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Tame Impala have gone prog rock with their new song, “Wings of Time,” off the soundtrack for the upcoming fantasy movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Stream it below.

“Wings of Time” features galloping percussion and triumphant lyrics from Kevin Parker, who sings, “We are number one/ It is clear to us now/ All that’s said and done/ I knew it all along.”

“Being asked to do a track for the D&d soundtrack seemed like an unmissable opportunity to indulge in my longtime love of fantasy prog rock,” Parker said in a statement. “I recruited my good friend Nicholas Allbrook, who is the person I know appreciates this subject matter the most. We rented a villa in Spain, that kind of felt like a castle, for two nights whilst on tour for Primavera. That location got us in the right frame of mind and it went from there.

Alaina Castillo is slowly but steadily rising into pop stardom, and on her way there, she's capturing the emotional pulse of an entire generation. Through soft and melodic tunes, the Mexican American artist is vocal about her feelings, all while basking in the joy that processing her dark emotions through music brings her.

First gaining popularity with covers on YouTube, Castillo reached new heights in 2022, opening for Coldplay in her Houston hometown's own Ngr stadium during the band's "Music of the Spheres" World Tour and releasing her critically acclaimed EP "Fantasies." Now, she's focusing on creating new music that showcases all of her sides, from the raw, sad emotions to her Latina identity and her love for Edm music.

"I'm doing the little kind of sad dance vibes that are bringing in a bunch of Spanglish . . . I'm incorporating a lot of dance influences," she tells Popsugar. "I'm very excited because...

If the last few moments of Big Sky‘s Season 2 finale are any indication, Season 3 in Helena is going to be one lit, good-looking time.

The final scene of Thursday’s season-ender finds Jenny and Cassie knocking back tequila at The Boot Heel with Sheriff Beau Arlen, a town newbie played by Supernatural alum Jensen Ackles. We’ll get to how they all meet in a minute. But for now, just know that he approaches the ladies in a friendly (not gross) manner, they give him a good-natured hard time, and he instantly matches both their vibe in a way that is respectful and fun.

My Chemical Romance kicked off their tour last night at the Eden Project in Cornwall, England, where the rock band offered the live debut of their new single, “The Foundations of Decay.” The group also performed “Surrender The Night” and “Boy Division,” from their 2013 B-side compilation Conventional Weapons, for the first time live.

Elsewhere in the set, My Chemical Romance showcased fan favorites like “This Is How I Disappear,” “The Kids Of Yesterday,” “Helena,” and “I’m Not Okay (I Promise).”

“The Foundations of Decay,” a sprawling, six-minute epic that...

Tim Kirkby’s feature is due to begin shooting next year in the US and UK.

Maisie Williams and Freddie Highmore are set to star in Tim Kirkby’s Sinner V. Saints with London-based WestEnd Films launching international sales in Cannes.

The comedy is set to begin shooting in the US and UK next year.

It is based on the true story of former beauty queen Joyce Mckinney who made headlines after she kidnapped a Mormon missionary in an attempt to stop the church from stealing away her sexual obsession.

Mark Williams and Andriana Williams, head of Zero Gravity’s Inspire Division,...

British actors George MacKay (1917) and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Candyman) are set to star in revenge thriller Femme, from directors Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping.

Producer and financier Anton is launching global sales on the title at the Cannes market this year.

Set in London, the dark romance is based on Freeman and Choon Ping’s short-film of the same name and follows the life of Jules, whose life and career as a drag queen is destroyed in a humiliating homophobic attack. When he re-encounters one of his attackers in a gay sauna, the deeply closeted Preston, he is presented with a chance to exact revenge. Unrecognizable in his boy form, Jules insinuates himself into Preston’s life and what unfolds is a dangerous seduction that risks discovery and backlash at every moment.

The feature is produced by Agile Films, who previously produced the short film, which won a British...

“1917’s” George MacKay and “Candyman” actor Nathan Stewart-Jarrett are set to star in drag queen thriller “Femme.”

The feature, which is set to shoot in London, U.K., next month, is directed by Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping, based on their short film of the same name. Anton are repping global sales at the Cannes Marche.

“Femme” tells the story of Jules, who is targeted in a horrific homophobic attack, destroying his life and career. Not long after, however, Jules encounters Preston – one of his attackers – in a gay sauna. He quickly realizes he has the perfect opportunity to get revenge on the “deeply-closeted” Preston and seizes the opportunity.

“Unrecognizable in his boy form, Jules insinuates himself into Preston’s life, but in so doing discovers power in a new kind of drag,” reads the synopsis. “What unfolds is a dangerous seduction that risks discovery and backlash at every moment.

‘Femme’ is based on the Bafta-nominated short film by Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon.

George MacKay and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett are set to star in Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon’s revenge thriller Femme for Anglo-French producer and financier Anton which will shoot next month in London.

Femme is based on the co-directors’ Bafta-nominated short film, which premiered at the London Film Festival in 2021 and won best short film at Bifa 2021. It tells the story of a young man who, after suffering a homophobic attack, has the chance to exact revenge on one his attackers.

Anton is launching worldwide sales at Cannes.

‘Femme’ is based on the Bafta-nominated short film by Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon.

George MacKay and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett are set to star in Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon’s revenge thriller Femme for Anglo-French producer and financier Anton which will shoot next month in London.

Femme is based on the co-directors’ Bafta-nominated short film, which premiered at the London Film Festival in 2021 and won best short film at Bifa 2021. It tells the story of a young man who, after suffering a homophobic attack, has the chance to exact revenge on one his attackers.

Anton is launching worldwide sales at Cannes.

From psychological scares and supernatural fears to dystopian doom and devilish dealings, author Caitlin Marceau captures an eclectic range of contemporary horrors in her new short story and poetry collection, Palimpsest. With Palimpsest now available from Ghost Orchid Press, we had the pleasure of catching up with Caitlin in a new Indie Horror Month Q&a feature to discuss writing the diverse stories in her new collection, working with Editor-in-Chief Antonia Ward at Ghost Orchid Press, and her other upcoming releases that readers can look forward to!

You can read our full Q&a with Caitlin Marceau below, and to learn more about Palimpsest, visit Ghost Orchid Press and Amazon!

Thanks for taking the time to answer questions for us, Caitlin, and congratulations on the recent publication of your short story and poetry collection, Palimpsest: A Collection of Contemporary Horror, now available from Ghost Orchid Press! What types of stories...

Oh, you wanted answers, Severance fans? Well, Friday’s Season 1 finale provided a whole lot of them in a heart-pounding tightrope walk of an episode that saw Mark and his Lumon pals finally getting a glimpse of the outside world.

We pick up just as Dylan flips the “overtime” switch, awakening Mark, Irving and Helly to their lives outside the office. Mark finds himself talking to Cobel at Ricken’s book party, Irving finds himself painting to Motörhead — and Helly finds herself at a swanky party with that obnoxious Lumon board liaison at her side. We quickly learn “Helly” is actually…...

Paapa Essiedu in Femme

LGBTQ+ characters have come a long way in cinema in recent years. They’re beginning to be recognised as just a part of society, present in all or most of the same spaces where one would expect to find straight people, and yet there are a few genres where we still don’t see much of them. One of those is the crime thriller. Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s Femme turns that around, and what’s more, it does so with a hero who is comfortable with the feminine aspects of his personality and presentation, a kind of character who hardly ever gets any agency onscreen. Now that Femme has been nominated for a BIFA and a BAFTA, it’s clear that it has made an impact. I met its co-directors to ask them how it developed.

“Me and Ping have been friends for years and years,...

Aleem Khan’s directorial debut “After Love” dominated the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) with six wins.

The film, in which a recently widowed woman comes to terms with a shocking secret about her husband’s life won the award for Best British Independent Film, presented by Kate Beckinsale. Khan won three more BIFAs – Best Director, The Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Director and Best Screenplay, with Joanna Scanlan winning Best Actress and Talid Ariss Best Supporting Actor for their performances in the film.

Adeel Akhtar won Best Actor for his role in Clio Barnard’s story of forbidden love, “Ali & Ava,” which also saw Connie Farr and Harry Escott scoring the Best Music award.

The Best Supporting Actress award went to Vinette Robinson for her work in Philip Barantini’s single-take restaurant kitchen drama “Boiling Point,” which also received awards for Carolyn McCleod for Best Casting, Matthew Lewis...

The Woman With Leopard Shoes Photo: courtesy of Glasgow Film Festival

Could you make a movie all by yourself? The Woman With Leopard Shoes (La Femme Aux Chaussures Leopard), which is screening as part of the Frightfest selection at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival isn’t quite a solo effort, but it’s amazing how much its creator, Alexis Bruchon, has put into it – as writer, producer, director, cinematographer, editor and composer – especially as it’s his first film and he was learning on the job

It stars his brother, Paul Bruchon, as a young man who agrees to steal a box from a big house for an unseen woman who offers him a lot of money. The plan goes pear shaped when a lot of people arrive at the house for a party, leaving our hero trapped in a small study where he spends much of his time hiding under a desk,...

Gaumont has boarded Tristan Séguéla’s high-concept comedy “For Better And For Worse,” headlined by Cesar-winning Fabrice Luchini (“The Mystery of Henri Pick”) and Catherine Frot (“Marguerite”), two of France’s most bankable stars. The movie will begin shooting in April.

Luchini stars in the bold comedy as Jean, the conservative mayor of a small town in Brittany who’s in the middle of a re-election campaign when his devoted wife of forty years, Edith, tells him she wants to become a man. For a politician campaigning on family values, this is a no-go, but Edith make a deal with him: she will postpone her transition until after the elections. But campaigns are all about digging up dirt to keep the rumor mill turning.

Seguela previously directed “A Good Doctor,” which was a box office hit in France and sold to many territories. “For Better And For Worse” is produced by well-established banner Albertine Productions.

In the driving seat: Yolande Moreau (behind left), Noémie Lvovsky and Juliette Binoche (front) in How To Be A Good Wife by Martin Provost Photo: UniFrance

As a mere male, director Martin Provost has demonstrated his feminist credentials long before Me Too made it fashionable and politic to do so. In Séraphine, winner of seven Césars (the French Oscars) he explored the life of an outsider artist unforgettably incarnated by Yolande Moreau. With The Midwife (Sage Femme) he united Catherine Frot and Catherine Deneuve as they confront life’s shifting sands. En route there was also his portrait of writer Violette Leduc with Emmanuelle Devos as the contemporary and protegé of Simone de Beauvoir.

Martin Provost: "My strong feminist streak comes from my mother. She was more important in my life than my father …” Photo: UniFrance

Provost’s new film How To Be A Good Wife is distinctly different and...

Gaumont has come on board “Fantasies,” a sex-themed French comedy headlined by Monica Bellucci (“Spectre”), Carole Bouquet (“For Your Eyes Only”) and Karine Viard (“Famille Belier”).

Directed by David and Stephane Foenkinos, the omnibus film follows six couples and revolves around their intimate lives and fantasies, from role-playing to exhibitionism and abstinence.

Besides Bellucci, Bouquet and Viard, the film stars Suzanne Clément (“Mommy”), Jean-Paul Rouve (“C’est la Vie!”), Joséphine Japy (“Love at Second Sight”), Denis Podalydès (“An Officer and a Spy”), Céline Sallette (“The Returned”), Nicolas Bedos (“Mr & Mrs Adelman”), Ramzy Bedia (“Lost Bullet”), Alice Taglioni (“Claire Darling”), Joséphine de Meaux (“Dheepan”) and William Lebghil (“C’est la Vie!”)

“Fantasies” is in post-production and will be released in France by Gaumont during the second semester of 2021. Gaumont is handling international sales on the movie and will introduce it to buyers at the American Film Market, which kicks off Monday.

“With its glamorous cast,...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Bad Vacations

I imagine your summer plans didn’t go as expected, but in at least a few films in a new Criterion Channel series, some characters have it worse off than having to quarantine inside. Titled Bad Vacations, the collection includes Bonjour tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958), La collectionneuse (Éric Rohmer, 1967), The Deep (Peter Yates, 1977), House (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977), Long Weekend (Colin Eggleston, 1978), The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986), The Comfort of Strangers (Paul Schrader, 1990), The Sheltering Sky (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1990), Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997), Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001), La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001), Unrelated (Joanna Hogg, 2007), and Sightseers (Ben Wheatley, 2012).

Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel

Epicentro (Hubert Sauper)

“This is utopia, bright and burning.

In Bo Derek’s new Reelz documentary, “In My Own Words,” the actress and former model admits, “I don’t care if anybody remembers me. I’ve never had the need to leave my mark on the world.”

That may be so. But Derek, now 63, will forever be remembered for her shot to stardom when she played Dudley Moore’s love interest in Blake Edwards’ 1979 romantic comedy “10.”

Her swimsuits and cornrows made her an instant sex symbol. But her life in the spotlight actually began a few years prior, in 1973, when she was just 17 and cast in her first movie, “Fantasies.” While on location in Greece, she fell in love with her director, former screen idol John Derek, who was 30 years her senior. Their romance ended Jon’s marriage to Linda Evans. Bo and John were married for 22 years before his death in 1988.

Variety caught up with Derek from her home in Santa Barbara,...

Most people would argue that Bo Derek has aged gracefully, but even she says that getting older is not for the faint of heart. "I realize how artificial it is, beauty," the 58-year-old star said during an interview on "CBS Sunday Morning." "I realize that it doesn't last forever, that's for damn sure." "Aging is really hard," she added. "And it's tough. Bette Davis was right; it's not for sissies, it really isn't. And there is a certain expectation. I get credit on one hand for not having had a facelift, and then on the other hand it's, 'Oh my God, why doesn't she do something?' So you're just torn. I just have to keep busy, have other interests and try not to think about it." The Hollywood veteran is known for sexy scenes in movies like "10," "Fantasies" and "Tommy Boy," admitting that she objectified herself early on in her career.