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Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth finds horror in fungi An unsettling film that evades the genre’s usual tropes Share this story The way that we segment history can be divided into two eras: before the advent of penicillin and after — or, in other words, pre-antibiotics and post-antibiotics. Penicillin, the first antibiotic, was discovered in 1928 by Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming, who found that the juices from the Penicillium fungi were able to destroy harmful bacteria. Medicine w...

The Rossellinis Review: An Outsiders Inside View of a Dysfunctional Celebrity Dynasty The Rossellinis Review: An Outsiders Inside View of a Dysfunctional Celebrity Dynasty Alessandro Rossellini, grandson of legendary auteur Roberto, attempts to gather his extended family for an indulgent but interesting exercise in documentary therapy. Guy Lodge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Alessandro Rossellini With: Alessandro Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini, Renzo Rossellini, Robin Rossellini...

"Be warned: this will shock, alarm, repulse, and revolt you!" Showtime has unveiled an official trailer for a series titled Cinema Toast, an experimental pandemic-created mash-up of old cinema classics. Created by filmmaker Jeff Baena, "Cinema Toast" takes old footage now in the public domain, and updates it again. "Wildly experimental new series from an eclectic group of celebrated indie filmmakers who’ve re-edited and re-scored footage from public domain films and overdubbed them with per...

“Dissecting Horror” Now Continues with THE BANISHING Creatives Today at 2 PM (PST) Another installment of our free virtual panel series "Dissecting Horror" is set for TODAY at 2 PM (PST) with the creatives behind THE BANISHING, now on Shudder! By Josh Millican The Banishing today (Tuesday, April 20th) at 2 pm PST! Synopsis: From acclaimed director Chris Smith (Creep, Severance, Triangle) comes The Banishing, which tells the tr...

The 15 Best Mystery Movies Streaming Right Now, According to Critics On 4/18/21 at 7:00 PM EDT Mystery movies let viewers pit their wits against thrilling plot twists, with the very best culminating in a directors delicious reveal. For this list, Newsweek scoured review aggregator Metacritic, which ranks movies by their composite critical reception, scoured major streaming sites such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Now TV, and checked out the Rotten Tomatoes reviews. Cinema has a rich history of e...

“By turns fuzzy-dreamy and jarringly vivid” was how the Hollywood Reporter described Sarah’s cinematography on Flatland, Jenna Bass’ contemporary feminist western set in South Africa’s Karoo desert, which in 2019 opened the Panorama programme of the Berlinale and won best African feature at the Jo’burg International Film Festival. In 2017 Sarah’s 1st feature, Miguel Clara Vasconcelos’ Encontro Silencioso, won Best Portuguese Feature at IndieLisboa, the country’s largest nati...

We open on a gathering of the Scrappers Club, four women around a kitchen table pasting things into scrapbooks. The moment we hear one of them talking, we're not too surprised to learn that her name is Blanche Gunderson. Her sister Marge, the trooper, must have been the ambitious one. Not that Blanche isn't, just that she's relentlessly nice.

You may also know the sweet, dull pain of having to read many kids classics, like Goodnight Moon, approximately 100,0000 times. But a great picture book, one that works for all readers, can transcend time and culture in the best fashion. As Nobel-prizewinning author Olga Tokarczuk said, “I adore the picture book... For me it is a powerful, primeval way of telling a story that’s able to get through to anyone — regardless of age, cultural differences or level of education.” As picture bo...

2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror Directed by Kier-La Janisse. SYNOPSIS: Woodlands Dark Days and Days Bewitched is the first feature-length documentary on the history of folk horror, from the 1960s to today. There are few major film genres, if any, as stratified as horror, such that even the most diffuse of subgenres can merit studied dissection. Folk horror is certainly no small part of its rich history, though, and while it’s enjo...

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched Review: A Diverting Survey of Folk-Horror Cinema and TV Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched Review: A Diverting Survey of Folk-Horror Cinema and TV Kier-La Janisses documentary provides an alluring international overview of macabre genre films drawn from folklore and superstition. Dennis Harvey, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Kier-La Janisse With: Piers Haggard, Lawrence Gordon Clark, Alice Lowe, Robert Eggers, Jonathan Rigby, Alexandra Heller-Nichol...