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Blockbuster sequels are back in vogue, while Pixar heads to 1950s Italy and Kevin Hart takes on a very different role.

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE AMC This June, AMC Networks targeted streaming services will bring viewers an extensive catalogue of compelling dramas, fan-favorite franchises, highly-anticipated films and timely collections on AMC+, Acorn TV, ALLBLK, Shudder and Sundance Now. Highlights from across the suite of services include (in alphabetical and chronological order): On ACORN TV: First Two Episodes of Season 2 Premiere Monday, June 7 A spinoff of the Australian sensation Miss Fishers Murder ...

Trailer for Shudder horror-comedy Vicious Fun features a serial killer self-help group Shudder has released a trailer and images for Black Fawn Films’ horror-comedy Vicious Fun, which is directed by Cody Calahan and follows film critic Joel (Evan Marsh) as he finds himself unwittingly trapped in a self-help group for serial killers. Check them out here… Joel, a caustic 1980’s film critic for a national horror magazine, finds himself unwittingly trapped in a self-help group for serial kil...

The Clearing (Courtesy of Cunning Folk Films) "The sky split in two." Those words stuck with Stephanie Trainer. She was reading an issue of National Geographic when she came across an article about the Tunguska Event: On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion wiped out almost a thousand square miles of forest in the deepest heart of Russia, an event that has still never been explained to this day. She vaguely remembered it as the backdrop to an episode of The X-Files, but the article opened up a...

The Amusement Park. The film is a 52-minute oddity the director shot between Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, and thought lost for nearly 50 years. Advertisement The Amusement Park stars Lincoln Maazel—who played Tateh Cuda in Romero’s Martin, and, fun fact, lived to be 106 years old—and takes a look at the plight of America’s elderly through a lens that appears to be appropriately horrific if this completely unsettling new trailer is anything to go by. Here’s the off...

Shudder Announces Scary Summer Movie Line-Up, Including George Romeros The Amusement Park Romeros lost 1973 movie is one of 12 exclusive horror films hitting Shudder this summer. Shudder has announced its summer line-up of original movies. AMCs horror service will deliver 12 streaming exclusive films throughout June, July, and August, and have branded the season "Summer of Chills." One of the most anticipated movies is The Amusement Park, the "lost" film from zombie master George A. Romero. The...

Matthew McConaughey asks if youd like to go to the cinema (it would be a lot cooler if you did ...) The Oscars may have gone out with a fizzle, but they started with a very Austin bang starring both Matthew McConaughey and the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. The pre-awards section of the evening featured a video celebrating the film industrys #TheBigScreenIsBack campaign encouraging audiences to head back to theatres as they reopen and build back to full post-pandemic hours over...

Serial killer comedy gets to the bloody point

The Stylist, part of the line-up for Other Worlds Return to the Galaxy Other Worlds, the local celebration of all things SF and horror, had to go online for 2020: but now its one of Austins first festivals to come back in-person, with the horror-themed Return to the Galaxy all-day special on May 22. The four-film event at the Galaxy Highland Theatre (6700 Middle Fiskville) will draw on the fests Under Worlds section. The quartet of chillers and screamers will include the Texas premier...

19/04/2021 - The Canadian film Vicious Fun scooped the Grand Prize and the Audience Award during this year’s one-off online edition of the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival Riders of Justice by Anders Thomas Jensen It was Bill Calahan’s cleverly self-referential Canadian movie Vicious Fun which won over the jury and the public at this 39th edition of the BIFFF (Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival), bagging itself both the Golden Raven and the Audience Award....