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Intro: 1815. Canadian settlers are pushing westward. A trading company has set up a fort in the middle of a vast wilderness… and now that fort is under siege. Ravenous beasts lurk in the forest, howling, scratching at the gate. These pioneers have entered werewolf territory. That’s the set-up for the most unexpected prequel of all time, Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (watch it Here). And it’s the Best Horror Movie You Never Saw.

Creators / Cast: Director John Fawcett’s teenage werewolf movie Ginger Snaps started making its way out into the world in the year 2000. It quickly earned a cult following, and a reputation for being one of the best werewolf movies ever made. It had a low budget and was so financially successful, two follow-ups were given the greenlight. These would be shot back-to-back, with Ginger Snaps editor Brett Sullivan taking the helm of one and Ginger...

40 Acres starts at the Freeman farm. An assault on the farm and its occupants is about to occur, but a small, mighty group manages to stop the assailants and ensure they never return. Here, we meet Hailey (Danielle Deadwyler), a former soldier who has trained her family, which comprises her partner Galen (Michael Greyeyes) and their four children, the oldest of whom is her son Emmanuel (Kateem O'Connor). The Freemans hold firm to their values, protecting their land, training to survive, and never forgetting their respective history as a blended Black and Indigenous family.

40 Acres

Director R.T. ThorneRelease Date September 6, 2024Writers R.T. ThorneCast Tyson Kirk, Patrick Kerton, David Chinchilla, Julian Lewis, Ava Weiss, Jaeda LeBlanc, Leenah Robinson, Milcania Diaz-Rojas, Kataem O'Connor, David MacInnis, Elizabeth Saunders, Danielle Deadwyler, Michael GreyeyesGenres Drama, Thriller, History

The film by writer-director R.T. Thorne takes place in the near future, when the decimation of...

The 2000 film Ginger Snaps (watch it Here) is my all-time favorite werewolf movie. That was followed by a sequel – Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed – and a very unexpected prequel – Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning – and while I’m not as enamored with them as I am with the original movie, I do get some enjoyment out of watching them. The oddball prequel especially. If you’re a fan of Ginger Snaps trilogy as well and happen to have a Region B (or region free) Blu-ray player, you’ll be glad to hear that Second Sight Films is packaging all three movies together in a limited edition UK box set that’s going to be released on October 30th. Just in time for Halloween, which happens to be the setting of the first movie.

Copies of the Ginger Snaps trilogy Blu-ray box set can be pre-ordered directly from Second Sight Films.

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"I needed a Christmas miracle." Warner Bros has debuted an official trailer for 8-Bit Christmas, a new holiday comedy from filmmaker Michael Dowse. Described as a "new holiday classic", this nostalgic family comedy takes us to the early days of Nintendo, when one boy wanted nothing else than to get the brand new Nes entertainment system for Christmas. A humorous and heartfelt look back at the adventures of childhood. Set in suburban Chicago in the late 1980s, the story centers on ten-year-old Jake Doyle's herculean quest to get the latest and greatest video game system for Christmas. Starring Winslow Fegley as a young Jake, and Neil Patrick Harris as an adult Jake, with June Diane Raphael, Steve Zahn, David Cross, Sophia Reid-Gantzert, Cyrus Arnold, Jacob Laval, and David MacInnis. Okay so this actually looks pretty dang good, riffing on A Christmas Story, but updating it for today's Millennials looking...

The list of featured guests for this year's YALLfest event in Charleston, South Carolina has been announced over at Teen, and leading up the Young Adult author pack this go-round are "Divergent" author Veronica Roth and "Delirium" author Lauren Oliver, among many, many other superstars of the Ya book world. The annual event, put into motion by "Beautiful Creatures" authors Kami Garcia and Margie Stohl, will feature the popular dystopian trilogists and the following scribes for the big day on November 9: Leigh Bardugo, Alexandra Bracken, Libba Bray, Heather Brewer, Rae Carson, Thorns Trilogy, Cinda Chima, Matthew Cody, Rachel Cohn, Ally Condie, Jocelyn Davies, Melissa De La Cruz, Daniel Ehrenhaft, Tim Federle, Gayle Forman, Adam Gidwitz, David Macinnis Gill, Lev Grossman, Shannon Hale, Lisi Harrison, Aaron Hartzler, Nancy Holder, Ellen Hopkins, Mike Johnston, Bill Konigsberg, David Levithan, C. Alexander London, Tahereh Mafi, Myra McEntire, Lisa McMann, Alyson Noel, Stephanie Perkin.