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“The Madison” found its second lead in Matthew Fox. The actor best known for his work in “Lost” will star alongside Michelle Pfeiffer in the upcoming Taylor Sheridan drama, which will serve as a spinoff to “Yellowstone.”

Fox will play Paul, who is described as “a self-reliant bachelor who loves the outdoors.” He will join a cast that includes Michelle Pfeiffer, Patrick J. Adams, Elle Chapman, Beau Garrett and Amiah Miller.

Fox became a household favorite for his role as Dr. Jack Shepard in J.J. Abrams’ massive hit, “Lost.” For that role, he won the 2005 SAG Ensemble Award and was nominated for the Golden Globe and Emmy for Outstanding Leading Man in a Drama Series. The actor has also starred in “Speed Racer,” “We Are Marshall” and “Emperor.” On the television side, Fox starred in and executive produced the limited series “Last Light” for Peacock and starred in the...

The Venice International Film Festival 2024 lineup is slowly coming into view, with the Venice Immersive Xr – Extended Reality section now revealed.

The festival, which will take place from August 28 through September 7, includes 360° videos, virtual and mixed reality and Xr works of any length for the Venice Immersive program. Launched in 2017, the section represents one of the first competitions for works in Extended Reality in an A-list festival. The 81st annual festival’s Venice Immersive section is presented with support from VRChat.

The Venice Immersive program included 63 projects from 25 countries, with 26 of those projects being in competition. The festival also boasts seven 7 projects developed during the Biennale College Cinema – Immersive offering.

A trio prizes will be awarded to Venice Immersive projects from the jury. The prizes are: the Venice Immersive Grand Prize, the Venice Immersive Special Jury Prize, and Venice Immersive Achievement Prize.

The international Venice Immersive jury is preceded over by president Celine Daemen,...

Based on a novel series by L. J. Smith, The Vampire Diaries is a CW fantasy series about a pair of centuries-old vampires that enter the lives of a group of teenagers in the fictional town of Mystic Falls. Tvd aired eight seasons from 2009 to 2017, introducing audiences to several wonderful characters.

One of those characters was our beloved witch Bonnie Bennett, played by Geneva-born and LA-raised actor Kat Graham. According to Graham, playing Bonnie helped her grow up.

Kat Graham | Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images On ‘The Vampire Diaries’ Kat Graham played Bonnie Bennett, the real hero of Mystic Falls

The Vampire Diaries covers the narrative of a love triangle between vampire brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore and high schooler Elena Gilbert, as well as the happenings in the small town of Mystic Falls. On Tvd, Graham plays Bonnie Bennet, one of Elena’s closest pals and a psychic-turned-powerful witch.

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Monza (Italy), Sep 11 (Ians) Red Bull driver Max Verstappen, who were demoted five places because of grid penalties, fought back to win his first Italian Grand Prix on Sunday as the race ended behind the safety car.

Pole-sitter Charles Leclerc finished runner-up as Red Bull denied Ferrari a home victory at Monza while Mercedes driver George Russell, who started the race third, finished third.

“We had a great race. We had a really good race car and we were controlling the gap and then the Safety Car came out. Unfortunately, we didn’t get a restart,” Verstappen said after the race.

While Verstappen was elated with his win, Leclerc was disappointed after losing a chance to win Ferrari’s home Grand Prix.

“The end was frustrating. I wish we could have ended up racing. It’s a shame. I gave it all. I wish I could have won in front of the amazing Tifosi,...

Monza (Italy), Sep 11 (Ians) Red Bull driver Max Verstappen, who were demoted five places because of grid penalties, fought back to win his first Italian Grand Prix on Sunday as the race ended behind the safety car.

Pole-sitter Charles Leclerc finished runner-up as Red Bull denied Ferrari a home victory at Monza while Mercedes driver George Russell, who started the race third, finished third.

“We had a great race. We had a really good race car and we were controlling the gap and then the Safety Car came out. Unfortunately, we didn’t get a restart,” Verstappen said after the race.

While Verstappen was elated with his win, Leclerc was disappointed after losing a chance to win Ferrari’s home Grand Prix.

“The end was frustrating. I wish we could have ended up racing. It’s a shame. I gave it all. I wish I could have won in front of the amazing Tifosi,...

The festival runs September 16-24.

Glenn Close has been named president of the official selection jury for the 70th San Sebastian International Film Festival.

Close will be joined by French director and casting director Antoinette Boulat; Danish filmmaker Tea Lindeburg; Argentinian producer Matías Mosteirín; Spanish writer Rosa Montero; Mosotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese and the Icelandic director and screenwriter Hlynur Pálmason.

Wang Chao’s A Woman has also been added to Ssiff’s official selection, becoming the 16th title eligible for the Golden Shell.

The Chinese film is based on Zhang Xiu Zhen’s autobiography Dream and follows an aspiring...

The Arctic Monkeys have returned at last.

Straight off the back of headlining Rock en Seine in Paris, then Leeds, then Reading festival, the Sheffield band released their first single in four years in the early hours of Tuesday morning (30 August) entitled “There’d Better Be A Mirrorball”.

It’s the first track from their forthcoming seventh studio album The Car, following on from 2018’s Tranquility Base & Casino and 2013’s Am.

Naturally, fans were overjoyed by the band’s return and heaped praise on the song’s heady, jazz-infused sound.

“‘There’d Better Be A Mirrorball’ has solved all my life problems suddenly i have my future planned out suddenly my insecurities have disintegrated suddenly i am mentally well suddenly i am healed,” one fan raved on Twitter.

“‘There’d Better Be A Mirrorball’ is further proof arctic monkeys are the masters of changing up their sound. reminiscent of leonard cohen.

This article contains spoilers for all of Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

The first live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie had its share of references and callbacks for longtime Sonic fans, but on the whole it was mostly just a fun family road-trip movie. Sonic the Hedgehog 2, however, goes all in. With Tails, Knuckles, and a ton of backstory revealed about Sonic’s home planet, this movie was primed for Easter eggs galore and it did not let us down!

With the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on Paramount+ and being available for digital purchase, we put together a complete guide to the references, obscure trivia, and other hidden “emeralds” in the film!

Tails and his Backstory

In what crosses the line from Easter Egg and reference to just downright open fan service, Tails in the film is voiced by Colleen O’Shaughnessy. She previously voiced the character in several...

(The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.)

In this edition, some of our favorite moments from the "Stranger Things" series have been given the animation treatment. Plus, see how stunt driver Tanner Foust rates 10 different car-chase scenes in some of our favorite movies. And finally, check out the late, great, Gilbert Gottfried's first ever appearance on "Late Night with Conan...

The post The Morning Watch: Stranger Things Morning Cartoons, The Accuracy of Car Chases in Movies & More appeared first on /Film.

Well… Oscar night 2022 was certainly one to remember. Many obituaries will have received their first lines last night, and there’s a few moments that will appear half way down for some of them.

But – here’s the good news: Sian Heder’s Coda won Best Picture, and genuine living legend Troy Kotsur took home the Best Supporting Actor award. It may have been a surprise for some, as Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog was hotly favoured. In the second piece of excellent news it was Campion herself who took home the Best Director gong, many would argue it’s long overdue.

Elsewhere Encanto, Will Smith, Jessica Chastain all took to the stage to collect their awards, and it’s pleasing to see another year when the awards were well spread out. It’s a sign of an industry in fine fettle, which is just as well given,...

As predicted, Janus Films’ “Drive My Car” has claimed victory at the 2022 Oscars for Best International Feature Film. The prize was handed out during ABC’s Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, March 27 — see the complete Oscars winners list.

This marks Japan’s fifth overall trophy in the Best International Feature Film category (which prior to 2020 was called Best Foreign Language Film). Back when the category was non-competitive, the country was awarded with three honorary Oscars for “Rashomon” (1951), “Gate of Hell” (1954) and “Samurai, The Legend of Musashi” (1955). “Departures” (2008) and “Drive My Car” are the two Japanese film to claim victory against nominees in the modern era.

See 2022 Oscar winners list in all 23 categories: Who won at 94th Academy Awards?

The three-hour movie from director Ryusuke Hamaguchi tells the story of a recent widower (played by Hidetoshi Nishijima) who is hired to direct a play and the young woman (played by Toko...

The ceremony starts at 5pm Pt/8pm Et (1am Monday morning UK time) and is expected to run for three hours.

The 94th Academy Awards takes place this evening (March 27) and returns to Dolby Theatre in Hollywood under tight Covid protocols.

The ceremony starts at 5pm Pt/8pm Et (1am Monday morning UK time) and is expected to run for three hours. It will be broadcast live on ABC.

Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes are co-hosting the event, which marks the first time in four years since a host graced the stage and brings to a close a...

The ceremony starts at 5pm Pt/8pm Et (1am Monday morning UK time) and is expected to run for three hours.

The 94th Academy Awards takes place this evening (March 27) and returns to Dolby Theatre in Hollywood under tight Covid protocols.

The ceremony starts at 5pm Pt/8pm Et (1am Monday morning UK time) and is expected to run for three hours. It will be broadcast live on ABC.

Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes are co-hosting the event, which marks the first time in four years since a host graced the stage and brings to a close a...

The event is a major showcase of Spanish and Latin American content to the international market.

The world premiere of Jorge Coira’s Codigo Emperador, starring Luis Tosar, opens the 25th edition of the Málaga Film Festival (Mff) today (March 18), marking the first time the Spanish and Latin American-focused event has run in-person for two years. The spy thriiller also opens in Spain today.

Roberto Bueso’s Full Of Grace is the closing night film, screening out of competition.

Codigo Emperador is playing in competition along with Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s directorial debut Lullaby, starring Laia Costa and Susi Sánchez,...

The Caped Crusader isn’t just cleaning up Gotham these days, he’s also cleaning up in cities from coast to coast as the Dark Knight’s latest big-screen outing, The Batman, easily held onto the top spot in its second weekend of release thanks to a lack of major new competition. Raking in 66 million in its sophomore frame, Warner Bros.’ bruise-black reboot featuring Robert Pattinson beneath the cowl continued to draw impressive audiences a week after the movie came out of the gate as the second-biggest North American debut of the pandemic era—behind only fellow comic-book crimefighter Peter Parker in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Playing in 4,417 theaters, the PG-13-rated tentpole managed a robust 14,942 per-screen average. The Batman’s second week take fell -50.7 from the previous weekend, but as hefty as that sounds, it’s actually not as steep of a drop-off as most recent superhero movies.

It was a good morning to work for Netflix. The streaming service which was once kept at arm’s length by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—and which Steven Spielberg once attempted to prevent from getting more Best Picture nominations by going directly to the Academy’s Board of Governors—is now the toast of the Oscars 2022 ball. Indeed, this morning’s Academy Awards nominations showered the streaming service with 20 nominations, 12 of which were for The Power of the Dog, more than any other film.

Jane Campion’s Western scored the most love in at least the Oscar nomination process with nods being picked up for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and four acting nominations, including for Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi-Smit McPhee, and in a surprise, Jesse Plemmons. The competitor with the closest nomination count is Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, which earned 10 nominations, including...

Certain shows draw you into a new season like a long-separated friend's familiar hug. All the time that's passed, the months and months we've waited. It's all forgiven the second we see that train again.

Snowpiercer Season 3 Episode 1 immerses us once again in the frozen wasteland of a bleak and disturbingly possible future. The action now chases the hope of a warming planet and a potential land-based home for humanity.

Where Snowpiercer Season 2 began with the shocking takeover of Snowpiercer by Wilford's Big Alice, effectively turning two trains into one, we begin this season after Layton, Till, Josie, and Alex manage to split the Snowpiercer engine and a few cars off to create a pirate train in order to retrieve Melanie's climate data.

With a lot of action taking place on both trains, the double narrative runs the risk of growing bulky and unwieldy. After all, with six months of...

The “Final Destination” franchise lives again.

Fresh from the $1.5 billion–grossing behemoth “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” filmmaker Jon Watts has boarded “Final Destination 6” as a producer for New Line Cinema. Watts’ wife and partner, Dianne McGunigle (“Cop Car”), is also producing, alongside longtime “Final Destination” producers Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor.

Lori Evans Taylor (“Wicked Wicked Games”) and Guy Busick (the new “Scream”) are writing the screenplay based on a treatment by Watts.

The film is set to debut on HBO Max.

“Both Dianne and I have been massive fans of ‘Final Destination’ from the very beginning,” Watts said in a statement. “So to be able to have a hand in crafting a new story with the original team and New Line is going to be both fun and exciting.”

“Final Destination” was one of the most durable horror franchises of the 2000s. In each of the five...

Exclusive: Dear White People alum John Patrick Amedori is set as a series regular opposite Shailene Woodley, Betty Gilpin, DeWanda Wise and Gabrielle Creevy in Showtime’s Three Women, an hourlong drama series based on the nonfiction bestseller by Lisa Taddeo. Blair Underwood, Jason Ralph and Blair Redford also star.

In Three Women, adapted by Taddeo, a group of women are on a crash course to radically overturn their lives. Lina, a homemaker in suburban Indiana, is a decade into a passionless marriage when she embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming and transforms her life. Sloane, a glamorous entrepreneur in the Northeast, played by Wise, has a committed open marriage with Richard, until two sexy new strangers threaten their aspirational love story. Maggie (Creevy), a student in North Dakota, weathers an intense storm after accusing her married English teacher, Aaron Knodel, (Ralph) of an inappropriate relationship. Gia (Woodley...

Bruce Hornsby has served up an unlikely piano rendition of Dinosaur Jr.’s “Feel the Pain” for record label Jagjaguwar’s 25th-anniversary covers album Join the Ritual.

The former Grateful Dead pianist’s rendition is both a faithful rendering and disjointed take on the surprise 1994 hit single, with Hornsby’s piano replicating J. Mascis’ riff before spiraling off melodically.

Join the Ritual, out September 24th and available to preorder now, features nearly a dozen Jagjaguwar artists and alumni tackling songs by influential indie bands and labels like K Records, Touch & Go,...

Syd has dropped a video for new song “Fast Car.” It’s her second solo single since 2017 following the release of “Missing Out” in February.

In the Ethan Nelson and Graham Epstein-directed clip, Syd and her paramour take a ride in a Bronco to go hiking. Things get steamy, not only from the temperature outside, but from the palpable chemistry between the two women. They’re humorously interrupted by a friend, but it doesn’t derail the couple’s passion.

“Take me there, I want to ride,” she sings on the sultry,...

Drive My CarI like to think the euphoric standing ovation Ryûsuke Hamaguchi received after the Cannes premiere of his Drive My Car makes up for the one he never got for Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, unveiled last February at the online-only Berlinale. In the space of five months, the Japanese director has delivered two luminous gems, and his latest is the second adaptation of a Haruki Murakami text to be unveiled in the official competition since Lee Chang-dong’s Burning in 2018. It is based on Murakami’s novella of the same name (available in the English-speaking world in the short stories collection Men Without Women). In it, a theatre actor and director agrees to helm a production of Anton Chekhov’s play Uncle Vanya at a festival in Hiroshima, all while struggling to overcome the death of his wife, who passed away two years prior.The actor-cum-director is Yusuke...

Haruki Murakami’s short story “Drive My Car” is a sleek, streamlined slip of a thing that nonetheless, in the author’s signature style, packs an awful lot into its lean sentences. It’s a grief-stricken marriage story enfolded in a corrupted friendship study, related in turn via a separate tale of odd-couple companionship, all told in fewer than 40 pages. On the face of it, one might question the wisdom of turning such a precisely worked miniature into a three-hour movie, but Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s deft, wise, whisper-soft adaptation of “Drive My Car” never feels like an overextension of its delicate material. Instead, it pursues a kind of cinematic stillness to match Murakami’s plain, serene prose, and takes things suitably slow — this is the kind of film where the opening credits arrive 40 minutes in — as it ponders just how much time can heal all wounds.

The subtly...

Car Seat Headrest have released a pair of EPs, Madlo: Remixes and Madlo: Influences, as a follow-up to their 2020 album, Making a Door Less Open.

Madlo: Remixes features remixes of five Making a Door Less Open tracks, with contributions coming from Superorganism (“Martin”), Scuba (“Weightlifters”), Yeule (“Deadlines”), and Dntel (“Life Worth Missing”). 1 Trait Danger, a Car Seat side-project of sorts developed by frontman Will Toledo and drummer Andrew Katz, also turned in a remix of “Martin.”

Meanwhile, the Influences EP finds Car Seat Headrest covering four songs that inspired Making a Door Less Open.

Starring Bob Odenkirk, Nobody was directed by Hardcore Henry's Ilya Naishuller, was written by John Wick's Derek Kolstad, and is coming to 4k Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on June 22nd. In support of the upcoming release, I was able to catch up with stunt coordinator (and second unit director) Greg Rementer, who has been involved in some of the world's biggest and best action movies, including Atomic Blonde and Avengers: Endgame! During our interview, we talk about prepping for the movie's memorable, close quarters fight and increasing the scale and intensity for the movie's action-packed finale.

From the writer of legendary action film John Wick, comes Nobody, the story of an ordinary, family man who will stop at nothing to defend what is his. Nobody is available to own for the first time on Digital June 8, 2021 and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray™ and DVD on June 22, 2021 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Emma Stone is apparently a huge fan of Planes, Trains & Automobiles and does an excellent impression of an iconic moment from the John Hughes classic.

The Oscar-winning actress dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday to talk about her new Disney film, Cruella, before going in the complete opposite direction with the F-bomb rant Steve Martin delivers in Planes, Trains & Automobiles.

‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ Everett Collection

In the 1987 holiday classic starring Martin and the late, beloved John Candy, Martin’s Neal Page goes off on a Marathon Car Rental agent (played by Edie McClurg) when his car is not on the lot....

Emma Stone is apparently a huge fan of Planes, Trains & Automobiles and does an excellent impression of an iconic moment from the John Hughes classic.

The Oscar-winning actress dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday to talk about her new Disney film, Cruella, before going in the complete opposite direction with the F-bomb rant Steve Martin delivers in Planes, Trains & Automobiles.

‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ Everett Collection

In the 1987 holiday classic starring Martin and the late, beloved John Candy, Martin’s Neal Page goes off on a Marathon Car Rental agent (played by Edie McClurg) when his car is not on the lot....

With Happy Hour and Asako I & II director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s stellar triptych Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy picked up for a U.S. release by Film Movement, we’re now looking to see when his second film of 2021, the Haruki Murakami adaptation Drive My Car, will premiere and get acquired. With rumors of a 170-minute runtime, the first teaser has now arrived.

Starring Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, Masaki Okada, and Reika Kirishima, it was reported the story follows a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day the wife disappears and, two years later, the hero is appointed the director of a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he is assigned a mostly silent young woman chauffeur, an encounter with more significance than he at first expects.

With a Japanese release planned for this summer, we imagine it may time up with a festival debut at Cannes.

Following up the stellar Happy Hour and Asako I & II, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s streak continued last month with the premiere of his latest film, the triptych Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy. Meant to be a small-scale project filmed while he prepared his next film, we’re hoping U.S. distribution for his Berlinale premiere arrives soon, but in the meantime, we have the first look at his second feature of 2021.

Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, staring Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, Masaki Okada, and Reika Kirishima, is adapted from Haruki Murakami’s story, first published in the English-language anthology Men Without Women. With the film now completed, it was reported the story follows a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day the wife disappears and, two years later, the hero is appointed the director of a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he is assigned a mostly silent young woman chauffeur,...

Singer Kanika Kapoor has opened up about her experience of being ridiculed in the media and trolled online, after she became one of the first Indian celebrities who tested positive for Covid-19. "It was a tough time. It was more shocking than anything else, to see people just say anything without knowing the reality of the situation," exclaimed Kanika.

Last year, after the 42-year-old had announced testing positive for coronavirus for the first time, it was reported that the singer-songwriter had attended high-profile parties, instead of going into isolation after arriving from London. She had faced flak for not revealing her travel history and the Uttar Pradesh government had filed a case against her.

"It was really sad to see that people wanted to be so mean, despite knowing someone is so unwell. I (really) think it was quite bad and mean," she says. "I hope people learn from it...

So how insane was that?

In many ways, this is the Empire Strikes Back season where Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 9 literally lands Layton in The Swamp, while Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 10 capped the season with Han still in carbonite... sorry, Wilford still control of the (majority of) train.

The unfortunate truth is that because the first season finale, Snowpiercer Season 1 Episode 10, was such a phenomenon, arguably the best season finale in recent memory, even the massive combined shock of the pirate train and Melanie's gone-ness in this second season finale suffered in comparison.

Season finales are measured on a different scale than typical episodes. They require satisfying resolutions to the season's conflict while intriguing us with future developments. While we are definitely intrigued, I'm betting no one's feeling particularly satisfied at the moment.

As the curtain fell on Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 8, Wilford had regained control of Snowpiercer, and no time is wasted...

The 1980s-set political series written by Bálint Szentgyörgyi follows a student who works as an informant for the Hungarian State Security Department. HBO Europe has announced that it has greenlit and started shooting The Informant, an 8x40-minute political series set in Budapest in the 1980s. Written by Bálint Szentgyörgyi, who also directs alongside Áron Mátyássy (Weekend) and Bence Miklauzic (Car Park), it follows 20-year-old Geri, who arrives in Budapest to begin his studies at the University of Economics, brimming with excitement and anticipation. On his first day at the dorm, he joins a group of young democratic opposition activists who organise protests against the communist system. The group is led by Zsolt Száva, a charismatic young student who soon becomes Geri’s best friend. The life of the country boy is changed overnight as he throws himself into a world of beautiful girls,...

Vin Diesel has built a career on wreckless driving via the Fast & Furious franchise so it should come as no surprise that Diesel is considered the most dangerous driver in Hollywood movies according to a new study. According to "Car Scrap Comparison", Vin Diesel is the Most Dangerous Driver in Hollywood action movies. The Fast & Furious franchise…...

The name of the game was "Confrontation" on Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 7, where Till, Audrey, Ruth, Layton, and Alex were all forced to face some hard truths.

But the big shocker was the fact Kevin is alive. Genius.

Till solving the mystery of who has been coordinating the Wilford cult was almost overshadowed by everything that happened.

And while I've had a sneaking suspicion about Pastor Logan's motivations for a while now, his willingness to offer up the breachmen deaths in the name of restoring Wilford's Order was still shocking.

Wilford's obsession with total loyalty is disconcerting when viewed clearly.

On Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 4, he reminds Audrey that he saved her when he made her slit her wrists. Near as I can tell, it's what made her his in his eyes. In the Night Car, he was desperate to find that scar again.

What's that adage about when you save something,...

Arrow Video’s May films include a superbly quirky comedy horror debut, a vintage Japanese comedy classic, the worldwide Blu-ray debut of a provocative Seventies masterwork, and a lavish edition of an offbeat, A-list sci-fi favourite.

As expected, the releases will be superbly packaged, featuring brand new restorations and audio commentaries, rare behind-the-scenes featurettes, revealing documentaries, beautifully designed booklets with new writing on the filmmakers, and reversible sleeves with striking newly-commissioned artwork, collectable limited edition O-cards and exclusive SteelBooks.

First in May, Arrow Video presents “A Ghost Waits,” an ingeniously unique and unpredictable combo of horror, humour and heart from first-time writer/director Adam Stovall and producer/star MacLeod Andrews. From its opening spectral assault to its achingly poignant conclusion – as well as a witty depiction of afterlife bureaucracy in the vein of “Beetlejuice” and “A Matter of Life and Death – A Ghost Waits” has shocked and surprised audiences around the world,...

This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers.

Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 4

Two of the more curious aspects of Snowpiercer is the fact that there’s a cabaret/bar/talk therapy center called the Night Car and that the tea room has become the de-facto church for anyone on board the train who still has faith in some sort of higher power. The need for religious services and entertainment is a known factor, but the fact that both the Night Car and the Tea Room serve more as locations for counseling than their original locations is interesting, to say the least. Like everything else on Snowpiercer, adaptations have been made during the time the train’s been rolling across the frozen world, and the Snowpiercer that Mr. Wilford enters into for the celebration of science is much different than the one he’d envisioned.

The biggest thing that Snowpiercer did with the introduction of Mr.

Amazon announced a slate of new hardware in an hour-long virtual event it held today at its Seattle office.

The presentation kicked off with an update on the company’s sustainability goals, which include using 100% recycled fabric for its echo speakers, introducing a low power mode to its new and existing devices, and giving users an “energy dashboard” to monitor their electricity consumption.

The rest of Amazon’s keynote was dedicated to hardware announcements, which ranged from updates to its Echo smart speakers, Eero Wi-Fi routers, and Fire TV sticks,...

For vintage Japanese classics Arrow is the place to be this summer. Yasuzô Masumura’s complicated tale of industrial espionage is an attack on the free enterprise system — even good people will do terrible things to get ahead, to prevail over the competition. It’s Tiger Car Company against the Yamato Car Company, winner take all. Plus, the extra feature The Black Report is not filler, but a terrific murder prosecution story, with Masumura’s patented dose of acid cynicism and murky misanthropy.

Black Test Car

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1962 /95 min. / Kuro no tesuto kaa

Starring: Jirô Tamiya, Junko Kanô, Eiji Funakoshi, Hideo Takamatsu, Ichirô Sugai, Kichijiro Ueda.

Written by Kazuro Funabashi, Yoshihiro Ishimatsu from a novel by Sueyuki Kajiyama

Produced by Gentaro Nakajima

The Black Report

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1963 / 94 min. / Kuro no hôkokusho

Starring: Ken Utsui, Junko Kanô, Hideo Takamatsu, Shigeru Kôyama, Eitarô Ozawa, Bontarô Miake, Mieko Kondô.

Written by Yoshihiro Ishimatsu,...

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.

Emmy season remains in full swing with the so-called phase two running on all cylinders now that nominations are out and so too will ballots be ready for online voting beginning on August 21 and running through the end of the month.

But we begin today with news about Oscar season and word that, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is continuing its shutdown and will not be holding any in person events through the end of the year – at the very least. Notably this means there will be no in-theater member screenings in Los Angeles, New York, the Bay Area, or London this fall, further complicating the already cloudy picture of just what the season will look like after the Fall Festival circuit has already gone through massive change and upheaval, including the out and out cancellation of Telluride...

Hearst Magazines’ digital and print staff has voted overwhelmingly – 241 to 83 – to unionize with the WGA East in an election administered by the National Labor Relations Board. The new bargaining unit includes some 500 members from Hearst Magazine’s editorial, video, design, photo, and social staffs across 28 digital and print brands, including Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, O (The Oprah Magazine), Town & Country, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Autoweek, Popular Mechanics, Elle, Elle Decor, Food Network Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Seventeen, Best Products, Bicycling, Country Living, Delish, HGTV Magazine, House Beautiful, Marie Claire, Men’s Health, Prevention, Runner’s World, The Pioneer Woman, Veranda, Woman’s Day, and Women’s Health.

The staffers announced their intention to join the guild last November, but management refused to recognize the union voluntarily and waged a protracted legal battle at the Nlrb in an attempt to delay the election and divide the bargaining unit into six separate groups.

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Snowpiercer, World of Dance, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Council of Dads!

1 | In the Twilight Zone finale, why was Mrs. Warren so careful about not stepping foot on her neighbor’s property? And is “Take me to your supervisor” the most “Karen” thing one could possibly say to a group of extraterrestrials?

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Last October, toward the end of recording his band’s new album, Car Seat Headrest frontman Will Toledo found himself in the middle of a terrifying panic attack. “I don’t like being in the studio without ideas,” he says. “It was really stressing me out.” The next day, instead of going back to the studio, he stayed home and wrote a new song.

It was a tense moment, but for Toledo, 27, some level of anxiety is always part of the creative process. “There’s no way to avoid it,...

Netflix has been the saving grace of millions during the quarantine that has forced everyone inside in the midst of our ongoing global pandemic. As a matter of fact, Us Netflix subscribers are averaging 3+ hours a day on the streaming service, indicating that a fairly substantial part of everyone’s lives is catching up on movies or binging their favorite shows. The virus has even caused an all-time high for Netflix stocks, resulting in the company becomeing worth more than Disney. If that doesn’t blow your mind, nothing will.

That said, it’s been up to Netflix to ensure everyone continues to receive quality content to keep them entertained, and so far, they’ve been doing a really great job. May has seen an influx of fantastic films and shows, and there are sure to be plenty more to come when June rolls around.

Unfortunately though, as always, the...

Car Seat Headrest unveiled two versions of a sweeping new ballad, “There Must Be More Than Blood,” off the band’s upcoming album, Making a Door Less Open, out May 1st via Matador.

Car Seat shared both the official album version of the track — a slow-burner buoyed by heavy drums and a rich textural mix of guitars and synths — and a stripped-down acoustic rendition. The latter version of “There Must Be More Than Blood” received a woozy and hypnotic video as well, which features frontman Will Toledo performing the song...

Car Seat Headrest have shared the animated video for their new song “Hollywood,” the latest track off their upcoming LP Making a Door Less Open.

“This song is about Hollywood as a place where people go to make their fantasies come to life, and they end up exploiting other people and doing terrible things to maintain their fantasy,” frontman Will Toledo said in a statement.

“There’s this terror you’re going to lose the fantasy, and you’re going to have to face the facts, and some people will...

‘Skit Box’, ‘Parked’, ‘1999′.

The sixth iteration of Screen Australia and Google’s Skip Ahead initiative, designed to help YouTube creators up the scale of their content, has opened for applications today.

Alumni of the initiative include comedians Aunty Donna and Superwog, science educator Vanessa Hill, documentarians Mighty Car Mods, fantasy creator Piéra Forde and influencer Wengie.

The program offers up to $150,000 in production funding, with five projects to be funded. It is aimed at creators who have a track record of reaching an audience on YouTube and are ready to ‘skip ahead’ their careers in terms of creative ambition and production values.

Both scripted narrative (i.e. fiction) and documentary projects are eligible. YouTube creators can submit applications together and/or work with an external production house.

Aside from receiving production funding for their project, successful applicants will also participate in two workshops to be held in Sydney (July/August...

In Universal’s long history of memorable monsters, the least personable must surely be the devil-possessed automobile that hits and runs through the southwest in one of the worst reviewed movies of its decade. Nonetheless Elliot Silverstein directs as if he believes it and Jaws-With-a-Car has survived as a goofy artifact of the auto-obsessed culture of the period.

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This week’s Trailers From Hell movies are about cars, in one fashion or another. We do not recommend drinking and driving – of course – but, once you are home, unscrew the cap on something mechanical for your viewing pleasure. You can take it out of the brown paper bag first, but don’t bother with a glass.

1976’s Car Wash was reportedly filmed at an actual car wash in L.A.’s Westlake neighborhood, at Rampart and 6th, a street corner now populated by strip malls, laundromats and a HoHo Chicken. There’s a 7-Eleven nearby, where you can probably find a suitable “bum wine” to go with the impoverished motif of the film. However, if you are trying to steer clear of pop bottles, here’s a wine for your dirty car. Dirty and Rowdy Wines makes a Petite Sirah – a powerful grape which would make a great bum wine,...

Contrary to popular belief, the Japanese are not totally averse to watching war movies, with Clint Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima and Peter Webber’s Emperor being fairly well-received in recent years. However, those films undoubtedly owed their success to the presence of revered Japanese actors Ken Watanabe and Toshiyuki Nishida, boy-band idol Kazunari Ninomiya and the calmly authoritative Tommy Lee Jones (who is so big over here that he fronts a major coffee brand). Given that Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk offers none of the above, one wondered how the Tokyo media conference, held at the plush Roppongi Hills complex on Thursday […]...

Marvel Music/Hollywood Records have released the digital versions of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 songs-only album and Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 original score album by composer Tyler Bates (“Guardians of the Galaxy,” “John Wick Chapter 2,” “Watchmen”).

The film opens in U.S. theaters on May 5, 2017.

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 is filled with great action, humor and performances, but it is also infused with a new mixed tape and soundtrack, a dynamic that resonated deeply with audiences in the first film as evidenced by the success of the soundtrack album. The Grammy-nominated “Guardians of the Galaxy” soundtrack reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, becoming the first soundtrack album consisting entirely of previously released songs to top the chart. The album was certified Platinum by the R.I.A.A.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol.