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In the late 1970s, an associate professor in the Philosophy department at Johns Hopkins (thesis title: "The Nature of the Natural Numbers") began publishing essays on Hollywood movies. George M. Wilson wasn't the first person to undergo this shift in specialism. At the start of the decade, Stanley Cavell had published The World Viewed, a series of "reflections on the ontology of film." But Cavell had always been concerned with how works of art enable us to think through philosophical themes such as knowledge and meaning, and he held a chair, at Harvard, in Aesthetics. Wilson differed in that he brought a range of analytic gifts to an ongoing revolution: the close reading of American cinema, conceived as part of the "auteur" policy of Truffaut and other writers at Cahiers du cinéma in the 1950s, and concertedly developed in the following decades by critics in England such as V. F.

ABC’s Once Upon a Time this Friday served up its Season 7 versions of Rapunzel and Wonderland, in a pair of back-to-back episodes. Did the new takes improve on the past? And what new twists were on tap?

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ABC was not able to furnish me with advanced screeners of this week’s two episodes, and I had plans (on a Friday night, imagine!), so… no recap follows. Instead, I leave you with the loglines for each episode plus the vivid memories of what your eyeballs just watched on the TV box to...

Princess CydStephen Cone has been making movies at a steady clip for over a decade and yet remains largely unknown. It is a momentous and wholly deserved occasion then for him to receive a retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. Despite mixed receptions and even more erratic distribution patterns, his collection of films isn’t as motley as one might think. While each might tiptoe in a different direction, they maintain a hand in the Stephen Cone universe, imprinted by the same particular humanistic insight. In one of his earliest films, In Memoriam (2011), a young man so subsumed with the sudden death of a couple, fallen from a roof during the throes of pleasure, conducts his own investigation into their ill-fated demise. Innocuous curiosity masks what is essentially an existential inquiry and takes a self-referential pivot when he decides to recreate and film the events,...

La Poison

Blu-ray

Criterion

1951 / 1:33 / Street Date August 22, 2017

Starring: Michel Simon, Germaine Reuver

Cinematography: Jean Bachelet

Film Editor: Raymond Lamy

Written by Sacha Guitry

Produced by Jean Le Duc, Alain Poiré

Music: Louiguy

Directed by Sacha Guitry

One of the most insightful commentaries on Sacha Guitry’s La Poison can be found right there on the cover of Criterion’s beautiful new blu ray release, a typically “warts and all” portrait by Drew Freidman of the film’s stars, Michel Simon and Germaine Reuver. The film’s diabolic mix of humor and horror is illuminated by Freidman’s precise rendering of Simon’s sagging jowls, Reuver’s venomous stare and the dingy trappings of the cramped little kitchen that threatens to suffocate these damned souls before they can get around to killing each other.

Filmed in just eleven days in 1951 by the speedy Guitry, La Poison tells the story of...

Award-winning actor, Farhan Akhtar returns to the big screen in fine form, showing off both his acting skills that have made him hugely popular with box office smashes including Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, and his dance moves that turned him into a heartthrob in movies like Rock On! Joining him is Punjabi superstar Gippy Grewal, an award-winner in his own right, as Parminder Singh Gill, and a member of the Band of Prisoners.

We have loved the songs we have heard so far and now the full Ost is out. To go with this story it must have a strong soundtrack and that comes with music composed by Arjuna Harjai, Sukhwinder Singh, Mychael Danna, Rochak Kohli and Tanishk Bagchi includes the songs Kaavaan Kaavaan featuring the vocals of Divya Kumar; Meer-e-Kaarwan, sung by Amit Mishra and Neeti Mohan and Teen Kabootar, featuring Mohit Chauhan and Divya Kumar and rapping by Raftaar.

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)

A recent article (based on a very unscientific poll) argued that millennials don’t really care about old movies. Maybe that’s true, and maybe it isn’t, but the fact remains that many people disregard classic cinema on principle. These people are missing out, but it only takes one film — the right film — to change their minds and forever alter their viewing habits.

This week’s question: What is one classic film you would recommend to someone who doesn’t watch them?

Candice Frederick (@ReelTalker), Hello Beautiful, /Film, Thrillist, etc

“Rebel Without a Cause.” I’ll out myself by saying that I’ve only recently seen this film...

Wonder Woman herself is about to bless my unborn child. "Can I?" she asks, before spreading her long fingers around my pregnant belly. Her hands feel warm and maternal. She holds my gaze, unwavering. "Girl or boy?" she asks. "Girl," I tell her. Her smile widens. "Being a woman is a strength," she says. "In so many ways."

Gal Gadot photographed in Los Angeles on July 19th, 2017, by Peggy Sirota. Peggy Sirota for Rolling Stone

Oddly, this is not a dream; it's a lunch at the Chateau Marmont. Gal Gadot...

Blood, blood everywhere! The midseason premiere of The Haves and Have Nots began with not one but two characters wearing red — Q, collateral damage in War’s vendetta against Candace, and Melissa, who slit her wrists in the wake of her father’s death. Did either or both of them survive? Read on…

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‘My Nephew Died’ | Picking up where “In Pursuit of Prey” left off, “The Fallout From War” began with Hanna emerging from the hotel bathroom, an unconscious Q in her arms… saying that it was too...

Louisa Mellor Jun 13, 2017

Broken continues with another sad story, but will audiences turn away from drama this bleak?

This review contains spoilers.

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Give me the child and I’ll give you the man, says an old Jesuit adage I’m paraphrasing and probably misattributing, but nonetheless the wisdom stands: what we learn in childhood forms us as adults. Of Broken’s many messages, that’s the loudest.

In childhood, Michael Kerrigan learned there was something wrong with him. He learned to keep quiet. He learned the sexual abuse he suffered was his fault. None of that’s exclusive to Catholicism – those are the lessons all abused children learn and they’re the fastest to sink in. Unlearning them can be the job of a lifetime.

It’s a job that Father Michael,...

Exclusive: BFI, Creative Scotland among backers of UK movie now in production.

Altitude Film Sales and Wild Bunch are teaming up to launch 90s rave movie Beats at Cannes, co-selling the feature which started production in the UK on 30 April.

Ocean’s Eleven director Steven Soderbergh will serve as executive producer on the project, which will be produced by Camilla Bray (Oranges And Sunshine) of Rosetta Productions, which is housed under Ken Loach’s Sixteen Films.

Beats is being directed by Brian Welsh who recently helmed The Entire History Of You, a popular episode of Charlie Brooker’s hit series Black Mirror.

The screenplay was co-written by Welsh and emerging screenwriting talent Kieran Hurley whose original play inspired the feature and led to a residency for him at Scotland’s National Theatre.

Set in a small Scottish town in the mid 90s, the film tells the story of best friends Johnno and Spanner who, despite being total...

Exclusive: BFI, Creative Scotland among backers of UK movie now in production.

Altitude Film Sales and Wild Bunch are teaming up to launch 90s rave movie Beats at Cannes, co-selling the feature which started production in the UK on 30 April.

Ocean’s Eleven director Steven Soderbergh will serve as executive producer on the project, which will be produced by Camilla Bray (Oranges And Sunshine) of Rosetta Productions, which is housed under Ken Loach’s Sixteen Films.

Beats is being directed by Brian Welsh who recently helmed The Entire History Of You, a popular episode of Charlie Brooker’s hit series Black Mirror.

The screenplay was co-written by Welsh and emerging screenwriting talent Kieran Hurley whose original play inspired the feature and led to a residency for him at Scotland’s National Theatre.

Set in a small Scottish town in the mid 90s, the film tells the story of best friends Johnno and Spanner who, despite being total...

If you missed The Belko Experiment in the theater, well you can thank your lucky stars films get put on Blu-Ray and DVD.

From writer, producer James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2), director Greg McLean (Wolf Creek, Rogue, The Darkness) and producer Peter Safran (The Conjuring, Annabelle), comes the story about a group of 80 American employees who are tested in a twisted social experiment of bone-crunching horror! Belko Industries, a normally calm workplace, gets a rude awakening when a mysterious voice on the intercom orders them to participate in a ruthless game of kill or be killed in a blood-soaking battle royale at their office building in Bogotá, Colombia. As the terror escalates, so does the body count. Everyone is a competitor and everyday objects become deadly weapons. Let the corporate carnage commence!

Presented by Orion Pictures, an arm of MGM, The Belko Experiment...

Start sharpening your pencils and learn how to take aim with your stapler, because the office-set survival thriller The Belko Experiment hits home media this June from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

The Belko Experiment will come out on Digital HD on June 13th, followed by a Blu-ray and DVD release on June 27th. Below, we have a look at the cover art as well as the press release with full details, including the Blu-ray and DVD bonus features.

Press Release: The Belko Experiment arrives on Digital HD June 13th and on Blu-ray and DVD June 27th

The Belko Experiment

From writer, producer James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2), director Greg McLean (Wolf Creek, Rogue, The Darkness) and producer Peter Safran (The Conjuring, Annabelle), comes the story about a group of 80 American employees who are tested in a twisted social experiment of bone-crunching horror!

These are challenging times for any filmmaker who doesn’t want to be told what to do. Chasing a slice of the Hollywood studio pie almost always brings compromise, and many foreign-born directors return to their home countries and assemble independent film and television projects.

That was the path of Dutch-born Paul Verhoeven, whose career began in his own language with “Soldier of Orange” and the Oscar-nominated “Turkish Delight.” From there he forged an A-list career that included “Basic Instinct” (which played competition in Cannes) “RoboCop,” “Total Recall,” “Starship Troopers,” and, yes, “Showgirls.” His last Hollywood movie was “Hollow Man” with Kevin Bacon in 2000.

When Verhoeven could no longer find material that suited him, he went back to Holland. His 2006 Dutch World War II drama “Black Book” (Sony Pictures Classics) starred Carice Van Houten, before she joined “Game of Thrones,” and was shortlisted for the foreign Oscar.

Now he has...

These are challenging times for any filmmaker who doesn’t want to be told what to do. Chasing a slice of the Hollywood studio pie almost always brings compromise, and many foreign-born directors return to their home countries and assemble independent film and television projects.

That was the path of Dutch-born Paul Verhoeven, whose career began in his own language with “Soldier of Orange” and the Oscar-nominated “Turkish Delight.” From there he forged an A-list career that included “Basic Instinct” (which played competition in Cannes) “RoboCop,” “Total Recall,” “Starship Troopers,” and, yes, “Showgirls.” His last Hollywood movie was “Hollow Man” with Kevin Bacon in 2000.

When Verhoeven could no longer find material that suited him, he went back to Holland. His 2006 Dutch World War II drama “Black Book” (Sony Pictures Classics) starred Carice Van Houten, before she joined “Game of Thrones,” and was shortlisted for the foreign Oscar.

Now he has...

J.K. Rowling fleshed out the American corner of her wizarding world in Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, which will in turn be expanded into a quintet of films by Warner Bros. The first film in the series stars Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander, a magizoologist and author of the eponymous field guide to fantastical beings. In pursuit of the fantastic beasts that have been let loose, Newt will have to contend with No-Majs (Stateside Muggles), a powerful dark wizard, and the Director Of Magical Security (Colin Farrell). Luckily, he’ll have some help from Porpentina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston), a magic user of great conviction but low rank.

Fantastic Beasts is due out in theaters on November 18, but The A.V. Club is giving our readers a chance to see it early and for free at the Showplace Icon theater on Monday, November 14 at 7 p ...

Even though Halloween is over, that doesn’t mean the horror genre is slowing down for the month of November, as fans have a bunch of great movies hitting VOD to look forward to this month. Uncork’d is getting us into the holiday spirit early with their November 1st release of Krampus Unleashed, and the very same day, the slasher-inspired thriller Last Girl Standing makes its way to VOD platforms as well.

Don’t Breathe and Abbey Grace get their digital releases on November 8th, and the latest from The Strangers director Bryan Bertino, The Monster, arrives on VOD November 11th, along with Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog, featuring Nicolas Cage. November’s VOD releases conclude with the cable VOD release of The Similars on the 15th (a film I’ve been looking forward to) followed by an iTunes and Digital release on November 22nd, and M. Shawn Crahan...

The holidays arrive early in today's Horror Highlights, as we have the trailer, poster, and release details for Krampus Unleashed. We also have a look at a new clip from Scare Campaign, a preview video for the latest episode of the Wolf Creek limited series, and details on Line Webtoon's "The Horror Zone."

Krampus Unleashed Trailer, Poster & Release Details: "Hotly anticipated yuletide horror title Krampus Unleashed premieres on VOD this November from Uncork’d Entertainment.

The film sees the yuletide monster, the dark companion of Santa Claus, in town with a few days to kill.

Some things are better left buried. In pursuit of a lost treasure, a group of fortune hunters mistakenly unearth an ancient demonic summoning stone that holds a terrible curse and awakens a timeless evil, the Krampus. After centuries of slumber, Krampus, the Christmas Devil, has awoken with a thirst that only blood will quench. He knows if you've been naughty!

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences unveiled this year's nominations on Monday, with Brazil leading the pack with seven nominations, including a best actor nod for Globo TV's Rules of the Game (Alexandre Nero) and a best actress nod for Grazi Massafera in Hidden Truths. Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench received nominations for their roles in BBC One's TV movie Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, based on the famous author's children's novel about a lonely older man…...

“Stranger Things” hype shows no signs of slowing a month after the ’80s nostalgia-fest first debuted on Netflix. The show’s synth-heavy soundtrack continues to be among its most popular elements, so news of its official release should come as pleasant (if unsurprising) news to many. Volume One is already available digitally and coming to the now-rarefied CD format on September 16; Volume Two is now streaming on Soundcloud and can be bought on CD as of September 23.

Read More: Aaron Paul Interviews ‘Stranger Things’ Star Millie Bobby Brown About Season 2, Acting & Eggos

Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein of S U R V I V E are responsible for the tunes in question. In a statement, Dixon notes that the show’s creators “were previously fans of S U R V I V E. They used a song from our first LP in a trailer they made to pitch their concept to Netflix.

Breitbart News published, and then took down, a post bashing its former editor-at large, Ben Shapiro, who stepped down last night over the outlet’s handling of allegations that a Donald Trump campaign staffer assaulted reporter Michelle Fields. The now-deleted post, which was first reported by Gawker, was titled “Ben Shapiro Betrays Loyal Breitbart Readers In Pursuit of Fox News Contributorship.” The screed bashes Shapiro and Buzzfeed, the site that he spoke to regarding his decision to step down. “Former Breitbart News editor-at-large Ben Shapiro announced Sunday evening via left-wing Buzzfeed that he is abandoning Andrew Breitbart’s lifelong best friend,...

TriStar Pictures

In this ultra-sensitive era, where people are routinely shamed and humiliated for using the wrong terminology, it’s heartening to discover the kinds of films whose makers didn’t care what anyone thought. No pandering to political correctness here; these films want to entertain you with merry tales of sadistic biker gangs, Nazi zombies and bisexual lap dancers.

The natural home for such pictures was New York’s 42nd Street which during the “golden age” of exploitation cinema consisted of porno stores and movie theatres showing double or triple bills promising sex and violence. Plywood archways fitted around the entrances to the theatre lobbies were adorned with film stills to which fake blood would be added, along with words like Shock, Lurid or Sex. It was, in short, a long way from when John Barrymore had performed Hamlet there during the 1920s.

Once inside, the coming attractions promised yet more sex and violence.

WWE.com

As WWE’s fascination with and celebration of follower stats proves, social media is an increasing part of pro wrestling. Fans are invariably very active on that front, sharing memes, assessing shows and PPVs with the community and sending appreciation or shade towards official wrestler accounts. It’s all very much a culture of attention-seeking as we tag certain wrestlers or companies or personalities, in the hope of a like or that elusive re-tweet.

After all, if you manage to post an interesting or funny comment and a famous wrestler re-tweets it, it could mean more followers for you and the chance to interact with some new friends.

Even though a like or a re-tweet can be a nice gratification for your level of banter or sucking up (it’s usually one of the two), there’s a brighter light at the end of the tunnel that some...

“How lucky are we to get a Coen brothers film so early in the year?,” fellow writer Brian Roan remarked in naming Hail, Caesar! one of our most-anticipated of the year. “Any fan of cinema should be overjoyed at the sound of the name alone, but more reasons to be excited are not in short supply. The story of a studio fixer in Golden Age Hollywood trying to recover a missing star, it plays into all of the metatextual farce that the Coens love so much. And, in keeping with its story, half of Hollywood is starring in this. The anticipation is high and can only get higher, so thank God we don’t have long to wait.”

The project brings together the star-studded ensemble of Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Channing Tatum, Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Frances McDormand, Christopher Lambert and Scarlett Johansson. Ahead a release in just about three weeks,...

To call The Ridiculous 6 one of Adam Sandler’s worst movies might actually be giving it more credit than it deserves – that is to say, such a sentiment presumes this two-hours-too-long excrement heap of cringe-inducing dialogue and Razzie-worthy acting is a “movie” at all. It certainly doesn’t feel like one, given that actual movies usually possess some semblance of comprehensible plot, visual beauty or competently written dialogue. The Ridiculous 6 doesn’t have any of that.

Instead, this Netflix original (wisely buried by the streaming service, which foolishly agreed to make a total of four films with this team) plays more like a collection of lazily offensive (and, more to the point, unfunny) sketches connected by a supremely flimsy, not to mention consummately boring, story arc. It’s an homage to the Western genre seemingly acted, written and directed by a group of people who have never seen one in their lives.

Tales of the Unusual (2014-present)

Written and Illustrated by Sungdae Oh

Published by Line Webtoon

Updates Wednesdays

Tales of the Unusual is a webcomic series of strange and mysterious stories by Sungdae Oh in which terrible things happen to terrible people 95% of the time, and innocent people are caught in the crossfire the other 5% of the time. Either way, each thrilling tale has a moral at its twisted end.

Below my dear reader, you will find highlights from my favorite unusual tales.

In “Gallery of the Damned”, Jaeyoon, a victim of bullying, takes his revenge plot too far when he becomes obsessed with finding out who is hanging his portrait in the “Gallery of the Damned.” Ah, but before we get into the ramifications of cursing anyone you don’t like, let’s rewind a bit and start at the beginning. Readers embark on their journey into the ominous world...

Recently, NBC served up the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "The Blacklist" episode 6 of season 3. The episode is entitled, "Sir Crispin Crandall," and it turns out that we're going to see some very dramatic and intense stuff go down as more violence befalls Liz and Red while trying to track down a trusted advisor for the Director, and more! In the new, 6th episode press release: Red and Liz will catch wind that Andras Halmi, who is a trusted advisor of The Director (David Strathairn), has gone missing. In pursuit of finding Halmi, Red and Liz are going to narrowly escape a violent confrontation. In the meantime, Tom is going to end up in a brutal "Fight Club" to find the one man he thinks will be able to exonerate Liz. Episode 6 is set to air on Thursday night, November 5th at 8pm central time on NBC.

Who needs a stunt man anyway? In the 19 years since Tom Cruise debuted as Ethan Hunt in the first Mission: Impossible, he's made a name for himself as one of Hollywood's biggest in-real-life daredevils.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to re-live these incredible Mission: Impossible stunt moments performed by Cruise himself.

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation review: Tom Cruise's spy series in need of rejuvenation

1. The Langley break-in - Mission: Impossible (1996)

Brian De Palma brought his customary directorial flair to the inaugural Mission, and the film's stand-out sequence saw Hunt and co infiltrate CIA headquarters via a precariously dangling wire.

Cruise did all this himself, even dropping coins into his shoes to level out his body. You can cut the tension with a knife.

2. Runaway train - Mission: Impossible (1996)

Mission's climax saw Hunt climb atop a train careening through the Channel Tunnel then taking down...

Rules of the Game: Helander’s Schlocky English Language Debut

Even though the film seems perfectly well aware of its own silliness as it recapitulates formulaic American action cinema tropes of days past, Finnish director Jalmari Helander’s Big Game never manages to elevate itself beyond a mere dose of basic mimicry. A follow-up to his cult audience courting debut, the strange evil Santa Claus movie Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, it would appear the filmmaker prizes his own amusement over his audience’s, at least judging from the inescapable hokiness tinging the film.

Where his first film displayed playfulness with its dark humor and memorable action sequences, he’s returned with a different set of vintage inspirations. At times entertaining, especially concerning its unique blend of cultures, and with surprisingly adept special effects sequences, this is goofy fun as long as you can keep your expectations in check.

The Magnificent Ambersons

Landon’S Take:

Orson Welles is celebrated as one of the foremost visionaries in the history of American filmmaking. He’s also renowned as the perennial artist against the system. While both of these factors make Welles perhaps the ideal auteur – someone satisfied with nothing less than a perfect articulation of his individual vision within the collaborative medium of filmmaking – it also presents some unique problems in examining works that were taken away from him.

The classically celebrated auteurs of studio era Hollywood (e.g., Hawks, Ford, Hitchcock) were known for creating individuated worldviews across their body of work either despite or even because of the strictures inherent in Classical Hollywood filmmaking. This was not Welles, who from his rise to infamy with the 1938 “War of the Worlds” broadcast to his first studio feature made a name by challenging the assumed utilities of a medium. Neither could...

Iceberg Interactive has announced a large Steam sale up to 80% off! Check them out!

From now until Sunday May 17th, 2015 Iceberg Interactive games are on sale.

The Cool As Ice Bundle is available for $24.99 (80% off). It contains StarDrive, Starpoint Gemini 2, Horizon, Gas Guzzlers Extreme and Nuclear Dawn.

Along with this sale they have also announced the following:

Adam’s Venture Episode 1: The Search For The Lost Garden - $1.24 (75% discount) Adam’s Venture Episode 2: Solomon’s Secret - $1.24 (75% discount) Adam’s Venture Episode 3: Revelations - $1.24 (75% discount) Adam’s Venture Pack - $3.24 (75% discount) Armada 2526 - $3.74 (75% discount) Armada 2526 Gold Edition - $4.99 (75% discount) Dark Fall: Lost Souls - $3.24 (75% discount) Dark Matter - $2.49 (75% discount) Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder - $1.99 (75% discount) Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage Director’s Cut Edition - $2.49 (75% discount) Gas Guzzlers Extreme: $6.24 (75% discount) Gas Guzzlers Extreme: Full Metal Frenzy - $1.24 (75% discount) Gas Guzzlers Extreme: Full Metal...

To begin with a disclosure: I was granted free admission to this year’s True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri, and the festival paid for my travel and lodging as well. I still hope that I’m able to provide insight into the films I saw there.Bitter LakeSince attending the True/False Film Festival last month, I’ve been chewing on some ideas that Adam Curtis, the gifted essay filmmaker behind The Century of the Self and All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, shared in a lecture-cum-multimedia presentation that he called “Unstoryfiable.” Over the course of an hour, Curtis identified what he considered the major philosophical problems of our time, the unifying theme being a general failure of imagination in western culture. We’ve become a civilization obsessed with data, he argued; in our determination to predict the immediate future based on patterns of past behavior,...

The National Film and Sound Archive Strategic Plan 2015-2018 sets some ambitious targets while making a strong case for additional government funding.

Released on Thursday, the document warns, .Unless we substantially increase revenue, from government as well as private sources, the organisation will run the risk of under-performing on a range of government expectations and will not be able to deliver to our constituencies what they are entitled to expect..

In the next three years the institution aims to to boost sponsorship, fund raising and commercial activities to generate $2 million per year.

It is committed to provide a new range of curated public programs including theatrical screenings of up to 10 restored or remastered Australian films annually.

And it will continue to lobby the federal government to make it mandatory for producers of audiovisual works to offer digital copies to the Archive.

The release of the plan follows 10 months of workshops...

Last month brought news that British television actor Sam Strike had landed the title role in Leatherface, the origin story of the chainsaw wielding killer from the Texas Chanisaw Massacre horror franchise. And now Deadline brings word that Public Enemies and Somewhere star Stephen Dorff will be taking another lead role in the film, and thankfully, details on his character give us an idea of what we can expect from the story. In the film the young man who will become Leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other patients, taking a nurse from the hospital with them as a hostage for a deadly road trip. Read on! In pursuit of the escaped patients will be Dorff as a deranged lawman who is out for some kind of revenge. Seems like there's a lot of unhinged characters here that should make for quite a wild prequel. Where is Leatherface going?...

For once my favorite movie of True/False 2015 was an honest-to-goodness crowdpleaser, a counterintuitively funny film on a grim topic. Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard had the earned gumption to title their film Rules of the Game; in French it’s distinguished from Renoir’s film by the first word being Les rather than La, but that distinction doesn’t translate. It’s not just a cutely attention-getting appropriation: Renoir’s film anatomizes unspoken codes of conduct for French high society which, if observed, should successfully conceal hypocrisies and personal betrayals. Bories and Chagnard’s reworked title refers to clothing, eye contact, portfolio neatness and other job interview variables that — rather than work ethic and qualifications […]...

For once my favorite movie of True/False 2015 was an honest-to-goodness crowdpleaser, a counterintuitively funny film on a grim topic. Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard had the earned gumption to title their film Rules of the Game; in French it’s distinguished from Renoir’s film by the first word being Les rather than La, but that distinction doesn’t translate. It’s not just a cutely attention-getting appropriation: Renoir’s film anatomizes unspoken codes of conduct for French high society which, if observed, should successfully conceal hypocrisies and personal betrayals. Bories and Chagnard’s reworked title refers to clothing, eye contact, portfolio neatness and other job interview variables that —...

Drive

Showcase Inventory

Created by Tim Minear & Ben Queen

Produced by 20th Century Fox Television, Reamworks

Aired on Fox for 1 season (4 episodes aired, 2 unaired + pilot) from April 13 – July 15, 2007

Cast

Nathan Fillion as Alex Tully

Kristin Lehman as Corinna Wiles

Kevin Alejandro as Winston Salazar

Jd Pardo as Sean Salazar

Dylan Baker as John Trimble

Emma Stone as Violet Trimble

Michael Hyatt as Susan Chamblee

Rochelle Aytes as Leigh Barnthouse

Melanie Lynsky as Wendy Patrakas

Taryn Manning as Ivy Chitty

Riley Smith as Rob Laird

Mircea Monroe as Ellie Laird

Show Premise

All across the country, a secret organization is holding an illegal road race competition, bringing in participants to rally against one another to win a $32 million grand prize. Each racer has been specifically selected by unknown sponsors, who have put them into the game for reasons unknown to the racers, and each of the racers have their own personal...

The True/False Film Festival, now in its 11th year, opens today in Columbia, Missouri and runs through the weekend. Among the titles Filmmaker's Vadim Rizov looking forward to catching are Adirley Queirós’s White Out, Black In, "the French training-for-job-interviews documentary Rules of the Game and adopted-Roma-kids portrait Spartacus & Cassandra, both from Cannes sidebars" and "the Egyptian Revolution report I Am The People… Curatorial winnowing of international cinema is a thing the festival’s reliable at." The Columbia Daily Tribune's Amy Wilder talks with Brett Morgen about Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. Aarik Danielsen talks with Bill Ross and Turner Ross about Western and argues that if "any one person could embody the spirit of True/False, it would probably be Robert Greene." » - David Hudson...

The True/False Film Festival, now in its 11th year, opens today in Columbia, Missouri and runs through the weekend. Among the titles Filmmaker's Vadim Rizov looking forward to catching are Adirley Queirós’s White Out, Black In, "the French training-for-job-interviews documentary Rules of the Game and adopted-Roma-kids portrait Spartacus & Cassandra, both from Cannes sidebars" and "the Egyptian Revolution report I Am The People… Curatorial winnowing of international cinema is a thing the festival’s reliable at." The Columbia Daily Tribune's Amy Wilder talks with Brett Morgen about Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. Aarik Danielsen talks with Bill Ross and Turner Ross about Western and argues that if "any one person could embody the spirit of True/False, it would probably be Robert Greene." » - David Hudson...

Wolf Hall concludes its superlative series with an episode that makes historical tragedy come alive...

This review contains spoilers.

1.6 Master Of Phantoms

A TV show that can make its audience feel every shaking, terrible moment of a death so muffled by historical wadding that it’s now more playground rhyme than human drama is something to cherish. And something to miss like a brother now that it’s gone.

Wolf Hall made Anne Boleyn’s beheading so rightly, wretchedly real that we could have been watching an online video of one of its horrendous modern day counterparts. With none of Debbie Wiseman’s delicately intuitive score to accompany Anne’s journey to the scaffold, deliberately, you could barely hear her final words over the sound of wind and flapping cloth. Director Peter Kosminsky positioned the audience as an onlooker in the crowd, complicit in an execution we all knew was coming,...

With a bigger budget, The History Channel's Vikings improves upon the strengths of its first two seasons in this season 3 premiere...

This review contains spoilers.

3.1 Mercenary

Two years ago, when I first tuned in to watch Vikings, I honestly wasn’t expecting much, despite my interest in the period and culture it depicts. After all, the show was ostensibly historical material being produced for The History Channel, a cable outlet that hasn’t done much lately in the way of history. I mean, Swamp People and Pawn Stars may bring in the ratings and thus the advertisers, but I doubt they’ll end up in many chronicles of our times.

What I did not know when I sat down to watch the premiere episode was the show’s pedigree. It was created by Michael Hirst who also gave us The Tudors. As someone well-versed in the Renaissance, I had...

Jon Ronson is a renowned investigative journalist who has spent years exploring the more hidden aspects of society for radio, television, and print. His books, including Clubbed Class, Them: Adventures With Extremists and The Men Who Stare At Goats, all feature a narrative structure that is specific to Ronson’s work – setting factual investigation within the gripping flow of his experiences in tracking down the information. Each account has the reader essentially riding shotgun with Ronson as he goes to get the story. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through The Madness Industry, published in 2011, features this structure, too, and is now being developed by Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment as The Psychopath Test, starring Scarlett Johansson.

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through The Madness Industry sets out to explore the murky world of psychiatric diagnosis, and in doing so, looks at the mental health industry, including the media, the professionals and the patients – specifically psychopaths.

The True/False Film Festival has announced the lineup for its upcoming annual event, which takes place in downtown Columbia, Missouri from March 5-8. Selected from roughly 1,200 submitted and solicited films, the 38 chosen titles reflect the festival's typical focus on the art of non-fiction cinema. Many titles will be making their North American premieres, while others screened earlier this year at Sundance. The 2015 True/False Festival Lineup includes: "Something Better to Come" "Spartacus and Cassandra" "Rules of the Game" "Those Who Feel the Fire Burning" "White Out, Black In" "Heaven Knows What" "The Visit" "Drone" "(T)error" "Of Men and War" "Cartel Land" "Western" "Invasion" "Il Segreto" "Tea Time" "Tales of the Grim Sleeper" "Finders Keepers" "Meru" "I Am the...

Chicago – This Thursday marks the beginning of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, and yours truly will be in attendance to cover the fest for HollywoodChicago.com. Last year, the Park City, Utah event introduced the world to its 2014-defining sensations like “Whiplash” and “Boyhood”.

Those titles followed in the paths of indie landmarks such as “sex, lies and videotape,” “Clerks,” “Hoop Dreams,” “American Movie,” “Memento,” “Frozen River,” “Winter’s Bone,” and “Fruitvale Station,” among many others.

In pursuit of new favorite films for a new year, I’ve composed a relatively solid schedule so that I can devour as much diverse Sundance goodness as possible. Narratives, documentaries, white supremacists, nasty babies, Neil Hamburger, Chiwetel Ejiofor, stolen cop cars, and much, much more are all in play. But with hopes that everything I witness is the next “Boyhood”-like zeitgeist, I’ll be sure to report back here on what’s worth,...

At the midway point of "Taken 3," there is a visible moment when everyone involved with this half-hearted sequel has decided to go through the motions. In pursuit of a bad guy through the winding hills of Malibu, the inexhaustible Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) has his car rammed from behind and pushed over a precipitous edge, where it tumbles end over end over end before exploding in a gigantic fireball that would nominally kill whoever was behind the wheel. But just a few minutes later, Mills has not only survived without a scratch, but has clambered up back to the road, hijacked a car, made his way to the nearest town, finds the guys who inconvenienced his ride, and promptly dispatches them in a liquor store. The above is not a spoiler, but simply an indication that nothing in "Taken 3" matters. While Mills was indestructible in the first two movies,...

With year end lists already flooding the interwebs a full month before the actual year’s end, its hard to ignore the fact that awards season is now in full swing. Tons of documentary awards have already been handed out, whether its for Ida (not Pawel Pawlikowski’s gorgeous new film) or for Cinema Eye Honors, there are plenty of worthy films getting their due recognition. Plus, several international festivals have handed out major awards this month, including Idfa, which hosted their awards ceremony just minutes ago. The full roundup is just below:

Dok Leipzig – Germany – October 27th – November 2nd

At the close of the 57th edition of the German documentary festival the Golden Dove Award, the festival’s highest honor, was given to Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard’s Rules of the Game, while the Leipziger Ring Film Prize went to Laura Poitras’s Edward Snowden doc Citizenfour, the...

Iceland’s Oscar submission takes top prize in Lübeck; Edward Snowden gives video introduction to Citizenfour at Dok Leipzig; arson attack hits Lgbt screening in Kyiv.

Baldvin Baldvin Zophoníasson’s Life In A Fishbowl was the big winner at this year’s Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, taking home the Ndr Film Prize, worth $15,655 (€12,500)

Lead actor Thorsteinn Bachmann accepted the award in person from the five-person jury, which said it was “a touching and hopeful film about seemingly hopeless situations”.

The co-production between Iceland, Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic is Iceland’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar and is being handled internationally by Films Boutique.

Special mentions were also given to Hisham Zaman’s Letter To The King (Norway) and J-p Valkeapää’s They Have Escaped (Finland) by the jury comprising actors Victoria Trauttmansdorff and Niklas Osterloh, producer Christoph Thoke, Ndr commissioning editor Diana Schulte-Kellinghaus and Finnish film-maker Kirsi Marie Liimatainen.

Festival-goers voted for...

The Mill Valley Film Festival, opening today and running through October 12, will naturally feature several of this year's awards season contenders: Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything, Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game and so on. But the spotlight will be on local talent as well: Rob Nilsson's A Bridge to a Border, Erica Jordan's In Plain Sight, Christopher Beaver's Racing to Zero: In Pursuit of Zero Waste, William Farley's Plastic Man: The Artful Life of Jerry Ross Barrish and Helen S. Cohen and Mark Lipman's States of Grace. We're collecting previews. » - David Hudson...

The Mill Valley Film Festival, opening today and running through October 12, will naturally feature several of this year's awards season contenders: Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything, Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game and so on. But the spotlight will be on local talent as well: Rob Nilsson's A Bridge to a Border, Erica Jordan's In Plain Sight, Christopher Beaver's Racing to Zero: In Pursuit of Zero Waste, William Farley's Plastic Man: The Artful Life of Jerry Ross Barrish and Helen S. Cohen and Mark Lipman's States of Grace. We're collecting previews. » - David Hudson...

It’s just like The Rolling Stones used to sing: “I see a red door and I want it… to take me through the space-time continuum into a new and unfamiliar place.”

Ok, I may have gotten that lyric wrong.

Regardless, the ninth installment of Under the Dome‘s second season — titled “The Red Door” — indeed brought us somewhere new: a few steps closer to understanding why the dome came down three weeks ago (as Barbie’s voiceover so often reminds us).

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