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Stars: Barry Sullivan, Norma Bengell, Ivan Rassimov, Ángel Aranda, Evi Marandi, Franco Andrei, Federico Boido, Mario Morales | Written by Ib Melchior, Alberto Bevilacqua, Callisto Cosulich, Mario Bava, Antonio Roman, Rafael J. Salvia | Directed by Mario Bava

Mario Bava, often celebrated as a master of Gothic horror and Italian genre cinema, brought to life a diverse array of films that showcased his visual ingenuity and flair for mood and atmosphere. Planet of the Vampires, a standout entry in the realm of science fiction horror, epitomizes Bava’s commitment to stylistic audacity and thematic exploration. This review examines how this film fits into and enriches Bava’s oeuvre, highlighting the characteristics that align with his broader body of work.

Bava’s films are renowned for their distinctive visual style, characterized by deep chiaroscuro lighting, saturated colour palettes, and intricate set designs. Planet of the Vampires is no exception, showcasing these traits within the context of a futuristic,...

Mario Bava’s The Whip and the Body is a Technicolor fever dream of violent, unquenchable desire that extends beyond the grave. It’s also a gothic tale steeped in murder and revenge, with added elements of sadomasochistic eroticism and just a whiff of necrophilia. Wedged between Black Sabbath and Blood and Black Lace in Bava’s canon, The Whip and the Body shares those films’ consummate use of color cinematography to refine mood and convey disturbing shades of atmosphere. Acting as his own cinematographer, with credited Dp Ubaldo Terzano working as de facto camera operator, Bava revels in a riotous palette of sickly greens, otherworldly purples, and sanguine reds.

The opening of The Whip and the Body brings to mind Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, an equally disturbing tale of mad love that was celebrated by the surrealists. Heathcliffe stand-in Kurt Menliff (Christopher Lee) returns to his seaside castle...

One of the best reviews of any piece of media was Andy Klein's review of the 2004 film "Christmas with the Kranks," printed in the now-defunct CityBeat weekly. Because of the foibles of online archiving and the shuttering of many news outlets in 2004, CityBeat articles are no longer available. But in his review, Klein likened Joe Roth's anti-classic to the rise of fascism in Europe, holding the film's Dan Aykroyd character as leading a Nazi-like neighborhood charge against the people on their block -- the leads, played by Jamie Lee Curtis and Tim Allen -- who would dare, Dare, to...

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Prisoners of the Ghostland screenwriter/producer Reza Sixo Safai joins hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to discuss his wildest cinematic experiences.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Infested (2002)

The Howling (1981) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings

Hollywood Boulevard (1976) – Jon Davison’s trailer commentary

Bela Lugosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla (1952) – Joe Dante’s trailer commentary

Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)

Mandy (2018)

Candy (1968) – Glenn Erickson’s trailer commentary

S.O.B. (1981)

The Shining (1980) – Adam Rifkin’s trailer commentary

Robin Hood (1973)

The Story of Robin Hood (1952)

Modern Times (1936)

The Kid (1921)

The Deer (1974)

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

Qeysar (1969)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

The Warriors (1979)

New Jack City (1991)

Colors (1988)

The Whip And The Body (1963)

Blow Out (1981) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary

Porky’s (1981)

Cinema Paradiso (1988) – Glenn Erickson’s Region B Blu-ray review, Glenn Erickson’s 4K Blu-ray review

Circumstance (2011)

Ninja 3: The Domination (1984)

Flashdance (1983)

Debbie...

The battles for Season 21 of “The Voice” concluded on Tuesday, October 19, and John Legend is hoping to claim his second title this sixth time around as coach. This season he’s built a team anchored by a group of powerful R&b singers plus a few others standing out in their own lanes of Broadway and soft rock. Below is our “The Voice 21” power ranking of these eight artists based on their likelihood of advancing to the next round.

Hoping to stop John from reclaiming the coach’s throne are rivals Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson and Ariana Grande. Blake is seeking his ninth win championship while Kelly hopes to win her fourth and Ariana her first as a rookie coach, just like John did. Do they have what it takes to stop John’s soul train? And do You agree with our power rankings below? Sound off in the comments...

“Do you remember Limited Too?” Pearl Charles asks. She’s trying to trace just how far back her love of Abba goes, which brings her to the Nineties pre-teen clothing store. “Everything was flower power and bell-bottoms, and I feel like ‘Dancing Queen’ was huge at all the birthday parties. All of that stuff steeped into my brain when I was a little kid, and now it’s all coming out.”

“Only For Tonight,” the opening track to Charles’ recent album Magic Mirror, drips in disco. Its layers of sunny production mask bleak lyrics,...

If you’ve heard about Another Round, the Oscar-nominated Danish film starring Mads Mikkelsen, you probably know about the Dance. It happens at the end of writer-director Thomas Vinterberg’s tragicomedy about four middle-aged high school teachers who attempt an experiment in magical drinking; entire features and paeans have already been written about it. Sitting on a park bench as his students whoop and holler near a pier, Mikkelsen’s history professor tentatively starts doing a two-step. Then he bursts into the sort of musical dance routine — leaping, twirling, sliding...

Last week saw both Kandy Muse and Olivia Lux in the bottom two with Olivia been told to leave the competition. She had only been doing drag for just over a year so to get this far in the competition (beating out drag icons such as Tina Burner and Tamisha Imann) is incredible! I can’t wait to how much she will progress over time and I am sure she is destined for great things as she gains more and more experience. Though I don’t understand how Kandy was allowed to progress with that messy pocket inspired outfit as I thought it was the worst outfit I have seen… since her alien look a few weeks ago! But this led to a very interesting discussion led by Bob the drag queen (who was the winner of season 8) where she talked about how a designer had made the outfit, so...

Bob Odenkirk is accustomed to playing a character whose greatest weapon is his gift of gab, but in Nobody, his action movie debut, the Illinois native is finally letting his fists do the talking. Written and produced by two-thirds of the John Wick brain trust, Derek Kolstad and David Leitch, Ilya Naishuller’s Nobody centers on Odenkirk’s Hutch Mansell, whose dark past is unlocked by a home invasion. After his own Los Angeles home was burglarized twice, Odenkirk pitched the idea for Nobody to Leitch and his producing partner Kelly McCormack. And while they were putting the movie together, Odenkirk spent nearly two years training ...

After 14 years, 20 seasons, hundreds of episodes, and endless spinoffs, it's almost time to bid adieu to Keeping Up With the Kardashians. The final season of the long-running E! reality show is upon us, but if you know the Kardashians, then you know this isn't really goodbye. In December 2020, the Kardashian-Jenner clan signed a multi-year deal to "create global content" that will be streamed exclusively on Hulu and Star, though little is known yet about what kind of content the famous family has in mind. But according to Kuwtk co-creator and executive producer Ryan Seacrest, the reality stars "have a stack of ideas" for what comes next.

As Ryan explained to People during a January 2021 interview, "I think they have a lot of ideas and [will do] a lot of things that they may have not had a chance to do with Keeping Up with the Kardashians, because it was such a strong...

“As much as on the outside I’ve been vulnerable, I am, on the inside, a strong person,” Kim Novak says over Zoom this month, just weeks after her 89th birthday and the publication of her new book, Kim Novak: Her Life and Art. “I’ve had a lot of obstacles in my life. And I’m here.”

Novak is not as universally known today as contemporaries Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor or Grace Kelly — but to a generation that came of age in the 1950s, she still looms as large as any of them. “I ...

Monday’s boisterous Night 3 of The Voice’s Season 20 Blind Auditions introduced a contestant with what Blake Shelton reckoned was “one of the country-est names we’ve ever had on the show” and teed up a coach/competitor matchup that he imagined, owing to their taste in shiny jackets, would “blow the brains out of people’s butts into the toilet, and the toilet will flush itself.”

Told ya it was a boisterous night.

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Some movies brave enough to tread where only pop songs and poems go, and try to capture all the drama, contradictions and happy, bubbly feelings that come along with romance and love. It’s high-time that we honor them and defend them against their unearned sappy reputations with the best romantic movies on Amazon Prime.

We’ve scoured Amazon Prime to find the best romantic movies available for your viewing pleasure. Here are the best romantic movies on Amazon Prime. Ok, some of them are perfectly sappy.

The Big Sick

Kumail Nanjiani and his wife Emily Gordon’s theatrical debut made big waves when it came out for the singularity of its vision and just how plain funny it is. Now Amazon gets to reap the benefits of producing a bonafide romantic indie hit by getting its exclusive streaming rights. The Big Sick is the real life story of comedian...

Batwoman is finally back! After cutting season 1 short by a few episodes due to the pandemic and a brief covid-related hiatus, season 2 is ready with a new hero, some new villains, and Gotham in mourning for a missing Kate Kane.

Whatever the reason for Ruby Rose’s departure, new star Javicia Leslie is an exciting addition to the show who, as a bisexual Black actress playing a Black lesbian brings with her the possibility to broaden the definition of hero even further than Kate Kane already did.

Here’s what to expect for season 2.

Batwoman Season 2, Episode 4 Release Date & Trailer

After taking a short break for the Super Bowl, Batwoman will be back on Sunday, February 14th with a new episode. The episode is called “Fair Skin, Blue Eyes.” Check out the promo…

And here’s the synopsis: “As Batwoman attempts to fight the proliferation of Snake Bite through Gotham,...

Last month, Marvel Studios debuted its first of many Disney+ shows with WandaVision. Now during the Super Bowl it is showing off more of what’s to come.

There are five Marvel shows set to debut later this year from Kevin Feige’s studio.

Next up will be March’s The Falcon & The Winter Soldier, starring Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan, followed by Tom Hiddleston’s Loki in May.

Other shows due out in 2021 include Ms. Marvel, Hawkeye and the animated What If? The series will weave in and out of the movies, with characters such as Ms. Marvel set to appear ...

Last month, Marvel Studios debuted its first of many Disney+ shows with WandaVision. Now during the Super Bowl it is showing off more of what’s to come.

There are five Marvel shows set to debut later this year from Kevin Feige’s studio.

Next up will be March’s The Falcon & The Winter Soldier, starring Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan, followed by Tom Hiddleston’s Loki in May.

Other shows due out in 2021 include Ms. Marvel, Hawkeye and the animated What If? The series will weave in and out of the movies, with characters such as Ms. Marvel set to appear ...

The Masque of the Red Death, Roger Corman’s masterful 1964 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, has been fully restored and can now be seen in all its diabolical splendor. The seventh of eight “Poe Cycle” films Corman made in the 1960s, Masque is arguably the best. Before its release, Poe had already delivered Corman from the low budget black and white films he shot in 10 days in the 1950s to the relative luxury of three-week shoots and psychedelic underworlds.

The new DVD/Blu-Ray is the first fully uncut, extended version of the film to be available. Besides restoring cinematographer Nicolas Roeg’s sumptuous camerawork, we get extra scenes which were cut by censors. The package also includes a 20-page booklet with a new essay from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ film preservationist Tessa Idlewine.

The original “The Masque of the Red Death” short story...

Photo: Neo-Noir Films If you have access to social media, you would know that recognizing change and growth in time are more vital than ever before. There comes the point in appreciating and putting value on those who began what we now know and learning that our world is not the same from which we have learned. The standards, laws, values, and much more were made at a point in time we would find ourselves bamboozled by if we were to live in it. Women were bound to homes without a voice or say for anything. Black men, women, and children were bound by chains and threatened at every moment in their lives. The only technology we knew was a lightbulb, and so much more that would be abnormal to exist in our current world. Related article: 8 Glass-Ceiling Breaking Female Pioneers in Cinema from Old Hollywood to Now Related article:...

The Sloth has slowly proven he could be the creature to beat on Season 1 of “The Masked Dancer,” clawing his way into the Super Six by injecting humor and emotion into each of his performances. The laughable gimmicks in his opening number may have concealed his skill level from panelists Paula Abdul, Brian Austin Green, Ken Jeong and Ashley Tisdale, but his creative use of props during the Group B playoffs proved this shaggy mammal is serious about winning the Fox reality TV dancing competition’s Diamond Mask trophy.

See See all 62 ‘The Masked Singer’ costumes and celebrity reveals through the years

The Sloth delivered his first performance in Episode 2, proving he had a fun sense of humor by dancing to “What I Like About You” by the Romantics on various pieces of exercise equipment. While portions of his routine weren’t exactly graceful, a trained eye like Paula’s...

Larry King walked into Nate ‘n Al’s every morning, seven days a week, always between 7:45-8:15 a.m. If we didn’t see him by 8:20, we knew something was wrong and we had to look for him.

On weekends, he would come in a little later but he always ate the same thing. I would have two bowls waiting on the table, filled with plain blueberries. He took coffee with heaps of ice — a lotta, lotta ice and always more ice than coffee — and 20 packets of Splenda with nonfat milk. He would even put Splenda on the blueberries. A ...

If being Venom was like being in the Beatles, then Peter Parker would be Pete Best. His stretch of time in the late-80s wearing his living, black costume is a staple of his history. Before it turned Eddie Brock into a box office giant, the symbiote made for a badass variant look for Spider-Man that still holds up to this day. It’s the ultimate story of how we can lose ourselves to power, even if a loved one beat you over the head with lessons about responsibility.

Over the years, Spider-Man did rejoin with the symbiote a few times, usually in the name of heroism. In Venomized, a Venom symbiote from another reality bonded to him for a little while. At the end of Dan Slott’s lengthy Amazing Spider-Man run, Eddie Brock let Spidey borrow the symbiote so he could fight the Red Goblin (Norman Osborn as Carnage). These days,...

The following contains spoilers for Servant season 2.

In case season 1’s 10 episodes hadn’t already made it apparent, Servant is a very strange slow-burn of a show. This series begins with the creepy concept of a young couple bringing in a nanny to take care of their lifeless doll son and only gets more bizarre from there.

That offbeat sense of unease reaches its height in the Servant season 2 premiere, “Doll.” This half hour finds the Turner family dealing with the immediate aftermath of the season 1 finale when maid Leanne Grayson (Nell Tiger Free) disappeared with the Turners’ baby…or what they think is their baby, leaving behind the original doll. What’s even stranger, however, is that Sean Turner’s (Toby Kebbell) sudden loss of smell and taste has evolved into a loss of the sense of touch as well.

While Sean’s condition is one of Servant’s most mysterious ongoing features,...

Netflix has long since blown past the snooty preconceptions of the Hollywood elite that dubbed them as a mere streaming service, with the company currently churning out some of the most acclaimed shows on television and countless feature-length awards season contenders on an annual basis. The old guard tried to resist the inevitable paradigm shift for as long as possible, but based on both the quantity and quality of the in-house originals, Netflix can now comfortably be viewed as genuine rivals to the traditional major studios.

Of course, that takes a whole lot of investment, with close to $20 billion being funnelled into content last year, and that number only set to rise even higher. The Coronavirus pandemic may have decimated the theatrical industry, but Netflix has seen their subscriber count and viewership numbers continue to grow. Thankfully, then, a a massive number of original movies are coming to the platform this year,...

On the December 30, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler. At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: […]

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Ryan Reynolds’ Green Lantern is widely regarded as one of the worst comic book movies of the modern era, with the $200 million intergalactic blockbuster going down in history as one of the biggest box office bombs of all-time, and the leading man has spent the better part of a decade reminding people about just how terrible it is. In fact, he’s even got co-star Taika Waititi in on the act.

On the complete opposite end of the spectrum, meanwhile, Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman was instantly lauded as the best installment in the Dceu, and Gal Gadot’s solo debut as Diana Prince is still the highest-rated entry in the shared universe with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 93%. Most fans were expecting the sequel to improve upon its predecessor, then, but the reactions have been a lot more lukewarm than anyone could have predicted.

Wonder Woman 1984 is currently sitting at 65% on Rotten Tomatoes,...

Late “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman’s voice will be heard as the King of Wakanda one last time in “What If…?” the upcoming Disney+ animated series that reimagines different key moments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige told Emmy Magazine that Boseman “came in about four times and recorded numerous episodes” for “What If…?” which will involve popular Marvel Cinematic Universe characters in alternate histories from what we’ve previously seen in the films.

The series stars Jeffrey Wright as The Watcher, an omnipotent observer of infinite multiverses, including one in which Captain America’s beloved, Peggy Carter, takes the super-soldier serum and becomes a superhero herself. In another, which Boseman will star in, T’Challa is abducted by the space bandit Yondu instead of Peter Quill, leading to a universe in which Wakanda’s heir to the throne instead becomes Star-Lord and the leader...

The Marvel What If…? comics were cool little diversions that asked questions like, “What if The Punisher Had Killed Spider-Man?”, and other non-cannonical scenarios. Now that concept has been grafted onto an animated series for Disney+. The What If…? series “explores what would happen if major moments from the Marvel Cinematic Universe occurred differently.” Watch the What If…? […]

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A teenager returns home to find that her mother is dating a man who is charming, handsome... and potentially not of this world in the new movie What Lies Below. With the familial sci-fi horror film now on VOD and Digital from Vertical Entertainment, we caught up with writer/Braden R. Duemmler to discuss the extensive research he did prior to writing the script for What Lies Below, filming in Upstate New York, and working with a talented cast that includes Mena Suvari, Ema Horvath, and Trey Tucker.

Thanks for taking the time to catch up with us, Braden, and congratulations on your new movie, What Lies Below! How and when did you first come up with the idea for this film?

Braden R. Duemmler: Thank you, Derek. I’m so excited for the opportunity. Like you, I grew up on Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark? in...

Even though the holiday season is in full swing, that doesn’t mean the horror has to stop, as we have quite a few genre titles headed to VOD, Digital, and various streaming platforms throughout the month of December. Notable titles you’ll be able to watch at home this month include Tenet, Anything for Jackson, Archenemy, Minor Premise, Skylines, and a pair of holiday specials exclusive to Shudder: Joe Bob Saves Christmas and A Creepshow Holiday Special.

Mark your calendars and happy streaming, everyone!

Backwoods (Gravitas Ventures) – December 1st

High school cheerleader Molly woke bound and gagged in the trunk of her boyfriend's car. That was the high point of her night. After escaping and fleeing into the nearby forest, she comes face-to-face with the town urban legend: The Hangman, a deformed zealot said to lynch male trespassers and keep the women as "brides". Now, Molly, along with her...

We’ve now got just a few days left of November, so it’s time to take a look ahead at everything that’s headed to the major streaming networks in December. As it’s Christmas, Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO Max, Hulu and Prime Video have extra special hauls ready to gift to their subscribers this holiday season, with literally hundreds of new movies and TV shows dropping over the course of the month.

All the various sites – excepting Disney Plus – are serving up a ton of newly licensed films on December 1st. Netflix, for instance, is adding such classics as E.T., Little Nicky and the first three Jurassic Parks. Meanwhile, HBO Max is offering up The Shawshank Redemption, Shaun of the Dead and a bunch of Final Destinations, while Hulu and Prime Video, which share a lot of the same movies, are treating users to a host of iconic...

On the November 25, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler. At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: […]

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine successfully expanded what Star Trek could be. Before this, every Trek property followed roughly the same template of a ship boldly going where nobody has gone before, encountering a weekly conundrum and solving it over the course of about an hour. It’s a winning formula, but DS9, set on a space station adjacent to a strategically vital wormhole, wasn’t afraid to get complicated.

There were a number of episodes that explored the high concept sci-fi you expect from the franchise, but there were also ones examining interstellar trade, political manoeuvring and the morality of the Federation (and its complex relationship with the rest of the galaxy). It was rich, compelling and a big influence on the shows that followed it. Deep Space Nine‘s reputation has only increased over the years, too, especially with the series being available to stream.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine...

Eric Church, Maren Morris, and Luke Combs were the big winners at the 54th CMA Awards on Wednesday night. Church won his first Entertainer of the Year title, Combs took home Male Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year, for What You See Is What You Get, and Morris won three: Female Vocalist of the Year, and Single and Song of the Year for “The Bones.”

Other top winners included Dan + Shay (Vocal Duo of the Year), Old Dominion (Vocal Group of the Year), and Morgan Wallen...

The writer/director of Martha Marcy May Marlene and The Nest takes hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante on an exploration of his favorite cinematic endings.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

The Nest (2020)

Citizen Kane (1941)

The Cowboys (1972)

The Parallax View (1974)

Three Days of the Condor (1975)

Limbo (1999)

Nashville (1975)

The Long Goodbye (1973)

3 Women (1977)

Chinatown (1974)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

The Third Man (1949)

Do The Right Thing (1989)

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

Our Idiot Brother (2011)

Shoot The Moon (1982)

Parasite (2019)

The Wild Bunch (1969)

The Ice Storm (1997)

Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)

The Brood (1979)

The Graduate (1967)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

The Candidate (1972)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

The Birds (1963)

The Firm (1989)

Scum (1979)

The Firm (2009)

The Vanishing (1988)

The Vanishing (1993)

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Repulsion (1965)

Pirates (1986)

What? (1972)

Blowup (1966)

Blow Out (1981)

The Long Good Friday (1980)

Other Notable Items

Jude Law

Carrie Coon

Quentin Tarantino

John Wayne

The Pure Cinema Podcast

The Film Forum

Warren Beatty

Tfh Guru Howard...

Exclusive: Universal Pictures has made a deal to craft a new version of Saigon Bodyguards. The studio will make a high-octane action comedy based on the Vietnamese film of the same name. Chris Pratt, fresh from wrapping Jurassic World: Dominion for Universal, is attached to star in the film with Wu Jing, the star of the blockbuster Chinese franchise Wolf Warrior.

Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck are writing the script. Pratt will produce through his Indivisible Productions alongside Joe and Anthony Russo and Mike Larocca, who will produce through their Agbo production banner.

The film reunites the Russos with both Pratt, who brought his Guardians of the Galaxy to their Avengers films, and with Wu Jing. The Russos were consultants on Wolf Warriors 2, which is the highest-grossing film ever in China with $877 million in ticket sales there. In fact it’s the highest-grossing non-English-language film ever.

This Warrior review contains spoilers.

Warrior Season 2 Episode 6 heads for the Mexican border for a No Holds Barred tournament that has been teased all season long. Apart from Ah Toy’s (Olivia Cheng) trips to Nellie’s (Miranda Raison) Sonoma winery in the previous episode, Warrior seldom leaves San Francisco except for one notable exception – Season 1 Episode 5: “The Blood and the Sh*t.” That was an outlier tale where Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji) and Young Jun (Jason Tobin) were transporting a coffin and got trapped by bandits in a desert saloon with several bystanders.

With undertones of The Seven Samurai, it was an homage to spaghetti westerns, complete with a classic ride into the sunset and even a “The End” credit. It was one of the best episodes of Season 1, almost a standalone story because it did nothing to advance the overarching tale, while this new episode is pivotal...

This Warrior review contains spoilers.

Warrior Season 2 Episode 5

The episode opens with Li Yong (Joe Taslim) doing some shirtless Kung Fu but the scene is too short to determine what style he is doing. Perhaps it’s something just made up for Warrior. Taslim’s background is in in Judo, not Kung Fu, but that doesn’t matter. He looks great doing whatever he’s doing and it’s a promising opening for this episode.

The previous two episodes lacked enough Kung Fu to satisfy dedicated Bruce Lee fans. Fortunately, this episode makes up for that and then some. It’s the strongest episode in Season 2 so far, both dramatically and choreographically.

It’s a rough one for Penny (Joanna Vanderham) as her world collapses. As she inspects the devastation of Mercer Steel after Leary’s (Dean Jagger) terrorist bombing, she asks Jacob (Kenneth Fok) “What is that terrible smell?...

Amazon Studios has ordered a new YA horror series ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ from Sony Pictures Television.

The series is a modern take on the hit 1997 horror film that honours the same chilling premise – in a town full of secrets, a group of teenagers are stalked by a mysterious killer a year after a fatal accident on their graduation night.

The project is based on the 1973 novel by Lois Duncan and is produced by Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures Television. Sara Goodman will write and executive produce along with executive producers Shay Hatten, Original Film’s Neal Moritz and Pavun Shetty and Atomic Monster’s James Wan, Rob Hackett and Michael Clear.

Also in news – Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep and Timothee Chalamet join a-list cast of Adam McKay’s ‘Don’t Look Up’

“We are thrilled to have I Know What You Did Last Summer with our incredible partners at Amazon Studios,...

The 2020 Billboard Music Awards finally aired on Wednesday after a six month delay, with three-time host Kelly Clarkson returning to preside over NBC’s semi-virtual ceremony.

Post Malone was the night’s big winner, taking home nine awards for his album “Hollywood’s Bleeding,” including Top Artist and Top Male Artist.

Other winners included Billie Eilish, for Top Female Artist; Lizzo, for Top Song Sales Artist; Luke Combs, for Top Country Artist; and K-Pop sensation BTS, for the fan-voted Top Social Artist award. Rapper Killer Mike was awarded the first ever Change Maker award for his social activism, while country star Garth Brooks was honored with the 2020 Billboard Icon Award.

Performers for the show included host Kelly Clarkson (joined by Pentatonix and Sheila E. for the opening number), Alicia Keys, Bad Bunny, Brandy feat. Ty Dolla $ign, BTS, Doja Cat, En Vogue, John Legend and Demi Lovato.

The 2020 Billboard Music...

Stevie Wonder has kept a relatively low profile over the last decade, but that quiet period — which follows a health scare — seems to be ending. On Tuesday, the 70-year-old legend announced the release of two new songs, his first in 15 years. In equally startling news, Wonder said he would be releasing the tracks on his own label under Republic Records. The releases mark a break from Motown, his home since 1962.

Speaking by Zoom from his Southern California home, Wonder said he began writing one of the songs, the fluid “Where Is Our Love Song,...

This Helstrom review contains no spoilers.

The first episode of Hulu’s final Jeph Loeb produced Marvel series (aside from the upcoming animated offering M.O.D.O.K.) Helstrom has everything you’d expect from the kind of straight-to-streaming exorcism movie you stumble across on a boring Sunday afternoon and immediately regret watching. There’s expository newspaper clippings about terrible crimes, fake exorcisms broken down by a cynically droll demonologist, a new fresh out of the church Vatican believer who wants to do good, creepy diary entries that look like they’ve been scrawled by demonic child, and a lot of sepia toned flashbacks. From the outset there’s a distinct lack of imagination that makes the newest Marvel show feel dated and derivative, which is fitting because the first three episodes are just that.

Diverting from the delightfully deranged and often bright and colorful comics that it’s (very) loosely based on,...

by our new Italian contributor Elisa Giudici

It's been a while since a Netflix film prompted me to write in my cinephile What's App group chat: "ok everybody, I have a fun movie to suggest." After the boring disappointments of The Devil All the Time and Project Power, after the unspeakable horrors I witnessed in The Last Days of American Crime, I confess I log in my Netflix account holding my breath. Enola Holmes brought a sigh of relief. Nothing life-changing, mind you, just a fun, entertaining movie that reimagines the canon of Sherlock Holmes, the classic of classics. Conan Doyle's detective is one of the few fictional characters who keeps getting adapted in fresh ways without ever wearing out his welcome. 

Giving Mycroft and Sherlock a little sister is not entirely new...

What We Do In The Shadows stars Matt Berry, Kayvan Novak, Natasia Demetriou, Harvey Guillén and Mark Proksch were joined by executive producers and writers Paul Simms and Stefani Robinson (and a cameo from the Nadja Doll) reflected about their favorite moments in season 2 but the real meat of the conversation was Simms and Robinson dropping major teases on what to expect for season 3 of the Emmy-nominated vampire mockumentary series based on the 2015 movie from Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement.

Simms and Stefani started talking about how they pick the mythical creatures that will join Nandor, Laszlo, Nadja, Colin Robinson and Guillermo this season. They said there’s no rhyme or reason in picking the characters just as long as it moves the story forward.

“It’s sort of exciting because we have the ability to pick and choose what we find exciting and fun about vampires in general,” Robinson said,...

Close to one hundred thousand people have backed the petition for Netflix to remove steamy Polish thriller 365 Days from the content library, but the latest data has only reinforced the controversial movie’s popularity. It may hold a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but it dominated the streaming service’s most-watched list for weeks and now that the numbers have been crunched, it can be named as the platform’s biggest hit of 2020 so far.

The company themselves are very reticent when it comes to releasing official data and viewing figures, but website What’s On Netflix have used a simple calculation that awards ten points to the number one movie on the Top 10 list right down to a single point for the film in tenth position, and has calculated the total over the entire duration the feature has been available.

Not only does 365 Days come out on top,...

On the October 9, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler. At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: […]

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By the dawn of the Seventies, the protest song was considered as much a relic of the previous decade as the word “groovy,” with notable exceptions like Edwin Starr’s “War,” Neil Young’s “Ohio,” and Bob Dylan’s “George Jackson.” As Arlo Guthrie told Rolling Stone this summer, “The music business went from figuring out how they could make some money selling protest songs to realizing, ‘Well, they don’t really sell that well, so we’ll move on to something else.’ Which they did.”

But the sight of...

Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj is no more. Netflix has cancelled the Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning series after six “volumes” — or 40 episodes.

“What a run,” Minhaj said on Twitter. “I got to work with the best writers, producers, researchers, and animators in the game. My two babies were born and grew up with the show. [Thank you] to @Netflix and everyone who watched. Now it’s time to return these screens to Best Buy.”

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High school romance films are as sweet and irresistibly charming as freshly baked cookies - I just can't get enough of them! Because this is one of my favorite movie genres, I can't wait for Chemical Hearts to premiere on Amazon Prime on Aug. 21. The movie, which stars Lili Reinhart and Austin Abrams, is based on the

book of the same name by Krystal Sutherland

. If you read the book way back in 2016, you're probably already super excited for the movie to come out. If not, keep reading for some major spoilers. You've been warned!

When Henry Meets Grace

When Henry (Abrams) meets Grace (Reinhart), he even admits that it isn't memorable - she simply shuffles into class wearing oversize "boy clothes" and holding a cane. When the class ends, he doesn't think about her again until they are both asked to be editors of the school newspaper. Grace turns down the job,...

San Diego Comic-Con may be going digital, but the lineup still offers a wide array of panels and conversations. With four days of content, Variety breaks down a list of this year’s most notable, anticipated and exciting panels.

Star Trek

The “Star Trek Universe” panel begins Thursday at 10 A.M. Executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Heather Kadin will use the event to discuss the franchise’s future, and “Star Trek: Discovery” cast members will conduct a virtual table read of the Season 2 finale before engaging in a Q&a.

Mike McMahan, the creator of animated series “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” will provide an extended first look at the show Thursday at 10 A.M. He will then have a conversation with some of the Starfleet’s crew members featured on the show, like Ensign Brad Boimler (voiced by Jack Quaid).

Actors from “Star Trek: Picard” will hold a panel discussing their first season of filming.

Stars: Catherine Morvell, Jesse Boum, Gabrielle Pearson, Charles Jazz Terrier, Taylor Pearce, Aly Zhang, Maximillian Johnson, Ace Whitman, Erina Yamada, Tim K Williams | Written and Directed by Sam Hamilton

“I like filmmaking. Mostly amateur stuff…” What Goes Around certainly comes around in this terrific slasher throwback and snuff film extravaganza!

Erin (Catherine Morvell) is a vulnerable and reserved college student. Working in a cafe, she is abused and taken advantage of by the customers. It’s unfair, disgusting, and is just another layer of annoyance present in an already difficult life. Alex (Jesse Bouma) – a customer within the cafe and fellow student – intervenes in one situation, leading to a connection established with Erin. As nice as this may seem, she’s just caught the attraction and attention of a mysterious boy who’s best left avoided.

Miraculously (and dangerously), Erin comes into possession of Alex’s laptop – he accidently leaves it behind in the cafe.