Unveiled ahead of its world premiere at Visions du Réel, the first trailer for Ghost Town offers a haunting glimpse into Katharine Round’s liminal documentary, where grief, memory and the spectral quietly permeate everyday life in post-tsunami Japan.
Samara Weaving, Jason Segel, Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, and Paul Guilfoyle star in director Jorma Taccone’s remake of Tommy Wirkola’s ‘The Trip.’
Director Miyake Sho continues to sketch out the human connections among strangers in a gentle, playful, abstract way, blurring both fiction and real life/creators, as well as their creations.
Blood Pact Films will screen two film from their slate for one day only. This is for fans of extreme, fiercely independant horror in the Evansville, IN, area.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sam Worthington, and Theo James star in director David Mackenzie’s thriller.
I am a child of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It came out when I was a kid, and I would probably need at least both my hands to count how many times I’ve watched it. It holds up after nearly forty years. So when someone told me there would be another film where live actors and animated ones would co-mingle, I was skeptical. But one look at the Coyote vs. Acme trailer and I’m sold. Most of us know the story of how this film almost never made it to the big screen, despite its apparent high rating at an early test screening. It took a while (for reasons that I won’t write about here since I don’t know how litigious certain parties are but you can look…
A man should have his house in order. Carroll’s house is most definitely not in order. He appears to be living in a burned out shell of a structure with the roof about to fall down on him.Seeing how nobody else in Bagworm acknowledges this fact, it is probably a metaphor. But it is a good one in a film that wears its images and ideas loudly on its dirty sleeve. Carroll has issues with women. He is seen early in the film thoughtlessly speed-swiping right on Tinder. Later, he unpleasantly scolds the date that he does land for what she orders at the restaurant. He doctors photos of himself, violates privacy boundaries, and is a compulsive liar. He even steals his internet….
Katie Cassidy and William H. Macy star in a runaway train story unlike any other.
When sailors or fishermen head out to sea, they do not wish to hear their family say goodbye out of a fear of not coming home. There is no whistling at sea, for fear of conjuring up a storm. Having a woman on board unnecessarily could anger the sea, causing treacherous conditions as revenge. Enter Justin Oakey’s Hangashore, an unsettling film that blends genre and narrative and landscape in challenging, often indirect, ways. On one hand, it is a character drama and low-key courtship, set against the stressful nature of working a small-crew fishing boat in 21st century rural Newfoundland. On the other hand, there is a foreboding old-world ghost story lost in fog and dreams and intuition. There is a rugged tug of…
Lee Marvin stars in John Boorman’s stone-cold classic sophomore feature, also starring Angie Dickinson, John Vernon, and Keenan Wynn.
