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Murderbot is a sci-fi action dark comedy series created by Paul and Chris Weitz. Based on The Murderbot Diaries book series by Martha Wells, the Apple TV+ series follows a Murderbot, a biological security cyborg who hacks its Governor module and acquires its freedom. It is soon purchased by a group of misfit scientists, who take it on a dangerous assignment. Murderbot stars Alexander Skarsgård, Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian, Sabrina Wu, Akshay Khanna, Tamara Podemski, and Tattiawna Jones. So, if you loved the hilarious dark comedy, eccentric characters, and an entertaining story in Murderbot, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Avenue 5 is a sci-fi dark comedy series created by Armando Iannucci. The HBO series is set on the premises of the interplanetary cruise ship,...

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Russian Doll is a mystery comedy-drama series created by Natasha Lyonne, Leslye Headland, and Amy Poehler. The Netflix series follows Nadia Vulvokov, a young woman who finds herself stuck in a time loop where she dies and relives the same night. She soon finds someone stuck in the same situation as her and teams up with them to solve this mystery and get out of the time loop. Russian Doll stars Natasha Lyonne, Greta Lee, Yul Vazquez, Elizabeth Ashley, Charlie Bartlett, and Chloë Sevigny. So, if you loved the mind-bending storyline, hilarious dark comedy, and compelling characters in Russian Doll, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Undone is an adult animated sci-fi fantasy psychological mystery comedy-drama series created by Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg. The Prime Video series follows Alma Winograd-Diaz,...

The UK’s Film Seekers is launching sales on English-language, Thailand-set kidnapping thriller Crushed from UK director Simon Rumley, ahead of the EFM.

Crushed recently wrapped principal photography after a four-week shoot in Bangkok.

A British pastor and his family’s faith and resilience is tested when their young daughter is kidnapped, and embark on a desperate search with local authorities to find her.

The production stars Steve Oram, Sahajak Boonthanakit and French-Thai newcomer, Margaux Dietrich. Tom Waller of Bangkok-based De Warrenne Pictures produces on behalf of the UK’s Screenprojex. Doug Abbott ofScreenprojex is an executive producer, along withSteveJaggi and Lionel Hicks.

In crafting a quietly affectionate film about a man who thinks he might be an alien, “Sky Peals” director Moin Hussain manages to make an allegory about solitude and isolation with a deft and steady hand. The film’s lead character, a 30-something British man of Pakistani origin, could be a stand-in for millions who feel removed from their roots while living within cultures and among people who think of them as outsiders. Hussain’s skillful filmmaking avoids making obvious points, instead deepening the narrative as a singular character study with sci-fi elements.

Adam (Faraz Ayub) still lives with his English mother (Claire Rushbrook) while working as a night shift short order cook at a gas station diner. His life is small: just home and work, with no apparent close relationships. He has closed himself off from the world, having never been able to make real connections with other people.

Demons, witches, devils, and dark magic. These subjects have always been a source of both fascination and fear, which is why they make such excellent fodder for horror genre filmmakers. Occult movies are so successful because they bring just a hint of realism to the scary stories viewers know and love; and the best occult movies don’t just provide frights in the moment — they continue to linger in our brains long after the credits roll.

Unsurprisingly, most movies about the occult tend to fall under the horror genre, a genre that many dismiss as being low culture. While some horror movies offer little more than cheap scares, the best offer thought-provoking commentary on subjects like feminism, grief, and religion. And there are those occult movies that have stood the test of time and are considered the scariest horror movies ever made.

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Anthology series have been growing in popularity since the late 1940s and work to tell a cohesive story from a variety of different characters. From Black Mirror to The Twilight Zone, these shows work to keep viewers gripped week after week. Plus, since this genre is so diverse, it can suit just about any niche.

Though these series work best in a typical television format, anthology series have also seen a ton of success in the streaming industry. Thus, even when viewers decide to binge these shows over a few days, they can still appreciate how the individual narratives blend over time. As such, it seems that this vintage genre has seen an impressive revival throughout the 2020s.

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Following its rip-roaring success at Pigeon Shrine FrightFest, Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment is delighted that the British horror comedy Members Club will be available on UK Digital Platforms from 21st October.

Written and Directed by Marc Coleman, Members Club stars a host of British talent including Dean Kilbey, Perry Benson, Barbara Smith, Juliet Cowan, Mark Monero, Steve Oram, David Schaal, Alan Ford, Liam Noble as well as Peter Andre.

Wet Dreams, a middle-aged male stripper group, have hit rock bottom. After a string of disastrous gigs, the gang considers disbanding. Alan, the group’s happy-go-lucky front man, takes over the business and books the boys a lucrative and mysterious gig in rural Essex. But when the group arrive at the desolate club, their night quickly takes a dark turn when they find themselves tangled up in a plot to raise a murderous 16th century witch from the dead.

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Exclusive: Emmy- and BAFTA-nominated actor Paapa Essiedu has inked with WME for representation in all areas, Deadline has learned.

Essiedu notched a Supporting Actor Emmy nom in Limited or Anthology Series as well as a Lead Actor BAFTA TV nom for his turn as Kwame in Michaela Coel’s HBO series I May Destroy You. He also received a BAFTA Lead Actor TV nom for The Lazarus Project.

Other recent projects include the National Theatre’s The Effect, written by Lucy Prebble and directed by Jamie Lloyd, which is transferring to The Shed in New York this year; Season 6 of the cult anthology series Black Mirror (“Demon 79”); and Working Title/Universal Christmas movie The Genie, directed by Sam Boyd and written by Love Actually‘s Richard Curtis.

Essiedu starred opposite Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun, directed by Nora Fingscheidt and based on Amy Liptrot’s bestselling memoir. The feature received...

Stars: Liam Noble, Dean Kilbey, Perry Benson, Mark Manero, David Alexander, Juliet Cowan, Charley Burling, Barbara Smith, Steve Oram, Alan Ford | Written and Directed by Marc Coleman

Members Club is a new horror comedy about Wet Dreams, a troupe of male strippers who were at their prime back when The Full Monty was a thing. Now they’re well into middle age, their middles are well out of shape and the bookings are drying up. Drying up to the point that their manager, Deano has just dropped them. But not before managing to book them a gig at a 12-year-old’s birthday party.

Refusing to admit defeat, or face the prospect of getting a real job, Alan takes charge and soon has a well-paid gig lined up. Of course, we know there’s a catch, but all Alan, Neil, Ratboy, and Carly can think of is the promise of their first big payday in years.

Hapless dance troupe Wet Dreams get a taste of the dark arts when they’re lured to a gig to raise the dead. Plus: a cameo from Peter Andre

Resolutely raunchy, gory, and very silly, this comedy horror is trashy for sure, but it’s mildly amusing and manages to deliver offensive gags that avoid outright misogyny. That’s no mean feat given the core plot is about a troupe of middle-aged male strippers who fall into a trap laid by a coven determined to raise a 16th-century witch from the dead. To complete this project, penises must be severed – a prospect our heroes aren’t keen on, for obvious reasons. You can imagine the elevator pitch: The Full Monty meets Necromancy, or some such.

The leader of the strippers, who go by the handle Wet Dreams, is feckless, fiftysomething Alan (Dean Kilbey), a terminal screw-up living in a rented...

Kill List Ben Wheatley returns to the small screen this month with Channel 4 zombie comedy series, Generation Z. Here’s a trailer:

Kill List director Ben Wheatley is about to television with this autumn’s Generation Z, which Wheatley has written and directed for Channel 4.

According to the British Comedy Guide, the series is a horror satire which pits a group of small-town teenagers (the gen-z of the title) against a horde of toxin-infected, rabid pensioners. It’s a little bit like Rabid Grannies, then, but with a distinctly political, post-austerity, post hope-for-the-future spin.

As the synopsis points out, it’s about “the increasingly stark divisions between generations,” and depicts “a modern Britain at war with itself. Sounds good!

The cast is itself a platter of multi-generational comedy talent. Elder states-people of telly Sue Johnston (The Royle Family), Anita Dobson (EastEnders) and Robert Lindsay (Citizen Smith) are joined by...

Alice Lowe’s second film as director is time travel comedy Timestalker, and the trailer for it has now landed.

Alice Lowe is not only a brilliant actor, but she’s also been behind the camera on some of the most esoteric, original British films of the last few years. From co-writing the screenplay of Sightseers with co-star Steve Oram, which was directed by Ben Wheatley and released in 2012, to her terrific 2016 directorial debut Prevenge, which she also wrote and starred as a pregnant woman who believes her unborn baby is telling her to murder all the men involved in her husband’s death.

Her next film is even more ambitious. Timestalker is a science fiction comedy romance, with a dash of time travel thrown into the mix. The synopsis reads as follows:

From the creative team behind Prevenge comes… Timestalker, a romantic comedy about the eternal humiliation that is the search for love,...

For the male stripper group Wet Dreams, business is not exactly booming. The bottom has fallen out of the market for four middle-aged blokes taking their kit off and, after a disastrous booking at a birthday party, it looks like it’s time to call it a day. However, front man Alan (Dean Kilbey) decides to buy out longtime manager Deano (Liam Noble) and can’t believe his luck when he instantly lands the guys a lucrative gig in a rural part of Essex.

Of course, there’s a catch – and what a catch it is. Not only has Alan not read the small print about the specific outfits he and his mates will be required to don, neither he nor his mates is prepared for the part they’ve been lined up to play in a ritual which plans to bring a murdered 16th century witch back from the dead.

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the D.I. Ray Season 2 finale “Enemy Within.”] D.I. Ray ends its second season with a closed case, a satisfying conclusion to the storyline involving the vile group chat filled with other law enforcement officials, and a possible new love for the titular character (Parminder Nagra). Rachita did take down Beardsmore (Ian Puleston-Davies), with help from Clive (Steve Oram) and eventually Henderson (Gemma Whelan), seems to be giving a romance with Patrick (Patrick Baladi) a try, and shares a sweet moment with her proud mom. Below, Nagra breaks down the finale and ponders the possibility of a third season. With Clive’s help and then Henderson, Ray is able to take down Beardsmore which is so satisfying. Parminder Nagra: So good. Honestly, Ian Puleston-Davies is just phenomenal. And when he blew up in that room, we felt like children being told off at school, the scene where he goes, “And you can ...

Black Water Pictures is thrilled to announce that their latest horror comedy, Members Club, will have its world premiere at this year’s Pigeon Shrine FrightFest on 24th August. This highly anticipated film, written and directed by Marc Coleman, is a wild fusion of The Full Monty and From Dusk Till Dawn, promising a unique blend of laughs and scares. It will certainly bring a bit of light relief to the otherwise rather dark and gruesome festival.

Members Club stars an impressive, extensive list of British talent including Dean Kilbey, Top Boy), Perry Benson, Barbara Smith, Juliet Cowan, Mark Monero, Steve Oram, David Schaal, Alan Ford, Liam Noble, and Peter Andre.

The film follows Wet Dreams, a down-and-out middle-aged male stripper group, as they grapple with a series of disastrous gigs and contemplate disbanding. Alan, the group’s optimistic frontman, seizes control and secures a seemingly lucrative gig in rural Essex.

Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2024, the UK’s No.1 horror & fantasy film festival, will, for the first time, present its five-day extravaganza at The Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, London, taking over all seven screens, including the two Odeon Luxe West End screens.

Running from Thursday August 22nd – Monday 26th August, Pigeon Shrine FrightFest will showcase sixty-nine features from across the world, including twenty-five main screen premieres and forty-five Discovery Screen titles, embracing the famed ‘First Blood’ strand, the latest genre documentaries, and some exciting restorations and retrospectives. Plus, there’s the regular short-film showcase, panels, and some surprise 25th edition extras. This year there are twenty-eight world premieres, with eleven countries represented, spanning four continents.

Co-director Alan Jones comments:

FrightFest, the Dark Heart of Cinema, has been beating loud and proud now for an amazing 25 years. An incredible quarter of a century that has seen major challenges and transformations to the global...

The 25th edition of the Pigeon Shrine FrightFest promises to be an unforgettable celebration of horror cinema, taking place between 22 August to 26 August 2024.

It’s hard to comprehend just how many films will be on offer to see at this fantastic event, so we have broken down each of the screens into articles for you to digest. And we may have saved the best (this one) until last!

We have already detailed what will be on offer in Discovery Screen 1, Discovery Screen 2 and Discovery Screen 3 across the long weekend.

Now it’s time to read about the final list of films on offer, detailed below. Read on for the film programme for the Main Screen, at the Cineworld, Leicester Square.

Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2024 – Main Screen Thursday, 22 August 2024

5:30 Pm – Opening Film: Broken Bird (World Premiere) Directed by Joanne Mitchell and starring Rebecca Calder, James Fleet, Jay Taylor, and Sacharissa Claxton,...

Alice Lowe’s second film as director is time travel comedy Timestalker, which will be released in the UK on the 27th September.

Alice Lowe is not only a brilliant actor, she has been behind the camera on some of the most esoteric, original British films of the last few years, from co-writing the screenplay of Sightseers with co-star Steve Oram, which was directed by Ben Wheatley and released in 2012, to her terrific 2016 directorial debut Prevenge, which she also wrote and starred as a pregnant woman who believes her unborn baby is telling her to murder all the men involved in her husband’s death.

Her next film is even more ambitious. Timestalker is a science fiction comedy, the synopsis reads as follows:

From the creative team behind Prevenge comes… Timestalker, a romantic comedy about the eternal humiliation that is the search for love, spanning the most romantic epochs of history right into the future.

From left: A Dark Song (Samson Films/IFC Midnight), The Hole In The Ground (A24), and Caveat (Shudder) Graphic: The A.V. Club It’s St. Patrick’s Day time again, which means only one thing for a lot of horror movie fans: Mainlining the Leprechaun films for yet another year.

From left: A Dark Song (Samson Films/IFC Midnight), The Hole In The Ground (A24), and Caveat (Shudder)Graphic: The A.V. Club

It’s St. Patrick’s Day time again, which means only one thing for a lot of horror movie fans: Mainlining the Leprechaun films for yet another year.

In his latest podcast/interview, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks about the new comedy/drama Mind-Set, starring Steve Oram, Ellis Cahill & Peter Bankole, with the writer/director Mikey Murray and “3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life” which includes:

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“3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life” is about those films that made you fall in love with film. The guest selects their trio of movies and we talk for 5 minutes, against the clock. When the alarm goes off for five minutes we move on to the next film.

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Mind-Set is a poignant and funny indie directed by Mikey Murray, and starring Eilis Cahill and Steve Oram. To mark the film’s release we had the pleasure in speaking to the latter, as Oram talks to us about his process in tackling a role that comes with such a great deal of authenticity, a character who is, for use of a better word, normal.

Oram also talks about shooting in Murray’s house, he shows us a tin of baked beans (makes sense in the moment) and speaks about working his co-star Cahill. He also talks about capturing the tricky tonality of a film that is equal parts funny and strangely moving at the same time.

Watch the full interview with Steve Oram here:

Synopsis

Lucy, a disillusioned office clerk who lives in a dysfunctional relationship with her slovenly partner Paul, is surprised to find herself on the cusp...

Eilis Cahill and Steve Oram in Mind-Set Photo: courtesy of Bulldog Film Releasing

When one becomes reasonably well known as a film critic, one finds oneself deluged daily with more films than there are waking hours. It’s impossible to watch them all and, sadly, it’s all too easy for good ones to sneak by under the radar. I might never have seen Mikey Murray’s Mind-Set except that last year I interviewed Steve Oram about another film, Cerebrum, and he mentioned that he had recently enjoyed working on an independent drama with a brilliant young director who he thought had a lot of potential. After our conversation he sent the film my way, and I instantly fell in love with it.

Astute, mature films which are also funny and yet retain the power to break one’s heart like this are few and far between. I talked it...

Mikey Murray’s crowdfunded debut has a bit of Ben Wheatley about it, with Steve Oram as a struggling screenwriter and Eilis Cahill as his lonely wife

Film-maker and lecturer Mikey Murray has made a funny, stroppy, gloomy, punky movie for his crowdfunded lo-fi indie debut: a film in granular black-and-white with a little bit of Ben Wheatley in the mix, creatively using whatever locations come to hand and transforming almost hyperlocal personal material in the script. It’s a downbeat film, flawed and rough-around-the-edges, but weirdly likable in its morose stoicism and unexpected romanticism.

Steve Oram and Eilis Cahill play Paul and Lucy; Paul is a screenwriter, never leaving the house, brooding over a connoisseur-collection of vinyl and working on his sci-fi film script about a space cadet struggling with his sexuality – “Brokeback Mountain meets Silent Running” as he insouciantly puts it. And while working from home, Paul exchanges...

The term “alien” takes on multiple meanings in writer-director Moin Hussain’s intriguing and rather gloomy debut feature, Sky Peals, which follows a lonely rest-stop cook whose life is upended by the death of his estranged father. Although extraterrestrials are evoked at some point, this intimate indie is less of a sci-fi thriller than a minimalist character study, focusing on a multiracial protagonist who doesn’t seem to be at home anywhere.

Screening in Venice’s International Critics’ Week sidebar, the film marks a promising first feature for Hussain, who shows a steady command of tone in a story that’s basically set in one colorless, extremely alienating place. But it can also be too much of a one-note affair at times, lacking the dramatic energy to take it to wider audiences.

What’s important to note about Sky Peals’ young hero, Adam (Faraz Ayub), is that his mother (Claire Rushbrook...

Priyanka Chopra specifically asked her husband, Nick Jonas, to join her in the movie Love Again to avoid kissing a random actor during the Covid-19 pandemic. The romantic comedy, which is a remake of a German film, has gained popularity on Netflix after initially flopping at the box office. Nick Jonas is not only an experienced musician but has also shown his acting skills in Broadway musicals and movies like Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.

Priyanka Chopra revealed recently that she specifically wanted her husband Nick Jonas to join her in her latest movie, Love Again, for a very particular but logical reason.

After flopping at the box office earlier this year, the romantic comedy starring Chopra and Outlander's Sam Heughan is now conquering Netflix, enjoying of some delayed popularity. The film is a remake of the 2016 German movie SMS für Dich, which is based in the 2009 novel of...

Love Again, a romantic comedy starring Priyanka Chopra and Sam Heughan, follows a woman finding love again after her fiancé's death. Despite being set in New York City, most of the film's scenes were filmed in London, primarily in Hackney. The movie also filmed scenes in Swale, Kent, and the United States, although specific filming locations in the US were not specified.

Love Again tells the story of a woman finding love again (as the title suggests) following the death of her fiancé, and while the film's backdrop is New York City, the movie was not solely filmed within the confines of the metropolitan area. The 2023 romantic comedy stars Priyanka Chopra Jonas as Mira Ray and Sam Heughan as Rob Burns, an unlikely match who strike up a connection following an accidental text exchange. Mira texted her fiancé's old number, obviously thinking her messages would go unanswered, and was surprised when Rob texted her back.

Signature Entertainment have released the science fiction horror film Cerebrum on Digital Platforms.

Synopsis:

You’re not ready for this mind-bending sci-fi horror. William, a young and insecure man, wakes up from a coma to find his controlling father Richard watching over him, while his beloved mother Amelia is nowhere to be seen. William returns home to find his mother, who seems to be constantly avoiding him. As he tries to find out the truth about what happened to his mother, the real consequences of his past actions start to unravel, soon revealing a horrifying and dark truth – forcing William to take one of the most difficult decisions of his life. Cerebrum is directed and written by Sebastien Blanc.

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Stars: Tobi King Bakare, Steve Oram, Ramona Von Pusch | Written and Directed by Sebastien Blanc

Will, an insecure young man, struggles to adapt to his new life after waking up from a coma. Upon returning home, he must fight his estranged father, Richard, in order to be able to see his seemingly absent mother, and uncover the true consequences of his past actions. Richard, however, is in denial, stuck in the past, and desperate to hold on to what once was – with deadly consequences.

Cerebrum is what many would call a slow burn of a horror film. At first, beyond Will’s visions of his dead mother, there’s nothing really horrific about writer-director Sebastien Blanc’s film. It starts off exploring the relationship between father and son, how the accident affected that relationship, and how the pair’s relationship has changed after not only the change in Will struggling...

Race, adoption, guilt and resentment are threaded through this Jordan Peele-influenced tale of a son returning home after a mysterious accident to discover his mother is absent

The influence of Jordan Peele’s mighty Get Out lingers behind this enigmatic British sci-fi horror, with its stricken black hero, while white folk get up to insane things in basements; thanks to the often frontal framing, there is something in the visual style too. The difference is that race is an unspoken subtext here, completely submerged somewhere inside the atmosphere of dissociated trauma.

Tobi King Bakare plays William, adopted child of Richard (Sightseers’ Steve Oram), who emerges wheelchair-bound and mute from a coma after an unspecified accident. He returns home to complete his physical and mental recovery, afflicted by white-hot flashbacks to speeding roads. His dad seems doting and solicitous, but is disturbingly evasive about his mother Amelia (Ramona Von Pusch); she is also convalescing,...

Signature Entertainment have released the trailer to their upcoming release of the science fiction horror film Cerebrum.

Signature Entertainment will release Cerebrum on Digital Platforms 3rd July 2023

Synopsis:

You’re not ready for this mind-bending sci-fi horror. William, a young and insecure man, wakes up from a coma to find his controlling father Richard watching over him, while his beloved mother Amelia is nowhere to be seen. William returns home to find his mother, who seems to be constantly avoiding him. As he tries to find out the truth about what happened to his mother, the real consequences of his past actions start to unravel, soon revealing a horrifying and dark truth – forcing William to take one of the most difficult decisions of his life. Cerebrum is directed and written by Sebastien Blanc.

Signature Entertainment presents Cerebrum on Digital Platforms 3rd July 2023

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Also picks up festival favourite ‘A Life On The Farm’.

Bulldog Film Distribution has acquired four films for UK-Ireland release, including darkly comic thriller A Kind Of Kidnapping.

Writer-director Dan Clark’s feature debut won the main Golden Bee plus best actress and best screenplay awards at Manchester Film Festival in March; Bulldog will release it theatrically in July, including a Q&a tour. Patrick Baladi stars as a sleazy politician who turns his kidnapping by a young couple to his advantage.

Oscar Harding’s A Life On The Farm, which has played over 30 film festivals including Edinburgh and the US’ Fantastic Fest,...

On May 5, 2023, Sony Pictures released “Love Again” starring Sam Heughan and Priyanka Chopra Jonas in the romantic comedy. A young woman (Chopra Jonas) tries to ease the pain of her fiancé’s death by sending romantic texts to his old cell phone number, and forms a connection with the man the number has been reassigned to (Heughan). The ensemble cast includes Grammy winner Celine Dion, Russell Tovey, Steve Oram, Omid Djalili, and Lydia West.

While critics have widely panned the film, landing it at a paltry 22% on Rotten Tomatoes from 23 reviews, audiences are swooning, with over 250 everyday movie-goers putting it at a 92% fresh audience score. So what’s causing this clash? Read our full review round-up below.

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Avi Offer of NYC Movie Guru praises the film, noting, “Priyanka Chopra Jonas and...

Early in writer-director Jim Strouse’s Love Again, music journalist Rob Burns (Sam Heughan) receives his latest assignment: a profile on Celine Dion as she embarks on a new tour. When Rob, a defiantly unsentimental Scottish bloke, scoffs at the gig, his editor (Steve Oram) fires back by declaring that Dion is in the midst of a “Celine-aissance.” The legitimacy of that statement is debatable, but Dion is at least experiencing something of a cinematic boomlet, between the gonzo fictionalized biopic Aline and references in films as diverse as Turning Red and Queens of the Qing Dynasty.

In any case, Dion is the selling point of Love Again, with the Canadian pop superstar executive producing, performing new songs for the soundtrack, and co-starring as herself. The central narrative of this syrupy-sweet romantic-comedy, however, follows the romantic entanglements of Rob and grieving children’s book illustrator Mira Ray (Priyanka Chopra Jonas). Two years ago,...

May 2023 will see the release of some of 2023’s most anticipated movies, such as the newest adventure from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a new action movie from Robert Rodriguez, a biopic about the first smartphone, the latest installment in the Fast & Furious franchise, and Disney’s latest live-action adaptation of an animated classic. April saw a variety of movies hitting theaters, such as Ben Affleck’s biographical sports drama Air, the animated movie The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the comedy movie Paint, the horror comedy Renfield, the fifth installment in the Evil Dead movie series titled Evil Dead Rise, and Ari Aster’s surrealist horror movie Beau is Afraid.

Of all the movies released in theaters in April 2023, none of them are currently available to stream, but The Super Mario Bros. Movie will land on Peacock in June before moving to Netflix in late 2023. Luckily, May will bring some...

Love again is a romantic comedy directed by starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Céline Dion and Nick Jonas. It is based on the nove by Sofie Cramer.

Mira Ray, dealing with the loss of her fiancé, sends a series of romantic texts to his old cell phone number…not realizing the number was reassigned to Rob Burns’ new work phone. A journalist, Rob is captivated by the honesty in the beautifully confessional texts. When he’s assigned to write a profile of megastar Celine Dion, he enlists her help in figuring out how to meet Mira in person and win her heart.

Director

Jim Strouse

Cast

Priyanka Chopra Jonas

Sam Heughan

Céline Dion / Céline Dion

Celia Imrie

Russell Tovey

Omid Djalili

Lydia West

Steve Oram

Sofia Barclay

Arinzé Kene...

Actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas has shared the trailer release date of her upcoming film, ‘Love Again’. The actress took to her Instagram on Wednesday and shared a video about her Valentine’s Day plan which “involves Celine Dion”, the Canadian singer known for her superhit track ‘My Heart Will Go On’ from the James Cameron directorial ‘Titanic’.

She captioned the video: “You, Celine, Sam & I… let’s make a plan for Valentine’s Day. We’re bringing you @loveagainmovie – trailer in One Week! @samheughan @celinedion.”

With all the visually pleasing looks & moments, ‘Love Again’ is the one film everyone globally is looking forward to.

The film, which also stars Russell Tovey, Steve Oram, Omid Djalili, Sofia Barclay, Lydia West, Arinze Kene and Celia Imrie, is produced by Screen Gems and distributed by Sony Pictures.

Recently, Priyanka’s husband Nick Jonas spoke about their daughter attending a public event for the first time.

Stars: Tobi King Bakare, Steve Oram, Ramona Von Pusch | Written and Directed by Sebastien Blanc

Will, an insecure young man, struggles to adapt to his new life after waking up from a coma. Upon returning home, he must fight his estranged father, Richard, in order to be able to see his seemingly absent mother, and uncover the true consequences of his past actions. Richard, however, is in denial, stuck in the past, and desperate to hold on to what once was – with deadly consequences.

Cerebrum is what many would call a slow burn of a horror film. At first, beyond Will’s visions of his dead mother, there’s nothing really horrific about writer-director Sebastien Blanc’s film. It starts off exploring the relationship between father and son, how the accident affected that relationship, and how the pair’s relationship has changed after not only the change in Will struggling...

We still know very little about comas – why they happen and what goes on during them. What we do know points to the idea that they allow time for the brain to heal following traumatic damage which usually has a clear physical cause but can sometimes be wholly or partially psychiatric. When Will (Tobi King Bakare) wakes up in hospital, he’s dealing with elements of both. He has very little memory of the car crash which put him there. He’s been out for so long that his muscles have weakened and he finds it difficult to stay on his feet. He’s also unable to speak.

At a time like this, it might seem like quite an advantage to have a neurosurgeon for a father. This is Richard (Steve Oram), who takes him home with the help of a wheelchair, shows him into a room which he has set up downstairs.

Cerebrum Photo: Courtesy of FrightFest

Centring on the troubled relationship between a father and son, Sebastien Blanc’s feature début Cerebrum, which is screening as part of Frightfest 2022, deals with themes around loss, guilt and the lengths that people will go to to try and hang on to those they love. Tobi King Bakare plays William, a young man struggling to regain both his physical abilities and his memory after waking from a coma, whilst Richard, the father who is looking after him and struggling to find the right moment to break the news of his mother’s death, is played by Steve Oram, one of the UK’s most distinctive actors and a man frequently seen in genre film. Ahead of the festival, Steve and I connected for a chat and began by talking about his approach to choosing roles.

“I've done leading roles,” he says, “but a lot of it comes down to.

One of the great things about horror movies is that they offer a universal experience. No matter where you go in the world, the same things are considered scary, which is why great horror movies are made all over the world. Today we’re going to be focusing on ones made or produced in Ireland, so if you’re looking for a fright, try one of these out.

The Sleep of Death

The Sleep of Death was released in 1980 and was written and directed by Calvin Floyd. It’s often described as a Swedish-Irish film, thanks to the prevalence of Swedish cast members. The film is based on the 1872 novella The Room in the Dragon Volant and is sometimes called The Inn of the Flying Dragon, in reference to the title of the novella. The story follows a young Englishman called Colonel Gaillard, played by Per Oscarsson, who goes to France to pursue a woman,...

In an elegantly filmed sequence about halfway through Mikey Murray’s accomplished début feature, Lucy (Eilis Cahill) stands at a tall office window watching cars circle a roundabout backwards and disappear. She’s a small, dark figure going nowhere in a world of neat suburban houses and ordered lives. How did she come to be so lonely, to feel so out of place? Murray offers viewers a superficially conventional storyline with a straightforward explanation and solution, but there is a great deal more going on beneath the surface; his characters are not that simple.

Lucy is married to Paul (Steve Oram). We see them together in the opening scene, when they’re lying in bed together putting one another off sex with mundane and vaguely irritable conversation. She doesn’t find him very attractive and he knows it, doesn’t blame her for it. His sadness comes from elsewhere. Later,...

Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s most popular horror and fantasy film festival, is back at London’s Cineworld Leicester Square and the Prince Charles Cinema from Thursday August 25th – Monday 29th August for five days of the very best of global genre cinema. Celebrating its 23rd blockbuster edition with thirty-two world, twenty-two International / European and eighteen UK premieres, the world renowned event leads the way in attesting to the versatility of the genre and this year is no exception, with seventeen countries represented, spanning five continents:

The festival opens with the World premiere of The Lair, an action-packed gore shocker from Neil Marshall, who calls his latest monstrous creation “The Dirty Half Dozen meets The Thing”. Neil will be attending with star Charlotte Kirk and will also introduce a special 4K restoration screening of his modern classic, Dog Soldiers.

The Closing night film is the European premiere of Scott Mann’s Fall.

Titles include ’Aftersun’, ’Enys Men’, ‘Birchanger Green’ and ‘A Gaza Weekend’.

Cannes premieres Aftersun, sold by Charades, and Enys Men, sold by Protagonist Pictures, are among the titles selected for year’s Great 8, the annual Cannes buyers’ showcase of UK films from emerging directors.

The other six titles are all in post-production.

Now in its fifth edition, the 2022 Great 8 showcase is funded and run by the BFI and the British Council, in partnership with BBC Film and Film4.

Unseen footage from all of the titles will be introduced by their filmmakers and screened on May 12 exclusively to buyers and festival programmers during the online-only showcase,...

The BFI and British Council have revealed the line-up for this year’s Great8 showcase, which allows international distributors and festival programmers to get an early look at eight releases from emerging U.K. filmmakers in the run-up to Cannes Marché.

Now in its fifth year, the showcase on May 12 will allow filmmakers to screen unseen footage from the films, which will be available to buy during the market, which runs from May 17-28.

Of the eight films selected for the showcase, one has also been selected for the official Directors’ Fortnight and another for the Critics’ Week line-up. The remaining six films are in post-production.

The Great8 showcase is funded and organized by the BFI and the British Council, in partnership with BBC Film and Film4. It has previously presented films including “I Am Not A Witch” and “Calm with Horses.”

Neil Peplow, the BFI’s Director of Industry and International Affairs,...

Film4, BFI, Screen Yorkshire backed the film.

UK-based sales firm Bankside Films has boarded sales on Birchanger Green, the feature debut of Screen Star of Tomorrow writer-director Moin Hussain that wrapped production in Yorkshire last month.

Bankside will debut the film to buyers in Cannes; Screen can reveal a first-look image at the film (above).

Birchanger Green centres on a man living a small, lonely life working nightshifts at a motorway service station. On hearing his estranged father has died, he finds himself in search of answers and starts to become convinced that he descends from an alien race.

The...

“It’s All Coming Back to Me,” a romantic drama film starring and featuring the music of Celine Dion, will release in theaters on Feb. 10, 2023.

Formerly titled “Text for You,” “It’s All Coming Back to Me” is based on the 2016 German film “SMS für Dich” by Karoline Herfurth. The film stars Priyanka Chopra Jonas as a woman struggling to move on from the death of her fiancé. To cope, she begins sending messages to his old phone number, which has been reassigned to a new man, played by Sam Heughan. The two meet and develop a connection based on their shared heartbreak.

In addition to Jonas and Heughan, the film also stars Celine Dion as herself, in the role of a mentor figure who will inspire the two main characters to fall in love. The film is named after Jim Steinman’s power ballad “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now,...

Two films go under the HeyUGuys Film Review-o-scope today, and they couldn’t be more different. Adrian Lyne (maestro of the Erotic Thriller) returns to the big screen after a couple of decades with Deep Water, starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas. Then HeyUGuys favourite Craig Roberts returns with his new film as director, The Phantom of the Open, starring Mark Rylance and written by Paddington man Simon Farnaby.

Linda Marric and Scott Davis took the plunge on these two film – here’s what they had to say.

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Let’s go first with the ‘Down with this sort of thing’ shall we?

Deep Water Review – The HeyUGuys Film Review Show

The film stars Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas, Tracy Letts, Lil Rel Howery, Dash Mihok, Finn Wittrock, Kristen Connolly, Jacob Elordi,...

"What can anyone tell me about our friend in the tollbooth?" Samuel Goldwyn Films has revealed an official US trailer for the film Tollbooth, formerly known as The Toll, a dark comedy thriller from Wales about a lone toll-booth operator with a past that is fast catching up with him. This premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival and is arriving on VOD in March in the US. Brendan works solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales, hiding from a criminal past where nobody would ever look. When he finally gets rumbled, word of his whereabouts gets out and his enemies head west to find him for revenge. Meanwhile, local traffic cop Catrin's investigation into a simple robbery finds her heading over to the booth at exactly the wrong time... Starring Michael Smiley, with Annes Elwy, Iwan Rheon, Gary Beadle, Steve Oram, Evelyn Mok, and Darren Evans. This looks...

Exclusive: UK-based distribution company Alarm Pictures has acquired U.S. and UK rights to horror-comedy Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break.

The black comedy, directed by In The Earth DoP Nick Gillespie, made its world premiere at SXSW where it won a Special Jury Award, and also screened in competition at Fantasia and Toronto After Dark Film Festival where it won seven awards including Best Film, Audience Award, Best Comedy and Best Screenplay.

Starring are Tom Meeten (Paddington) as Paul Dood, Katherine Parkinson (The It Crowd), Kris Marshall (Love Actually), Alice Lowe (Hot Fuzz), Pippa Haywood (Bridgerton), Steve Oram (Paddington), Mandeep Dhillon (After Life), June Watson (Chernobyl), Johnny Vegas (Home From Home) and Kevin Bishop (The Kevin Bishop Show).

The film follows a weedy charity-shop worker who is set on winning the big national talent show. But when the actions of five selfish people cause him to miss his audition,...