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If you are a horror fan, then there is a big chance that you might have heard about the horror streaming service Shudder, and if you have its subscription, you might be wondering what’s in store for you in April 2025. Don’t worry. There is a host of new and old horror movies coming to the service in the upcoming month, and we have listed the 10 best movies coming to Shudder in April 2025.

Fright Night (April 1) Credit – Columbia Pictures

Fright Night is a supernatural horror film written and directed by Tom Holland. The 1985 film follows a teenager who knows that his next-door neighbour is a vampire, but when he tells people, nobody believes. So, he asks for assistance from a has-been horror film actor. Fright Night stars Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse, Stephen Geoffreys, and Roddy McDowall.

Exclusive: Director Adam Volerich is poised to add to the canon of Christmas cinema with Drink and Be Merry, an indie dramedy starring Yellowstone‘s Jefferson White, which has wrapped production in New York.

Others in the cast of the film, marking Volerich’s feature debut, include Siobhan Fallon Hogan (SNL), Sophie Zucker (Dickinson), Griffin Newman (The Tick), Delaney Williams (The Wire), Billy Smith (The Departed), Brian Anthony Wilson (The Wire), Pamela Jayne Morgan (The Holdovers), Shawn Christensen (Curfew), Casey Wortmann (FBI: Most Wanted) and Wharton Tract.

Pic is set at a struggling New York dive bar in the days leading up to Christmas, 2019. Its protagonist, Chet (White), is a beleaguered bartender in a state of extended arrested development, who must balance taking care of his misanthropic, aging regulars — who have nowhere else to go, and rely on him for far more than pouring drinks — with his naive desires to muster some Christmas spirit.

WrestleMania 40 might be over, but the aftereffects of the blistering WWE event seem far from dying down. Roman Reigns was dethroned by Cody Rhodes in a grand spectacle of a finale, but one moment stood out.

Reigns has not had the easiest of journeys in the WWE, but his time with The Shield always stood out. Therefore, when their music started playing during a crucial moment during their matchup, it left everyone wanting more. Now, fans have only one request for Triple H: to bring back Jon Moxley.

Can Moxley return to the WWE? (Source: Aew)

Jon Moxley’s reaction to The Shield music playing during WrestleMania 40

Roman Reigns took on Cody Rhodes to defend his Undisputed WWE Universal Champion title. However, there was a moment when the iconic music for The Shield started blasting through the speakers at Lincoln Financial Field. Many felt that Jon Moxley, also known as Dean Ambrose,...

This year kicked off with the theatrical release of Blumhouse’s Night Swim last week, and the new releases are going to start picking up a bit here in the second full week of the new year.

You’ll find nothing new in theaters this week, but plenty of horror to watch at home.

Here’s all the new horror releasing January 8 – January 14, 2024!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

Screambox is heading into the deep dark once again with Underground, which is now streaming on the Bloody Disgusting-powered streaming service to kick off the new year.

Inspired by true events, Lars Janssen‘s found footage nightmare finds a bachelorette party trapped in a World War II bunker complex.

Here’s the official plot synopsis: “In the midst of a spirited bachelorette party celebrating their friend’s upcoming wedding, a tight-knit group finds themselves on...

A year and a half ago, we shared the exclusive first look at the trailer for writer/director Thomas Walton’s revenge horror thriller They Turned Us Into Killers (which is what can be seen in the embed above), and now the film has finally been released on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital! Copies of the physical media releases can be purchased at This Link, while the digital version is available to buy or rent Here. To help you decide whether or not this is a movie you’ll want to watch, Coming Soon has shared a clip from it, and you can take a look at that one at the bottom of this article.

The story of They Turned Us Into Killers begins when a girl named Karma is drugged and assaulted by her boyfriend, Bj, which leads to her tragically committing suicide. Prior to this devastating event, she writes...

They Turned US Into Killers – new revenge horror film from director Thomas Walton comes to VOD on January 9th, 2024 from Gravitas Ventures. Scout Taylor-Compton stars alongside horror icons Kane Hodder and Michael Berryman, as well as Taryn Manning, Brian Anthony Wilson, Lauren Francesca, Bryce Draper, Brandon Irons, Maritza Brikisak, and Xander Goldman. A …

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Scout Taylor-Compton is back in January with They Turned Us into Killers, a brand new revenge-horror movie from Gravitas Ventures. The film is coming to VOD outlets on January 9, 2024.

While you wait, exclusively watch the official trailer below.

Scout Taylor-Compton stars alongside horror icons Kane Hodder and Michael Berryman, as well as Taryn Manning, Brian Anthony Wilson, Lauren Francesca, Bryce Draper, Brandon Irons, Maritza Brikisak, and Xander Goldman.

In the film, “A girl named Karma is drugged and assaulted by her boyfriend, Bj, which leads to her tragically committing suicide. Prior to this devastating event, she writes a letter to her best friend, Star, detailing the horrific events that unfolded that fateful night.

“Determined to seek revenge against those responsible, Star hunts down Bj and his brothers, and begins to torture them, while reading to them Karma’s suicide letter, before taking each of their lives.”

Thomas Walton directed They Turned Us into Killers.

Jesse Eisenberg discusses his experience of shooting a gay love scene as a straight man in the film Manodrome. Eisenberg reveals that he worked closely with an intimacy coordinator to navigate the sensitive nature of the scene. Director John Trengove reflects on the personal connection between the film's storyline and his own experiences as a gay man.

Jesse Eisenberg has tackled a variety of roles throughout his acting career with his most recent project seeing the star portray a man named Ralphie in John Trengove's new film Manodrome. While reflecting on his character in the drama film, Eisenberg shared his first experience of shooting a gay love scene as a straight man.

The Trengove directed and scripted film, Manodrome, follows Eisenberg's Ralphie, a man who grappling with his girlfriend's (played by Odessa Young) pregnancy. In the movie, Ralphie's life takes a sudden turn after he becomes acquainted with a mysterious family of men,...

On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every other day throughout the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the drama Explicit Ills, starring Rosario Dawson. You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Written and directed by Mark Webber, Explicit Ills is a drama of four interconnecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in Philadelphia.

Dawson is joined in the cast by Paul Dano, Naomie Harris, Lou Taylor Pucci, Frankie Shaw, Tariq Trotter, Francisco Burgos, Martin Ceoeda Jr., Destini Edwards, Ross K. Kim-McManus, Tim Dowlin, Rebecca Comerford, Nicole Mitchell, Rukiya Thomas, Sam Meyerson, Duncan Lam, Brian Anthony Wilson, Jermaine Crawford, Ravinder Singh Reyett, Anna Martemucci Lukas, Rocco Rosanio,...

Nepo daddy Rob Grant has announced his debut album, Lost at Sea, out June 9th via Decca Records. As a preview, the self-described “accidental recording artist” and father of Lana Del Rey has shared the first single, “Setting Sail on a Distant Horizon.”

Lost at Sea features two appearances from Del Rey (born Elizabeth Grant) as well as production from Jack Antonoff, Zach Dawes, and Laura Sisk, a Grammy-winning sound engineer who’s worked with the likes of Taylor Swift, Lorde, and P!Nk.

Pre-orders for Lost at Sea are ongoing. See the artwork and tracklist below.

“Setting Sail on a Distant Horizon” is a piano instrumental inspired by “the happiness and freedom” Grant has felt while setting sail to Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard from Newport, Rhode Island in his 25-foot sloop Erewhon.

“The piano begins slowly and then builds as the sails fill with wind, and the boat begins to heal,...

Diane Warren, Brian Wilson, Sheryl Crow and Emmy-winning screenwriter Larry Karaszewski are among the stars remembering Burt Bacharach.

The Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer died Wednesday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94.

Through his partnership with Hal David, Bacharach brought swanky sophistication to pop music in the ’60s.

He won three Oscars and eight Grammys and composed the music for roughly 50 top 10 hits, including “Walk on By,” “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” “What the World Needs Now Is Love,” “What’s New Pussycat?” “(They Long to Be) Close to You,” and “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?”

Crow, who performed Bacharach’s song “Dancing With My Shadow,” from the 2016 film A Boy Called Po, for which he also wrote his first score in 16 years, called getting to know him, “one of the great thrills and honors” of her life.

“There will never be...

You don’t have to be friends with the people you make music with – but it helps not to be enemies.

The annals of music history are filled with instances of bandmates whose relationships turned sour, from Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel to Morrissey and Johnny Marr.

In one of modern music’s bitterest feuds, former Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and David Gilmour have spent years exchanging vitriolic words in the press. This week, Polly Samson, ex-Pink Floyd lyricist and wife of David Gilmour, made unsubstantiated allegations against Waters online.

Waters wrote on a social media account that he was “aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by Polly Samson which he refutes entirely”, and said he is “currently taking advice as to his position”.

Of course, plenty of great music has been made by people who were at personal loggerheads – just ask Fleetwood Mac.

Willie Nelson is many things – he’s a country music legend, a Texas icon, an outspoken activist and one of history’s most famous tax evaders. At 89, Nelson’s life so far has been colorful and gloriously overstuffed that it probably wouldn’t fit into a single documentary. That’s why “Willie Nelson & Family,” which just premiered at Sundance, isn’t a movie exactly, but an episodic independent series about his singular life and his music. TheWrap spoke to the series’ directors Tom Zimny and Oren Moverman at Sundance about how the film came together and finding their groove as filmmakers. “It was a great journey,” said Zimny.

Zimny, who has directed a number of Bruce Springsteen films, including 2019’s theatrical release “Western Stars,” and Moverman had never worked together (but Zimny had stuck him in the audience of one of the Springsteen movies) but it is clear from...

Tributes have poured in for the late great, David Crosby after his death was announced Thursday (19 January).

The rock and roll legend passed away aged 81 following “a long illness”, his widow Jan Dance announced.

The musician was a founding member of the hugely popular Sixties groups, the Byrds and Crosby, as well as Crosby, Stills & Nash.

Crosby’s former bandmates Stephen Stills and Graham Nash were among the first to pay homage to the artist.

“It is with a deep and profound sadness that I learned that my friend David Crosby has passed,” Nash wrote on Facebook. ” I know people tend to focus on how volatile our relationship has been at times, but what has always mattered to David and me more than anything was the pure joy of the music we created together, the sound we discovered with one another, and the deep friendship we shared over all these many long years.

Refresh for updates… Stephen Stills has joined his former bandmate Graham Nash in paying tribute to David Crosby, who died Thursday at 81.

In a statement provided to Deadline, Stills said:

I read a quote in this morning’s paper attributed to compose Gustav Mahler that stopped me for a moment:

“Death has, on placid cat’s paws, entered the room.”

I shoulda known something was up.

David and I butted heads a lot over time, but they were mostly glancing blows, yet still left us numb skulls..

I was happy to be at peace with him.

He was without question a giant of a musician, and his harmonic sensibilities were nothing short of genius.

The glue that held us together as our vocals soared, like Icarus, towards the sun.

I am deeply saddened at his passing and shall miss him beyond measure.”

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Graham Nash,...

Dennis Quaid has boarded Paramount+’s upcoming series “Bass Reeves,” starring David Oyelowo as the title lawman. Quaid is the first cast member to be announced opposite Oyelowo for the Taylor Sheridan-produced show.

He will play Sherrill Lynn, a deputy U.S. Marshall. The veteran actor told Fox News he was in production on the show and “making mayhem at 4 in the morning.”

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From the “Yellowstone” co-creator and Academy Award nominee Sheridan, “Bass Reeves” is filming in Texas. The period drama will bring to life the legendary Wild West lawman, cited as the first Black deputy U.S. Marshall west of the Mississippi River. Reeves was also believed to be the inspiration for “The Lone Ranger.” He worked in the post-Reconstruction era as a federal peace officer in the Indian Territory, capturing more than 3,000 of the...

David Crosby, the singer, songwriter, and guitarist who helped shape the sound of Sixties rock and beyond, died Wednesday night at the age of 81. A source close to Crosby confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone, but did not disclose a cause.

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Snoop Dogg, Gloria Estefan, Sade, Jeff Lynne, Glen Ballard, Teddy Riley and Liz Rose have been chosen to join the Songwriters Hall of Fame, a class that includes the writers of such varied hits as “Man In the Mirror,” “Drop It Like It’s Hot” and “Rhythm Is Gonna Get You.”

The seven songwriters from the class of 2023 will be inducted at a gala June 15 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.

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Snoop Dogg, whose hits include “Drop It Like It’s Hot” and “Gin & Juice,” will be joining such rappers as Missy Elliott and Jay-Z in the hall. Estefan is credited for popularizing Latin rhythms with such crossover smashes as “Rhythm Is Gonna Get You” and “Let’s Get Loud.”

The inductees include soul-jazz vocalist Sade, whose 1980s soft rock hits include “Smooth Operator” and “The Sweetest Taboo,...

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Cold In July, 11.45pm, Great Movies, Monday, January 16

Jim Mickle's psychological thriller keeps you guessing as a family man's life starts to unravel after he kills a home intruder in the night. Michael C Hall - gamely taking on both the role and an Eighties mullet - is perfectly cast as a dad who suddenly finds himself in deep, with acting grace notes provided by Sam Shepard and Don Johnson as the two men he has to team up with after they stumble on a horrific conspiracy. Mickle has moved into TV of late, creating Sweet Tooth, about a boy who is half human and half deer, which can be viewed on Netflix.

Love & Mercy, 11.15pm, BBC2, Tuesday, January 17

Unfolding over two time periods, Bill Pohland's impressively balanced biopic of Beach Boy Brian Wilson, considers the moment in his youth when, played by Paul Dano,...

Let me know if you've heard this one before. A young, aspiring musician gets discovered by a record executive. They shoot to the top of the charts and become a superstar, performing for larger and larger crowds and find themselves moving on from their humble beginnings into an extravagant, lavish lifestyle. Then, they find themselves in the midst of fame, where the spotlight is constantly on them and every person in their life wants something from them, especially money. Meanwhile, a love affair starts that will inevitably go south in due time. They become addicted to drugs and hit rock bottom, eventually having to go to rehab. A few years later, they make a triumphant return to their true calling of music.

I have just described to you basically every single biopic about a famous musician. Some cover it up with flashy stylistic choices, like "Elvis." Some disguise it with non-linear storytelling,...

The Masked Singer season 8 semi-finals crowned Harp and Lambs as the finalists. Harp was a front-runner from the start. Most fans assume she'll take home the masked trophy. Snowstorm was also a semi-finalist, but her vocals weren't strong enough to beat the Harp or Lambs.

Snowstorm debuted during Comedy Roast night and had a lot of jokes for the panelists and host Nick Cannon. Panelists assumed she was a comedian, but only Jenny McCarthy guessed Nikki Glaser. She was pretty easy to guess as she gave some obvious clues. Fans also have a pretty good idea who's behind Harp and Lambs.

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Harp's Clues Lead To This Glee Actress

Harp offered many clues that give away her identity. Harp says she was rejected from a world-famous TV show but was later offered another show that changed her life.

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Paul Dano's film career has been awards-adjacent since the very beginning. At seventeen, he won the Best Debut Performance Spirit Award for his work in L.I.E. Five years later, he was one of the stars of Little Miss Sunshine, the first of three Best Picture Oscar nominees in the actor's filmography. Still, though the Academy regularly loves Dano's movies, they have never shown any affection for Dano himself. That might change this year with The Fabelmans, where the actor portrays a fictionalized version of Steven Spielberg's dad in what's bound to be one of the season's biggest award magnets.

To celebrate the actor's achievements and potential first Oscar nomination, let's look back to the last time Dano was on the Academy's radar. In 2015, he almost category frauded his way to a Supporting Actor nomination for his work as Brian Wilson in Bill Pohlad's Love & Mercy…...

Inspiration can come from the strangest of places. A single bite of a madeleine provoked Marcel Proust to compose "In Search of Lost Time," one of the finest pieces of writing of the 20th Century. Life is strange and surprising like that. But learning that Anya Taylor-Joy owes her acting career to Beach Boys co-founder Mike Love is, to put it politely, counterintuitive.

Clearly, The Beach Boys are one of the greatest and most influential rock bands of all time, but this is due in large part to the songwriting genius of Brian Wilson. The group was an innocuous, surf-pop collective until Wilson concocted the adventurous, aurally majestic "Pet Sounds" in 1966, which, as a concept album, pre-dates The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by a year. As for Love, he was legally awarded co-writing credit on some of The Beach Boys' early classics in 1994, but he basically turned...

Chris Frantz isn’t too happy with Bob Dylan.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, the Talking Heads drummer responded to a perceived slight in Dylan’s new book The Philosophy of Modern Song.

In the book, the iconic musician writes, “Elvis Costello and the Attractions were a better band than any of their contemporaries. Light years better.”

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Though the Talking Heads were not mentioned, Frantz still took the comment personally.

“When I read that, I just thought, ‘Jesus, Bob,’” the drummer said. “’I understand you dig Elvis Costello, but did you have to put it that way?’”

His comments to Rolling Stone came after a Facebook post in which Frantz was considerably less diplomatic about his feelings.

“With all due respect to the Attractions and to drummer Pete Thomas in particular, I’d like to say to Bob...

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Bryan Adams, R.E.M., Blondie, Snoop Dogg, Gloria Estefan, Heart and The Doobie Brothers are among the nominees for the 2023 Songwriters Hall of Fame, part of a dazzling list of talented acts who left their mark on country, pop, rap, Broadway, post-punk, Latin and New Jack Swing.

The ballot includes the musical theater duo of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, who wrote Ragtime and Anastasia, as well as soul-jazz vocalist Sade, whose 1980s soft rock hits include “Smooth Operator” and “The Sweetest Taboo.”

Two veteran rock stars are also nominees: Patti Smith — whose songs include “Because the Night” and “Dancing Barefoot” — and Steve Winwood, whose hits include “Higher Love” and “Roll With It.” Vince Gill is once again a nominee, having first made the ballot in 2018.

Eligible voting members have until Dec. 28 to turn in ballots with their choices of three nominees...

It was a big night for Lainey Wilson at the CMA Awards.

Nominated for six awards, the “Heart Like a Truck” singer wound up taking home the Female Vocalist of the Year and New Artist of the Year honours — and brought along a very special date for the occasion: her dad, Brian Wilson.

Sharing such a special occasion with her father was even more meaningful given that he’s recovering from a stroke that caused him to lose his left eye.

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“My daddy is going to walk the CMAs carpet with me,” the singer told the New York Post in a recent interview.

“He was sick [with a fungal infection caused by diabetic ketoacidosis] this summer, and we didn’t think that he was gonna make it,” she explained. “He spent two weeks in ICU and a few weeks in a rehab facility. But he has...

When Baz Luhrmann‘s “Elvis” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in late May, the buzz for its young star Austin Butler grew quickly to a deafening din. The film’s reception was punctuated by a 12-minute standing ovation, and the conventional wisdom was that the Oscar — and the Golden Globe and the SAG Award, for that matter — was Butler’s to lose. As of this writing, the 31-year-old is the third choice in Gold Derby’s combined Best Actor odds at 9/2, trailing top pick Brendan Fraser for “The Whale” at 69/20 and Colin Farrell for “The Banshees of Inisherin” at 4/1.

So what does Oscar history tell us about his chances of getting nominated for “Elvis”? When it comes to Butler, he will be looking to follow in the grand tradition of actors who have transformed themselves into real-life music legends. And he surely delivers an incandescent performance as Elvis Aron Presley.

Paul Dano has played a “Batman” villain and a Beach Boy, but the Emmy nominee had no desire to play a presumed child kidnapper in “Prisoners.”

The Denis Villeneuve-directed film stars Hugh Jackman, Viola Davis, and Terence Howard as parents whose children are taken. Jake Gyllenhaal plays the detective on the case, as the local community fingers Dano’s character and his suspicious mother (Melissa Leo) as being involved. The 2013 film was nominated for Best Cinematography for Roger Deakins’ work.

“People love ‘Prisoners,'” Dano said while reflecting on his best roles for a GQ video. “This is one of those that you don’t really want to do, but you do, if you know what I mean.”

He continued, “I’d seen Denis’ film ‘Incendies,’ and he told me Roger Deakins was shooting it, who I had a massive crush on. Did I want to play that part?...

Genre icons Scout Taylor-Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween), Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes), and Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood – and three more Friday the 13th sequels after that) are among the cast members of writer/director Thomas Walton’s upcoming horror film They Turned Us Into Killers – and today we’re proud to share the Exclusive first look at the film’s trailer! You can check it out in the embed above.

The story details for They Turned Us Into Killers are being kept under wraps at this time, but you can get a good idea of what’s going on in this one by watching the trailer.

The genre regulars mentioned above have been joined in the cast by Brian Anthony Wilson (Right Before Your Eyes) Lauren Francesca (Final Kill), Bryce Draper (Minutes to Midnight), Brandon Irons (The Girl Next Door), Maritza Brikisak...

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For the 79th Venice Film Festival, artistic director Alberto Barbera has put together one of the most well-curated lineups of his career. Both studios and streamers are well represented.

Netflix scored an opening-night coup with Noah Baumbach’s White Noise, with buzz promising that it’ll wow the Lido, alongside Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe biopic, Blonde, with Ana de Armas; Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Mexican epic Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths; and Romain Gavras’ French action thriller Athena.

Studio fare is well represented by Warner Bros.’ Don’t Worry Darling from director Olivia Wilde; Focus has Todd Field’s Tár with Cate Blanchett and Mark Strong; MGM will debut Luca Guadagnino’s Timothée Chalamet-Taylor Russell starrer Bones and All; Searchlight presents The Banshees of Inisherin from Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri director Martin McDonagh; and Sony Pictures Classics will be...

Brian Wilson is raking in the 80th birthday wishes from an array of friends and musical peers, including Bob Dylan, Carole King, Elton John, and Questlove.

The aforementioned artists — and many others — all sent in short video messages celebrating the musician, who entered his eighth decade today, June 20. The clip also includes Smokey Robinson, Barry Gibb, Chuck D, Fleet Foxes, Graham Nash, David Crosby, John Fogerty, Micky Dolenz, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, and She and Him. Wilson’s longtime collaborator and former Beach Boys bandmate Al Jardine also...

Brian Wilson, legendary cofounder of the Beach Boys, was driving through Malibu with a good friend, Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine, when they spotted a classic Cadillac—but from when? The man who cowrote “Little Deuce Coupe” and other hot rod hits of the ’60s wanted to know, so he shouted out the window, “Hey, buddy! What year is that car?!” (It was a ’41.) This moment of pure lightness is unexpected in the documentary Long Promised Road. The American Masters installment lets the at-times tentative and vulnerable Wilson—who turns 80 on June 20—look back at a life of remarkable ebbs and flows. “The Brian you see goofing around? That’s Brian to me. He’s engaged and curious and funny in ways people don’t really know,” says Fine, who acts as tour guide and iPod-spinning DJ, chauffeuring Wilson to meaningful spots from his past. Five cameras recorded the pair...

Brian Anthony Wilson joins distinguished team behind Manodrome — The one-sentence synopsis of Manodrome available doesn’t provide much information. But with a little imagination, along with the title, that one sentence is enough to speculate. To paraphrase, the central character, Uber driver Ralphie, aspires to be a bodybuilder and consequently “gets inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult [...]

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Stars: Kane Hodder, Michael Berryman, Scout Taylor-Compton, Brian Anthony Wilson, Tony Devon, Michael Emery, David M. Raine, Adam Ratcliffe, Steve Nappe | Written and Directed by Thomas Walton

Long ago, Room 9 of the Johnson/Bedford Inn, located in a remote small town, was the site of a gruesome double murder. Decades later, with the town terrorized once again by a string of bloody ritual killings, a mysterious woman named Star arrives to investigate and suffers bizarre flashbacks related to the inn’s slayings. Is she connected to the killings…or the inn’s next victim?

I’m not going to lie, I was attracted to Room 9 – the debut feature of writer/director Thomas Walton – purely on the basis that it featured three performers whose names are synonymous with horror: Kane Hodder, Michael Berryman and Scout Taylor-Compton. Now I’m not stupid, I figured that, whilst Scout Taylor-Compton is the films lead,...

"These murders... seem personal." Lionsgate has debuted an official trailer for an indie horror thriller titled Room 9, the latest feature from actor / filmmaker Thomas Walton. This is getting a direct-to-dvd release which is pretty much already an indication of the quality, with a derivative plot that sounds similar to so many other mystery thrillers. Life altering sins of the past revisit modern day lost souls in a small town... 40 years later. A mysterious woman arrives to investigate the site of a murder and suffers bizarre flashbacks related to the inn's slayings. Is she connected to the killings... or the next victim? The film stars Michael Berryman, Scout Taylor-Compton, Brian Anthony Wilson, Kane Hodder, Michael Emery, and Adam Ratcliffe. This looks like extra schlocky shock horror, which might be fun for some folks out there. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Thomas Walton's Room 9, direct from YouTube: Long ago, Room...

December’s home entertainment releases are starting off strong, as we have a great selection of horror and sci-fi titles to get excited for this Tuesday. First up are a pair of holiday horror films: Chris Peckover’s Better Watch Out and the awesome special edition Blu-ray for Silent Night, Deadly Night from the fine folks at Scream Factory. Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series makes its way to both formats this week as well, and Arrow Video has put together a special edition release for The Witch Who Came From the Sea.

Other notable releases for December 5th include The Crucifixion, Dementia 13, 60 Seconds to Die, Werewolves of the Third Reich, and a 4K box set for the Men in Black trilogy.

Better Watch Out (Well Go USA, Blu-ray & DVD)

This holiday season, you may be home, but you re not alone... In this fresh and gleefully twisted spin on home-invasion horror,...

Imagine finding one of van Gogh’s early sketches for “Starry Night,” or a rough draft of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. For anyone who loves music, the mammoth 50th anniversary reissue of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is just as good—if not better. The expanded package includes nearly two hours worth of outtakes from the groundbreaking 1967 sessions, offering not only an alternate-universe look at some of the most beloved tracks in the rock canon, but also a fascinating fly-on-the-wall view of four young artists at the height of their power.

Stripped down, occasionally rough and always electrifying,...

Filmmaker Oren Moverman has never shied away from tackling difficult, seemingly impossible material to adapt to film with some of his writing work including the screenplays for Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There and the equally intriguing Brian Wilson biopic, Love and Mercy.

As a director and producer he’s followed suit with his 2nd film Rampart starring Woody Harrelson as an L.A. police officer with questionable motives, followed by a meditative look at homelessness with Richard Gere in Time Out of Mind.

For his latest movie, The Dinner, Moverman adapts Dutch author Herman Koch’s novel, which on the surface is about a dinner between two related couples with all the requisite food porn. As it progresses, it explores a variety of topics including mental illness and the battle of Gettysburg.

At the core of the film is Steve Coogan and Richard Gere playing brothers, the former a history professor,...

Stars: D.C. Douglas, Carmela Hayslett, Tom Detrik, Tammy Jean, Tom Atkins, Michael Berryman, Lloyd Kaufman, Steve Blum, Bonnie Loev, Brian Anthony Wilson | Written and Directed by Christian Jude Grillo

I’ll freely admit there was a heavy dose of trepidation going into Apocalypse Kiss. You see I’ve had the “pleasure” of watching one of writer/director Christian Jude Grillo’s films (Deer Crossing aka Wasteland) before and it wasn’t the greatest of experiences… But just like you should never judge a book by its cover I feel you should never judge a filmmaker from just one film, even if that film was a complete shambles. Grillo’s previous effort was a backwoods thriller, a poor mans Texas Chainsaw Massacre if you will but this time out Grillo aims his sights higher, bringing us a dystopian vision of a city in ruin, controlled by corrupt politicians and evil corporations.

From Synthia.Ca, take a look @ footage from writer/director David Boorboor's horror feature "A Place In Hell", available on DVD from Anchor Bay Entertainment February 16, 2016:

"...a disgraced detective on the trail of a killer and a group of student filmmakers cross paths at a Halloween fright farm in the dead of winter..."

Cast includes Noree Victoria, Lewis Smith and Brian Anthony Wilson.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "A Place In Hell"...

After months of festival screenings, schmoozing luncheons, and lesser award shows, this year's Oscar season finally got real and cut the dead weight this morning when the Academy Awards announced the final roster of nominees. As is always the case, there were a number of pleasant surprises (congrats on that Best Visual Effects nod, Ex Machina!).

And, naturally, there were a much larger number of devastating omissions, as dreams were dashed and the toilets into which studios sunk their campaign dollars were finally flushed. Some of the snubs were probably deserved,...

By Patrick Shanley

Managing Editor

This year’s Oscar race may offer a new experience to many first time nominees throughout the Academy’s categories.

Though many familiar faces are a part of this year’s final push toward the big night (notably: last year’s best director, Alejandro G. Inarritu for his western revenge epic, The Revenant, and best actor, Eddie Redmayne for his performance as transgender artist Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl) the roster of never-been-nominees is shaping up to be quite substantial.

Redmayne’s costar, Swedish actress Alicia Vikander, looks like a strong contender for her performance as artist Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl. The 27-year-old has never been nominated by the Academy but recently received a nomination from the Golden Globes for her work in the film.

Vikander has some stiff competition in the category, however, and not just from past winners...

Chicago – Another year is about to slide towards the next one, so it’s time to look back at the cinema universe of 2015, the 10 Best Films of the year. In this arena, the intrepid “Über Critic” of HollywoodChicago.com, Patrick McDonald, will attempt to give his spin on the “best of” point of view.

And now we switch from third person to first person, so I – the aforementioned Patrick McDonald – will attempt to claim it all. It was another roller coaster year of robots, driving machines, pop stars, financial derivatives and Miss Universe. In other words, another year of inventive film creativity and philosophy.

This is the 2015 honorable mention section, and there were so many “eleventh place” films of note. My favorite superhero film was “Ant-Man,” for their mix of “small time” adventure and comedy. The dramas “Brooklyn,” “Sicario,” “Flowers,” “The Farewell Party,” “Nasty Baby” and “Spotlight” were excellent experiences.

On Sunday, December 20th the St. Louis Film Critics Association released their annual best of the year awards.

Here is the official press release with the list of winners:

St. Louis Film Critics Announce 2015 Awards

“Spotlight,” “The Revenant” and “Mad Max: Fury Road” top winners

For Immediate Release

“Spotlight,” “The Revenant” and “Mad Max: Fury Road” were the top winners in this year’s St. Louis Film Critics Association 2015 Awards, announced Sunday.

“Spotlight,” a drama about the Boston Globe investigation of pedophile priests, won Best Film, Director – Tom McCarthy and Original Screenplay, written by Josh Singer and McCarthy.

“The Revenant,” based on Hugh Glass’s wilderness survival story, was also recognized with three — Leonardo DiCaprio – Best Actor, Emmanuel Lubezki – Cinematography and Scene – Hugh being mauled by the grizzly bear.

“Mad Max: Fury Road,” the fourth installment in the futuristic action thriller, received three — Best Editing, Visual Effects and Art Direction.

Contributed by Michelle McCue and Melissa Thompson

Whether we sailed away to fairytale lands, visited far off worlds or made a grand journey on past and present adventures, 2015 cinema provided something for everyone. To be sure, this year’s movies delivered spectacular visuals and rich characters, emotive performances, and stories that gripped you to the bitter end. But as always, it’s the composer’s score that captures the true heart of any film.

On Wednesday the Academy announced that 112 scores from eligible feature-length motion pictures released in 2015 are in contention for nominations in the Original Score category for the 88th Academy Awards.

Here’s our look at the 10 Best Scores from 2015.

Honorable Mention: Krampus by Douglas Pipes

Well-known Yuletide favorites are transformed into “We Wish You A Scary Christmas” and “Krampus Karol of the Bells” in Michael Dougherty’s Krampus. Providing some Christmas frights is Douglas Pipes’ fun and...

Best Picture:

The Big Short, Paramount

Ex Machina, A24 Films

Inside Out, Disney/Pixar

Mad Max: Fury Road, Warner Bros.

The Martian, 20th Century Fox

The Revenant, 20th Century Fox

Room, A24 Films

Sicario, Lionsgate

Spotlight, Open Road Films

Steve Jobs, Universal

Best Direction Of A Motion Picture:

Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant

George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road

Lenny Abrahamson, Room

Ridley Scott, The Martian

Tom McCarthy, Spotlight

Best Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role:

Brian Cranston, Trumbo

Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant

Matt Damon, The Martian

Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs

Tom Hardy, Legend

Best Performance By An Actress In A Leading Role:

Brie Larsen, Room

Cate Blanchett, Carol

Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road

Emily Blunt, Sicario

Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn

Best Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role:

Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight

Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies

Michael Shannon, 99 Homes

Sylvester Stallone, Creed

Tom Hardy, The Revenant...

Right at the tail end of last week, another short list hit the web, this one having to do with Best Original Song. This establishes which tunes from the flicks of 2015 will be eligible for Academy Award nominations. Voters now officially have 74 songs to sift through, all in the name of Oscar consideration. There’s a noticeable snub in the lot, but we’ll get to that later. For now, we’ll focus in a bit with a handful of the songs that seem to be the main contenders here. At the same time though, keep this in mind…it’s really just a shot in the dark with this category. Though there’s no way to be sure, these are the songs I’d be most inclined to assume have a chance at a nod here. There’s “None Of Them Are You” from Anomalisa, “Fighting Stronger” from Creed,...

Will Lady Gaga return to Oscar's stage? You know we always kind of thought that Brian Wilson song from Love & Mercy wasn't going to be eligible. It seemed like it had been written before the movie and not for the movie. It's not on the Oscar longlist this year but 74 other songs from the movies are.

Some of the tunes are from obscure movies we haven't even heard of (such is always the case with this category) some are from Bollywood pictures which got stateside release. And a couple of handfuls of songs from Oscar contenders in other categories such as Anomalisa, Cinderella, Shaun the Sheep Movie and Youth are also in the mix.

Lady Gaga, who performed a medley from The Sound of Music last time she was on Oscar's stage, might be back as a nominee if they love her song from the documentary The Hunting Ground . She's...

“Spotlight” has officially secured its place in the awards race with its first win of the season at New York’s Gotham Independent Film Awards. The dramatic retelling of a Boston journalism team’s dogged efforts to uncover a sex abuse scandal within the Catholic Church is getting plenty of attention, and not just for its star-studded cast, which includes Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton, Brian d’Arcy James, and others. The film, in addition to winning best feature, also took best screenplay, co-written by director Tom McCarthy, and a special jury award for ensemble acting. Bel Powley took home the award for “The Diary of a Teenage Girl,” and snatched the best actress win from under Oscar winner and season favorite Cate Blanchett (“Carol”) and other heavy hitters such as Lily Tomlin (“Grandma”), Brie Larson (“Room”), Kristen Wiig (“Welcome to Me”), and Blythe Danner (“I’ll See You...

So here we are, smack dab in the middle of the dog days of summer (and if you don’t get that little saying, try lying out on the sidewalk in 100-degree heat for 15 minutes or so, like Fido does, and see if a light bulb doesn’t go off). The dogs are often howling in movie theaters too—at times it seems as though August has replaced January in the hearts of moviegoers as the dumping ground for pictures not really worthy of our attention (or a serious investment in the marketing department). Movies like Pixels and Fantastic Four have their perverse fascination—just how bad can they possibly be? Both were greeted with reviews so scathing and unyielding in their acidity that studio heads can only pray nothing in October, November or December will be perceived as worse, and I have to admit a certain curiosity. But that...