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"You ruined a very lucrative business." Vertical Ent. has released a slick trailer for a gnarly action thriller titled Burn It All, the latest from filmmaker Brady Hall. This hasn't premiered at any festivals, as far as we know, before dropping on VOD this winter. The sudden death of her estranged mother shakes Alex from a suicidal spiral and she returns home only to crash against a criminal underworld and a past full of misogyny, abuse & self-loathing. Burn It All takes on all the ways men assault the minds and bodies of women, shines a critical and non-exploitative light on that ugliness and wraps it all in the thrilling story of one woman who refuses to be crushed by the patriarchy. Elizabeth Cotter stars, with Emily Gateley, Ryan Postell, Elena Flory-Barnes, Greg Michaels. "There's always more men." Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Brady Hall's Burn It All, direct...

"The movie about movie posters" is finally hitting home release! The beautifully shot documentary 24x36 is now available on VOD, Blu-ray, and DVD. Also: release details for Herschell Gordon Lewis' Bloodmania and 7 Witches.

24x36 VOD, Blu-ray, and DVD Release: 24x36 is now available on VOD and on Blu-ray and DVD.

"24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters" is a documentary that explores the world of illustrated movie poster art; the artists who create it, companies and studios that commission it, galleries that display it and collectors and fans who hang it.

Through interviews with a number of key art personalities from the '70s and '80s, as well as many modern, alternative poster artists – "24x36" aims to answer the question – What happened to the illustrated movie poster? Where did it disappear to and why?

In the mid-2000s, filling the void left behind by Hollywood’s abandonment of illustrated movie posters,...

Tagline: “The Cycle Begins.” Brady Hall's 7 Witches is set to release on DVD. Indican Pictures will handle the release, in less than a week. In the film, a couple hopes to celebrate their wedding. But, their paths cross that of a coven of witches and a 100 year old curse. 7 Witches stars: Persephone Apostolou, Danika Golombek, Megan Hensley and Mike Jones. The film's official trailer is hosted here. From the synopsis, Cate (Apostolou) and Cody (Jones) are celebrating with their family. They have rented and island, on which to have their wedding. Unfortunately, the timing of their wedding is poor. A 100 year old curse is set to come to fruition on the same day. Now, they find themselves struggling with a coven of witches, bent on revenge. A few details for the film have been released. 7 Witches was completed in 2016. The DVD release is seventy-two minutes long and will be available in a 16:9 ratio.

Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.

Will This April Dump Weekend See Any New Movie Open Over $10 Million?

After the decent opening of last week’s The Fate of the Furious--though not quite as much as I predicted--it’s going to be hard for any new movie to make a mark against its second weekend even if it drops 55% or more this weekend, which is very likely.

Probably the best bet to make money this weekend is the thriller Unforgettable (Warner Bros.), which pits Kathryn Heigl against Rosario Dawson and is the directorial debut by producer Denise Di Novi (Crazy, Stupid, Love). It also stars Geoff Stults as the ex-husband of Heigl’s character Tessa, who becomes engaged to Dawson’s Julia, making her the stepmom to the former’s daughter,...

Brady Hall's upcoming 7 Witches has been generating some buzz as a finely crafted film in the vein of A24’s The Witch only with its roots planted firmly in true events that occurred off the rugged coast of Maine.

The film is based on true events– when, in the 1800’s, local citizens slaughtered a coven of witches in rural Maine with the help of the U.S. soldiers. Ever since there have been ghost sightings and weird deaths for generations.

Synopsis:

As their big day approaches, Cate and Cody should be celebrating. They’ve got their family with them, they& [Continued ...]...

A beloved and joyful video game character becomes a vision of tragedy in The Unreachable Pyramid, an emotionally disturbing short film by Brady Hall. A young woman dresses herself in a giant Q-Bert costume to mask the painfulness of her existence, only to discover there is no escape from her anguish.

Hall has structured The Unreachable Pyramid in an exquisitely perfect fashion, switching the story back and forth between the inherent humor of the concept with the very genuine internal psychological drama of the main character, Christine, effortlessly played by Bernadette Cuvalo. For example, the film begins with morose music played over the opening credits, followed by a brief, but highly effective wordless scene detailing Christine’s tragic emotional state.

However, once she dresses as Q-Bert, there are of course scenes of Christine having to exist as a giant, rotund, armless creature, such as mashing her face in a bowl...

Brady Hall says:

My cat Reggie is a big stupid idiot who brings in half-dead rodents and lets them run off under furniture to die and stink up the place. He screams and yells all the time like a jerk. But other than that he’s Ok.

I’m a big stupid idiot who makes movies sometimes. My latest one is called Scrapper and is pretty Ok.

Underground Film Journal says:

Brady Hall makes outlandish short films, such as The Unreachable Pyramid that we plan on featuring on the site soon, as well as feature films with wonderful names such as Hello, My Name Is Dick Licker that screened at the 2012 Atlanta Underground Film Festival.

There’s an interesting thing about audience. Filmmakers make movies with them in mind, but don’t have any control over their reaction. Such was the case in Wednesday night’s screening of Scrapper, at this year’s Pan African Film Festival. Written and directed by Brady Hall, the film stars Michael Beach, who’s probably most known for roles in Waiting to Exhale, Soul Food, and ER, where he loved and cheated on black women. These black women were the primary audience members at this screening of a film that saw him in a radically different form than these aforementioned works. Set in Seattle, Scrapper tells the story of Hollis Wallace, a lonely man who makes his living collecting...

A new year of film festivals has officially launched with the grand-daddy of them all (here in the USA anyway) the Sundance Film Festival, ending its run last weekend. In February, however, all eyes will be on the Pan African Film Festival that takes place in Los Angeles, CA, which runs from February 6-17, 2014, celebrating its 22nd anniversary.Continuing on with highlights from this year's event... from the narrative section, here's your first look at Micheal Beach (Soul Food, Waiting to Exhale) in the new witty drama Scrapper.  Beach stars in the drama - helmed by Brady Hall - as Hollis Wallace, who makes a living by collecting discarded metal...

Emir Baigazin’s Harmony Lessons won the 39th Seattle International Film Festival’s Best New Director grand jury prize on Sunday [9] as top brass handed out jury and audience awards.Scroll down for full list of winners

The Siff 2013 Best Documentary grand jury prize went to Penny Lane’s Our Nixon and Lucy Walker earned a special jury prize for The Crash Reel, while Kyle Patrick Alvarez took the Best New American Cinema grand jury prize for C.O.G.

In the audience awards, Henk Pretorius’ Fanie Fourie’s Lobola won the Best Film Golden Space Needle Award and Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom took the corresponding documentary prize.

The Best Director Golden Space Needle Award went to Nabil Ayouch for Horses Of God, while best actor was awarded to James Cromwell for Still Mine and best actress to Samantha Morton for Decoding Annie Parker.

The Best Short Film Golden Space Needle Award was presented to [link...

Here's your first look at Micheal Beach (Soul Food, Waiting to Exhale) in the new drama Scrapper, premiering at the Seattle Film Festival on May 21. Beach stars in the drama - helmed by Brady Hall - as Hollis Wallace, who makes a living by collecting discarded metal "scraps" or pieces. A loner, Hollis spends most of his spare time caring for his sick mother. Conflict arises after he he meets a runaway teen, who becomes his work partner. The film is said to be inspired the filmmaker's home renovation; Brady became curious about people who asked him about collecting metal. Here's more: Did you know that scrap metal is America's 4th largest export? Well, Hollis Wallace does, and he...

Grinning Man Media Group has given Indiewire the first look at their feature film "Scrapper," premiering at the upcoming Seattle International Film Festival, and inspired by filmmaker Brady Hall's home renovation. While renovating his home, Hall came across individuals asking to collect scrap metal. His curiosity about these men and their lives led him to create the film. The movie centers on Hollis Wallace (Michael Beach), who survives off the collection of scrap metals cast off by others. He has a sick mother who he tries to support with the money made from 'scrapping' and spends most of his time alone, until a chance encounter with a runaway teen named Swan (Anna Giles). The two form a friendship as they become partners in scrap collection until their individual lives create a strain that might make them part ways for good. The film premieres in Seattle on May 21st. Get...

For their 9th annual edition, the Atlanta Underground Film Festival will be assaulting the south from its Goat Farm Arts Center screening center on Sep. 13-16 with four days and nights of independent feature films, shorts and documentaries.

Some of the feature films screening include Lisa Duva’s multi-dimensional Cat Scratch Fever, Jason Lapeyre’s thriller Cold Blooded and Brady Hall’s hilariously named Hello, My Name Is Dick Licker.

This year’s Auff is also packed to the gills with short films with multiple blocks of shorts screening per day. Some of the special ones to look out for are Neil Ira Needleman‘s A Few Words in Favor of God, Jim Haverkamp‘s When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl and Mike Salva‘s award-winning animated short Pound Dogs.

The full film lineup is below, but please visit the official Atlanta Underground Film Festival website for more details and to buy advance tickets.

Since being named one of Filmmaker magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2007, Portland-bred writer-director Calvin Lee Reeder has amassed a small body of impressively uncategorizable work—mostly no-budget shorts like Little Farm, The Rambler, and Snake Mountain Colada—that reveal a taste for the bizarre and beguiling, as well as the shockingly perverse. Prior to making films in earnest, Reeder played guitar with the Lars Finberg–led paranoid post-punk group Popular Shapes (a/k/a The Intelligence) and collaborated with Brady Hall on Jerkbeast, a feature comedy based on a demented, sophomoric public-access program they developed for fun. (Think Morton Downey Jr. meets Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.) That anarchic spirit certainly carried over into the short-form work, as did Reeder’s knack for creating eerie swatches of music and sound design to outfit his surreal stories, but the films became more ambitious, more cinematic, while remaining resolutely strange.

Calvin Reeder’s trippy art-horror film The Oregonian lands in New York today for one screening at Brooklyn’s Nitehawk Cinema.

When we selected Reeder for our 25 New Faces series, Mike Plante wrote:

“I’m not really sure” how he arrived at his alt-horror style, Reeder says. “Just sorta roll the dice. I do love Sleepaway Camp. I just like to make movies all bent up, I guess.” Originally from Portland, Ore., and living in Seattle up until this year, Reeder played extensively with the great art-punk bands the Popular Shapes and the Intelligence. But he got notoriety, for better or worse, with the twisted public access show and later-feature film Jerkbeast, co-made with Brady Hall.

Perhaps stemming from his musical background, the sound designs in his films are complex in their layering of thick aural moods. They give the movies the feeling of old folk songs telling brutal tales.

It’s lucky 13 for the Boston Underground Film Festival as they celebrate their raucous 13th annual edition this year. Opening with the much buzzed about bloody feature film Hobo With a Shotgun starring Rutger Hauer and directed by Jason Eisener, the fest then barrels on for eight wild nights and days from March 24-31.

While there’s plenty of underground goodness from the U.S.A., this year Buff feels like it’s a much more international affair with several sick features from around the globe. There’s gory horror and quirky black comedy from Japan in the guise of Yoshihiro Nishimura’s Helldriver and Sion Sono’s Cold Fish; the Argentinian freak-out Phase7 by Nicolas Goldbart; David Blyth’s Wound is a psychological thriller from New Zealand; and Mark Hartley’s Machete Maidens Unleashed! is a look at Philippine exploitation cinema from the ’70s.

Stateside there’s Usama Alshaibi‘s Profane,...