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On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. Today’s Free Movie of the Day is writer/director Martin Gooch’s 2018 post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie Atomic Apocalypse, and 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.

Atomic Apocalypse has the following synopsis, provided by Gooch himself:

In Post Apocalyptic North America, one family fights for survival in this sci-i road trip of epic proportions in a nightmare world without gasoline, electricity, or humanity. Sheltered mother Kate loses her injured survivalist husband Sam, and love struck daughter Suzi in a matter of days after they join handsome loner Joe in search of a rumored hidden nuclear bunker full of food and medicine. Suddenly alone and lost,...

A 57-foot, multi-ton Christmas tree in the Windy City? You’re just asking for trouble! And despite this being a holiday episode, “We wanted the alarm bells to go off,” says Chicago Fire executive producer Derek Haas. So it’s Firehouse 51 to the rescue when the massive white spruce in Millennium Park—Chicago’s equivalent of New York City’s Rockefeller Center attraction—crashes down on a group of tree-gazers. “You see those giant trees and think, ‘Oh, if that wasn’t secured perfectly, that could really do some damage!’” Haas notes of his inspiration. Kelly Severide and Joe Cruz are among the responders who arrive to help multiple victims, including Santa Claus…or at least a white-bearded look-alike (Mark W. Gray) at the park with his wife (Darcy Shean). “Mouch” ...

As Above/So Below

The first Dowdle brothers collaboration to hit theaters since the 2008 [Rec] remake Quarantine, As Above/So Below is well worth the wait. Following a group of explorers in search of the Philosopher’s Stone, As Above/So Below was largely shot on location in the Catacombs beneath Paris, and the film’s found footage shooting style convincingly places viewers inside the skull-lined tunnels where shadows threaten to consume you at every turn.

Claustrophobic jump scares, the psychological horror of having your past literally come back to haunt (and potentially kill) you, and the creepily crafted screenplay from John Erick and Drew Dowdle had me anxiously tugging at my shirt collar throughout most of the film’s 93-minute runtime. The scariest part for me? The mysterious wide-eyed woman that Edwin Hodge’s camera-holding character Benji keeps seeing. Her lingering looks into the lens still give me chills.

Fright...

The run of the Metropolitan Opera's Damnation of Faust, designed by Canadian powerhouse designer Robert Lepage and his Ex Machina troupe, just started. We promise to give you a run-down of the opera's blitz of techno-imagery on Monday. Meanwhile, here are five high-tech operas that, depending on your tilt, either jar or excite the senses.

The Magic Flute

South African artist and visual director William Kentridge wowed audiences with his experimental, cinematic staging of Mozart's The Magic Flute in Belgium in 2005 and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2007. Rendering the stage a landscape of animated projections and artwork timed to correspond to singers' movements and arias, he made the opera closer to a video work. Animations come from Kentridge's "erasures"--black-and-white drawings of silhouettes, birds, and apartheid-era South African subjects that are photographed, erased, redrawn, and then animated to give a grainy, flip book-style pace to the action on-stage.