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Director Nicholas Ashe Bateman on films as images from our dreams and subconscious and his fantasy debut, The Wanting Mare.

Official theatrical release schedule for all upcoming films in the year 2021. We tediously check and update this list to make sure the dates are 100% accurate.

Set in an impressively realised world, Nicholas Ashe Bateman’s ambitious debut looks the part but moves too quickly and confusingly for viewers to connect

From found footage to rape-revenge subversions, Dread Central’s editor-in-chief Mary Beth McAndrews looks at her favorite horror from 2021.

In a year marked by a recovering box office and distributors experimenting with a wide variety of types of releases, what does an overlooked film constitute?

A still from The Wanting Mare. (Photo: Gravitas Ventures) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Everything I’d read about The Wanting Mare had me excited. Writer-director Nicholas Ashe Bateman spent five years making the film in a Patterson, NJ warehouse, doing many of the visual ef...

The Wanting Mare Review: A Visually Transporting Fable With a Stubbornly Opaque Story The Wanting Mare Review: A Visually Transporting Fable With a Stubbornly Opaque Story Nicholas Ashe Batemans directing debut is a triumph of dystopian world-building as three generations of women share the same dream of "the world before." Mark Keizer, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Running time: Running time: 89 MIN. The explanatory text that opens “The Wanting Mare,” Nicholas Ashe Bateman’s ambitiou...

It’s hard to find a word that best describes the genre-defying “The Wanting Mare,” except for maybe “impressive.” Not quite science-fiction — at least not in any conventionally pulpy way — this arty post-apocalyptic mood piece is mostly a triumph of DIY persistence for the writer-director Nicholas Ashe Bateman, who reportedly spent five years working on the digital effects to make a sparse set look like an entire ruined world. Bateman only hints at where and when we are. We’re t...

THE WANTING MARE Is a Dreamy, Dazzling Fantasy Debut Twitter 0 comments Every so often a movie comes along that leaves you breathless. As if you wandered into a dream and don’t want to leave. I can’t put my finger on what, specifically, entranced me about Nicholas Ashe Bateman’s debut feature The Wanting Mare. Maybe it’s the starry fantasy landscape, like watercolor smeared over a grey-blue horizon. Or the characters who dance—sometimes literally—through each frame, ethereal and a...

Sometimes you watch a movie trailer and think “I have no idea what the hell I just watched, but I’m totally here for it.” That’s probably