New Trailer for South African Supernatural Thriller 'The Soul Collector'

"There's something in the yard. Something strange…" Shout has debuted an official US trailer for a South African horror thriller titled The Soul Collector, which originally premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival last year. It also played at the Toronto After...

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Watch: Ben Strang's 'Beast' Short Set on an Island in Chesapeake Bay

"He's gone, okay?" This impressive short film won the Grand Jury Award at the SXSW Film Festival a few years ago, and is now available to watch online. Beast is a short film written and directed by Ben Strang, a Maryland-native filmmaker & photographer. Set...

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Behind the Best Part of Netflix’s ‘Hollywood’

Ryan Murphy‘s Hollywood is an alternate history of Tinseltown in its Golden Age, a fantasy narrative in which the underdogs and the minorities win the respect they never got in our own timeline. Now we are able to relive the glamour of the 1940s while watching...

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The 50 Most Beautiful Shots of the ‘Indiana Jones’ Franchise

Steven Spielberg‘s Indiana Jones films are, quite simply, some of the most beloved action movies ever committed to celluloid. The franchise acts as a four-film highlight reel of every pre-show Saturday serial ever made, in other words: it’s just plain fun. Photography...

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Official Trailer for 'Crazyhot' Doc Film About the World of Chile Peppers

"I don't see any reason that peppers won't get hotter." Hotter and hotter and HOTTER! Pick A Winner Ent. has unveiled an official trailer for an indie documentary called Crazyhot, a film about the wide world of chile peppers and chillis and various spicy peppers...

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Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller 'Edge of Extinction' Official Trailer

"They will hit you with everything they've got." Hundy Gilbert Media has debuted an official trailer for an indie post-apocalyptic survival thriller titled Edge of Extinction, from writer / director Andrew Gilbert. The film is set 15 years after a nuclear World...

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The Sinful Stop-Motion Pleasures of ‘Raymonde or the Vertical Escape’

Welcome to The Queue — your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web.  To say Raymonde or the Vertical Escape is an odd film is an understatement. Set in an idyllic cottage in the French countryside, the short stop-motion...

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What’s New to Stream on Hulu for May 2020

Hulu has been stuck in the third-place position when it comes to movie streaming behind Netflix and Amazon Prime because most people still see them strictly as a home for next-day television. They have movies too, though, and more than a few of them are gems that...

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DP Sam McCurdy on Bringing Noir to ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Lost In Space’

What is cinema? What is television? With each passing day, the line between the two becomes blurrier and blurrier. Considering that most of us are trapped indoors these days, with zero access to the theatrical experience, everything we consume comes through our...

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Who Benefits Most from the Oscars Qualifying VOD Releases

While studios and theater owners battle about the issue of day-and-date VOD releases, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has decided to go easy on the film industry in these difficult times. The organization behind the Oscars announced a temporary...

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The Ending of ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Explained

Affirmation as a panacea for shame is the crux of Spider-Man: Homecoming. Upon receiving incredible physical abilities after being bit by a radioactive spider, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) behaved the way any nerdy teenager would behave. He went mad with power,...

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The History of ‘The Goonies’ Sequel

Every movie deserves a chance to prove itself on its own terms, but some ideas seem bad from the get-go. Take, for example, a potential sequel to The Goonies, which is both unnecessary and entirely possible. Talk of a follow-up to the iconic ‘80s adventure movie,...

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Trailer for Basketball Legend 'Manchild: The Schea Cotton Story' Doc

"Schea's story is important to be told…" 1091 Media has released an official trailer for a sports documentary called Manchild: The Schea Cotton Story, which originally premiered back in 2016 at the Los Angeles Film Festival. This is yet another basketball biopic...

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AMC Theatres Trolls Universal Over ‘Trolls’ Release

Just a few weeks ago, AMC Theatres was in the news for its struggle to pay its bills. Now the cinema chain, which is on the verge of filing for bankruptcy, is making not just threats but full-blown strikes against one of the major Hollywood studios. In an open...

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