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Below Deck Sailing Yacht has its return date set. Season five of the reality series will return next month, and Bravo has announced new crew members who will join Capt. Glenn Shephard, Chief Stew Daisy Kelliher, and First Mate Gary King on board the Parsifal III this season.

Chef Cloyce Martin, Chief Engineer Davide Morosi, stews Diana Cruz and Danni Warren, and deckhands Keith Allen and Emma Crouch will join the cast for season five of the series, and they will bring some drama with them.

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Captain Glenn Shephard will be back on the small screen soon for Below Deck Sailing Yacht Season 5.

After a delay and a slew of fan speculation, Season 5 of Below Deck Sailing Yacht finally received a premiere date and a trailer.

As Monsters and Critics previously reported, the hit sailing show returns in less than a month with many newbies to bring the drama.

However, in true Below Deck fashion, a couple of alums make up Captain Glenn’s latest crew, but a fan favorite is missing.

Colin MacRae isn’t returning as Chief Engineer after a turbulent Season 4 that fractured his friendships with Gary King and Daisy Kellier.

The three helped revamp the sailing show after a lackluster Season 1, making it a hit along with Captain Glenn. Colin will undoubtedly be missed.

Below Deck Sailing Yacht stars Daisy Kelliher and Gary King are back

Two people needing no introduction are Gary and Daisy,...

After being released in theaters earlier this month, the Robert Rodriguez-directed action thriller Hypnotic has been released on Digital platforms at home today, May 30, 2023.

The Ben Affleck thriller is now available on Digital on all major streaming platforms.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Robert Rodriguez forgoes his usual playfulness and sense of rebellious fun in favor of a Christopher Nolan-like mind-bender, complete with an overly serious approach and convoluted storytelling.”

In the film, “Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) instead finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world.

“Aided by Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), an unnervingly gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously pursues and is pursued by a lethal specter (William Fichtner) – the one man...

Affleck is in full frowny mode as a haunted cop on the tail of a criminal mastermind in a thriller that seems to revel in its absurdity

Ever wondered what would happen if someone stole a bunch of head-scratching mystery riffs from Now You See Me, The Adjustment Bureau, Memento and The Matrix, stuck them in a blender with an assortment of late-80s straight-to-video neo-noirs, and then pressed go without closing the lid, thereby causing the resultant volcanic eruption to merrily redecorate the world? Well, wonder no more, because here’s co-writer/director Robert Rodriguez with one he prepared earlier – splattering the cinema screen with all the colours of the daft, courtesy of an A-list star, a B-movie aesthetic, a C-minus musical score, and a D/E audience rating (Hypnotic has already failed to mesmerise in the US). Rejoice, fans of big-screen trash, as Oscar-winner Ben Affleck invites you...

Hypnotic is the latest film from director Robert Rodriguez, a Hitchcockian thriller which the director has been dreaming up for the past 20 years. The film stars Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, Jd Pardo, Hala Finley, Dayo Okeniyi, Jeff Fahey with Jackie Earle Haley and William Fichtner. We have the opportunity to show you interviews with the director and his cast from the set of the film.

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Determined to find his missing daughter, detective Danny Rourke instead finds himself spiralling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world. Aided by Diana Cruz, an unnervingly gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously pursues and is pursued by a lethal specter – the one man he believes holds the key to finding the missing girl – only to discover more than he ever bargained for.

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Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez broke out in the ‘90s with pulpy action thrillers and horror hits Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn. The premise for his latest, Hypnotic, suggests a return to his early works in attitude and scale. Instead, Rodriguez forgoes his usual playfulness and sense of rebellious fun in favor of a Christopher Nolan-like mind-bender, complete with an overly serious approach and convoluted storytelling.

Austin detective Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) recklessly throws himself into work as a coping mechanism over his missing daughter. Danny completes his latest therapy session that explores the fateful trip to the park where his daughter disappeared, then immediately gets picked up by his partner, Nicks (Jd Pardo), to investigate an anonymous tip for an impending bank robbery. As the heist seems to begin, Danny spies a suspicious man, Dellrayne (William Fichtner), enter the equation.

Danny discovers the man’s bizarre ability to hypnotize people around them,...

Find someone who looks at you the way Ben Affleck looks at genres that peaked in the ‘90s. His ongoing quest to save the middlebrow movie has seen him try his hand at everything from big budget sports dramas to old school erotic thrillers in recent years as he tries to prove that entertaining adults is still a noble goal.

His latest role, which finds him starring in in Robert Rodriguez’s “Hypnotic,” is a similar throwback to the kind of nonsensically complex, star-driven thrillers that could be instantly forgotten before enjoying a long DVD shelf life in 2002. If TBS launched its own airline and started producing original films designed to be viewed on two hour commuter flights, this would be an ideal first project.

The elevator pitch for “Hypnotic” may well have been, “Take ‘Inception,’ strip it of any serious artistry and nuance, cram as many twists as humanly possible into 90 minutes,...

Ben Affleck and Alice Braga star in ‘Hypnotic’ (Photo ©️ 2023 Hypnotic Film Holdings LLC)

Writer/director Robert Rodriguez’s Hypnotic, a film that promises a mind-bending and reality-shifting experience, isn’t edgy enough to be interesting. While the final act provides some thrills, getting there requires you to endure two acts desperately in need of a dose of adrenaline. (“Endure” is not an overstatement in this case.)

Ben Affleck, coming off an outstanding job directing and starring in Air, seems to be just going through the paces as Danny Rourke, a police detective devastated by the loss of his child. Flashbacks reveal his young daughter, Minnie, was abducted from a playground while he was watching her. Danny made the mistake of taking his eyes off his child for just a moment, long enough for a stranger to steal her away.

Although Minnie was never found, a man who claimed not to...

Along with well-timed twists and gripping mysteries, Robert Rodriguez's Hypnotic features a roster of intriguing characters, played by talented cast members. Conceptualized around the same time Rodriguez was filming Spy Kids 2, Hypnotic has reportedly been in development for nearly two decades. Its lengthy development period and the director's steadfast passion for the project are not surprising, given how its early reviews are lauding it for its meticulously crafted blend of espionage and science fiction.

Hypnotic's espionage-centric narrative revolves around detective Danny Rourke's hunt for a bank robber. Meanwhile, its science fiction kicks when it turns out that the bank robber has the ability to hypnotize people and bend their realities at his will. As Rourke races against time to catch the robber, mysteries of his past begin surfacing, raising the stakes of his mission even higher than he had initially anticipated. Driven by Robert Rodriguez's eye for detail and gripping character beats,...

Director Robert Rodriguez and Ben Affleck embark on a mind-bending mystery with more twists than a pretzel. Hypnotic often feels like a greatest hits compilation of sci-fi brain-teasers. The film is akin to a Jenga blocks puzzle of Memento, Inception, Dr. Strange, and Marvel's Jessica Jones with a generous sprinkling of The Adjustment Bureau. First act reveals dive deeper down the rabbit hole than expected. A shotgun pace never pauses long enough to process Wtf moments. This isn't bad, just rushed. That's forgivable as the plot gets progressively better and more interesting.

Austin Pd Detective Daniel Rourke (Affleck) sits troubled in his therapist's (Nikki Dixon) office. He closes his eyes and remembers a tragically haunting moment. An afternoon at the playground with his young daughter Minnie (Ionie Nieves) takes a devastating turn when he looks away briefly and then realizes that Minnie is missing. Her case sparks news headlines when a suspect is found.

When it comes to the films we associate him with, a lot has changed since the ‘90s when Robert Rodriguez was among the most exciting indie names in cinema with the inventive likes of “El Mariachi,” “From Dusk Till Dawn” and the best segment of the “Four Rooms” anthology. He now has several “Spy Kids” movies, high-profile music videos and middling efforts like “Alita: Battle Angel” under his belt, though this critic can’t help but think of him as the same scrappy independent auteur of decades past in search of a meaty, inventive story.

Which is why the Ben Affleck-starring “Hypnotic” looked and sounded exciting, at least on paper, signaling a brainy yet accessible neo-noir detective tale with an original Rodriguez spin. Sadly, the film is a tedious and erratically cut caper, whose shape-shifting story feels like an uneven and over-plotted rehash of various recognizable films that we’ve seen before.

This week’s release schedule is very light on the horror front, with just a small handful of new horror movies being offered up in the coming days. Among them? Evil Dead Rise comes home!

Here’s all the new horror releasing May 9 – May 14, 2023.

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

In the wake of scaring up over $100 million at the worldwide box office, Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise is now available Digitally at home. It’s coming to 4K and Blu-ray on June 27.

Evil Dead Rise is now available for early Premium Digital Ownership at home for $24.99 and for 48-hour rental via PVOD for $19.99 Srp on participating digital platforms where you purchase movies, including Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play, Vudu.

Evil Dead Rise is directed by Lee Cronin, starring Lily Sullivan (“I Met a Girl,” TV’s “Barkskins”) and Alyssa Sutherland (TV’s “New Gold Mountain,...

Hypnotic is the upcoming science fiction action thriller from Robert Rodriguez and much has been announced about the cast, story, release date, trailer, and more. Hypnotic follows a detective played by Ben Affleck who goes on a mission to find his missing daughter and solve a string of major thefts. The movie stars a cast of talented actors and the production side is a family affair with Rodriguez's children working on key parts of the music, story, and more. Hypnotic is shaping up to be an inventive, and action-packed spy movie and one of the few original upcoming sci-fi movies not based on IP.

Rodriguez directs his 20th feature film with Hypnotic and his first since the 2020 We Can Be Heroes that premiered on Netflix. Unlike that movie and Rodriguez’s more child-friendly films, Hypnotic is an R-rated thriller, putting it in the same company as Sin City and his debut film El Mariachi.

Check out the trailer for the upcoming film Hypnotic.

Directed by Robert Rodriguez, the film stars Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, Jd Pardo, Hala Finley, Dayo Okeniyi, Jeff Fahey with Jackie Earle Haley and William Fichtner.

Ketchup Entertainment will open Hypnotic in theaters on May 12, 2023

Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) instead finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world. Aided by Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), a gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously pursues and is pursued by a lethal specter (William Fichtner) – the one man he believes holds the key to finding the missing girl – only to discover more than he ever bargained for.

Warner Bros. has revealed a new trailer for the Ben Affleck-led and Robert Rodriguez-directed psychological thriller ‘Hypnotic.’

Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) instead finds himself spiralling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world. Aided by Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), an unnervingly gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously pursues and is pursued by a lethal spectre (William Fichtner) – the one man he believes holds the key to finding the missing girl – only to discover more than he ever bargained for.

Directed By Robert Rodriguez, Jd Pardo, Dayo Okeniyi, Jeff Fahey and Jackie Earle Haley co-star in the film which Rodriguez penned alongside Racer Rodriguez and Max Borenstein.

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Ben Affleck's having a good year so far, with Air successful and his upcoming (albeit likely brief) return to Bruce Wayne in The Flash. He's no doubt hoping for another hit with Hypnotic, a thriller that Robert Rodriguez has been aiming to get to screens for nearly two decades. The trailer is online…

In the story originally written by Rodriguez and worked on by Max Borenstein, Affleck plays Danny Rourke, a detective determined to find his daughter with the aid of psychic Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), whose investigation will lead him to question his most basic assumptions about his world and everyone in it.

Rourke finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies puled off by a mysterious, hypnotic character played by William Fichtner.

The ensemble includes: Jd Pardo as Rourke’s partner, Nicks, Hala Finley as his missing daughter, Minnie, Dayo Okeniyi...

Last week Screen Rant revealed the teaser poster for Robert Rodriguez's Hypnotic and today we have an exclusive first look at the official full, final poster for the mind-bending thriller.

Where the teaser featured Ben Affleck's detective Danny Rourke running at the center of the mind-bending spiral of dominoes, lost and hardly visible, the full Hypnotic poster is all Affleck, ready for action.

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The story of Hypnotic follows Rourke as he searches for his missing daughter while also investigating strange bank robberies where he learns that nothing may be as it seems.

Robert Rodriguez's Hypnotic Final Official Poster Revealed What is Hypnotic About?

Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke instead finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world.

Robert Rodriguez's Hypnotic premieres in theaters next month and Screen Rant can reveal the film's new teaser poster centering on star Ben Affleck in the mind-bending thriller.

Related: The 10 Best Ben Affleck Movies

In Hypnotic, Affleck plays Danny Rourke, a detective from Austin, Texas who's searching for his missing daughter but quickly learns that nothing is as it seems. The visual theme emphasizes that our protagonist is in the middle of something grand and complicated, spiraling out of control or understanding.

Robert Rodriguez's Hypnotic Teaser Poster Revealed What is Hypnotic About?

Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke instead finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world. Aided by Diana Cruz, an unnervingly gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously pursues and is pursued...

The first trailer has been released for the Ben Affleck-led and Robert Rodriguez-directed psychological thriller ‘Hypnotic.’

Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) instead finds himself spiralling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world. Aided by Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), an unnervingly gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously pursues and is pursued by a lethal spectre (William Fichtner) – the one man he believes holds the key to finding the missing girl – only to discover more than he ever bargained for.

Jd Pardo, Dayo Okeniyi, Jeff Fahey and Jackie Earle Haley co-star in the film which Rodriguez penned alongside Racer Rodriguez and Max Borenstein.

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After a work-in-progress version of Robert Rodriguez’s Hypnotic was screened at SXSW, audiences were pumped to see the whole thing. The first trailer for Hypnotic was released today, which gives us a taste of the psychological thriller starring Ben Affleck.

Ben Affleck stars as Danny Rourke, an Austin detective determined to find his missing daughter. Instead, he finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world. Rourke is aided by Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), an unnervingly gifted psychic, while he simultaneously pursues and is pursued by a lethal specter (William Fichtner) – the one man he believes holds the key to finding the missing girl – only to discover more than he ever bargained for. As Rourke discovers in the trailer, those with hypnotic abilities can force...

Up next from Robert Rodriguez is the action thriller Hypnotic, which stars Ben Affleck and will be releasing on 2,000 screens here in the United States by Ketchup Entertainment.

You can expect the film in theaters on May 12, 2023.

Watch the official trailer for Hypnotic below, debuted by IGN. This one looks like a throwback thriller from the 1990s, with William Fichtner perfectly cast as a devilish villain.

In the film, “Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) instead finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world.

“Aided by Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), an unnervingly gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously pursues and is pursued by a lethal specter (William Fichtner) – the one man he believes holds the key to finding the missing girl...

After a peek at director Robert Rodriguez’s action thriller “Hypnotic” at this year’s SXSW, audiences won’t have to wait much longer to catch the full version in theaters this spring.

IGN has unveiled the first official trailer for the upcoming psychological thriller, which follows police detective Daniel Rourke (Ben Affleck) as he searches for his missing daughter Minnie (Hala Finley). He soon learns she is associated with a series of ongoing robberies conducted by a mysterious man (William Fichtner) with hypnotic powers.

The trailer gives audiences a look at how Affleck’s frantic search for his missing daughter. The desperate dad slowly begins to spiral out of control once his investigation pushes him to confront his deepest, darkest fears. With assistance from psychic Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), Daniel sets off to pursue the mysterious man during his train of robberies, and get Minnie home safe. As he finds out in the trailer,...

The Hypnotic trailer reveals the first full look at Ben Affleck in Robert Rodriguez's new movie. Known for directing an array of stylized action films like Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn, Sin City, Planet Terror, Machete, and Alita: Battle Angel, Rodriguez started working on the script for Hypnotic way back in 2002 and recently called it "one of [his] favorite stories." In his first collaboration with the director, the action thriller stars Affleck as a detective searching for his missing daughter, but with several sci-fi twists in store.

Now, after a work-in-progress cut of the film was screened at South by Southwest to rapturous reactions, IGN has unveiled the first official Hypnotic trailer.

The trailer, which can be seen above, introduces Affleck as an Austin-based investigator named Danny Rourke whose daughter is kidnaped at a park under mysterious circumstances. Determined to find his missing daughter, the detective soon spirals down a...

Don’t trust anything you see or hear in “Hypnotic,” a noggin-jogging thriller with more twists than Minnie’s tightly braided ponytail. Who’s Minnie? She’s the girl who goes missing in the movie’s opening scene when police detective dad Daniel Rourke (Ben Affleck) looks away for a second. Or does she? Depending how your mind works, there’s a chance Minnie doesn’t even exist. The perp was caught, but Minnie’s body was never found — which is a clue that this wasn’t a typical disappearance.

Your typical popcorn-munching multiplex patron would never suspect how deep this Russian-doll mystery goes. Better to strap in and go along for the ride in the latest example of creativity-within-constraints from resourceful writer-director Robert Rodriguez. Taking a page from “The Matrix,” “Limitless” and “Memento” — and whole chapters from sci-fi trickster Philip K. Dick — this slick mix of special effects and...