclusive look at the trailer.
When ultra-posh, Brit high-schoolers Flic (Marni Duggan) and Minna (Galaxie Clear), supposed best friends (forever) at the center of Extra Geography, BAFTA Award-winning director Molly Manners’s (One Day, Lazy Susan, In My Skin) splendid feature-length debut, decide to undetake a summer project, they cheekily decide on “love,” as in “falling in love,” new, uncharted territory for them both. It sets them on an unexpected path of self- and other-discovery typical of coming-of-age stories, albeit in a quirkily delivered, sometimes droll, sometimes dry, always seriocomic fashion. Ultimately, their decision, born out of a combination of hubris, naivete, and an overwhelming eagerness to exchange book knowledge with real-world experience, proves semi-disastrous, but before we get to that particular development, Manners, working from Rose Tremain’s adaptation…
Early this week NEON announced the release date for Genki Kawamura’s horror flick, Exit 8. For those of you left wondering what a movie about a man wandering the same halls, over and over again, looks like, we have good news for you. The official trailer has arrived. A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passage sets out to find EXIT 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversights will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor? Exit 8 is coming…
Thunderlips revives New Zealand splatstick with a gleefully vulgar sci-fi comedy that channels early Peter Jackson.
A second official trailer for Ian Tuason’s sonically driven horror flick, Undertone, has arrived today. Picked up by A24 shortly after it premiered at Fantasia, they are putting it out in theaters on March 13th. And that’s about it, really. New trailer. Go watch. Woo!…
Lucy Walters, Hudson West, and Will Lyman star in the horror drama, directed by Andrew Mudge.
After winning an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2022 for Navalny, filmmaker Daniel Roher (Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band) shifted his focus from the documentary format (Blink) to narrative storytelling with Tuner, an engrossing, if uneven, crime-thriller, co-starring Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman in a pivotal role as an aging, past-his-prime, NYC-based piano tuner and Leo Woodall as his only protege and the heir apparent to his man-in-a-van business. Closely inspired by Michael Mann’s Thief and Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver, Tuner centers on Niki (a standout turn from The White Lotus alum Woodall), a onetime child prodigy-turned-tuner equipped and/or burdened with a unique skillset. Blessed and/or gifted with not only perfect pitch, but an extreme sensitivity to sound bordering on the pathological…
Charli XCX’s meteoric rise as a mega-pop-star has been anything but meteoric. It’s been a slow, upward descent, from posting videos on a long-defunct social-media platform, MySpace, in 2008 at the age of sixteen, to signing with a record label two years later, followed by mixtapes, collabs, and ultimately, a series of albums, each one bigger than the last, culminating with the 14-track album, “brat,” two years ago and the subsequent social media frenzy that turned Charli XCX into a worldwide pop-cultural phenemenon. That might as well have been a decade ago and the late, lamented summer of 2024. Since then, “brat summer” has congealed into a rapidly fading pop-cultural, vaguely remembered collective memory. For “Charlie XCX,” the lightly tweaked iteration of…
In a world where all press is good press we are following up on the release of the teaser trailer for the new Faces of Death movie on Tuesday. It got yanked by YouTube, who issued a takedown notice for its “violent or graphic content.” Allow me to play the cynic on this one. Ahem. Cough. “Quelle Suprise!” Hats off to the marketing team for trying to generate controversy and outrage, hopefully enough to garner more interest in this modern iteration of the cult series of films and get those bums in seats. And today, Independent Film Company and Shudder announced that they have acquired North American rights to this new film and will handle the theatrical release on…
