Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
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Agnes (Mickey Reece)
Agnes begins how any other possession film might––with the discovery of a demonic presence. When the convent of Saint Theresa fear there’s evil inhabiting the body of one of their young nuns, they outsource help from the diocese. Things quickly, expectedly start to unravel from there. But director Mickey Reece wants you to forget everything you know about possession and exorcism in film––or, well, maybe not. Because part of what makes his new feature Agnes work so beautifully is its very upending of expectations for that particular horror subgenre. With over twenty-five feature films thus far, spanning his career since 2008 as a lower-budget indie...
See our comprehensive guide to where to stream the best films of 2021.
Agnes (Mickey Reece)
Agnes begins how any other possession film might––with the discovery of a demonic presence. When the convent of Saint Theresa fear there’s evil inhabiting the body of one of their young nuns, they outsource help from the diocese. Things quickly, expectedly start to unravel from there. But director Mickey Reece wants you to forget everything you know about possession and exorcism in film––or, well, maybe not. Because part of what makes his new feature Agnes work so beautifully is its very upending of expectations for that particular horror subgenre. With over twenty-five feature films thus far, spanning his career since 2008 as a lower-budget indie...
- 12/10/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Family adventure led the German box office before its run was cut short by cinema closures.
Family adventure Jim Button And The Wild 13 is to be re-released by Warner Bros when cinemas in Germany re-open.
The $24m German feature led the local box office when it opened on October 1 and grossed $6.88m over five weeks, before theatres were closed on November 2 as part of a nationwide lockdown that remains in place.
Sales agency Global Screen, part of Will Smith and Elysian Fields’s Telepool, picked up global distribution rights to the film ahead of the European Film Market (EFM...
Family adventure Jim Button And The Wild 13 is to be re-released by Warner Bros when cinemas in Germany re-open.
The $24m German feature led the local box office when it opened on October 1 and grossed $6.88m over five weeks, before theatres were closed on November 2 as part of a nationwide lockdown that remains in place.
Sales agency Global Screen, part of Will Smith and Elysian Fields’s Telepool, picked up global distribution rights to the film ahead of the European Film Market (EFM...
- 3/4/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Theo Anthony’s documentary All Light, Everywhere, which took home the Special Jury Prize for Non-Fiction Experimentation at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, has been picked by Neon’s boutique division Super Ltd. The distributor has taken the pic’s North American rights.
Written, directed and edited by Anthony, All Light, Everywhere explores the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. As surveillance technologies become a fixture in everyday life, the film interrogates the complexity of an objective point of view, probing the biases inherent in both human perception and the lens.
All Light, Everywhere reps Anthony’s second feature after Rat Film, which received critical acclaim following its premiere at the Locarno and True/ False Film Festivals, and was nominated for a 2017 Gotham Award for Best Documentary Feature film as well as Cinema Eye Honors for Best Debut Feature.
Ayo Kepher-Maat and Jeff Deutchman negotiated the deal...
Written, directed and edited by Anthony, All Light, Everywhere explores the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. As surveillance technologies become a fixture in everyday life, the film interrogates the complexity of an objective point of view, probing the biases inherent in both human perception and the lens.
All Light, Everywhere reps Anthony’s second feature after Rat Film, which received critical acclaim following its premiere at the Locarno and True/ False Film Festivals, and was nominated for a 2017 Gotham Award for Best Documentary Feature film as well as Cinema Eye Honors for Best Debut Feature.
Ayo Kepher-Maat and Jeff Deutchman negotiated the deal...
- 2/17/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
As is obligatory for the start of a new year, it’s time to look back at the sh*t-show that was last year and pick out our highlights of the year… This time round it’s Phil’s Top 10 Dtv Horror Movies of 2020. Which are, in no particular order:
African Kung-fu Nazis
Sometimes a film comes along and all you can say is what the actual f*ck?! African Kung-Fu Nazis is one such film… The plot of which goes something like this:
Unlike history books tell us, Adolf Hitler did not commit suicide in his bunker, but instead fled to the African continent in his submarine. Teaming up with his new right hand, infamous Japanese military leader Hideki Tojo and the brutal Horse-Man Göring, he plans on conquering the world once again – starting in Ghana. With the might of his loyal (although brainwashed) Ghan-Aryans and his superhuman Karate-Powers,...
African Kung-fu Nazis
Sometimes a film comes along and all you can say is what the actual f*ck?! African Kung-Fu Nazis is one such film… The plot of which goes something like this:
Unlike history books tell us, Adolf Hitler did not commit suicide in his bunker, but instead fled to the African continent in his submarine. Teaming up with his new right hand, infamous Japanese military leader Hideki Tojo and the brutal Horse-Man Göring, he plans on conquering the world once again – starting in Ghana. With the might of his loyal (although brainwashed) Ghan-Aryans and his superhuman Karate-Powers,...
- 1/7/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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By Richard A. Lertzman
“The Rat Pack? Hasn’t that topic been done to death?”
That is the question I was asked by some skeptical fellow writers when I mentioned I was working with author Lon Davis on Deconstructing the Rat Pack, our new book, published by Prestige Cinema Press.
It’s true: there have been a stack of books on the myth that surrounds Rat Pack members Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford. But the fact is, myths are what have most often been printed. It reminds me of the line in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Lon and I subscribe to a different belief: print the facts. PR reports of the time will lead one to believe that the Rat Pack came about organically, that their...
By Richard A. Lertzman
“The Rat Pack? Hasn’t that topic been done to death?”
That is the question I was asked by some skeptical fellow writers when I mentioned I was working with author Lon Davis on Deconstructing the Rat Pack, our new book, published by Prestige Cinema Press.
It’s true: there have been a stack of books on the myth that surrounds Rat Pack members Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford. But the fact is, myths are what have most often been printed. It reminds me of the line in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Lon and I subscribe to a different belief: print the facts. PR reports of the time will lead one to believe that the Rat Pack came about organically, that their...
- 12/16/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
“It’s been an absolute beast,” says festival director Tabitha Jackson.
Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut Passing starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga, Metro Manila director Sean Ellis’ horror Eight For Silver, and Nikole Beckwith’s comedy Together Together starring Ed Helms are among 72 features selected for 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which runs online and in select US arthouse venues from January 28-February 3.
The line-up, announced on Tuesday (December 15), includes One For The Road, Thai filmmaker Baz Poonpiriya’s follow-up to Bad Genius; Edgar Wright’s music documentary The Sparks Brothers; Robin Wright’s feature directorial debut Land; Ben Wheatley...
Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut Passing starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga, Metro Manila director Sean Ellis’ horror Eight For Silver, and Nikole Beckwith’s comedy Together Together starring Ed Helms are among 72 features selected for 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which runs online and in select US arthouse venues from January 28-February 3.
The line-up, announced on Tuesday (December 15), includes One For The Road, Thai filmmaker Baz Poonpiriya’s follow-up to Bad Genius; Edgar Wright’s music documentary The Sparks Brothers; Robin Wright’s feature directorial debut Land; Ben Wheatley...
- 12/15/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
In the beginning, there was a rat. Specifically, Remy, the Parisian rodent at the center of Ratatouille, the 2007 Pixar movie about a rat who loves to cook. Ratatouille, though critically acclaimed upon its release, was not a commercial juggernaut like Disney properties Frozen or The Lion King — yet over the past few months, it has enjoyed a renaissance on musical theater TikTok, where members of Gen Z are building a musical adaptation from scratch (potential litigation from Disney be damned.) We spoke to over half-a-dozen of the creators and, what follows,...
- 11/18/2020
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
The latest book from Stephen King, a collection of four novellas titled If It Bleeds, has already yielded three separate movie deals since its publication in May.
According to Deadline, three of the tales in the book — “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone,” “Rat” and “The Life of Chuck” — have been snapped up by three different companies. The title story, meanwhile, seems likely to get an adaptation too, since it stars a character that has already appeared in two different King adaptations.
King has an unusual way of doing business in that he licenses the options to his stories for the sum of one dollar (with more to come later), although he gets certain creative control rights as part of the bargain and the productions must go in front of the cameras within specified time frames. That latter aspect may be a challenge with Covid-19 still hampering a lot of Hollywood productions.
According to Deadline, three of the tales in the book — “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone,” “Rat” and “The Life of Chuck” — have been snapped up by three different companies. The title story, meanwhile, seems likely to get an adaptation too, since it stars a character that has already appeared in two different King adaptations.
King has an unusual way of doing business in that he licenses the options to his stories for the sum of one dollar (with more to come later), although he gets certain creative control rights as part of the bargain and the productions must go in front of the cameras within specified time frames. That latter aspect may be a challenge with Covid-19 still hampering a lot of Hollywood productions.
- 7/11/2020
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
With the coronavirus pandemic drawing associations with his epic story of a flu-like virus in The Stand, Stephen King has been regularly sharing his takes on the current situation. Over the last month, King has both moved to reassure people that Covid-19 is nowhere near as deadly as The Stand‘s Captain Trips, as well as sharing some humorous takes on how the lockdown would affect his characters. While the author’s latest book, If It Bleeds, is getting an early publication this month, King is already working on his next effort. However, it seems that the impact of the coronavirus has changed his original plans for the novel.
More specifically, he’d intended his latest book to take place in 2020, but is now revising the plot due to the overwhelming effect of Covid-19 on daily life. Speaking to NPR, King had this to say about the difficulty of writing...
More specifically, he’d intended his latest book to take place in 2020, but is now revising the plot due to the overwhelming effect of Covid-19 on daily life. Speaking to NPR, King had this to say about the difficulty of writing...
- 4/10/2020
- by Jessica James
- We Got This Covered
The most recent novel of Stephen King, horror/thriller The Institute, was only published in September, but the ridiculously prolific author already has another title on the way in the form of If It Bleeds, which has had its release date pushed forward a week to April 28th.
If It Bleeds is not a full novel, but instead a collection of four novellas, the same format as the likes of Full Dark, No Stars, Four Past Midnight and the highly popular Different Seasons. The stories are titled Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and If It Bleeds. Not much information has been provided about what we can expect from their actual content, although an excerpt released last year from presumably the titular tale reveals it to feature detectives Holly Gibney and Ralph Anderson from The Outsider, the novel on which the miniseries of the same name was based,...
If It Bleeds is not a full novel, but instead a collection of four novellas, the same format as the likes of Full Dark, No Stars, Four Past Midnight and the highly popular Different Seasons. The stories are titled Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and If It Bleeds. Not much information has been provided about what we can expect from their actual content, although an excerpt released last year from presumably the titular tale reveals it to feature detectives Holly Gibney and Ralph Anderson from The Outsider, the novel on which the miniseries of the same name was based,...
- 4/1/2020
- by Andrew Marshall
- We Got This Covered
While the Covid-19 pandemic has delayed the releases of numerous horror films throughout the spring and summer, horror fans can at least now look forward to reading Stephen King's latest book earlier than expected.
Initially scheduled to come out on May 5th, StephenKing.com now reveals that King's new novella collection, If It Bleeds, will be released in April, with Bloody Disgusting also sharing the news.
It's worth noting that while Amazon lists an April 28th release date for the hardcover and audiobook versions of If It Bleeds, it lists an April 21st release date for the Kindle and audio CD editions of the collection, and the book's page on StephenKing.com also lists an April 21st release date at this time, as does its page on Simon & Schuster's website.
Despite these conflicting dates, what we do know for sure is that the collection will be released in April,...
Initially scheduled to come out on May 5th, StephenKing.com now reveals that King's new novella collection, If It Bleeds, will be released in April, with Bloody Disgusting also sharing the news.
It's worth noting that while Amazon lists an April 28th release date for the hardcover and audiobook versions of If It Bleeds, it lists an April 21st release date for the Kindle and audio CD editions of the collection, and the book's page on StephenKing.com also lists an April 21st release date at this time, as does its page on Simon & Schuster's website.
Despite these conflicting dates, what we do know for sure is that the collection will be released in April,...
- 3/31/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Netflix has picked up a slew of short firms from Saudi Arabia start-up Telfaz11 Studios.
The streamer has nabbed six films, which aim to shine a light on thought-provoking subjects with a focus on social themes. The films will be available to watch in 190 countries from February 27.
The digital platform will badge the films under the banner Six Windows in the Desert.
The movies shine light on topics that are universal in nature; social taboos, extremism and the human psyche are among the issues viewers can expect to watch. They will offer audiences a lens into the perspective of the Saudi creators.
The films are 27th of Shaban, Wasati, Is Sumyati going to Hell?, Predicament in Sight, The Rat and Curtain.
27th of Shaban, from Mohamed Al Salman, follows Mohammed and Nouf who go on a date, an act prohibited in Saudi Arabia. Wasati, directed by Ali Kalthami, is...
The streamer has nabbed six films, which aim to shine a light on thought-provoking subjects with a focus on social themes. The films will be available to watch in 190 countries from February 27.
The digital platform will badge the films under the banner Six Windows in the Desert.
The movies shine light on topics that are universal in nature; social taboos, extremism and the human psyche are among the issues viewers can expect to watch. They will offer audiences a lens into the perspective of the Saudi creators.
The films are 27th of Shaban, Wasati, Is Sumyati going to Hell?, Predicament in Sight, The Rat and Curtain.
27th of Shaban, from Mohamed Al Salman, follows Mohammed and Nouf who go on a date, an act prohibited in Saudi Arabia. Wasati, directed by Ali Kalthami, is...
- 2/12/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
MOSCOW -- Nikita Mikhalkov, president of the Moscow Film Festival and one of Russia's best-known directors, will play the part of a gangland boss in a new film by director Alexsei Balabanov, Mikhalkov's production studio Tri-T said Wednesday. Mikhalkov -- who last appeared onscreen in the 1998 Julia Ormond starrer "The Barber of Siberia" -- will play mafia boss Sergei Mikhailovich in "Zhmurki" (Blind Man's Buff), produced by award-winning producer Sergei Selyanov's company STV. Shot at Moscow's Gorky Film Studios by Balabanov -- whose credits include such Russian boxoffice hits as gangster movie "Brat" (Brother) and Chechen war drama "Vojna" (War) -- the film, billed as a madcap comedy, is due for release in Russia in early June. Set in the 1990s during Russia's wild post-Soviet days, the movie stars many of Russia's most popular young actors, including Alexei Panin and well-established names such as Viktor Sukhorukov and singer Garik Sukachev.
- 3/17/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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