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Too many movies waste time convincing their own characters that the supernatural is real. But in XYZ Films’ striking horror gem “Falling Stars,” the people of San Bernardino County already know that witches exist. They’ve spent years coping with their neighbors’ instantaneous abductions, as spelled out in a cold open that shows a young woman running along a winding road. One moment, she’s bouncing to the beat of her footsteps, enjoying the desert air, and surveying the sprawling landscape; the next, she’s just gone.

That scene and many others in this haunting poem of a film are shot partly overhead. Although “Watch the skies!” is advice typically reserved for alien outings, that bird’s eye view proves essential to co-directors Gabriel Biencyzycki and Richard Karpala’s stirring reflection on community, survival, and the unforeseeable acts of God. Caught somewhere between 1996’s “Twister” and HBO’s “The Leftovers,...

On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every other day throughout the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the fantasy adventure Tower of Silence, and you can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Directed by Erik Flynn Patton from a screenplay written by Daniel Patton, Tower of Silence has the following synopsis: When the great sorceress Kae is captured by a mysterious enemy, her young followers devise a plan to rescue her. Whoever wrote that one believed in keeping things short and simple.

The film stars Jenny Sterlin, Brandon Tyler Harris, Taylor Rose, Brandon Gill, Mark Evans, Christopher L. McAllister, Rick Zahn, Melissa Navia, Arielle Jacobs, Sipiwe Moyo,...

David Dobrik isn’t the only YouTuber who's been tapped by Nickelodeon to serve as a celebrity judge on a brand new competition series.

Alex Wassabi, a daily-ish vlogger with a whopping 11.6 million subscribers, has been tapped as a guest judge on a Nickelodeon holiday series titled Top Elf, premiering on Friday at 8 pm Et. The series will comprise five one-hour episodes, in which seven construction-savvy kid contestants will compete in festive challenges -- from designing life-sized gingerbread houses to creating giant 3-D holiday cards. The winner will be crowned Santa’s ‘Top Elf', and will take home a local charitable prize for their hometown.

The show will star Tommy Snider as Santa Claus and Samantha Turret as Ms. Jingles -- both of whom will serve as judges alongside Wassabi and other celebrities, including Frankie Grande, baker Amirah Kassem, actress Peyton List, and musician Pete Wentz. Each contestant will...

The tenth annual Frigid Festival is underway in New York City's East Village, and in our first of two dispatches from it; our first trio of plays under discussion includes a twelve year-old pornographer-for-hire, an irreverent grandfather, and a cabin in the woods. We will touch on only a fraction of the 30 shows in this year's festival, but more information can be found on the Frigid New York website (http://www.frigidnewyork.info/), where there is also a deal available that gets you into three shows for just $30. The show with the highest box office will receive an encore performance at the end of the festival, and audiences are encouraged to vote for their favorite shows.

The Gospel of Sherilyn Fenn Written and performed by Brad Lawrence Directed by Cyndi Freeman Under St. Marks, NYC February 24-March 5, 2016

Brad Lawrence’s The Gospel of Sherilyn Fenn, much like its director Cyndi Freeman...