Cailee Spaeny watched A24's Priscilla alongside the real life Priscilla Presley and it was a surreal moment for the young actress.
The One Night in Miami star shares a meaningful day recording.
Genre fans know it's always a good idea to keep an eye on the festival hits, because you never know which indie debut is going to end up being the surprise that knocks your socks off. Today, we've got an exclusive trailer debut for Minor Premise, a new sci-fi thriller that's been racking up acclaim on the festival circuit for its clever concept, engaging execution, and strong performances -- especially from Sathya Sridharan, who takes on the challenge of playing ten versions of a scientist after an experiment to create the best version of himself goes off …
Directed by John Whitesell and written by Tiffany Paulsen, the Netflix original romantic comedy Holidate follows holiday haters Sloane (Emma Roberts) and Jackson (Luke Bracey) who meet on a particularly bad Christmas that leads to a pact to be there for each other on all of the holidays throughout the next year. With their arrangement to be one another’s plus-one locked in and no need to worry about being dateless, they have fun that leads them to realize that they might actually enjoy hanging out together more than they expected. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with …
A giant hamster appears out of nowhere to prod at an addict's struggles. A wrestler with signs of CTE grapples with action figures to prod at his demons. A long-haired fantasy warrior... well, I kinda don't wanna tell you what the long-haired fantasy warrior does. Part of the fun of Room 104, Mark and Jay Duplass' episodic anthology series for HBO, is seeing how each initial premise gets modified, twisted, and turned into something much more experimentally engaging. Its fourth and final season just might be the show's most ambitious, surreal season yet, as the …
The Batman's Matt Reeves opens up about the "surreal" production shutdown and how his film's an "odd throwback" to two specific 1970s detective films.
Created by David Simon and Ed Burns and based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth, the six-part HBO limited series The Plot Against America follows a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey through an alternate American history during World War II, when aviator hero and xenophobic populist Charles Lindbergh has won the presidency and is taking the nation ever closer to fascism. As opposing political views threaten to tear families apart, the eerie parallels of how an outsider can stoke the flames of anti-Semitism and xenophobia from the highest leadership position in the …
A24 has released the first trailer for The Green Knight. Director David Lowery is back at the helm of a feature film he also penned, this time breathing new life into the 700-year-old Arthurian legend of Gawain and the Green Knight. The Green Knight stars Dev Patel as Gawain, Ralph Ineson as the Green Knight, and Joel Edgerton, Alicia Vikander, Sean Harris, Kate Dickie, and Barry Keoghan in supporting roles. The Green Knight trailer is giving off major vibes in both the look and tone of the works related to two of A24's favorite sons: Ari Aster …
Shutter Island turns ten years old this week, and watching the new 4K Blu-ray, I couldn't help but feel like director Martin Scorsese was showing off. For Scorsese, I'm sure his adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel is more of a love letter to the classic horror of folks like Val Lewton and Alfred Hitchcock, but watching the film today looks like Scorsese strolling into the horror space, casually owning it, and then moving on. Whereas other directors struggle and grasp to find a way to do psychological horror, Scorsese basically does it as a one-off, …
Everyone loves memes. They brighten up group texts, communicate so much in so little, and help make Twitter semi-salvageable. But what if a meme could end the world? That's the irresistibly spooky premise at the heart of Memetic, a surreal comic from writer James Tynion IV, artist Eryk Donovan, and colorist Adam Guzowski. Now, via The Wrap, the Boom! Studios project is being adapted into a film -- with the powerhouse team of Seth Rogen and Mattson Tomlin, the latter of whom co-wrote The Batman with Matt Reeves. Memetic, originally published in 2015, follows the spreading of the "…
Room 104 is a surrealist anthology series by the Duplass Brothers. If you enjoy it, you should check out these other strange and quirky films as well.
Academy Award winner Tim Robbins discusses his mind-bending new collaboration with his son, VHYES.
It's our pleasure to bring you a clip from the upcoming GKIDS release, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles. The new animated film tells the true story behind the fascinating creation of surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel's legendary documentary Las Hurdes: Land Without Bread. And as you can see in this first clip, the medium of animation makes for a fantastic showcase of surrealist style and endless imaginative possibilities. Written by Salvador Simó and Eligio Montero, and directed by Simó, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles finds Buñuel in Paris in 1930, penniless …
I've been in this entertainment racket long enough to see some strange and incredible things on film and TV sets. I've walked through a "torture chamber," watched Pennywise have a friendly chat with the crew, and strolled through a few stunning full-scale spaceships over the years, but I can safely say I've never been on a set quite like The Lion King. That's because it wasn't really a "set" at all, but a warehouse full of groundbreaking technology, where filmmaker Jon Favreau and his crew (many returning from their previous collaboration on The Jungle …
There's no shortage of Lord of the Flies inspired stories in film and TV, but you'll rarely see one as strange, focused, and disquieting as Ladyworld. Set at a sleepover that quickly turns into a post-apocalypse tinged survival story, Ladyworld finds a gang of mismatched teenage girls rapidly devolving into factionalized psychos when they get trapped underground after a mysterious natural disaster. I caught the film during its festival tour at Fantastic Fest last year, where it was met with a bit of a divided response. It's a super psychologically draining film that seems targetted to …
You may already know that when Star Wars Episode IX – now illustriously titled Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker – hit theaters it will come with Carrie Fisher intact. Here's how that came about.
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