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Make the Best of Us: Bing’s ‘Youth’ Cycle Expands Into the Gloom

The middle part of Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy, Youth (Hard Times) perhaps more properly addresses the bleak realities of his observational endeavor, cobbled together into a cohesive structure from footage shot between 2014 and 2019. Following the Cannes premiered 2023 film Youth (Spring) (read review), which felt a rather cynical moniker for subjects tethered to Sisyphean work routines in their prime, his second installment, which appears to be more systematically edited into a time frame from 2015, suggests a more blatant, world weary scope. At a running time of nearly four hours, its immersive, repetitive structure, while inherently Bing’s signature, feels more punishing if only because there’s no real room for levity in its lengthy, often grueling discourse of late teens and twenty-somethings struggling to make ends meet in thankless textile shops.…...

Horror fans in the UK are in for a treat this November as Nyx UK, the dedicated horror TV channel, unveils an exciting schedule packed with fourteen channel premieres. From cult classics to modern horror favourites, the line-up promises thrills for every taste. Notably, this month’s programme includes supernatural tales, slashers, and a special tribute to horror legend Boris Karloff on his birthday.

Leading the premieres on 6 November is Spookt (2023), the latest supernatural horror from Tony Reames, starring Eric Roberts. Airing at 9 pm, Spookt follows a group as they grapple with terrifying paranormal events that push them to the edge. Another highlight this month is Stage Fright (2014), a darkly comedic fusion of horror and musical directed by Jerome Sable, featuring Minnie Driver and the late Meat Loaf. This unique slasher-musical airs on 22 November at 9 pm, promising an unforgettable blend of scares and songs.

For fans of genre-bending horror, Justin Benson...

While I advocate for nontraditional rom-coms with a bloodthirsty bite, Your Monster struggles to tame mismatching tones. It's a hairy concept — what happens if your childhood boogeyman has a crush on you? Filmmaker Caroline Lindy approaches "Beauty and the Beast" meet-cutes from a horror protagonist's perspective, but bubbly cuteness detrimentally outweighs the script's darker leanings. Date night sweetness and flesh-torn grotesqueries don't play nice together, which is a downer as the film fails to unify its hybridized approach. The best genre romances find harmony between warmed hearts and spilled guts, while examples like Your Monster fail to earn monstrous moments.

Melissa Barrera is a dream romantic lead as Laura Franco, an actress recovering from a cancer-related surgery. Laura's depressed, having been dumped by her playwright ex-boyfriend Jacob (Edmund Donovan) while still hooked to hospital machines. She holes away in her childhood New York City apartment, wallowing by her lonesome. Here,...

Wang Bing’s Youth (Hard Times) picks up where its predecessor left off, deepening our understanding of lives dictated by backbreaking labor. Filmed over five years in garment factories throughout Zhili, China, this installment carries forward the documentary trilogy’s immersion in the rhythms of industrial toil. Through subtle shifts in focus, Hard Times subtly underscores both the passage of time and growing frustrations among its subjects – young migrant workers fighting for dignity amid dismal circumstances.

As with Spring, the film transports viewers into its world through lengthy, observant shots soaked in the din of sewing machines. This allows us to truly feel the numbing routine engulfing these factory workers, who labor as fast as minds and bodies allow. Yet Hard Times departs from its predecessor in documenting bolder organizing efforts against miserly bosses. It follows mounting disputes over paltry piecework pay and debates splitting the crowd.

While maintaining a fly-on-the-wall approach,...

Taiwan’s GrX Studio is to launch a $50m fund covering 20 titles at the Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm) in Busan on Monday (October 7), where it is also set to reveal the cast of upcoming romantic feature The Photo From 1977.

The fund, known as the Asian Spring Project, aims to expand the Taipei-based company’s footprint across the Asia Pacific region and comprises 15 series and five horror films over the next five years. GrX strategy and chief investment officer Dennis Wu, who heads the new fund, will collaborate with Asian and international partners to jointly develop and produce the projects.

Stars: Adam David Thompson, Riley Dandy, Chloe Skoczen, Justin Benson, Sarah Bolger, Jori Felker | Written and Directed by Michael Felker

A strange mix of genres, time travel, estranged family members reuniting, and heist gone wrong thriller, Things Will Be Different is the first feature from writer/director Michael Felker. Felker is best known for his work as an editor on films such as Sunset on the River Styx and all of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead’s features, from Spring through Something in the Dirt.

And that duo’s influence shows up all over the film, they executive produced it, make appearances in it, and most importantly, the film itself shows their influence in the story and how it’s told. So, the more you like their films, the better your chances of liking Things Will Be Different.

The story itself is deceptively simple. Estranged siblings Joseph and Sidney have...

Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy of documentaries about Chinese garment workers could have just as easily been named Three Colors. Like the titles that comprise Krzysztof Kieślowski’s triptych, each of Wang’s films is informed by a different color, though it’s primarily used to tint the title cards and chyrons that indicate a given sequence’s setting and subjects. The first installment, last year’s Youth (Spring), appropriately uses a lush green, while the subsequent Youth (Hard Times) went with a punishing deep red. The concluding entry, Youth (Homecoming), opts for something that works in more ambiguous ways, using a light blue that, depending on the viewer, could signal calm, harmony, or even sadness.

Youth (Homecoming) operates as something of an expansion of the concluding sequences of its two forebears. Youth (Spring) and Youth (Hard Times), which both run a full hour longer than the fleet (by Wang...

Hulu’s finally released the full trailer for Rivals, the eight-episode series based on Dame Jilly Cooper’s novel. David Tennant (Good Omens) and Alex Hassell (The Tragedy of Macbeth) star in the adaptation, premiering on October 18, 2024.

“Set against the backdrop of power-grabbing social elites, Rivals dives headfirst into the ruthless world of independent television in 1986, where hair-dos are big and ambitions are even bigger,” reads Hulu’s synopsis. “Deals are brokered in boardrooms, as well as bedrooms. Nobody can be sure who will come out on top. With every man and woman out only for themselves, can true love really blossom?”

David Tennant stars in ‘Rivals’ (Courtesy of Robert Viglasky/Disney)

Hassell plays dashing ex-Olympian, Member of Parliament, and dangerously charismatic Rupert Campbell-Black. David Tennant stars as Lord Tony Baddingham. The cast also includes Aidan Turner (Poldark) as Declan O’Hara, Nafessa Williams (Black Lighting) as Cameron Cook, Katherine Parkinson (Humans) as Lizzie Vereker,...

This weekend at the Camden International Film Festival, the Archival Producers Alliance (APA) released the first-ever industry-wide guidelines for generative artificial intelligence use in documentary film. GenAI is a thorny topic throughout the film and TV world, but it poses specific and unique challenges to nonfiction, where primary sources, historical documentation, and archival imagery are fundamental building blocks.

The guidelines address this threat directly in its introduction: “The APA believes that the survival of the documentary industry — in all of its power and promise to help us understand and interpret our history and our present — is contingent on maintaining a truthful and transparent relationship with viewers.”

For this reason, the guidelines are focused explicitly on using GenAI to create new footage or alter existing primary source materials. The APA distinguishes between GenAI and other Machine Learning, or AI that is being incorporated into production workflows for ideation, transcription, and logging footage.

Wang Bing’s Youth (Spring), the first in the filmmaker’s trilogy of documentaries about garment workers in Zhejiang province in eastern China, eschewed incident to stress the numbing quality of the manual labor and economic stagnation of its young migrant workers. The second installment in the trilogy, Youth (Hard Times), similarly leans into durational extremes but eventually and sneakily reveals a broadened scope.

Wang again keys us to the perspective of the workers, subjecting us to the constant roar of sewing machines until the din of routine is understood as that and becomes barely noticeable. The oscillation between scenes of toil and moments of rest in which laborers are too tired to do much of anything other than scroll on their phones conveys just how easy it is to become numb in such an environment. Indeed, at first it seems that the biggest change from the first film is...

Directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have been busy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe lately, directing episodes of Moon Knight, Loki season 2, and the upcoming series Daredevil: Born Again, but before they entered the Marvel universe, they were known for making genre films like Resolution, Spring, The Endless, Synchronic, and Something in the Dirt. They’re staying in touch with their roots by serving as executive producers on the upcoming sci-fi thriller Things Will Be Different, which stars Riley Dandy of Christmas Bloody Christmas and Adam David Thompson of A Walk Among the Tombstones – and since that film is set to receive a theatrical and digital release on October 4th, a trailer has now made its way online. You can watch it in the embed above.

The feature directorial debut of Michael Felker, the film sees Dandy and Thompson taking on the roles of siblings Joseph and Sidney, who are...

Writer/Director/Editor Michael Felker’s feature directorial debut, Things Will Be Different, sees a pair of siblings on the lam get caught up in a twisty sci-fi puzzle box thriller. Today brings the first trailer and a poster the highlights the genre-bending mysteries ahead.

Magnet Releasing has set a theatrical day-and-date release for Things Will Be Different on October 4, 2024.

The film follows “estranged siblings who, after a robbery, escape to a rural safe house hidden in time and discover they’re not the only occupants.”

“I made Things Will Be Different for people who love thrillers, noir, and science fiction they can think about. It’s a giant mystery box of a movie with a strong familial core that’s inspired by my own family. Adam David Thompson and Riley Dandy are just incredible as Joe and Sid, and I can’t believe they aren’t actually brother and sister.

The latest documentary from Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing is titled Youth (Hard Times). For anyone who watched its predecessor, Youth (Spring), in the early days of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, or anywhere else, this news may be cause for concern. Filmed in typically anthropological detail by the master director and his team between the years 2014 and 2019, Spring documented the lives and labors of a group of textile workers in a bustling corner of Zhili––a world of endless hours, meager pay, ruthless bosses, and worrying conditions. It looked like the kind of place where not much light gets in, regardless of the suffocating air pollution. If these were not “hard times,” you had to wonder, what are?

Picking up where Spring left off, Youth (Hard Times) is the dense middle act of what will eventually be a trilogy––a third section, titled Homecoming, is set to play in Venice––that,...

The middle part of a trilogy consisting of 2023’s “Youth (Spring)” and the imminent “Youth (Homecoming),” “Youth (Hard Times)” crystallizes the strengths of Wang Bing’s latest epic-length documentary project. “Hard Times” offers no radical change from the (quite deliberately) repetitive construction of “Spring,” but does feature subtle shifts in focus and certainly a lot more in the way of incident and splintering effects. That’s not to say that there’s now a lack of sequences devoted to people humming along to music playing on their phones while they work — the year’s most surprising needle drop may be that an austere arthouse documentary features an electronic track that seemingly samples The Offspring’s “Original Prankster.”

A primer, first, for anyone who’s not already familiar with the project. Slowness and making viewers aware of deceptively aimless pacing are perhaps the definitive characteristics of Wang’s output. He embeds...

Despite how much it is a part of our everyday lives, it’s rare to see pregnancy portrayed on film, and it’s even rarer to see it portrayed in such an intimate, nuanced and playful way as it is in filmmaker Kat Mills Martin’s Celeste in Spring, a short film which explores burgeoning motherhood from the perspective of a single mother exploring her sexuality. Using restrained cinematography and a warm colour palette, Martin is able to deconstruct notions of the single mother in a manner which is both uplifting and intelligent. It’s truly a really joyful film and we’re delighted to be premiering it online today alongside a chat with Martin where she talks through the carefully constructed shooting schedule of a pregnant actress, the non-judgemental lens she wanted to cast upon her protagonist, and the creative influence she drew from Chantal Akerman’s iconic feature Jeanne Dielman.

The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled its Wavelengths program for artist-driven experimental work that includes films by avant garde directors Wang Bing, Roberto Minervini and Miguel Gomes.

With 11 features on offer, the Wavelengths section includes a 14-hour documentary, exergue – on documenta 14, from director Dimitris Athiridi set to be presented over three screenings.

The section will also feature North American premieres for the remaining chapters of Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy: Youth (Hard Times) and Youth (Homecoming); Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour, which won best director at Cannes; The Damned by Roberto Minervini, an American Civil War drama that won best director in the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes; and Pepe, by director Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias, about the life and death reflections of a hippo with connections to Pablo Escobar.

Wavelengths last year in Toronto screened Wang’s Youth (Spring), the Cannes competition title about Chinese garment workers.

Writer/Director/Editor Michael Felker’s feature directorial debut, Things Will Be Different, introduces a twisty sci-fi thriller produced by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead that received critical acclaim during its festival run earlier this year. Today, Deadline reports that the film has been acquired for a Halloween season release.

Magnet Releasing has set a theatrical day-and-date release for Things Will Be Different on October 4, 2024.

The film follows “estranged siblings who, after a robbery, escape to a rural safe house hidden in time and discover they’re not the only occupants.”

Adam David Thompson and Riley Dandy star in Things Will Be Different. They play siblings Joseph and Sidney, who are on the run from the law at the start of the film. Chloe Skoczen, Justin Benson, Jori Lynn Felker, and Sarah Bolger also star.

Writer/Director/Editor Michael Felker knows his way around time-shifting, metaphysical labors of love, having...

Exclusive: Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has picked up the North American rights to the twisty sci-fi thriller Things Will Be Different which made its world premiere in the Midnight section at SXSW. An Oct. 4 theatrical day-and-date release has been set.

The feature directorial debut of Michael Felker, which he also wrote, follows estranged siblings who, after a robbery, escape to a rural safe house hidden in time and discover they’re not the only occupants. Riley Dandy, Adam David Thompson, Chloe Skoczen, Justin Benson, Jori Lynn Felker, and Sarah Bolger star.

Deadline’s Damon Wise in his review of the pic exclaimed, “Those willing to get swept up and carried along by its playful Moebius-strip logic will be richly rewarded.”

Pic is EP’ed by Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead (Marvel’s Moon Knight and Loki) and David Lawson of Rustic Films and produced by Shane Spiegel,...

Former Pardo d’Oro champs Hong Sangsoo and Wang Bing (Mrs. Fang – 2017) will be measuring up against a large swath of Euro films in the prestigious competition section at Locarno next month. Hong Sangsoo reteams with his usual players for By the Stream, while Wang Bing continues with docu film series that begin in Cannes with Youth (Spring) (2023) and continues with Youth (Hards Times). Among the items we have been tracking for a while now that were lassoed for the Concorso Internazionale section we find Virgil Vernier returning to the fest with Cent Mille Milliards – a project that was filmed in Monaco with Zakaria Bouti, Victoire Kong, Mina Gajovic.…...

The Locarno Film Festival (August 7-17) has revealed the line-up for its 77th edition, with directors including Hong Sangsoo, Wang Bing and Ben Rivers world premiering their latest films in its international competition.

Playing out of competition at Locarno are world premieres from directors including Radu Jude, Fabrice du Welz, Aislinn Clarke, Bertrand Mandico, and Marco Tullio Giordana. Locarno’s famed Piazza Grande screenings include world premieres from Paz Vega, César Díaz and Gianluca Jodice.

Locarno’s international competition comprises 17 films, all of them world premieres, which will vie for the coveted Golden Leopard awards.

Scroll down for full line-up...

The Halloween haunt industry is big business these days, and Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights is no longer the only major theme park event to attend during spooky season. Six Flags Fright Fest just announced this year’s massive lineup, loaded with houses based on iconic horror properties, and now Hersheypark in Pennsylvania has grabbed hold of the bloody baton.

Hersheypark amusement park today announced the return of its Hersheypark Halloween seasonal event and Dark Nights immersive haunt experience for more haunting dates than ever before from Friday, Sept. 13 through Nov. 3, 2024.

Here’s everything you need to know…

“For 25 days, including Halloween night on Thursday, Oct. 31, guests can experience five haunted houses, including the all-new Estate of Evil haunted house, three Scare Zones with the new Darkstone’s Hollow: Battle for Spring Creek scare zone, 50 attractions and dark coaster rides, Hershey’s Trick-or-Treat Trail and more – all included with a Hersheypark Halloween ticket.

On Tuesday June 11 2024, National Geographic broadcasts Life Below Zero: Next Generation!

Survival Mode: Spring Cleaning Season 7 Episode Summary

In this episode of “Life Below Zero: Next Generation” titled “Survival Mode: Spring Cleaning,” airing on National Geographic, viewers are transported to the rugged wilderness of Alaska where individuals who have recently abandoned their traditional lifestyles confront the daunting challenges of living off the grid. As the harsh winter thaws and spring arrives, the inhabitants of Alaska’s wilderness face a new set of obstacles and tasks.

“Survival Mode: Spring Cleaning” captures the essence of life in the Alaskan wilderness as these individuals tackle the essential chore of preparing for the upcoming season. From clearing debris and repairing shelters to gathering resources and fortifying defenses against wildlife, every task is crucial for survival in this unforgiving environment. The episode offers a glimpse into the resilience and resourcefulness required to thrive in such harsh conditions.

Everything is ready for the 14th edition of the Festival Internacional de Cine Unam (Ficunam), which will take place from June 13 to 20 in Mexico City. As part of the Atlas section, we will finally be able to see Harmony Korine’s new experimental film in Cdmx: Aggro Dr1ft, starring rapper Travis Scott and notorious for having been “shot entirely through termal lens.” This section, dedicated to international auteur cinema, also includes recent works by Wang Bing (Youth (Spring)), Mati Diop (the documentary Dahomey), Tsai Ming-liang (Abiding Nowhere), Kleber Mendoça Filho (Pictures of Ghosts), Pedro Costa (The Daughters of Fire), and Hong Sang-soo (A Traveler’s Needs). Straight from Cannes comes Payal Kapadia’s Grand Prix-winning drama All We Imagine as Light. This Mumbai-set film is part...

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Spring has sprung into action and we’ve got a huge slate of shows that have fans eagerly awaiting each and every week. From old favorites to newcomers, there’s a lot to be excited about. Which, of course, brings us to one of our tried and true favorites, the Op poll. With so many new openings, it’s gonna be hard to narrow your vote down to one! Make sure you get your votes in by 12:00 Pm Eastern on Friday May 31 to ensure your voice is heard! Which Op do you hope wins the poll? Let me know in the comments below!

Exclusive: Dubai-based sales agency Cercamon has acquired international rights outside of North America for Michael Felker’s Things Will Be Different.

The science-fiction thriller, which enjoyed a buzzy premiere in SXSW’s Midnighter section this year, follows two estranged siblings who take shelter from the police following a robbery in a mysterious farmhouse that transports them through time.

This shields them from the consequences of their immediate crime but brings them up against a cryptic force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking point.

“We’re incredibly proud to have Things Will Be Different join our line up,” commented

David Kwok, Acquisitions & Sales at Cercamon.

“Michael Felker is a true new talent who fits perfectly with our roster of directors and our shared passion for all genres of filmmaking.”

Things Will Be Different is Felker’s first film. He is best known as an editor, with film credits including The Endless,...

With the tsunami of action blockbusters flooding the multiplex, you might think that the movie studios have forgotten that Spring (despite some near ninety-degree days) is the season for romance. So, where are the love stories? Actually, this new one is only streaming, though it’s certainly worthy of a theatrical run, After all, it stars an Oscar-winning actress and its director has made two films that “took home the gold”. Plus it’s based on a popular novel, though in many ways it’s a modern media gloss on a fairy tale. Mind you, the “princess” is unlike any we’ve met as this is more of a May/December pairing (minus the tons of angst of that flick from last year). Like that classic Nat King Cole tune, each of these unlikely lovers is smitten with The Idea Of You.

We first meet one of the “yous” in the film’s opening scene.

Wanna know what love is? We'll soon be able to show you, since the English dub of A Condition Called Love begins tomorrow on Crunchyroll! Here's the cast and crew for Episode 1: A Condition Called Love English Dub Cast Hananoi voiced by Blake McNamara Hotaru voiced by Dani Chambers Hibiki voiced by Kelly Greenshield Kagari voiced by Terri Doty Tsukiha voiced by Ezra Vervin A Condition Called Love English Dub Crew Voice Director: Helena Walstrom Producer: Samantha Herek Adaptation: Leah Clark Mixer: Rickey Watkins Engineer: Derric Benevides Related: Crunchyroll Spring 2024 Dubs Include Kaiju No. 8, Konosuba Season 3 and More Key Visual Related: Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets The Wise Wolf English Dub Reveals Cast and Crew, Release Date Based on the manga by Megumi Morino, A Condition Called Love is directed by Tomoe Makino ( Aharen-san wa Hakarenai ) at East Fish Studio, with series composition by Hitomi Amamiya ( Chillin’ in My...

Spring is here, and with it has come some impressive discounts on top streaming platforms.

Spring has officially sprung, and in most years that would mean TV audiences’ minds are drifting toward outdoor activities like picnics, hikes, or anything else that pulls them away from their sets. But 2024 is different; many beloved TV shows are just now returning to airwaves with new episodes, as fall 2023 production schedules were decimated by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Viewers may need a new streaming service or two in order to catch up with all their favorite shows, and The Streamable is tracking the best deals available for subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services and live TV streaming platforms alike to help our readers save as much as possible!

SVOD Deals Get 1 Free Month of Paramount+ with Special Promo Code

Paramount+ is a fantastic entertainment streaming service. Viewers can use the platform to watch new episodes...

Over the last decade or so, Marvel has had a knack for snagging independent filmmakers with a lot of buzz, critical acclaim, and innovative creative voices to join their stable. Before James Gunn was at the helm of the "Guardians of the Galaxy" trilogy, he was the guy who got his start writing "Tromeo and Juliet" for Lloyd Kaufman. And he's not alone. Scott Derrickson, Jon Watts, Taika Waititi, Cate Shoreland, Destin Daniel Cretton, Chloé Zhao, Nia DaCosta, and so many others were still stars on the rise when Marvel came calling.

Fan reactions are typically divided with one camp worried this marks the end of their independent visions in favor of corporate-driven storytelling, while others are thrilled to see directors they love getting one hell of a paycheck. Theoretically, this should give them the creative freedom to make whatever film they want next, like the director's version of what...

[Editor’s Note: this list was originally published October 2017. It has since been updated to coincide with the release of “Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire.”]

From a certain perspective, monster movies might not seem to be as relevant during monstrous times. But in an age when our fears seem larger than life and the world constantly seems as though it’s on the brink of collapse, the best examples of the genre can almost assume a documentary-like authenticity, reflecting our reality as vividly as vérité ever could.

“The Babadook” might be about a demon that pops out of a children’s book, but no recent film does a better job of capturing the acute reality of living with grief. “Cloverfield” follows a gaggle of pre-Instagram model millennials as they’re chased around Manhattan by a bug-eyed colossus, but few of the somber post-9/11 dramas do a better job of distilling the heartsick chaos of watching your hometown try to make sense of a senseless attack. “The Village” is...

Benjamin Hollingsworth takes a break from Virgin River’s resident bad boy with a heart of gold Dan Brady to star in Hallmark Channel’s latest DaySpring original movie An Easter Bloom, part of the network’s Spring Into Love programming event airing on Easter weekend. Hollingsworth plays Derrick, a pastor at a local church who crosses paths with a gardener named Amanda (Aimee Teegarden). Derrick helps Amanda find comfort in her faith after experiencing a heartbreaking loss. As their connection blossoms, both Derrick and Amanda become the best versions of themselves. Below, Hollingsworth opens up about how he prepared to play a pastor for the first time and the physical transformation he’s had to undergo to get back to playing Brady in Virgin River Season 6. Did you have to do any preparation to play a pastor? I did. I’ve actually never played a pastor before. Going from Virgin River and playing Brady,...

As we shake off the winter chill and leap into the vibrant embrace of spring, it’s time to rejuvenate our horror watchlist with some great horror movies streaming on Tubi that embody the season’s spirit of renewal. What better way to celebrate the blossoming chaos of nature than with a bouquet of horror movies that are as invigorating as the fresh spring breeze? Tubi, the treasure trove of free streaming, offers a garden of ghoulish delights perfect for this seasonal transition. Let’s unwrap six horror movie gems that are guaranteed to put a spring in your step and a shiver down your spine.

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In the visually stunning Mandy, Nicolas Cage delivers a powerhouse performance, embarking on a phantasmagoric vengeance spree against a demonic cult in a primordial forest. This movie is a full-blown experience,...

Jen Boecher appears to have a new man in her life, but she isn’t quite ready to reveal him to the public just yet.

During her stint on 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way Season 4, Jen’s relationship with her ex, Rishi Singh, was featured.

Jen intended to move to Rishi’s native India to be with her fiance, but their love story fizzled out following some dealbreakers in their relationship.

The 46-year-old Oklahoma native wasn’t okay with Rishi’s mom calling her too “old” for her son, she struggled to adapt to female roles in Indian culture, and she wanted Rishi to defend her more when his family criticized her.

Eventually, Jen and Rishi ended up going their separate ways, and as Monsters and Critics reported, Rishi is now married to a woman named Maria Ramirez.

One month after Rishi announced his happy news, Jen is teasing some good news of her own.

Paula Weinstein, the respected producer of films including “The Perfect Storm,” “Analyze This,” “The Fabulous Baker Boys” and “Blood Diamond,” and former chief content officer at Tribeca Enterprises, died Monday in New York. She was 78.

Her daughter, Hannah Rosenberg, said in a statement, “The world is a lesser place without my mother. She was a masterful producer and a force of nature for the things she believed in, including the many projects that spanned her illustrious career, the stories she fought to tell and the social justice causes she championed.

“She shattered barriers in Hollywood and always lifted other women along with her. And I know my mother would want me to add this: if you’d like to honor her, please stop what you are doing and turn your attention toward reelecting President Biden and making sure Democrats win down the ballot so we can be sure Democracy survives...

Spring brings with it a breath of fresh air in the world of anime, and 2024 is no exception. With a plethora of promising titles on the horizon, it’s time to gear up for a season filled with excitement, adventure, and memorable stories. Here’s our curated list of the top 10 anime to watch out for in Spring 2024:

10. Black Butler: Public School Arc

Release Date: Apr 13, 2024

Studio: CloverWorks

Fans of the iconic “Black Butler” series have reason to rejoice as the beloved franchise makes a comeback with the adaptation of the popular Public School Arc.

Produced by Cloverworks, known for their stellar work on “Wonder Egg Priority” and “Horimiya,” this revival promises to reignite the passion of fans who have long awaited the next chapter in the series.

9. Wind Breaker

Release Date: Apr 4, 2024

Studio: CloverWorks

Get ready for some high-octane action with “Wind Breaker,” a delinquent series poised to...

Writer/Director/Editor Michael Felker knows his way around time-shifting, metaphysical labors of love, having edited Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s Something in the Dirt, Synchronic, The Endless, and Spring. Felker’s feature directorial debut, Things Will Be Different, seamlessly fits into the Benson/Moorhead cinematic universe, introducing a fractured sibling relationship put through the physical and emotional wringer when they play with forces they don’t quite understand.

Estranged siblings Sidney and Joseph fall into old habits like no time has passed at all when they rendezvous at a diner. That’s largely due to Joseph having a large bag of cash grabbed from an armed robbery, and the authorities are rapidly closing in. The siblings quickly make their way to an abandoned farmhouse with instructions on how to escape their current reality. The plan is to wait out the cops from the safety of an alternate timeline,...

Chances are high, if you’re here, that you’re familiar with the names Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, the filmmakers behind Spring and The Endless. Prepare to add one more name to that list: Benson & Moorhead’s longtime editor Michael Felker, set to make his feature debut with upcoming sci-fi thriller Things Will Be Different.

Things Will Be Different is world premiering at the SXSW Film Festival on March 11, and the film was produced by Benson & Moorhead.

Adam David Thompson and Riley Dandy star in Things Will Be Different. They play siblings Joseph and Sidney, who are on the run from the law at the start of the film. Then, the mysterious farmhouse they are staying in inexplicably transports them through time. A cryptic force emerges and traps them on the strange plot of land, giving them a lethal ultimatum in order to escape.

Ahead of the film’s premiere,...

Directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have been busy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe lately, directing episodes of Moon Knight, Loki season 2, and the upcoming series Daredevil: Born Again – but before they entered the Marvel universe, they were known for making genre films like Resolution, Spring, The Endless, Synchronic, and Something in the Dirt. Variety reports that they’re executive producers on the upcoming sci-fi thriller Things Will Be Different, which stars Riley Dandy of Christmas Bloody Christmas and Adam David Thompson of A Walk Among the Tombstones. The film is set to have its world premiere at SXSW Film & TV Festival on March 11th, and in anticipation of that screening, a clip from Things Will Be Different has made its way online. You can check it out in the embed at the bottom of this article.

The feature directorial debut of Michael Felker, the film sees Dandy and Thompson...

“Wonka” To Begin Streaming Next Month, “Dune 2” This Spring on Max

Max is giving the people what they’re looking for: Timothée Chalamet updates.

In the recent quarterly earnings investors call, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav shared streaming news for two recent Chalamet-starred projects: last year’s “Wonka” and the upcoming “Dune: Part Two.”

The musical fantasy origin story “Wonka,” which opened in theaters this past December, will begin streaming on the platform on Friday, March 8. Reuniting “Paddington 2” dynamic duo Paul King and Simon Farnaby, the film stars Chalamet as the title chocolatier in his pre-factory years, who “armed with nothing but a hatful of dreams…manages to change the world, one delectable bite at a time.”

The film has earned Warner Bros. $608 million at the worldwide box office. It also stars Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Matthew Baynton, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Jim Carter,...

“Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.”

-B.R. Haydon

Love and death are the two most powerful forces in human experience. They are the engines of our stories because they are the engines of our existence. Our hopes, desires, heartbreaks, and fears so often hang on these two factors—ever-present and constantly in tension. Horror, more often than not, preoccupies itself with the latter but from time to time, a really great horror love story comes along. Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s Spring is not only a great love story but an acknowledgment of the eternal balance of love and death that connects us to each other, the ancient and ongoing human story, and perhaps even the infinite.

Spring is quintessential Moorhead & Benson, who from their first feature, Resolution (2012), to their most recent, Something in the Dirt (2022), have explored vast and...

Love is in the air this week with the arrival of Valentine’s Day. Naturally, that means this week’s streaming picks are dedicated to Valentine’s Day-appropriate horror movies.

While there is no shortage of horror dedicated to exploring and exploiting the best and worst of love and romance, these titles cast a wider net. These five horror movies play with concepts of love or simply take place on Valentine’s Day. So cuddle up with these horror movies that are perfect for the holiday this week, from demonic lust to enigmatic genre-benders.

Here’s where you can stream them this week.

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Luz – Crackle, Plex, The Roku Channel, Tubi, Vudu

Luz, a taxi driver, arrives at a police station for help and a lengthy tale of demonic possession. Meanwhile, the demon is working its way there to reunite with the object of its desire,...

Joey King and Logan Lerman are part of a family torn apart amid WWII in Hulu limited series “We Were the Lucky Ones.”

The limited drama series is based on Georgia Hunter’s New York Times bestselling book of the same name. The Hulu show is inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II.

Per the official logline, “We Were the Lucky Ones” demonstrates how in the face of the twentieth century’s darkest moment, the human spirit can endure and even thrive. The series is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.

The series co-stars Hadas Yaron, Henry-Lloyd Hughes, Amit Rahav, Sam Woolf, Michael Aloni, Moran Rosenblatt, Eva Feiler, Lior Ashkenazi, and Robin Weigert, and was unveiled as part of the Hulu Spring 2024 slate.

“We Were the Lucky Ones” is executive produced and written by Erica Lipez,...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For regular updates, sign up for our weekly email newsletter and follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSDry Leaf.On Criterion’s Daily, David Hudson has shared a useful roundup of films that might be expected to premiere during 2024. Among the inclusions are: Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho’s first film since Parasite (2019); It’s Not Me, Leos Carax’s latest collaboration with Denis Lavant; and Dry Leaf, the enticing-sounding new film by Alexandre Koberidze (What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? [2021]), which is said to be about “a photographer who shoots soccer stadiums [who] goes missing.”A list of international filmmakers including Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Radu Jude, Ira Sachs, Claire Denis, and Abderrahmane Sissako have signed a letter, published during the holiday season in the French newspaper Libération, demanding (as translated by the Film Stage) “an immediate end to the bombings on Gaza,...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2023, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.

There was much to be thankful for in 2023. Besides new works by several legendary directors, there were personal opportunities that allowed me to spread a larger net and take stock of the cinema landscape from a more privileged vantage point. I got to attend the Cannes and Toronto film festivals for the first time and also became a voter for some key year-end awards. The experience of thus watching films, before most of my cinephile brethren, allowed me to contemplate how much campaigns and narratives can alter a film’s reception and trajectory.

What has come into sharper relief, and what is evident from the list below too, is that Cannes has the lock on much of the best product of the year––at least anything not...

‘Grimsburg’ (Photo Credit: Fox)

Fox’s winter and spring 2024 primetime lineup will include news seasons of returning dramas Alert: Missing Persons Unit and The Cleaning Lady, along with season two of Animal Control starring Joel McHale. The network’s midseason lineup relies heavily on unscripted and animated fare, including The Masked Singer season 11, TMZ Investigates, America’s Most Wanted, Bob’s Burgers, and The Great North.

Fox will be introducing quiz show The Floor and the game show We Are Family when the midseason kicks off. Plus, their animated lineup expands with Grimsburg featuring the voice of executive producer Jon Hamm.

Fox Winter 2023-2024 Premiere Dates Recap

Tuesday, Jan. 2:

8:00-9:00 Pm Et/Pt – Celebrity Name That Tune (Winter Premiere)

9:00-10:00 Pm Et/Pt – The Floor (Series Premiere)

Wednesday, Jan. 3:

8:00-9:00 Pm Et/Pt – I Can See Your Voice (Season Premiere)

9:00-10:00 Pm...

Season 3 of the NBC sci-fi drama La Brea will be its last. As Deadline reported exclusively in January, the series will conclude with an abbreviated season that will consist of 6 episodes.

La Brea will premiere on Tuesday, January 9 at 9 p.m. and serves as a lead-in to the season’s final two episodes of the hit fall drama Found.

The series follows an epic family adventure after a massive sinkhole opens in Los Angeles pulling people and buildings into a mysterious and dangerous primeval land where they have no choice but to band together to survive.

The cast includes Natalie Zea, Eoin Macken, Jon Seda, Nicholas Gonzalez, Chiké Okonkwo, Zyra Gorecki, Jack Martin, Veronica St. Clair, Rohan Mirchandaney, Lily Santiago, Josh McKenzie, Tonantzin Carmelo and Michelle Vergara Moore.

Related: ‘Blue Bloods’ To End With 2-Part Season 14 Airing In Spring & Fall 2024

La Brea, which received a straight-to-series order after production...

Selected as this year’s Guest of Honor at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Chinese director Wang Bing sat down with the festival’s artistic director Orwa Nyrabia for an in-depth talk on his career on Friday at the imposing Tuschinski Theatre in the Dutch capital.

Bing commented on not wanting his films to be “political” while reflecting on the entirety of his career, from his nine-hour-long debut “West of the Tracks” to the recent Cannes competition title “Youth (Spring)” — “I’m not particularly interested in politics (…) I don’t want my films to become a political tool. The movies I watched in my childhood were full of politics, ideology and an agenda. I don’t want people to find these elements in the movies I make.”

When prodded by Nyrabia on the subject, the director stated: “I live in a politically sensitive society. All the people involved...

Artist Abigail Jill Harding makes her longform writing debut with the limited comic book series Parliament of Rooks, "a gothic love story told in 5 chapters over the course of the four seasons—Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter—and culminating in an epic conclusion." The first issue of Parliament of Rooks debuts on November 14th from Amazon’s Comixology Originals, and we have all the details, along with an exclusive preview you can read right now!

Parliament of Rooks is a tale of dark fantasy, forbidden romance, menacing forces, and enchanting characters, inspired by the striking, gregarious, black-feathered bird, known as a rook.

"Parliament of Rooks is my homage to stories I grew up loving by fellow Brits like Neil Gaiman's Sandman and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights,” says Abigail Jill Harding. "This is the first series I've written and drawn myself. It's very ambitious and I'm excited for people to read it.

Dharamshala, Nov 8 (Ians) In the bleak cold of Kashmir, Nargis’ gaze cuts right through. The atmospherics scheme with her tragedy and silences become a partner to reveal the conflict that is not just external.

National award-winning filmmaker Aamir Bashir’s latest film ‘The Winter Within’, that was screened during the latest edition of the Dharamshala International Film Festival (Diff), premiered at the 27th Busan International Film Festival and revolves around Nargis (Zoya Hussein), a domestic help whose husband Manzoor has been picked by the security forces and is ‘missing’. Forced to return to her village as a ‘half widow’, in a subversion to the Greek Penelope, where she weaves an intricate Kani shawl awaiting her husband’s return, she is unable to move on despite the attention shown by the weaving workshop owner Yaseen.

One would expect the director to be upbeat about the attention he draws to the Valley,...

Dharamshala, Nov 8 (Ians) In the bleak cold of Kashmir, Nargis’ gaze cuts right through. The atmospherics scheme with her tragedy and silences become a partner to reveal the conflict that is not just external.

National award-winning filmmaker Aamir Bashir’s latest film ‘The Winter Within’, that was screened during the latest edition of the Dharamshala International Film Festival (Diff), premiered at the 27th Busan International Film Festival and revolves around Nargis (Zoya Hussein), a domestic help whose husband Manzoor has been picked by the security forces and is ‘missing’. Forced to return to her village as a ‘half widow’, in a subversion to the Greek Penelope, where she weaves an intricate Kani shawl awaiting her husband’s return, she is unable to move on despite the attention shown by the weaving workshop owner Yaseen.

One would expect the director to be upbeat about the attention he draws to the Valley,...