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These aren't the fictional figures that open Songbird, but the actual real-life toll of the COVID-19 pandemic as of December 10. It's a number that will only rise in the coming weeks and months, despite the fact the first COVID-19 vaccine is being used in the UK. Songbird actually opens with a fictional figure of 110 million deaths globally as the world enters its fourth year of lockdown, with the COVID-23 virus mutated to be even deadlier with a mortality rate of more than 50%. The movie had already received a significant backlash when it was first announced and we had expressed our own co...

Print On March 14, filmmaker Adam Mason, like virtually everyone else in Hollywood and across the planet Earth, was freaking out. With the worsening coronavirus crisis triggering lockdowns and blaring headlines around the country, a passion project Mason was set to direct for Blumhouse Pictures had shut down just five days into pre-production. He was worried about his wife and three young children, with whom he shares a two-bedroom duplex in L.A., and about his aging parents living 5,000 miles away in his native England. Having directed a string of low-budget horror films and thrillers with...

Warning: If you are experiencing nausea, headache, fatigue or vomiting, you might have just watched Songbird

12/11/2020 K.J. Apa, Sofia Carson, Demi Moore and Bradley Whitford appear in this Michael Bay-produced thriller about several people trying to survive during a deadly pandemic. The country is currently in the grip of a deadly pandemic. The death rate is higher than ever, with fatalities racing toward the 300,000 mark. Millions of people are in desperate financial straits, the government response has been chaotic and people are violently rebelling against the very health measures designed to keep them alive. So what you really want to do to distract yourself from this horrible state of affairs...

Review: "Songbird" uses the COVID-19 pandemic to make both it, and the year as a whole, seem somehow worse.