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More than 20 years ago, MTV debuted a little show late at night featuring a collection of gnarly dudes doing stupid stunts and pranking one another. That series, "Jackass," went on to be a global phenomenon, so far spawning four theatrically released films, the spin-off films of "Bad Grandpa," a handful of straight-to-video sequels, several spin-off shows including "Wildboyz," "Viva la Bam," and "Homewrecker," and more. The antics of a group of skateboarders and professional knuckleheads became an indelible part of pop culture. The road has been hard, and it has been long, but the cast members of "Jackass" have plenty of...

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Being able to boast that a franchise has lasted over two decades is impressive, but considering the world of "Jackass" requires putting the body, mind, arrest record, and stomach on the line at every turn, it's a damn miracle that everyone's favorite comedy stuntmen are still up to their usual shenanigans after all these years. The MTV series debuted in 2000 for three seasons but turned into an entertainment franchise including spin-offs "Wildboyz," "Viva La Bam," "Homewrecker," "Bam's Unholy Union," "Dr. Steve-o," "Bam's World Domination," "Bam's Bad Ass Game Show," a video game, TV specials (including Shark Week) five feature films, and the...

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Nick Lowe will reissue his acclaimed 2001 album The Convincer this September with an expanded 20th-anniversary edition featuring three rarities from the era.

Due out September 17th via Yep Roc, the reissue boasts the remastered original LP on blue vinyl alongside a blue 45 vinyl with three bonus tracks: The rare, Lowe-penned B-side “Different Kind of Blue” and Lowe’s stripped-back covers of the Shirelles’ “Mama Said” and the Chi-lites’ “There Will Never Be Any Peace (Until God Is Seated at the Conference Table).”

Described in a biography as “the album that...

Stars: Alex Essoe, Precious Chong, Kris Siddiqi | Written by Precious Chong, Alex Essoe, Zach Gayne | Directed by Zach Gayne

[Note: With the film finally released in the UK, here’s a reposting of Alain’s review of Homewrecker from last years US release]

It may come as a surprise that a movie about two women meeting at a yoga class, which then escalates to one of them refusing to let the other leave their house, is actually very very relatable for myself. But that is exactly how I found myself when watching Homewrecker.

The woman who discovers it is not going to be easy to leave the house is Michelle. Played by Alex Essoe, who horror fans will recognise from Tales of Halloween and her incredible performance in Starry Eyes. She will soon be even more popular when she stars as Wendy Torrance in Mike Flanagan’s The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep later this year. Her captor is Linda, played by the interestingly named Precious Chong. Michelle gets...

The 11th annual Patrick Warburton Celebrity Golf Tournament, known as The Warburton, will not be a golf tournament for the first time since it began a decade ago in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Warburton will instead feature its signature music events and popular auction online to raise awareness and support for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Historically, approximately 75 stars, songwriters and rock legends join hundreds of guests for an annual weekend of golf and sold-out, one-of-a-kind music events benefiting St. Jude. This year, Songwriters Night will stream online on at 6 p.m. Pt / 9 p.m. Et on Tuesday, April 20, and The Rheneypalooza Jam will stream online at 6 p.m. Pt / 9 p.m. Et on Wednesday, April 21 via thewarburton.krglive.com. Typically, both evenings sell out however this year they can be viewed by all free of charge.

Because these events typically sell out and can be enjoyed for no admission fee this year,...

Spider-Man’s next big-screen adventure now has a name. Stars Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon revealed the title as Spider-Man: No Way Home in a video posted Wednesday.

The revelation comes after Holland and his co-stars set the Internet humming on Tuesday night with their own fake titles for the film, including Spider-Man: Phone Home, Spider-Man: Home Slice and Spider-Man-Homewrecker.

Spider-Man: No Way Home also features Benedict Cumberbatch as Marvel mainstay Doctor Strange and is rumored to delve into the multiverse as it will also unite separate generations of Spider-Man films. Alfred Molina, who played Doctor Octopus in Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man 2, will appear. So will Jamie Foxx, playing ...

Spider-Man’s next big-screen adventure now has a name. Stars Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon revealed the title as Spider-Man: No Way Home in a video posted Wednesday.

The revelation comes after Holland and his co-stars set the Internet humming on Tuesday night with their own fake titles for the film, including Spider-Man: Phone Home, Spider-Man: Home Slice and Spider-Man-Homewrecker.

Spider-Man: No Way Home also features Benedict Cumberbatch as Marvel mainstay Doctor Strange and is rumored to delve into the multiverse as it will also unite separate generations of Spider-Man films. Alfred Molina, who played Doctor Octopus in Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man 2, will appear. So will Jamie Foxx, playing ...

Tune-Yards have announced their fifth studio album Sketchy., out March 26th via 4Ad.

Ahead of the release, the duo shared the video for the new single “Hold Yourself.” Directed by Basa Studio, the clip features trippy animation that suits the synth-heavy track. “Parents they made us/They tried to raise us,” Merrill Garbus sings. “But betray us even when they try.”

“This song is about feeling really betrayed by my parents’ generation, and, at the same time, really seeing how we are betraying the future,” Garbus said in a statement.

Actress Alex Essoe walks is through some of her favorite dream sequences.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Starry Eyes (2014)

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Beyond The Black Rainbow (2010)

Mandy (2018), as usual

Doctor Sleep (2019)

Death of Me (2020)

Life Dances On (1937)

Tales of Manhattan (1942)

I Love You, Alice B Toklas (1968)

Papillon (1973)

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

The Conversation (1974)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)

Nashville (1975)

The Ninth Configuration (1980)

The Exorcist (1973)

Shutter Island (2010)

The Exorcist III (1990)

A Shot In The Dark (1964)

Another Woman (1988)

Stardust Memories (1980)

8 ½ (1963)

Interiors (1978)

Dumbo (1941)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

A Woman Under The Influence (1974)

Mulholland Falls (1996)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Fletch (1985)

The ’Burbs (1989)

Dreams (1990)

Ran (1985)

Homewrecker (2019)

The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

The Wicker Man (1973)

Other Notable Items

Howard Hughes

Panos Cosmatos

The Haunting of Bly Manor TV series (2020)

Shelley Duvall

Tfh Guru Darren Lynn Bousman

The American Cinematheque

The New Beverly Theatre

Julien Duvivier

Jean Renoir

Jean-Luc Godard

François Truffaut

John Cassavetes...

We are one week closer to normalcy and to theaters opening up again. Though the major theater chains have pushed back their opening plans and they seem subject to change at this point. To that end, we are still largely relegated to what the world of streaming has to offer. Fortunately, this week has abundant options for movie lovers to choose from.

Two rather huge movies of very different sorts are debuting on Netflix and Hulu respectively this week. We also have an indie darling getting a second chance on VOD, a couple of new horror flicks and even a Christmas movie, for those who may be so included for that sort of thing right now. Here are this week's streaming selections.

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Talk about box-office drama. As the July 4 weekend unwinds, IFC’s The Truth might be slugging it out with Homewrecker from Dark Star and The Outpost from Fathom for the honor of ranking somewhere in the 300s, near IFC’s own Wiener-Dog, among all-time Independence Day performers.

Meanwhile, a handful of drive-ins are packing them in for catalog films like Zootopia and Jurassic Park. With luck, Zootopia might beat its own past performance, four months after its original release, over the July 4 holiday in 2016.

As for overall ticket sales, they are approaching $1.8 billion, down from last year’s level of—oh, what’s the difference? Racked by virus and unrest, the movie industry has largely abandoned its favorite past-time, keeping score. There are barely enough ticket sales to bother counting.

John Lewis has always been fighting for civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. He’s been doing it for over 60 years so to say that his narrative is relevant more now than ever is a wild understatement.

In the documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble, director Dawn Porter chronicles Lewis’s life via interviews with the 80-year-old advocate who is just as active now as he was 60 years ago. Through rare archival footage, Porter puts a long-overdue spotlight on Lewis taking us on a journey through his childhood experiences, his inspiring family, his activism during the Civil Rights movement and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. We also get to hear from political leaders, his Congressional colleagues and those who have been with Lewis on his journey during his life and his career.

Porter recently appeared on a New...

Homewrecker Dark Star Pictures/ Uncork’d Entertainment Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Zach Gayne Screenwriter: Precious Chong, Alex Essoe, Zach Gayne Cast: Precious Chong, Alex Essoe, Tony Mathews, Kris Siddiqi Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 6/26/20 Opens: July 3, 2020 A strange thing about “Homewrecker,” mostly a two-hander […]

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Stars: Alex Essoe, Precious Chong, Kris Siddiqi | Written by Precious Chong, Alex Essoe, Zach Gayne | Directed by Zach Gayne

It may come as a surprise that a movie about two women meeting at a yoga class, which then escalates to one of them refusing to let the other leave their house, is actually very very relatable for myself. But that is exactly how I found myself when watching Homewrecker.

The woman who discovers it is not going to be easy to leave the house is Michelle. Played by Alex Essoe, who horror fans will recognise from Tales of Halloween and her incredible performance in Starry Eyes. She will soon be even more popular when she stars as Wendy Torrance in Mike Flanagan’s The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep later this year. Her captor is Linda, played by the interestingly named Precious Chong. Michelle gets into the situation just because she is unable to say no.

Now with the month of June pretty much in our rearview, it’s time to look forward to a new month of VOD and Digital releases headed our way throughout the month of July. There’s a lot of great content coming out over the next few weeks, so even though most movie theaters won’t be open, you’ll still have plenty of stuff to keep you entertained from the comfort of your own home.

Some of the highlights for July’s Digital and VOD releases include Homewrecker and Belzebuth on July 7th (the latter had previously been streaming exclusively on Shudder until now), The Beach House on July 9th, Relic on July 10th (this debut from Natalie Erika James was one of my favorite films out of Sundance 2020), the cult classic Rad, which has several digital release dates in July, Joko Anwar’s Impetigore on July 23rd (another...

Alex Essoe and Precious Chong star in Zach Gayne's Homewrecker, a darkly comic indie thriller that is heading for release a little later than expected -- but not too too much later. The film is now confirmed to be opening in select drive-in theaters on Friday, July 3, so if you have a moving vehicle, that may be a good option to get out of the house on that weekend. If you prefer to stay at home, you're covered, since Homewrecker will be sticking to its July 7 released date on various On Demand platforms. To tide us all over, a new green-band trailer has been released, which you can watch below. "Green-band" signals that the trailer is Safe For Work, so whether you are...

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Today we have an exclusive look the green band trailer for Uncork'd Entertainment's Homewrecker. The thriller screened back in 2019 and it has been receiving rave reviews, thanks to the performances of Alex Essoe (Doctor Sleep) and Precious Chong (L.A Confidential). The critically acclaimed festival hit premieres on digital and DVD this July, and screens in select theaters starting on June 26th, from Uncork'd Entertainment and Dark Star Pictures.

Michelle is an interior designer and newlywed to Robert. Linda lives alone and fills her days with painting and exercise classes. Seeking a new friend, Linda coerces the reserved, deferential Michelle into visiting her home for a spontaneous interior design consultation. Once inside, it quickly becomes clear that Linda has something far more sinister on her mind than throw pillows. Played out as an attempt to cheer Michelle up about her doubts on marriage, Linda, rippling with an undercurrent of startling jealousy and delusion,...

Sometimes making new friends as an adult isn’t as easy as people initially expect it to be, which is an important life lesson that Precious Chong is learning the hard way in the new horror comedy, ‘Homewrecker.’ The actress has sinister intentions for her co-star, Alex Essoe, in the movie, which Uncork’d Entertainment and Dark […]

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The critically acclaimed festival hit Homewrecker hits select theaters, digital and DVD this summer. From Uncork’d Entertainment and Dark Star Pictures, Alex Essoe (Doctor Sleep) and Precious Chong (L.A Confidential) star in director Zach Gayne’s “hilarious, dark view of modern loneliness” that has “the energy of a Jane Fonda workout tape” (Rotten Tomatoes). Michelle is …

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We're back with another edition of Horror Highlights! In today's installment, we're featuring Pixel Elixir's Terror Kitties 2 enamel pin collection Kickstarter, the trailer for Homewrecker, clips from The Luring, ArcLight Cinemas' drive-in screening of The Rental, release details for A Deadly Legend, and Nima Fakhrara's soundtrack for Becky.

Pixel Elixir's Terror Kitties 2 Enamel Pin Collection Kickstarter: "A cute-yet-terrifying enamel pin project, featuring even more of your favorite horror movie villains, in cat form! Starring Camp Killer Kitty, Candycat, Lost Kitty, Xenocat, Clown Kitty, Saw Kitty, Tricky Kitty, Cat Torrance, Lo Cat, Cat-thulhu and Scary Movie Kitty!

Backer Rewards:

Highly detailed, deluxe 2" soft enamel pins with dual rubber clutches, logo backstamp and glossy, embossed backer cards Retro-style Terror Kitties puffy stickers - perfect for decorating your Trapper Keeper Crocheted Terror Kitties mini dolls - fully poseable and 100% handmade by master stitcher and crochet expert Tales From the Stitch! ...plus...

How much damage can one woman cause in her own home? Well, when that woman is Precious Chong, the answer is: quite a lot! In director Zach Gayne's darkly comic Homewrecker, Chong plays Linda, who lives alone and fills her days painting and attending exercising classes. She crosses paths with interior designer Michelle, asks for her help, and then makes it very, very difficult for Michelle to leave. As a point of full disclosure, let me note that I have known director and co-writer Zach Gayne for a few years, and he has contributed to this site for those same few years. I saw his film at Fantastic Fest last year and liked it -- see my review -- so I...

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After celebrating its international premiere at the 2019 Fantastic Fest, Daily Dead caught up with Homewrecker director Zach Gayne and one of the film’s co-stars, Precious Chong, to discuss their collaborative process on creating Homewrecker along with Alex Essoe, who also served as a co-writer and co-star on the psychologically driven dramatic thriller. The duo also chatted about creating female characters who have layers to them, and why they didn’t want to make yet another movie about two women caught up in a catfight.

Congratulations on the film, you two. It's so fun to see this back and forth between Alex and Precious’ characters, where you're just sort of trying to figure out who is going to get the upper hand, and who's going to do this or that. I know this is something that all three of you collaborated on a creative level, in terms of the script and the characters.

Homewrecker is a dark comedy that smashes the boundaries of relationships and cultural norms with a sledgehammer (literally). Directed by Zach Gayne and written by Gayne, Alex Essoe, and Precious Chong, the film is a crazy-pants stalker thriller that takes some wild turns.

Michelle (Essoe) and Linda (Chong) are two women whose paths happen to cross again and again—at the gym, at yoga class, at the neighborhood coffee shop. One day, Linda inserts herself into Michelle’s path with a clumsy and somewhat forced introduction. Wanting to be friendly, Michelle agrees to have coffee with her, which quickly turns into a spontaneous consultation when Linda insists on bringing her new friend back to her house for some interior design advice.

Once there, Linda, aggressively hospitable, is determined to bring their friendship to deeper levels. She tries to engage Michelle in conversation, probing for the details of her life and...

Netflix brings the Us Premiere of the much-lauded I Lost My Body to Fantastic Fest after an award winning debut at Cannes Critics Week. From director J&#233r&#233my Clapin, this singular tale of a severed hand trying to reunite with its owner is told in a striking hand-drawn animation style and won the Cristal award at the prestigious Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

"This has been a phenomenal year in terms of filmmaking, and we are proud to be hosting so many of the year's best filmmakers in Austin," says Evrim Ersoy, Fantastic Fest Creative Director. "Whether first-timers or alumni, we hope to share their work with our unique audience and to help elevate their voices within the festival world and with audiences at large."

The festival will be honoring the career of Japanese maestro Takashi Miike with a lifetime achievement award and a special screening of The Happiness of Katakuris.

Stars: Alex Essoe, Precious Chong, Kris Siddiqi | Written by Precious Chong, Alex Essoe, Zach Gayne | Directed by Zach Gayne

It may come as a surprise that a movie about two women meeting at a yoga class, which then escalates to one of them refusing to let the other leave their house, is actually very very relatable for myself. But that is exactly how I found myself when watching Homewrecker.

The woman who discovers it is not going to be easy to leave the house is Michelle. Played by Alex Essoe, who horror fans will recognise from Tales of Halloween and her incredible performance in Starry Eyes. She will soon be even more popular when she stars as Wendy Torrance in Mike Flanagan’s The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep later this year. Her captor is Linda, played by the interestingly named Precious Chong. Michelle gets into the situation just because she is unable to say no.

Leaving your home always risks an encounter with someone too pleasant and boundary-averse to rebuke. You want to point to the headphones in your ears that aren’t actually playing anything as a means to avoid conversation, but they don’t get the hint because you’ve unwittingly enamored them. Or maybe you accidentally engaged them first in some desperate need for a favor—turning an anonymous acquaintance into a potential friendship you simply don’t have time to foster. What then are your choices when he/she seizes upon that brief window of opportunity to sit down and threaten never to leave? You either let your potent disinterest out and become the uppity bad guy or you fake a smile and go along for the ride, hoping it’ll all be over soon.

Option number one simply isn’t on the menu for Michelle (Alex Essoe). Whether it’s...