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Exploiting on the one of the odder alleys of nostalgia, a modern remake of the American Mondo cult classic Faces of Death gets its turn in the meat grinder of capitalism.
Miriam Basconi is shipped off to the prestigious Alstroemerias Academy after the mysterious death of her parents. Confronted with a cruel headmistress and disappearing students, Miriam must discover the truth of what’s happening and uncovers a surreal world living inside the walls.
Grace may be done with the Le Domas family, but the family is nowhere near done with her in Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, the long-awaited sequel to 2019’s surprise critical hit directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. While this iteration of the film manages to retain some of the original’s fun, it finds itself mired in repetition in spite of an expanded world and a host of fun supporting characters. When we last left Grace Le Domas née McCaulley (Samara Weaving), she’d survived a deadly night of hide and seek conducted by the Lo Domas family, board game magnates who’d amassed a fortune thanks to a deal with Mr. Le Bail (aka, The Devil). We open on Grace smoking a well-deserved…
Ryan Gosling stars in the space adventure, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
Our friends over at BloodstreamTV have announced a new podcast, Up All Night – Between the Sheets, hosted by a late-night icon from the 90s, Rhonda Shear.
Up front, I am leary of anything deemed “controversial” withing the horror space these days. However, since there is no such thing as bad press (unless you’re being called out for being an asshole to women, children and animals, then fuck you, fire away!) this drummed up “controversy” over in-theater promotional material for the new Faces of Death is the next one, fabricated out of thin air to get bums in seats on opening weekend. This time Discussing Film agreed to help out… Now, the film’s promotional rollout has hit another obstacle, this time in physical spaces. According to newly surfaced materials, theatrical “1-sheet” posters for Faces of Death have been officially rejected for in-theater placement, with regulators citing imagery that is…
Sometimes it feels good to fuck over someone who has wronged you, but sometimes it turns out to be a terrible mistake. In the case of first-time feature writer/directors Raviv Ullman and Greg Yagolnitzer’s Drag, Lizzy Caplan and her movie sister, Lucy DeVito, find themselves firmly in the latter camp when Caplan throws her back out immediately after breaking into a shitty man’s house to liberate his valuables as payback for a rather nebulous transgression committed against her. When we first meet the unnamed duo of Caplan and DeVito they are sitting outside of a rather ostentatious modernist home getting ready to do the job. The plan is for Caplan to break in and grab whatever she can, while DeVito stays ready as the getaway…
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Jessica Chastain, paired with newcomer Isaac Hernández, reunites with Michel Franco for their second collaboration.