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Smoke is a crime drama miniseries created by Dennis Lehane. Based on the podcast titled Firebug by Truth Podcasting Corp. The Apple TV+ series is set in the Pacific Northwest, and it follows arson investigator Dave Gudsen and Detective Michelle Calderon as they are assigned to work together to catch a serial arsonist who is terrorising the city. Smoke stars Taron Egerton, Jurnee Smollett, Rafe Spall, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Hannah Emily Anderson, Greg Kinnear, and John Leguizamo. So, if you loved the thrilling mystery, intense drama, and compelling characters in Apple TV+’s Smoke, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Black Bird is a true crime drama miniseries created by Dennis Lehane. Based on the 2010 autobiographical novel In with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer,...

Today marks the first and only Friday the 13th here in 2025, and you better believe the horror genre won’t be sitting the big day out. Eight new horror movies released at home today alone.

Here’s all the new horror that released on Friday, June 13, 2025!

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

From producer Takashi Shimizu (Director of The Grudge) comes the Japanese nightmare Best Wishes to All, which notably won “Scariest Feature” at the Overlook Film Festival. The Japanese movie hails from director Yûta Shimotsu, and it’s now streaming on Shudder.

“A young woman’s visit to her grandparents’ home leads to the discovery of what’s brought them happiness, a revelation that will lead her to question her choices, sanity and reality itself.”

Aine Hara stars alongside Kotone Furukawa and Koya Matsuda.

Bloody Disgusting contributor Matt Donato wrote in his review for Daily Dead,...

Mirren won best actress at Cannes in 1984 for her role as Marcella, who forms a relationship with John Lynch’s Cal – a man complicit in her husband’s murder

Pat O’Connor’s Northern Irish movie from 1984, adapted by author Bernard MacLaverty from his own novel, holds up very well for its rerelease; better in fact than most of the movies and TV drama made about and during the Troubles. It has an unhurried, thoughtful and very human quality; Helen Mirren won the best actress award at Cannes for her performance here and in fact it is very well acted across the board by a blue-chip cast.

Mirren plays Marcella, a woman from a Catholic background, married across the sectarian divide to a reserve police officer murdered at his parents’ farmhouse by an Ira man who had bullied a bewildered local guy into being his getaway driver; this is Cal, played...

A struggling seamstress reveals almost supernatural-like abilities in twisty crime thriller Sew Torn, and it’s fittingly set to debut on VOD on National Sewing Machine Day.

Sew Torn will be available on VOD starting this Friday, June 13 and you can pre-order now.

Pairing with the digital release news is a special making of featurette, which we’re exclusively unveiling below. It gives a closer look at the almost Rube Goldberg levels of thread-weaving that aids the seamstress in her crime exploits.

Eve Connolly (“Vikings”), Calum Worthy (Bodied), K Callan (Knives Out), Caroline Goodall (Schindler’s List), and John Lynch (The Watchers) star in the feature debut by writer-director Freddy Macdonald.

The film follows Barbara Duggen (played by Connolly), ‘The Mobile Seamstress’, who is struggling to keep her fabric shop alive. After a botched sewing appointment sets her on a quest to replace her client’s lost button, she unexpectedly stumbles...

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You is a psychological crime thriller drama series co-created by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble. Based on the You novel series by Caroline Kepnes, the Netflix series follows Joe Goldberg, a seemingly ordinary young man who becomes obsessed with women and begins stalking them. She soon starts inserting himself in their lives and killing off anyone who gets in his way. You stars Penn Badgley, Elizabeth Lail, Luca Padovan, Zach Cherry, Shay Mitchell, Victoria Pedretti, Jenna Ortega, James Scully, and Tati Gabrielle. So, if you loved the intensely dramatic story, thrilling mysteries, and complex characters in Netflix’s You, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

Dexter Credit – Showtime

Dexter is a psychological mystery crime thriller drama series created by James Manos Jr. Based on the 2004 novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by author Jeff Lindsay, the...

A struggling seamstress comes upon a drug deal gone awry in Sew Torn, the feature debut by writer-director Freddy Macdonald, kickstarting a narrative structure that borrows liberally from Tom Tykwer’s propulsive Run Lola Run. The seamstress weighs her options, opening up three different story paths and outcomes. Macdonald nestles Run Lola Run’s loop-like structure inside a cozy crime thriller, the type that’s more intimate and self-contained in scale and comes heavily armed with a sense of whimsy. That it’s all stitched together by an almost preternaturally gifted seamstress makes for a visually arresting and charming debut, if a bit subdued.

“Choices, choices, choices,” Sew Torn‘s seamstress Barbara (Eve Connolly) says in the opening voiceover narration. She has no idea that she’s distilled the plot so simply; the events that follow will lay daunting choices at her feet, though she doesn’t know it yet.

“Clown In A Cornfield’S” Frendo Hits The Road For A Two-week Cross Country Semi-truck Tour Ahead Of The Film’S May 9th Theatrical Release: "Frendo, the childhood clown of your nightmares from the upcoming, highly anticipated horror film, Clown In A Cornfield, will hit the road for two weeks on a semi-truck tour ahead of the film’s theatrical release on May 9th. Frendo is expected to terrorize anyone who gets in his way at iconic landmarks, special screenings and events across the country.

Fans of Frendo can follow his whereabouts on social media @Shudder and @Clown_in_a_Cornfield. Those brave enough to track down the tour truck or one of the film’s “Don’t F*** With Frendo” posters in the wild and post a photo with the hashtag #IFoundFrendo will be entered to win an exclusive prize pack.

Frendo’s semi-truck tour will make stops at...

Exclusive: Sunrise Films has set a May 9 theatrical release for the Freddy Macdonald thriller Sew Torn starring Eve Connolly, John Lynch and Calum Worthy. The movie made its world premiere at SXSW last year. A New York City and Los Angeles launch is planned, followed by a nationwide release.

In Sew Torn, Barbara Duggen, “The Mobile Seamstress,” is struggling to keep her fabric shop alive. After a botched sewing appointment sets her on a quest to replace her client’s lost button, she unexpectedly stumbles upon a drug deal gone bad. Faced with two downed motorcyclists, guns, and a briefcase, Barbara is completely torn. She is forced to pick between three choices: commit the perfect crime, call the police, or drive away. The narrative presents the repercussions of all three decisions, and the deadly confrontations that result from each as she gets entangled with the case’s owner. Using thread to free herself,...

A sewing supply shopowner who stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong is faced with three choices – commit the perfect crime, call the police, or run away

Thread-slingers with an addiction to YouTube tutorials (like me) may have seen an amusing film by seamstress/historian Bernadette Banner in which she reacts to a bunch of films that feature actors sewing, or at least pretending to sew. Examples include How the Grinch Stole Christmas (not convincing) to The Phantom Thread. Each one is picked apart with waspish scrutiny by Banner, who can spot the difference between a vintage treadle-operated chain stitch machine and a lockstitch machine from different periods in the 19th-century. Hopefully Banner will get a chance to scrutinise this loosely sewing-themed thriller and nitpick its faux pas, such as the bit where the seamstress protagonist Barbara (Eve Connolly) seems to sew a button on a client’s wedding dress in less than a minute.

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Hannibal is a psychological crime thriller drama series created by Bryan Fuller. Based on the Hannibal novels by Thomas Harris, the NBC series follows FBI special investigator Will Graham, who has an exceptional talent for getting into the minds of the killers, which takes a heavy toll on his psyche. To get psychological treatment, he frequently consults forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, but what Will doesn’t know is that Hannibal is a notorious serial killer. Hannibal stars Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas, Hettienne Park, Laurence Fishburne, Scott Thompson, Aaron Abrams, and Gillian Anderson. So, if you loved the dark psychological stories, thrilling mysteries, and compelling characters in Hannibal, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

Mindhunter (Netflix) Credit – Netflix

Mindhunter is a psychological crime thriller drama series created by Joe Penhall. Based on...

"Would you say that my actions were justified?" Vertigo Releasing has unveiled an official trailer for a film called Sew Torn, an intriguing crime comedy + psychological thriller with Run Lola Run-esque vibes. This first premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival last year, and it also played at the Locarno, Sitges, and Camerimage Film Festivals. Eve Connolly stars as Barbara Duggen, a mobile seamstress, who gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In an escalating, frightening game of cat and mouse, her different choices lead her to drastically different outcomes along the way. The narrative presents the repercussions of all three of her decisions, and the deadly confrontations that result from each as she gets entangled with the case's owner. Using thread to free herself, Duggen stops at nothing to save her store. The film also stars Calum Worthy, John Lynch,...

Exclusive: Sunrise Films has picked up North American distribution rights to Sew Torn, which screened at SXSW and Locarno in 2024

Sunrise will release the film in theaters and digital platforms this summer.

The film follows Barbara Duggen, a seamstress who gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In an escalating game of cat and mouse, her different choices lead to drastically different outcomes along the way.

The film stars Eve Connolly (Into The Badlands), Calum Worthy (Reboot), and John Lynch (Blue Lights). It is directed and edited by Freddy Macdonald, who also co-wrote the screenplay with his father Fred Macdonald.

Sew Tornis the first full-length feature film by the director and is based on his 2019 short film of the same name, which was acquired by Searchlight Pictures and had an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run playing alongside 2019’s Ready Or Not.

The film...

Vampire horror is a genre full of expectations and conventions, but several amazing vampire films and TV shows from the 2020s have started to turn the genre on its head. This is in part due to several incredible vampire acting performances, but also groundbreaking writing and design. These stories have begun to chart new paths for the vampire genre, taking a monster well-known by many and putting vampire characters into fresh situations.

The 2020s aren't the only years full of great vampire media, making great changes to a long-beloved genre. The 2000s were full of underrated vampire classics, but the biggest changes seem to have come in more recent years. These changes are most evident in the stories being told, as most vampire media in the past have either portrayed them as static monsters or romantic leads.

Boys From County Hell (2020) This Movie Turns Dracula Into A Local Legend

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Max is ready with an entertainment-packed December this year. The upcoming month will see the return of some of Max’s brilliant original crime comedy series Bookie and also a new original epic DC series Creature Commandos. Just like every month, Max is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 5 new movies and TV shows coming to Max in December 2024.

Creature Commandos Season 1 (December 5) Credit – Max

Creature Commandos is an upcoming adult animated superhero action series created by James Gunn. Based on the characters from DC Comics, the upcoming Max series is the first series in the DC Universe and it revolves around a group of black ops team consisting of literal imprisoned monsters who fight against the threats facing the United States. Creature Commandos’ voice cast includes Steve Agee,...

Spain’s The Mediapro Studio brought out the big guns at this year’s Mipcom to promote its first-ever English-language slate, which includes projects featuring John Turturro, Melissa Leo, “24” showrunner Evan Katz and Oscar winner Juan José Campanella, among others.

Though the ambitious pipeline was The Mediapro Studio’s big Mipcom head-turner, the company also closed noteworthy deals for a handful of its highest-profile shows of the last several years.

Disney+ Spain has acquired The Mediapro Studio and 3Cat’s thriller series “Quiet” (“El mal invisible”), which recently screened at Catalonia’s prestigious genre-focused Sitges International Film Festival. The show will debut on Catalan public television channel TV3 and the 3Cat platform soon, although a specific date hasn’t been announced.

Set in lock-down era Barcelona, “Quite” follows a police investigation to track down a serial killer who targets the homeless. David Verdaguer (“Saben Aquell”), Ángela Cervantes (“La Maternal”), and...

“This is the Zodiac Speaking” (2024) docuseries explores the most famous “unsolved” serial killer case in history. The Zodiac killer was notorious for having murdered five victims in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s. He would send in messages as ciphers to regional newspapers, where he would threaten with a murder spree or bombings if they wouldn’t be printed. To this day, The Zodiac Killer case remains an open investigation, with at least two of the ciphers still remaining unsolved and the latest cipher to be decoded was as late as 2020.

This is the Zodiac Speaking (2024) Docuseries Plot Summary: Who was the Zodiac Killer?

The nom-de-guerre was used by an unidentified serial killer who struck his spree of murders in the late 1960s—specifically from December 1968 to October 1969. The identified and known attacks took place in Solano County, California, specifically in the cities of Benicia and Vallejo,...

“@love” Belle Films

Produced by Annabelle Mullen and Leah Aldarondo, this romcom turns on a Caribbean film producer navigating dating apps and self-discovery in Spain. “At its core, it’s a woman’s journey away from home to find not only romance but clarity,” say its creators.

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Produced by Summer Films and La Claqueta (“The Endless Trench”), this political drama starring Pablo Gómez-Pando follows labor lawyers hiding during Spain’s 1981 coup, blending humor with the drama.

“The 39” Secuoya Studios

Presented at Iberseries, this series looks at the power struggles and ultimate fate of the 39 men Christopher Columbus left on Española — the present-day Dominican Republic — in 1492. The high-end, six-part historical thriller is created by David Martínez and Roberto Serrano.

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The highest-grossing Catalan-language movie in the last 15 years, this feel-good social issue hit inspired by true events stars Eduard Fernández as Manolo Vital,...

Sometimes a movie can be a best horror movie you never saw candidate but there are other instances where a movie has been seen and talked about but altogether lost to time. Richard Stanley has had a long career in terms of time he has been active but a very small amount of output in terms of actual number of projects. While the saga of his journey to direct the big budget remake of The Island of Doctor Moreau and subsequent firing has been widely captured in the documentary Lost Soul and his latest success with The Color Out of Space was highly regarded but tinged with controversial allegations, he had a couple of gems before all that. Dust Devil, his sophomore effort, still very much so belongs in the Best Horror You Never Saw category and I will get to that one too, but Hardware (pick up a copy...

The supernatural horror film The Watchers spends a ton of screentime with a small group of individuals trapped in a mysterious and dangerous forest, so the talented cast is understandably small. The Watchers is the feature film directorial debut of Ishana Night Shyamalan, daughter of the iconic director M. Night Shyamalan. The movie follows a young American immigrant in Ireland, Mina, who becomes trapped with others in a forest that is home to nocturnal creatures known as Watchers, whose appearance remains a mystery to anyone who hasn't encountered them.

Mina and her fellow survivors remain trapped in a concrete bunker at night, which keeps them safe from the creatures, but also allows the creatures to observe their activities and behavior. The Watchers is heavy on dread and atmosphere-building, and as is expected, includes a trademark "Shyamalan twist", although it is based on the novel of the same name by A.M. Shine.

This September, Prime Video is bringing you a lot of entertainment with a royal drama series titled A Very Royal Scandal and a brilliant coming-of-age film Snack Shack. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Prime Video this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 5 best films that are coming to Prime Video in September 2024 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Drag Me to Hell (September 1)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92%

Drag Me to Hell is a supernatural horror film directed by Sam Raimi from a screenplay co-written by Sam and Ivan Raimi. The 2009 film follows the story of Christine Brown, a loan officer who rejects an elderly woman’s loan application due to pressure from her boss. In retaliation, the elderly woman puts a curse on her in which she will suffer in extreme...

The Watchers' streaming release date has now been confirmed. Directed by Ishana Shyamalan, the daughter of director M. Night Shyalaman, the 2024 mystery thriller hit theaters in June. The film follows Dakota Fanning's Mina as she takes refuge in a mysterious structure in a forest in western Ireland. Mina and the three strangers she's trapped with soon find that they're being stalked by mysterious creatures watching them from outside. The Watchers' reviews weren't overly positive, and the film ended up hitting VOD at the end of June.

Now, Warner Bros. reveals that The Watchers will release on the Max streaming service on Friday, August 30. The streaming release date comes three days after the film's physical media release, which is set for August 27.

More to come...

Source: Warner Bros.

The Watchers 4/10 Director Ishana ShyamalanRelease Date June 7, 2024Studio(s) New Line CinemaDistributor(s) Warner Bros. PicturesWriters A.M. Shine, Ishana ShyamalanCast Siobhan Hewlett,...

We have good news to share, horror fans. The Watchers has finally set its streaming debut release date. As expected, the supernatural horror film is coming to Max, and it'll be available to stream sooner than you think. How soon, you ask? In just a week!

Yes, you read that right. On Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, you'll be able to watch this 1 hour and 42-minute movie on the Max streaming service. In fact, it'll be streaming exclusively on this streamer. However, if you'd rather rent or purchase the film, you can still do so on digital platforms such as Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, Vudu, or Apple TV.

The Watchers was written and helmed by Ishana Night Shyamalan, the daughter of well-known filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan. It's based on the 2021 book of the same name by A. M. Shine and follows a young woman who finds herself stranded in the woods after her car suddenly breaks down.

Disney just announced that they would bulldoze Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer Island to add more IP at the Magic Kingdom. Frontierland will no longer be Frontierland; it will be Western IP land. Of course, the Disney suits waited until after D23 to confirm this when they could hide from parks fans.

Parks fans are already upset that Disney will keep calling the area Frontierland when it’s modern-day “Cars.” It defeats the purpose, like Autotopia in Tomorrowland.

Couldn’t they have just made that Cars-themed? But I digress.

The new concept art shows the changes, and the Disney Parks Blog says the area will be removed.

“It’s time to leave Radiator Springs and head west into exciting new locations. To make way for this completely new frontier, the Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer Island will be transformed into vast and rugged terrains for a rally race...

Several alternate realities, none of them remotely acquainted with ours, exist side-by-side in “Sew Torn,” a high-concept crime farce that pits guns against haberdashery, innocence against culpability, and genre grit against fruit-loop fantasy. Even as it nakedly steals its structural conceit from Tom Tykwer’s Nineties trendsetter “Run Lola Run” — a film made before 24-year-old writer-director-editor Freddy Macdonald was born — this is a debut feature strange and singular enough to attract its own keen following, with its blend of folksy small-town hijinks, nasty neo-noir tension and literally crafty comedy, centered around a heroine who calls to mind MacGyver with a pocket sewing kit. Some will thrill to the film’s silliness, others may find it a joke stretched beyond elasticity, but it’ll have many putting a pin in Macdonald’s name.

Eye-catching if hardly substantial, “Sew Torn” is quite obviously expanded from Macdonald’s 2019 short of the same title:...

Generally, if a movie is set in England, it will take place in the capital city of London. London is home to 8,000,000 people and houses most of the well-known UK landmarks: Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, the Shard, and so on. It's not surprising that it's such a popular location for filmmakers.

However, Britain is much bigger than London alone, and movies that come out of the country reflect this. While big blockbuster movies tend to stick to London, other areas of Britain have more personal and intricate stories told about them. They have the added effect of teaching people about lesser-known areas of the United Kingdom.

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Directed by: Agnieszka Holland

There have been several versions of The Secret Garden,...

Ishana Night Shyamalan reflects on the potential sequel to The Watchers, expressing interest in genre exploration, though admitting it's too early to consider it. Reviews for the horror-thriller, which marks Shyamalan's directorial debut, have been generally negative, particularly for its convoluted storytelling and lackluster ending. In spite of her uncertainty and the reviews, the ending does leave enough room for a sequel, and should the first movie become a box office hit, The Watchers 2 could find its way to being greenlit.

With her directorial debut now in theaters, Ishana Night Shyamalan shares her thoughts on The Watchers 2. Based on A.M. Shine's novel of the same name, the horror-thriller tells the story of Mina, a 28-year-old American artist who finds herself trapped in an expansive forest in western Ireland and surrounded by the titular mysterious creatures. Dakota Fanning leads the ensemble Watchers cast that also includes Georgina Campbell, Oliver Finnegan,...

Warning: contains spoilers for the Blue Lights series one finale.

When Blue Lights arrived in 2023, it felt like counter-programming to the news headlines. Real life was filled with reports of police corruption, brutality and deadly crimes committed under cover of the uniform, and here was this drama, offering an alternative.

Grace, Tommy and Annie were that alternative. New recruits to the Police Service of Northern Ireland, they weren’t in uniform to abuse power or take greasy backhanders, they were there to help, and they had the courage of their convictions.

That isn’t to say their courage and convictions weren’t sorely tested by the reality of the job. As they discovered, policing a community riven by historical conflict is tough enough without MI5 doing deals with local kingpins that keep the drugs and crime flowing. Not to mention anonymous death threats and the violent loss of beloved colleagues.

“Choices, choices…,” says the narrator, a young seamstress, in this strange and striking debut from Freddy Macdonald. A neo-noir in the early Coens tradition, Sew Torn also features a bold tri-part structure in which the heroine, Barbara (Eve Connolly) — like Lola before her in Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run — gets three standalone chances to pursue a different destiny after stumbling on the bloody aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong on a quiet country road.

It begins with image of a reel of red cotton, a briefcase and a dead body. This is Barbara, who wonders what we’ll make of her story. Macdonald’s film then loops back to explain who Barbara got here, a tale of chance and coincidence that reshuffles its characters in a way that always surprises,...

The MediaPro Studio will look to invest in literary and library program rights in the U.S., the Spanish company’s boss told delegate here at Mipcom Cannes today, as it unveiled several new projects during a Mipcom Cannes keynote.

Laura Fernández Espeso announced projects such as including season 3 of thriller drama The Head and a project with British director Mike Leigh in post-production, but also revealed plans in the English-language U.S. market and talked up growth opportunities.

“For the American market, we’re going to be focused on books, library acquisitions and finished content because we are receiving a lot if proposals that are super high quality,” she said. “Our rights team are open be part of those projects, and they are going to help us to diversify.”

An example is survival thriller Hunting Ana Bravo, which Erik Barmack’s LA-based Wild Sheep Content is producing. Barcelona-based production...

The Mediapro Studio will shoot from November Season 3 of “The Head,” its biggest international hit, filming in the Sahara Desert with John Lynch (“The Fall”) and Katharine O’Donnelly (“Mary Queen of Scots), attached once more to star.

Olivia Morris also returns to her role as Rachel Russo, the morally conscionable daughter of ambition-crazed biologist Arthur Wilde, played by Lynch.

“The Head” Season 1 took place at an Antarctic research station cut off in winter, Season 2 on a hulking freighter at mid-Pacific’s Point Nemo, the most distant place on earth from nearest land.

“The locations for this series have been a fundamental part of the show itself, always in an inaccessible place,” Laura Fernández Espeso, The Mediapro Studio CEO, told Variety before talking at a Mipcom Media Mastermind Keynote on Tuesday.

“This time we’ll be shooting in the desert: ‘The Head 3’ will take place in an unknown place in the Sahara desert,...

Pop-up soundstage specialist Volume Global has teamed with White Owl Film Studios, an Indigenous-owned multimedia company representing Canada’s First Nation community, on a new production facility in Wahnapitae First Nation territory.

The 20,000-square-foot soundstage features 35-foot-high clear span. Earlier this year, a Volume Global soundstage supported by air columns opened at Lionsgate Studios Yonkers, a new facility just outside New York City that was developed by Robert Halmi’s Great Point Studios. Halmi said Volume Global’s designs would “significantly enhance our production capabilities and expand our overall studio presence.”

John Lynch, the former head of global production at Amazon Studios and Paramount+ TV and a member of Volume Global’s board of advisors said the company’s pop-up stages use “leading-edge” technology. They give content producers “an expedited solution to their production space constraints, with a remarkable turnaround time of just 120 days.”

The newest space is designed to...

Superhero movies have become all the rage in the past few decades, and much like comic books themselves, they've dominated the conversation of "comic book adaptations." Even within shared superhero universes, however, so comics go for different tones, scopes and genres. Such was the case with Wildstorm's Sleeper, which almost had a movie adaptation starring one of Hollywood's greatest stars.

Tom Cruise has been associated with several iconic movies and roles, though superhero films have always managed to escape him. This was nearly changed, however, with a planned film for a comic book series that spun off from Jim Lee's Wildcats book. Sadly, this movie never came to be, even though it would have been right up the actor's espionage and action-oriented alley.

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What Was Wildstorm's Sleeper Comic Book About?

Written and drawn by frequent collaborators Ed Brubaker...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Blue Lights (obviously!)

It’s been wonderful to see Blue Lights capture the hearts of the nation – it deserves every bit of its enthusiastic praise. This compelling, Northern Ireland-set crime drama about three rookie cops has been packed full to bursting with a gripping plot, lovable characters and impressive performances from start to captivating finish.

The one comforting thought now that it’s over is that there’s already good news on the series two front – but before we get to that, let’s unpack Blue Lights’ first series. Did that dastardly-but-misunderstood McIntyre gang get what’s coming to them? Did Stevie and Grace get it on? And will our beloved Gerry be back telling Tommy to “take a beat” any time soon?

Read on for all the spoilers…

First Things First: Did Gerry Die?

We wish he didn’t, but yes. Richard Dormer...

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 World War II drama In Tranzit, starring Vera Farmiga and John Malkovich. 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.

Directed by Tom Roberts from a screenplay by Natalia Nightingale-Grey and Simon van der Borgh, In Tranzit has the following synopsis: In 1946, a group of German POWs are mistakenly sent to a Soviet female transit prison camp and must cope with the hostility of the Soviet female inmates and guards, under the orders of cruel camp commander Pavlov.

Farmiga and Malkovich are joined in the cast by Thomas Kretschmann,...

Variety has been given access to the first exclusive clip for horror movie “The Banishing,” which will have its market premiere during the Cannes Marché du Film this week, with WestEnd Films handling sales. Variety spoke to its director Christopher Smith, whose previous genre movies, “Creep,” “Triangle” and “Severance,” earned him a cult following.

Jessica Brown Findlay and Sean Harris star, alongside John Heffernan and John Lynch.

The film, set in the late 1930s, tells the story of the most haunted house in England. A young reverend (Heffernan) and his wife (Brown Findlay) and daughter move into a manor with a horrifying secret. When a vengeful spirit haunts the little girl and threatens to tear the family apart, the reverend and his wife are forced to confront their beliefs. They must turn to black magic by seeking the help of a famous Occultist (Harris) or risk losing their daughter.

In the clip,...

Are you rooting for Jim Worth or Jack Devlin, during the second season of the Tin Star TV show on Amazon Prime Video? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Tin Star is cancelled or renewed for season three. Amazon and other streaming platforms, however, collect their own data. If you've been watching this TV series, we'd love to know how you feel about the Tin Star season two episodes. We invite you to rate them for us, here. *Status update below.

An Amazon crime drama with a dark comedic streak, Tin Star stars Tim Roth, Genevieve O’Reilly, Abigail Lawrie, Christina Hendricks, Ian Puleston-Davies, Oliver Coopersmith, Lynda Boyd, Ryan Kennedy, Sarah Podemski, Anamaria Marinca, John Lynch, and Michelle Thrush. The British-Canadian series unfolds in the Canadian Rockies and...

Network: Amazon.

Episodes: 26 (hour).

Seasons: Three.

TV show dates: September 29, 2017 — Tbd.

Series status: Ending.

Performers include: Tim Roth, Genevieve O'Reilly, Abigail Lawrie, Christina Hendricks, Ian Puleston-Davies, Oliver Coopersmith, Lynda Boyd, Ryan Kennedy, Sarah Podemski, Anamaria Marinca, Christopher Heyerdahl, John Lynch, Michelle Thrush, Stephen Walters, Roark Critchlow, Kevin Hanchard, Jenessa Grant, and Nigel Bennett.

TV show description:

From creator Rowan Joffe, the Tin Star TV show is a British-Canadian crime drama, with a darkly comedic bent, unfolding in the Canadian Rockies. The series centers on former London undercover police detective Jim Worth (Roth), the newly minted police chief of Little Big Bear.

A dedicated family man, cop, and recovering alcoholic, Jim uprooted his family and moved...

Jessica Brown Findlay stars in project from director Christopher Smith.

Christopher Smith’s upcoming horror The Banishing has sold to multiple key territories for sales outfit WestEnd Films.

The Jokers, who are co-producing the project with WestEnd, has now come onboard to distribute in France, while deals are also done for Germany and Switzerland (Koch Media), Latin America (Leda), Middle East (Ecs), Taiwan (Vie Vision), Malaysia and the Philippines (Suraya), Indonesia (Pt Prima) and Vietnam (Blue Lantern).

Screen can also unveil a first look at Jessica Brown Findlay in the film, which stars her alongside Sean Harris, John Heffernan, and John Lynch.

The Academy’s 90th Sci-Tech Awards Saturday at the Beverly Wilshire (hosted by Sir Patrick Stewart) was dominated by the integral animation and visual effects software that powers the industry’s CG characters, simulations, and compositing. Digital Domain, DreamWorks, Industrial Light & Magic, Pixar, and Rhythm & Hues were among the 10 standout honorees.

In addition, visual effects technologist Jonathan Erland received the Gordon E. Sawyer Award (an Oscar statuette) for his technological contributions. Erland worked at Ilm as a model builder for “Star Wars” in 1977 and later moved over to Apogee to work on “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.” He eventually became director of R&D for Apogee, where he received patents for a reverse blue-screen traveling matte process, the Blue-Max flux projector, and a method for making front projection screens.

Erland also played a key role in establishing a separate visual effects Academy branch in 1995. He received the Academy’s John A.

Sporting a popped collar and a $137 million smile, Jimmy Garoppolo just faced the media -- and gave some credit to Tom Brady for helping him become the highest paid Qb in pro football. "The way he prepares ... that was one thing I picked up from him just being around him for 3.5 years,"Jimmy said while sitting next to 49ers general manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan. "It makes the difference and week in...

With a first scene as stylish as that from Kissing Candice, the words “music video chic” come to mind before you can even discover writer/director Aoife McArdle is a James Vincent McMorrow regular who also released a short in collaboration with U2’s 2014 release Songs of Innocence. Between the oppressive reds and aural manipulation (I thought the volume wasn’t working until the score finally kicks in to augment the titular kiss), you can’t help admiring the sensory craftsmanship onscreen despite having no contextual basis for anything occurring. What begins as a romantic interlude shared between Candice (Ann Skelly) and Jacob (Ryan Lincoln) soon shifts to the latter randomly and silently strolling down the street (through fire) until finally arriving at a bar where the former is inexplicably waiting.

It’s a wild ride oozing sexuality and dark glamour, the weird series of events on display an obvious...

"A powerful man does not become so without sin." Rlj Entertainment has unveiled a second trailer for the indie action thriller Pilgrimage, set in Ireland during the 13th century. The story follows a group of monks who must escort a sacred relic across the "Irish landscape fraught with peril". Starring Richard Armitage, Tom Holland, John Lynch, Stanley Weber, Lochlann O'Mearáin, Hugh O'Conor, Eric Godon, plus the badass Jon Bernthal as a character named "The Mute". We already posted the first official trailer for this earlier in the year, but I'm glad to see another one reminding us that this is finally coming out soon. They're obviously playing up Tom Holland from Spider-Man: Homecoming, but the entire cast looks great. Here's the second official trailer (+ poster) for Brendan Muldowney's Pilgrimage, direct from YouTube: You can still watch the first official trailer for Pilgrimage here, to see even more footage from this film.

"You will see the safe delivery of our holiest relic to Rome. Go with God." Rlj Entertainment has debuted a trailer for an indie action thriller titled Pilgrimage, set in the religious times of 13th century Ireland. The film is about to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this month, hence the release of the trailer to build extra buzz. The story follows a group of monks who must escort a sacred relic across the "Irish landscape fraught with peril". There's plenty of gnarly violence in this. Starring Richard Armitage, Tom Holland, John Lynch, Stanley Weber, Lochlann O'Mearáin, Hugh O'Conor, Eric Godon, plus the badass Jon Bernthal as a character named "The Mute". This actually looks pretty cool, consider me interested. Here's the first official trailer for Brendan Muldowney's Pilgrimage, originally from Yahoo: A small band of Catholic monks keep to a solemn routine on a remote Irish coast.

Ahead of the UK premiere of his latest film Detour at Horror Channel FrightFest Glasgow, Chris Smith tells us the importance of FrightFest, his love of ‘film Noir’ and his hatred of reality TV…

FrightFest has premiered all your genre movies Creep, Severance, Triangle, Black Death, except Get Santa obviously. Is this positioning an important part of the rollout process for you?

Firstly let me apologise for being away for so long and thank you for having me back. I wrote Get Santa because I’d just had a son and was feeling like I wanted to do something that he could watch in the next 15 years. I expected the film to take a year to come together but it ended up taking four years. My son was by that time old enough to come to the premiere with a few of his class mates.

Back to the question, Frightfest is extremely important,...

If any one of the ’90s Quentin Tarantino copycats remade “Sliding Doors,” this neo-noir would be the result, even down to the casting of John Lynch, who starred in the 1998 film. Filled with would-be-witty dialogue, “Detour” takes a Choose Your Own Adventure approach to its twist-filled narrative about a college student whose attempts for revenge go very wrong. Director Christopher Smith employs split screen to show what happens when his hero makes a decision and flips back in time when it wants to show the audience just how little they know.

Continue reading Neo-Noir ‘Detour’ Starring Tye Sheridan, Bel Powley And Emory Cohen Underwhelms [Review] at The Playlist.

"Don't regret the things you do, just the things you don't." Magnet Releasing has unveiled an official trailer for a gritty crime thriller titled Detour, a neo-noir from filmmaker Christopher Smith (of Creep, Triangle, Black Death). The fantastic young cast in this is lead by Tye Sheridan (seen in Mud, X-Men: Apocalypse), Emory Cohen (seen in Brooklyn, The Place Beyond the Pines) and Bel Powley (seen in The Diary of a Teenage Girl). The film involves Sheridan playing a young law student named Harper, who meets a grifter and his companion who get him into all kinds of trouble. Also featuring Stephen Moyer, John Lynch, Jared Abrahamson and Gbenga Akinnagbe. The most interesting aspect is the split-screen narrative, which seems like a unique twist but you'll have to see the film to find out how exactly it plays into the story. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Christopher Smith's Detour,...

Arclight Films has picked up North American rights at Afm to the action thriller from Crimson Forest Films and Hanover House starring Brandon Routh and Zhang Yuqi.

Arclight plans a December 1 VOD launch followed by DVD & Blu Ray on January 10.

The $10m film shot at Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios and follows a group of transatlantic air passengers who end up on an island that contains a deadly secret. Vincent Zhous wrote and directed.

Film Mode Entertainment has acquired North American rights and will distribute the action thriller Alleycats starring Eleanor Tomlinson, John Hannah, Sonoya Mizuno, John Lynch and Sam Keeley. UK-based The Fyzz Facility and Misfits Entertainment produced the action thriller. The film becomes the first to release in North America via Clay Epstein’s company and is scheduled to launch on December 15 via iTunes, Amazon and Google.Focus Features have moved up the nationwide release of Charlize Theron and James McAvoy action thriller The Coldest City from August...

It’s been two years since audiences last saw Gillian Anderson as the driven and obsessive Stella Gibson, the detective superintendent who’s been after serial killer Paul Spector (played by Jamie Dornan) in BBC Two’s drama “The Fall.” A new teaser trailer for the third installment has just been released and shows Gibson being haunted by the murderer who was last shot at the end of Season 2.

“You’re under arrest, you’re going to prison,” we hear Anderson’s voice say as she’s seen swimming, recalling the words that she last spoke to Spector and what he told her.

“I live at a level of intensity unknown to you and others of your type,” we hear him say. “You will never know the almost God-like power that I feel when that last bit of breath leaves a body. That feeling of complete possession.”

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Full programme revealed for this year’s East End Film Festival.

Hellboy star Ron Perlman and Suffragette director Sarah Gavron have joined the jury of the 15th East End Film Festival (June 23 – July 3).

It marks a return to the East End for Us star Perlman, who attended Eeff in 2014 when Dermaphoria - in which he starred - opened the festival.

Ivy director Tolga Karaçelik, who won best feature at last year’s festival, returns as the 2016 director in residence and jury chair alongside Perlman and Gavron.

Also awarding the Best Feature prize will be film writer and producer Kaleem Aftab and Bangladeshi film-maker Mostofa Sarwar (Television).

This year’s country focus will be Turkey, with screenings including the UK premiere of Emin Alper’s Turkey-France-Qatar co-pro Frenzy.

Opening film

The festival will open with the world premiere of Ian Bonhote’s Alleycats, with a cast that includes Screen Stars of Tomorrow Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark) and Sam Keeley ([link...

If any one of the ‘90s Quentin Tarantino copycats remade “Sliding Doors,” this neo-noir would be the result, even down to the casting of John Lynch, who starred in the 1998 film. Filled with would-be-witty dialogue, “Detour” takes a Choose Your Own Adventure approach to its twist-filled narrative about a college student whose attempts for revenge go very wrong. Director Christopher Smith employs split screen to show what happens when his hero makes a decision and flips back in time when it wants to show the audience just how little they know. “Detour” isn’t just notable for its structure and style, but for the casting of three promising young actors, even if it doesn't put them all to good use. This ‘90s throwback begins with a shot of Bel Powley ringing around a stripper pole to Goldfrapp’s “Stranger.” The camera is static, and Powley — one of last year’s...