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Against the rugged Oregon backdrop, A Perfect Day for Caribou follows Herman and Nate over the course of a fateful day. Director Jeff Rutherford’s debut feature explores the complex bond between these two estranged men through long, soulful conversations and sweeping landscape shots that complement the film’s meditative pace.

Herman planned to end his lonely travels with suicide but received an unexpected call from his adult son, Nate. They arrange an impromptu meeting at a cemetery, where Nate brings along his young son, Ralph. But shortly after the reunion, Ralph wanders off unnoticed. His disappearance prompts Herman and Nate to work together to search the nearby fields and forests, retracing their steps as they open up about the years lost between them.

Through it all, Dp Alfonso Herrera Salcedo’s gorgeous black-and-white cinematography captures the wide-open vistas that mirror the emotional distance these characters have placed between themselves and the world.

Stars: Hayley Erin, Sonya Walger, Tony Amendola, Jeb Berrier, Blaine Palmer, Betty Moyer, Ayanna Berkshire | Written and Directed by John Rosman

Since making its debut at last year’s Fantasia Film Festival, New Life has garnered a lot of attention for its first-time writer/director John Rosman and his potentially apocalyptic chase film. I missed it during its festival run, but on the eve of its American release, I got my chance to rectify that and see if it lived up to its hype.

It starts like a conventional thriller, with a bloodied woman slipping through the streets of what looks like a typical American suburb, trying to avoid being seen. She lets herself into her house and cleans herself up. She barely managed to wash and change before she sees armed men in her kitchen. She lets herself out a window and, since they apparently never learned about guarding a perimeter,...

Two years have gone by since we heard that Sonya Walger (For All Mankind) had signed on to star in the cat and mouse horror thriller New Life with Hayley Erin of Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, and Tony Amendola – who was in both the Conjuring Universe film Annabelle and the Conjuring Universe adjacent The Curse of La Llorona. It’s been seven months since JoBlo’s own Tyler Nichols got to check the movie out at the Fantasia film festival, resulting in a 7/10 review you can read Here. But we only have one more month to wait until a wider audience is going to have the chance to see New Life. Brainstorm Media will be giving the film a VOD and limited theatrical release on May 3rd, and in anticipation of that release a full trailer has arrived online. You can watch it in the embed above.

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Daisy Ridley trades the force for contemplation of mortality in the new romantic dramedy Sometimes I Think About Dying, directed by Rachel Lambert. The film follows Fran, an awkward office employee lost in existential questions, who must step out of her comfort zone when she meets a new coworker. Ridley, who also serves as a producer, joins a talented cast in Sometimes I Think About Dying and will soon return to the Star Wars universe in another sequel.

Daisy Ridley leaves the force behind and instead contemplates mortality in the first trailer for Sometimes I Think About Dying, the new romantic dramedy directed by Rachel Lambert (I Can Feel You Walking), coming to theaters on January 26, 2024. After debuting at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Sometimes I Think About Dying teases its theatrical release with its first official trailer. The plot centers on Fran, an extremely awkward office employee...

Nearly a year and a half has passed since we heard that Sonya Walger (For All Mankind) had signed on to star in the cat and mouse horror thriller New Life with Hayley Erin of Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, and Tony Amendola – who was in both the Conjuring Universe film Annabelle and the Conjuring Universe adjacent The Curse of La Llorona. New Life recently made its premiere at the Fantasia film festival, where our own Tyler Nichols got to check it out, resulting in a 7/10 review you can read Here. We included the teaser trailer in that review, but just in case you overlooked it, this seemed like a good time to put a spotlight on it, since New Life is now set to screen at FrightFest in London in just a week and a half, on Friday, August 25th.

This film marks the feature debut of writer/director John Rosman.

John Rosman's "New Life" is a blistering multidimensional thriller that hits from all directions — the kind of debut filmmakers dream about. It messes with you psychologically, stokes existential dread, and drips with bodily liquids worth repulsive physical effects. Where some first features hinge on a sole signature that pulls audiences through less accomplished elements, "New Life" exposes few weaknesses. Rossman creates a small-scale apocalypse movie that becomes achingly intimate despite the threat of worldwide eradication, weighing the disease of one against the infection of many in ways unexplored by notable comparison points like Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later" or the Pastor brothers' "Carriers."

Sonya Walger stars as all-star fixer Elsa Gray, whose sunset years have been tainted by an Als diagnosis. Hayley Erin plays Jessica Murdock, a mysterious woman running from Elsa toward the Canadian border. It's all we know at the film's onset — Jessica is fleeing from an ailing special agent,...

A cemetery is not an auspicious choice of rendezvous point for an estranged father and son arranging what might be one last meeting in “A Perfect Day for Caribou,” but the dry joke of Jeff Rutherford’s tender, affectingly reserved first feature is that things get more melancholic still when they leave its glum confines. Set over the course of a single day on the fringes of some dead American anytown, this at once quiet and talkative two-hander covers no especially new ground, but strides known territory with a keen eye for lonesome landscapes, and an ear for the eternal communicative impasse felt by men who know each other all too well and not at all. Sturdy, thoughtful performances from Jeb Berrier and, in particular, rising star Charlie Plummer should hook distributor interest in this low-key indie following its premiere in Locarno’s newcomer-oriented Cineasti de Presente strand.

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Two men occupy diagonal ends of the poster for Jeff Rutherford’s first feature film, “A Perfect Day for Caribou.” One hangs suspended in space, like a kite held in the air, but with cassette tape instead of rope. The tape spools down into a dictaphone, held by a man with a reindeer head.

This absurdist image is illustrative of the film, in which a father finds himself tethered to his son, despite attempts to depart from these family ties. As the film unravels into a meditation on memory, loss and abandonment, interspersed with uncanny cutaways to, for instance, men on fire, audiences may realize that “A Perfect Day for Caribou” is intent on building an intimacy with the visually absurd.

Premiering at the Locarno Film Festival, the film portraits an extended encounter between Herman (Jeb Berrier) and his son, Nate (Charlie Plummer). They grapple with their relationship against a...

“A Perfect Day for Caribou,” which stars “Lean on Pete’s” Charlie Plummer, has debuted its trailer, ahead of its world premiere in Locarno Film Festival’s Concorso Cineasti del Presente.

In Jeff Rutherford’s feature debut, Plummer and Jeb Berrier play an estranged son and father, respectively, who spend the day ambling around a cemetery, wandering the wilderness, searching for family, and “stumbling through disharmony and heartache.”

The film is presented in 4:3 aspect ratio, shot in black and white by DoP Alfonso Herrera Salcedo, who has won several awards for his work, including the 2018 Kodak Cinematography Vision Award, the Golden Tadpole in the Student Competition at Camerimage in 2019 for “Lefty/Righty,” and the Bisato d’Oro for best cinematography at the Venice Film Festival in 2021 for Joaquín del Paso’s “The Hole in the Fence.”

“A Perfect Day for Caribou” tells the story of just one day in the life of Herman,...

Lorelei Trailer — Sabrina Doyle‘s Lorelei (2020) movie trailer has been released by Vertical Entertainment. The Lorelei trailer stars Jena Malone, Pablo Schreiber, Amelia Borgerding, Parker Pascoe-Sheppard, Chancellor Perry, Gretchen Corbett, Dana Millican, Yolanda Porter, Bob Barr, Jeb Berrier, and Joseph Bertót. Crew Sabrina Doyle wrote the screenplay for the film. Jeff Russo created the music [...]

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Stars: Michael Biehn, Michael Madsen, Kenzie Dalton, Ryan Carnes, Rick Salomon, Owen Burke, Christian Madsen, Clement von Franckenstein, Beth Miller, Hunter Daily, Caroline Vreeland, Jeb Berrier, Jay Seals, Thyme Lewis, Sage Mayer | Written and Directed by Frank Peluso

A family trip down to the river they said. It will be peaceful and provide closure they also said. No chance…

Led by Christian Madsen, brothers Duffy (Madsen), Gus (Ryan Carnes) and Pete (Owen Burke), accompanied by partners and children, head down to a contained village of sorts to spread the ashes of their father (Michael Madsen) across the mountain river where their childhoods remain linked. For Pete, however, his return to the river is more of a Ptsd trigger than brotherly reminise. During childhood, Pete was abducted, and when taller brother Duffy brings his child – who is later abducted – history begins to repeat itself.

The brothers, predictably, are not alike whatsoever – Duffy slightly rugged and successful,...