‘The House That Jack Built’ Review: Lars von Trier’s Construction of Violent Delights

It’s been eight years since Danish director Lars von Trier was banned from the Cannes Film Festival. In the meantime, von Trier released his two-part epic Nymphomaniac, completing his ‘Depression Trilogy’ (preceded by Antichrist and Melancholia), and he finally...

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‘The Mercy’ Review: Hidden Depths Steer this Biopic to Success

You wait half a century for a Donald Crowhurst biopic, and then two come along at once. Simon Rumley’s Crowhurst came first after pipping James Marsh’s The Mercy to the post with a festival premiere last year, but The Mercy, which will likely get a US...

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‘Anna and the Apocalypse’ Review: Pure Genre Joy with a Toe-Tapping Beat

The zombie/comedy sub-genre, zom-coms if you will and really why wouldn’t you, is well-populated with examples ranging from American Zombie to Zombieland. There are great ones (Return of the Living Dead), beloved ones (Shaun of the Dead), underrated ones (Zombeavers),...

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‘Instant Family’ Review: Foster Parenting, Warts and All

“Maybe this makes me a bad person,” Pete and Ellie Wagner say again and again in Instant Family, often enough for it to become a sort of refrain. As written by director Sean Anders, whose family’s true story inspired the movie, they’re not bad people, nor are...

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Trailer for 'The Rainbow Experiment' About a High School Unraveling

"It's nobody's fault. And everybody's responsibility." Gravitas Ventures has released the trailer for an indie "surreal mystery" drama titled The Rainbow Experiment, which first premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival (the anti-Sundance fest that takes place...

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The ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Movie Should Be More Grounded

For as much as the media deals with topics surrounding mental health, only a select few cultural products vehemently speak to consumers when it comes to reconciling fictional portrayals and real life. In the last couple of years, the musical Dear Evan Hansen has...

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First Full Trailer for Blumhouse's Horror Sequel 'Happy Death Day 2U'

"I thought I ended the loop… But I'm back!" Universal Pictures has debuted the first full-length trailer for Happy Death Day 2U, Blumhouse's highly-anticipated sequel to their time-loop horror hit from last year Happy Death Day. Once again directed (and written)...

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‘Mirai’ and ‘Tito and the Birds’ Are Must-See Underdogs in Best Animated Feature Race

As I predicted a month ago, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse seems like a great savior for the year in animated features. Sony’s superhero movie is not only garnering stellar reviews, but it was also just named Best Animated Feature of 2018 by the prestigious...

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Watch: Scorsese's Script Supervisor Shows How to Maintain Continuity

"So did you catch all the errors so far?" This fascinating, informative filmmaking video made by Vanity Fair introduces us to Martha Pinson, a renowned script supervisor who has worked on Martin Scorsese's films Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, and Hugo....

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Excl: Trailer for Max Martini's Veteran Road Trip Film 'Sgt. Will Gardner'

"I had a purpose over there." "You got one here, too." FS is proud to exclusively debut the official trailer for a film titled Sgt. Will Gardner, another emotional drama about soldiers returning home from war with PTSD, struggling to reintegrate into society....

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Sundance 2019. Lineup

Native Son The lineup for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, taking place from January 24 to February 3, 2019, has been announced. U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION Before You Know It (Hannah Pearl Utt, USA): A long-kept family secret thrusts codependent, thirty-something...

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New US Trailer for Alice Rohrwacher's Italian Fable 'Happy as Lazzaro'

"I'm calling about a missing boy." Netflix has released a new US trailer for the film Happy as Lazzaro, originally titled Lazzaro felice, the latest film by acclaimed Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher (Corpo Celeste, The Wonders). This trailer celebrates the...

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