Plus: ‘Underland,’ ‘Another World,’ ‘Chum,’ ‘Jinsei,’ ‘The Little Sister.’
A week-long celebration of Canadian cinema, television and digital arts concluded last night during The Canadian Screen Awards.
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we discuss several music videos by Hiro Murai. There was a time where it looked like Hiro Murai was losing some of his edge, becoming a more generic music video director, with music videos like B.O.B-‘s Airplanes, Lupe Fiasco’s The Show Goes On, Usher’s DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love and Enrique Iglesias’ Heartbeat, all of which sanded of Murai’s more interesting edges, while keeping some of his main themes intact: all are glitzy explorations in which the lead singer manipulates the shadows and lights in his environment, shaping the world to their hand, becoming one with light and shadow, quite explicitly even in Heartbeat. This…
Amidst the glitz and glamour of New York in the 1980s, a group of beautiful young professionals emerged, under the sway of a charismatic leader.
On an off-road camping trip, single dad, Mack, and grown son, Tony, may not survive the weekend when their Jeep over turns, pinning Tony in a rising river bed. Mack is forced on foot over treacherous terrain, to save his son from drowning.
Terrifier’s Damien Leone is stepping into the Hollywood studio system for his next original horror project. THR reported first today that Leone will write, direct and produce Tortures of the Damned for Lionsgate. Horror icon Sam Raimi will produce with Rob Tapert through their Ghost House. With the Terrifier series Leone must have put himself on the radar of every studio out there, especially since each subsequent Terrifier was like printing money for the producers. We all know how much studios like printing money. Someone like Lionsgate, who has had some significant misses in recent years needs some of that Leone-magic and brand recognition to refill their coffers. Details on Tortures of the Damned are skint. Leone is currently finishing his work on…
After a suburban housewife suffers a psychotic episode during her farewell party and her guests vanish without a trace, a movie-obsessed detective must unravel a crime with no evidence–and a suspect who remembers nothing.
Plus: Joko Anwar presents ‘Smothered,’ Kathryn Bigelow’s thrilling ‘Strange Days’ and John Travolta’s family-friendly ‘Propellor One-Way Night Coach.’
Plus: ‘Forastera,’ ‘Pitfall,’ ‘With Hasan, in Gaza,’ and ‘Speed Demon.’
Two friends misappropriate campaign funds to launch a cryptocurrency, setting a political hitman after them.