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The following contains spoilers for Sync.

The digital era has connected everyone across planet Earth -- yet made it impossible to discern between the real world and disinformation shared through memes and artificial intelligence. It's easier than ever to follow someone online, track their every movement, and even form parasocial relationships with influencers, whose entire brand involves letting an audience into their everyday lives. Sync, the sci-fi thriller from writer, director and star Carolina Alvarez, takes this idea and infuses it with Black Mirror-inspired horror elements.

The movie creates a world with a fantastical gimmick that feels both disturbing and only a few apps away from plausibility. It's a cool concept, and the film takes advantage of its limited space to create a story about a mind-sync friendship that morphs into a metaphysical and literal nightmare. But other limitations also hold the project back, not giving it enough room...

With access to more creative outlets for LGBTQ+ filmmakers comes great progressive storytelling. At least, this is the case for writer-director Beck Williams, who aims to push the needle in Hollywood for a more nuanced representation of the trans experience onscreen. Recently premiering at the Oscar-qualifying film festival Out on Film in Atlanta, Pace, an LGBTQ+ boxing drama written and directed by Williams, explores an intimate look at navigating a difficult choice about one’s identity and sexuality. The short follows Remy (Williams), a transmasculine boxer struggling with dysphoria who hides his upcoming top surgery from his concerned partner (Kelly Lou Dennis), and Joey (Bex Taylor-Klaus), a trepidatious boxer, who returns to the gym post-transition, who fears judgment by his former boxing community. When Remy invites Joey to train together, they form a friendly bond while facing their unique challenges.

Here, Deadline speaks with Williams about martial arts, queer representation...

Stars: Kelly Lou Dennis, Aureen Almario, Alex Benjamin, I-Li Chang Brice, Jason Bustos, Gemma Padua Calderon, Kevin Camia, Bo Campbell, Hilton Jamal Day, Gabi Dayers, Arlene Joie Deleon, Michael Dorado, Roczane Enriquez | Written and Directed by Matthew Abaya

Vampire movies are ten-a-penny these days: from the sparkly variety to the emo, leather-clad type, we’ve had a myriad of different fanged foes in the movies. But one subcategory of vampire that hasn’t had the kind of exposure its Western brethren have is the aswang… “The what?” you may ask. The aswang – a monster borne of Filipino folklore that has traits of the Westernised version of the vampire, but has also been said to incorporate other monstrous attributes, like that of the werewolf and ghoul.

In Vampariah the aswang are a race of vampire, living in the forest (where they’ve historically been said to live in Filipino legend) who,...

Fist 2 Fist 2: Weapon of Choice takes one of the most popular plot lines in cinematic history and liven it up. The film opens up with a fight scene with the protagonist, Jack Lee played by the indispensable Jino Kang (Fist 2 Fist, Blade Warrior), against more than five armed men, and sets the pace for the rest of the movie. The film jumps several years forward to Jack Lee living with his assumed daughter Jamie (Kelly Lou Dennis, Vampariah, Gold Mountain) in a nice suburban home. She is abducted by masked men, although Lee takes down some of them in some impressive close-quarters combat.   Needless to say, the men get away with the kidnapping. Lee finds a cell phone on one of...

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Directed by: Jino Kang/Tony Urgo

Written by: Jino Kang/Tony Urgo

Starring: Jino Kang, Katherine Celio, Don Williams, Robert Parham, Kelly Lou Dennis, Douglas Olsson

Fist 2 Fist 2: Weapon Of Choice is the follow up to the 2010 Fist 2 Fist (aka Hand 2 Hand), which won “Best Action Martial Arts Feature” at Action of Film Festival on it’s release. The second movie has plenty of action, fight scenes and some great directing by Jino Kang and Tony Urgo. Jino Kang is a 7th Degree Black Belt in Hapkido and a Black Belt in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, Kyokoshin-Kai Karate and Tae Kwon do.

Plot:

He was so good at what he did – so quick and so invisible – they called him “The Ghost”. He struck and he vanished,...