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Another week, another episode of Aew: Dark which this week features Fourteen matches, though we also get some of Aew’s bigger stars on the show, which makes up for the ridiculous amount of matches Imho. Anyway, on with the review…

Match #1: Action Andretti def. Tony Deppen

My Thoughts: Action Andretti continues his winning streak in this opening match, though why Deppen was allowed to get as much offence as he did – especially against the guy that beat Chris Jericho in his debut. Still, a great start to this week’s Dark.

My Score: 3 out of 5 Match #2: Evil Uno def. J. Spade

My Thoughts: Evil Uno’s turning to the dark side continues… I sincerely hope this new vicious streak continues and we get a stronger, more dominant Dark Order too. Shame the audience wasn’t into this one though.

My Score: 2 out of 5 Match #3: Parker Boudreaux def.

Another week, another episode of Aew: Dark which this week features thirteen(!) matches which -like last week – immediately fills me with dread… Anyway, on with the review.

Match #1: Matt Sydal def. Slim J

My Thoughts: So we’re getting Matt Sydal back with Top Flight And adding Ar Fox to the mix as well? That would certainly seem the case after the end of this match. I hope this “feud” with the Trustbusters doesn’t drag out too long. Mainly because Trustbusters are a waste of time Imho. Still, you have to appreciate how good this match was!

My Score: 3 out of 5 Match #2: Julia Hart def. Devlyn Macabre

My Thoughts: Evil Julia Hart does bad things… In a squash match once again., which will come as no surprise to anyone – especially given the House of Black’s dominance in Aew.

My Score: 1 out of 5 Match #3: The Workhorsemen def.

Welcome back to another review of Aew Dark: Elevation, which features seven matches on the card And is the 100th episode of the show… however we get no celebration, no rejoicing, just another YouTube show with regulars Paul Wight and Matt Menard on commentary, joined once again by Roh’s Ian Riccaboni. So let’s get into the review!

Match #1: Red Velvet def. Billie Starkz

My Thoughts: What a cracking start to this week’s Elevation. Red Velvet and Billie Starkz put on a great competitive match that made Bille Starkz look good in defeat and was a great showcase for Red Velvet – who’s surely going to be the one to, given recent events, dethrone Jade Cargill? Loved this one.

My Score: 2.5 out of 5 Match #2: Dark Order (John Silver and Alex Reynolds) def. The Workhorsemen (Jd Drake and Anthony Henry)

My Thoughts: Two great tag teams going at it,...

Welcome to this week’s review of Aew Dark: Elevation, we’re back to just Mark Henry and Paul Wight on commentary and this week’s show is another short card, featuring 6 matches this week. Let’s get right into the action!

Match #1: Ethan Page def. Jd Griffey

My Thoughts: Griffey had a decent showing here in this quasi-squash match, but this one was Ethan Page’s to lose. It’s good to see Page actually wrestling on Aew television and not just cutting promos. Maybe now Scorpio Sky has the TNT Title spotlight that some of the spotlight will rub off on Page. Here’s Hoping!

My Score: 2 out of 5 Match #2: Roh Women’s Title Match – Mercedes Martinez def. Hyan

My Thoughts: Mercedes Martinez gave Texas local Hyan a Lot of room here. It even looked like she was doing Hyan’s moves for her at one point!

Welcome to this week’s review of Aew Dark: Elevation, we’ve got Paul Wight, Mark Henry, Tony Schiavone And Anthony Ogogo on commentary (4 people! 4!) and another short and sweet 6-match card, so let’s get right into the action!

Match #1: Bear Bronson def. Brandon Cutler

My Thoughts: This was the usual Brandon Cutler match. A squash but one that saw Cutler up to his usual antics and comedy wrestling style. Unfortunately for Cutler Bear Bronson took this one a bit more seriously and got the quick win.

My Score: 1.5 out of 5 Match #2: Brody King def. Alex Reynolds

My Thoughts: Another quick squash match for Elevation as Brodie King. Well it wasn’t a Total squash, with Reynolds at least getting some good offence in against the more powerful Brody King. And it was power that won the day here.

My Score: 1.5 out of 5 Match #3: Anna Jay and Yuka Sakazaki def.

Welcome to this week’s review of Impact Wrestling, which this week opens with a Before the Impact match that saw Madison Rayne defeat Jessie McKay And Kaleb with a K leave Impact Wrestling! With that out of the way let’s get right into the main show…

Match #1: Champ Champ Challenge for the Roh Women’s World Championship – Deonna Purrazzo def. Willow Nightingale The following is courtesy of impactwrestling.com:

As a familiar face to Ring of Honor fans, it’s no surprise that when Willow Nightingale answers the Champ Champ Challenge, she chooses to challenge for the Roh Women’s World Title. Nightingale hits a superkick for an early two count. Purrazzo counters a Death Valley Driver on the apron and drives Nightingale into the steel ring post to gain control. Nightingale hits a powerful bulldog to create separation and regain her composure. Nightingale levels Purrazzo with a Pounce,...

It’s time for this week’s review of Aew: Dark, which once again comes from Aew Universal and, surprisingly, features an appearance by the Young Bucks… On Dark?! What’s going on? The Bucks taking a walk down memory lane? Let’s take a look.

Match #1: The Young Bucks & Brandon Cutler def. Dark Order

My Thoughts: This was a great opening match with both teams looking good. Cutler did his usual goofy stuff and Still got the pin. You knew Dark Order weren’t going to win this one but Cutler getting the pin? Really?! Still, a really good match to open Dark. Still weird seeing the Bucks wrestle at Universal Studios again though…

My Score: 3 out of 5 Match #2: Ruby Soho def. Ashley D’Amboise

My Thoughts: Nice to see Ashley D’Amboise back on Aew programming and, once again, she impresses even in the loss. A typical...

With the Christmas holiday hitting later this week, Tuesday is looking to be a somewhat quiet day for horror and sci-fi home media releases. Scream Factory has put together a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray for The Vampire Lovers and Tempe Video is showing some love to a trio of overlooked micro-budget genre flicks from the 1990s: Kingdom of the Vampire, Zombie Cop, and Humanoids from Atlantis. Other releases for December 21st include Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness and Roh.

Humanoids from Atlantis

Faced with a prolonged bitter Ohio winter in March 1992 and a distributor release date just weeks away, producer J.R. Bookwalter (“The Dead Next Door”) had no choice but to toss out the majority of his “Humanoids From Atlantis” screenplay and have the cast and crew make it up as they went along. The result is a complete cinematic abomination that has to be seen to be believed, but strangely...

Ahead of its release to select theaters, Virtual Cinema, VOD & Digital on October 29 from Film Movement, we have an exclusive look at Roh:

"Cut off from civilization, a single mother puts her children on high alert when they bring home a strange young girl caked in clay. She tells of spirits and spirit hunters and after spending the night she delivers an ominous prophecy: the family will all soon die. As strangers begin to show up on her doorstep, and terrible events crop up around them, she quickly finds another reason to fear the forest. This eerily atmospheric folk horror tale marks the stunning directorial debut of seasoned visual effects artist, Emir Ezwan. From the ominous lighting, off-kilter tone, isolated locations and strange goings on, Roh is a visceral, spine-tingling revelation."

Written and Directed by: Emir Ezwan Cast: Farah Ahmad, Mhia Farhana, Harith Haziq, Nam Ron, Junainah M. Lojong,...

Though horror movies have increasingly gravitated toward jump scares and computer-generated FX, often the genre’s most unsettling exercises eschew such tricks for quiet, unadorned menace. That’s certainly the case with “Roh,” which was Malaysia’s submission for the best international feature Oscar last year. Belatedly getting released to U.S. virtual cinemas, VOD and digital formats on Oct. 29, .

After a wordless opening sequence in which we see her incongruously presiding over some fiery nocturnal burial rite, a filth-covered, knife-clutching little girl (Putri Nurqaseh) wanders from the jungle to a small hut. There, husband-abandoned Mak (Farah Ahmad) lives with teenage daughter Along (Mhia Farhana) and younger son Angah (Harith Haziq). They take in the stray, assuming she got lost on an outing and needs returning to a village across the river. But once this wraithlike wee visitor finally speaks, she says, “When the moon is full, all of you will die,...

Film Movement has provided us with a stunning exclusive trailer for "Roh," a supernatural thriller that served as Malaysia's Oscar submission last year. It will arrive via Virtual Cinema and, day-and-date, on Digital/VOD this October 29.

Here is the official synopses:

"Cut off from civilization, a single mother puts her children on high alert when they bring home a strange young girl caked in clay. She tells of spirits and spirit hunters, and after spending the night she delivers an ominous prophecy: the family will all soon die. As strangers begin to show up on her doorstep, and terrible events crop up around them, she quickly finds...

The post Roh Trailer: Malaysia's Oscar Submission Offers Folk Horror Chills [Exclusive] appeared first on /Film.

Barcelona-based digital marketplace Filmarket Hub and Catalonia’s Sitges Festival have unveiled this year’s lineups for the Sitges Pitchbox, an international pitching event focused on genre feature films and series currently in development.

This year’s event will run Oct. 8 – 15 as part of the larger industry activities at the Sitges Film Festival. Reps from each project will be given time to pitch in front of assembled industry personnel from major international companies including Exile Content Studio, Red Arrow Studios, The Mediapro Studio, Wild Bunch and many more.

Four cash development prizes are up for grabs with the best feature taking €5,000 ($), two runner up films scoring €1,000 ($) each and the best series scooping €2,500 ($). Winners will be selected by juries including Blood Window’s Javier Fernández, Frontières’ Annick Mahnert and Jongsuk Thomas Nam from Naff-bifan for films and Movistar Plus’ Ana Diez, Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir from Vesturport and Candela Izquierdo from Federation Spain for series.

Together, the lockdown drama from Bleecker Street, opens on 250 screens this weekend in a specialty market treading water and with little visibility on box office amid daily Covid headlines.

The trend continues of specialty films going wider faster and narrowing the window from theatrical to VOD in a nod to the chunk of its audience, mainly older, that feels more comfortable watching at home. The market is looking to a stream of fall product ahead of awards season, hoping the virus is more contained by then. Some good news offset the march of the Delta Variant this week as the Fda granted full approval to the Pfizer vaccine – shots in arms being key to an accelerated theatrical revival.

Together is directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Dennis Kelly. It stars James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan as a couple forced to...

Chicago, Il – – Asian Pop-Up Cinema: Season 13 will present 30 films at an in-person and drive-in festival, with select titles available for online streaming. The festival opens September 15 and runs through October 12, 2021, at AMC River East 21, The Davis Theater and ChiTown Drive-In.

The programming celebrates the best Asian-centric cinema, with new work made by filmmakers from China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the U.S. and Canada. This season will highlight women in film, stories with humanitarian themes and action thrillers, including four restored martial arts classics.

Season 13 opens with Jessica Kingdon’s Ascension, a documentary observing China’s growing class divide through labor, consumerism, and wealth. Structured in three parts, the film ascends through the levels of the capitalist structure and examines how the contemporary “Chinese Dream” remains an elusive fantasy for most.

Centerpiece film The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’T Kill is Japanese director Kan Eguchi’s action/comedy follow-up to The Fable,...

Welcome to this week’s Ring Of Honor review, right here on Breitbart. Gotcha! We’re here on Nerdly! I’m Nathan Favel and I’m so happy to pretend to be in a good mood in the name of wrestling. We got two matches here and… Alex Jones: The Russians invented food to kill us all! Me: No they didn’t! Aj: Damn it! I just wanted to be right one f–kin’ time! Me: Mustache on or off? Aj: Off? Me: Too bad! Pick a hand. Aj: That one? Ow! Me: Hey! Your face hit my hand! I’ll smash you…smash you good! Aj: Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!! Me: Well, while I tickle this pickle, let’s not be fickle with the trickle on this nickel of a good time. Ring Of Honor starts now!

Match #1: Max The Impaler (w/Amy Rose) b. Holidead The following is courtesy of rohwrestling.

From space opera to near-future speculation, science fiction brings us futures beautiful and frightening. Take a look at our top picks for the best new science fiction books to read in August 2021 …

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Type: Novel

Publisher: Orbit

Release date: Aug. 3

Den of Geek says: Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time garnered praise and awards for its alien spiders and exploration of big ideas. The beginning of a new series, Shards of Earth looks like a twist on the classic super soldier drama with a focus on what happens after the war.

Publisher’s summary: Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity’s heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers.

After earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris.

The New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center are delighted to unveil further highlights of the 2021 New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff), including the Opening film, lifetime award honorees, the competition lineup, the inaugural Asian American Focus and additional films. The Festival will screen over 60 films, both virtually and in person, to audiences in New York and across the country from August 6 – 22, 2021.

Nyaff’s 20th edition will kick off at Film at Lincoln Center on August 6 with the in-person international premiere of Ryoo Seung-wan’s tense action thriller “Escape from Mogadishu,” starring Kim Yoon-seok (Nyaff Star Asia winner 2018) and Zo In-sung. The film is dramatically constructed based on real events that took place in 1991 at the onset of the Somali Civil War, and depicts the perilous escape attempted by North and South Korean embassy workers who were stranded during the conflict. (Well Go USA is releasing the...

Thom Yorke has released a new remix of Radiohead classic “Creep.” The new slowed-down rendition is called “Creep (Very 2021 Rmx).”

Aptly living up to its namesake, the remix slowly unfurls over the course of nine minutes. It’s fitting for our pandemic era, where a sense of time is warped and singular moments can seem both fleeting and drawn out simultaneously. Woozy synths and reverb enhance the feeling of discombobulation and uncertainty. The song’s accompanying video features artwork from Jun Takahashi.

In June, Dave Chappelle made a surprise appearance...

Beijing- and Amsterdam-based sales agency Fortissimo Films has added to its Cannes slate feature-length Chinese documentary “Keep Running.” It will be first pitched to distributors during the Cannes Market.

The picture tracks a team of teenagers form underprivileged backgrounds who live in Gen He, the coldest part of China, and run every day despite the harsh circumstances.

It is the first full-length picture directed by Sun Getting, who previously made TV series “Tea: The Story of the Leaf,” “Every Treasure Tells a Story,” and “The Forbidden City 100.”

Executive produced by Zhang Chong (“Super Me”), “Keep Running” had its international premiere earlier this month at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.

The festival called it “a heart-warming documentary devoted to the vivid, optimistic, and positive spirit of youth, introducing a group of ordinary characters and guiding us through a stunning natural landscape.” It said, “the sports school has provided [the teenagers] with something they couldn...

The Hong-Kong based sales company pick up rights to two family dramas

Hong Kong-based sales company Asian Shadows has picked up international rights to Iranian feature Like A Fish On The Moon, by debut director Dornaz Hajiha, and Adasqaq, by first-time Kazakh filmmaker Elzat Eskendir.

Like A Fish On The Moon is about a couple whose must learn to adapt when their young son suddenly stops talking. It is produced by renowned Iranian producer Ehsan Rasoulof.

Hajiah, who studied at the London Film School, is now developing her second feature Diaphanous, which is being produced by Chinese Shadows. It won...

Fourth quarter release scheduled.

Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Malaysian Oscar submission and horror film Roh (Soul).

The distributor plans a theatrical and virtual cinema release in the fourth quarter of this year followed by home entertainment and digital roll-out.

Roh centres on a single mother cut off from civilisation whose children bring home a strange young girl caked in clay.

The newcomer tells of spirits and spirit-hunters and after spending the night she delivers an ominous prophecy: the family will all die soon.

Roh marks the feature directorial debut of visual effects artist Emir Ezwan, and stars Farah Ahmad,...

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have formed a new project called the Smile along with drummer Tom Skinner and longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich.

Yorke announced the new band Saturday morning, hours before the group was set to make their debut and perform new music during the Glastonbury Festival Presents Live at Worthy Farm livestream, a five-hour event that will also feature performances by Coldplay, Damon Albarn, Haim and more. The Smile is scheduled to perform at 11:05 pm U.K. time.

@thesmiletheband @glastonbury https://t.co/S6xYlzAsNF pic.

“Sexual Drive,” a Japanese film about desire which premiered at January’s Rotterdam film festival, will be released in North America, following a licensing deal between sales agent Fortissimo Films and local distributor Film Movement. The deal was agreed following the recent European Film Market.

Film Movement plans to show “Sexual Drive” at other festivals and also release it theatrically this year. That will be followed by release on all home entertainment and digital platforms. The company has rights for the U.S. and Canada.

Directed by Yoshida Kota, the film is a triptych about sex, aphrodisiac foods and secret desires. The stories track three people; a designer in a sexless marriage, a stricken office worker preparing to reenter the workplace; and an ad executive who wants to break off his existing relationship. In each segment a shabby man appears and reveals a challenging secret that may reinvigorate their love lives.

The Hong Kong International Film Festival has unveiled a familiar lineup of titles, talks and retrospectives for its 45th edition, which will return to its normal springtime slot after disruptions last year caused by the coronavirus.

“For the first time in our history, we will be presenting a hybrid festival consisting of both in-theatre and virtual screenings and events. While our belief in watching films communally on a big screen is unwavering, recent lockdowns and social distancing measures have accelerated our need to explore uncharted waters by embracing an additional online component,” said Hkiff Society executive director Albert Lee.

“The program is well balanced and covers a broad spectrum, from rarely-seen silent classics to contemporary filmmakers’ latest work. I am particularly thrilled to note that the festival will open with two significant Hong Kong films for the first time in recent years. So much for the talks of the demise of Hong Kong cinema!

Shortlists to be announced on February 9.

The Academy on Thursday (January 28) published a list of 93 films eligible for international feature film Oscar category.

Algeria’s Heliopolis, about the brutal suppression by French colonial authorities of an uprising in 1945, is omitted from the list. Screen understands the national selection committee withdrew the submission.

There were also a record number of documentary submissions – 238 compared to the previous high of 170 – in light of amended eligibility rules this season due to the pandemic, and a reduced field of 27 animation contenders.

The shortlists will be announced on February 9. The 93rd annual Academy Awards are scheduled...

Jonny Greenwood, the guitarist and backbone of Radiohead, is slated to score Spencer, Pablo Larraín’s upcoming film starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana.

As Indiewire reports, Spencer is set over the course of a weekend in December 1991, as Princess Diana spends Christmas with the royal family and ultimately decides to leave Prince Charles. The film is aiming for a fall 2021 release, just before the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death in August 2022.

Greenwood has been composing scores for nearly two decades, beginning with 2003’s Bodysong that doubles as his solo debut.

Although contemplative in spirit, “Anima” gives this sense of urgency that comes with the awareness of how inevitable and grave are the implications of its matter. The action may be set in the 80s, but the environmental issues the movie addresses grow bigger by the day in the contemporary world. And Cao Jinling makes our relationship with nature the focal point of her impressive debut. With an academic background in literature and a previous experience in scriptwriting, the director envisions this relevant subject through immensely symbolic reflection. Thus, it is not a documentary-like tale, but a story with a heart and soul, in which the “deforestation process” isn’t just a clinical fact, but something indissolubly bound with the lives and fates of certain people.

Anima is available from Fortissimo Films

The tale is set in the 80’s, when China initiated its economic development programs resulting in grievous logging, especially...

Every year since its creation in 1956, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) invites the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. The award is presented annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue and that was released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 October 2019 and 31 December 2020.

Here are the Asian Submissions for Best International Feature Film. There are some excellent movies in this bunch and we have seen and reviewed already some of them.

Armenia

“Songs of Solomon” by Arman Nshanian

Bangladesh

“Sincerely Yours, Dhaka” by eleven different directors

Bhutan

“Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom“ by Pawo Choyning Dorji

Cambodia

“Fathers” by Huy Yaleng

China

“Leap” by Peter Chan

Georgia

“Beginnin” by Dea Kulumbegashvili

Hong Kong

“Better Days” by Derek Tsang

India

“Jallikattu...

Radiohead launched a series of digital holiday greeting cards via their online Public Library.

Fittingly for the band responsible for “Fitter Happier,” these digital notes are more unsettling than generically festive. The outside design options are “Fa LA LA,” “LA-la,” LA, LA,” LA” and “Laa,” and the inside choices include “Everything Is Rosy,” “Peace On You,” “In Lieu Of Emptiness,” “Hope For The Future” and “Sunlit Uplands Still Await.”

The band detailed the project on the site, writing, “This festive card is for you to make and send to acquaintances new and old.

Welcome to this week’s Ring Of Honor review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have two matches to whet our appetite for Final Battle. I’m excited for Brody King to go after Rush and the World Title, but I’m more excited to freeze my pee and use it as ice cubes for the neighbor boy…little bastard. Make fun of my over-bite will you? How about I gum ya ta death?! Nanananananananana!!!!!!!!! Well, before I get caught-up in the minutia of my daily life, here’s Roh:

Match #1: Mark Briscoe and Pco def. The Bouncers The following is courtesy of rohwrestling.com:

Mark Briscoe has been laser-focused on regaining the Roh World Tag Team Title that he and his brother Jay lost at Final Battle last year. Jay, however, has been consumed with his personal issue with EC3. So with Jay signed...

29 of the contributors of Asian Movie Pulse from America, Europe and Asia have voted the 25 Best Films of 2020, resulting in what we consider a great selection, despite the difficulties the current year presented to both the shooting and the availability of new movies. In that regard, the list includes films from Malaysia, Japan, Iran. S. Korea, Kazakhstan, Singapore, China, and Taiwan while crime thrillers, animations, shorts, LGBT, comedies, horror, black-and-white and even “quarantine movies” have found a place.

Without further ado, here are the best Asian films of 2020, in reverse order. Some films may have premiered in 2019, but since they mostly circulated in 2020, we decided to include them, after an intense fight that lasted for 150 nights (give or take) and ended up with even more victims

*By clicking on the title, you can read the full review of the film

25. Roh

Graced with a stellar story, plenty of chilling aspects...

Welcome to this week’s Ring Of Honor review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have two big matches to get to, so shut up and read ya putz.

Match #1: Josh Woods def. Jay Lethal – Pure Rules Match The following is courtesy of rohwrestling.com:

Lethal and Woods both won two matches in the Roh Pure Title Tournament before being eliminated in the block finals. Now they’ll face each other as they jockey for position in the Pure division. They’ve only met one other time in singles competition. Lethal defeated Woods in the Survival of the Fittest tournament three years ago. However, Woods is a much more seasoned competitor today than he was in 2017, the year he won the Top Prospect Tournament. Woods, who is one half of a successful tag team with Silas Young, established himself as a threat in singles competition...

Nearly a decade after Thom Yorke, Burial, and Four Tet first collaborated on a pair of tracks, the Radiohead singer, dubstep pioneer, and electronic musician have reunited for a surprise 12-inch boasting two new songs, “Her Revolution” and “His Rope.”

News of the 12-inch black label vinyl first arrived via the Instagram of London record store Phonica, one of seemingly two shops (Sounds of the Universe the other) to receive physical copies of the extremely limited edition Xl Recordings pressing. Yorke later confirmed the release with a since-unretweeted retweet.

Both...

The Cairo Film Festival kicks off its 42nd edition Wednesday as a mostly physical event with the Middle East premiere of Florian Zeller’s adaptation of his hit stage play “The Father,” for which co-writer Christopher Hampton and actor Rufus Sewell are expected in attendance.

“I think it’s one of the best films of the year,” fest president Mohamed Hefzy tells Variety. “We felt that the way the subject (dementia) is treated is extremely humane and very cinematic,” he added, noting that “Father” is a great opener since it is “a very accessible film for a broader audience.”

The socially-distanced opening ceremony of the grande dame of the Arab world’s fests will take place in the Cairo Opera House’s open-air theater, which is being called The We Theater, where other expected attendees will include Russian master Alexander Sokurov (“Russian Ark”), who is presiding over this year’s main jury,...

Welcome to this week’s Ring of Honor review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and Cameron Diaz can bite my shiny, metal ass! We’ve got EC3 here to flex his abs for twenty minutes and some other stuff. Cher is still singing about bein’ a skank-a-zoid, ‘cuz that’s wat they do and we’re gonna talk about this card, ‘cuz I said so!

Match #1: EC3 def. Jay Briscoe (Disqualification) The following is courtesy of rohwrestling.com:

An impromptu backstage interaction brought EC3 and the Briscoes together as a team for a six-man tag match in EC3’s Roh in-ring debut two weeks ago, but the circumstances are much different for EC3’s second match. This time, EC3 and Jay Briscoe are opponents, and the match is the result of a calculated effort by EC3. Sitting in on commentary last week for the match pitting...

As we have mentioned before, the epicenter of (Asian) martial arts productions have moved from Hong Kong to the Asean countries for some time now. Malaysian “Geran”, which won the prestigious Daniel A. Craft Award for Excellence in Asian Cinema from New York Asian Film Festival is a proper testament to the fact.

“Geran” is Screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival

The film revolves around a family of five, with the father, Pak Nayan, being a teacher of silat Gayong, the local martial art, and his three offsprings, Ali, Fatimah and Mat Arip, his long-time students. The latter one, however, is the black sheep of the family, with his constant gambling in illegal fights and drag races, which have caused a number of problems for the family. The worst, however, occurs when he steals the deed of the family’s land and pawns it to the local loan shark,...

“Roh” (Soul) is Emir Ezwan‘s first feature film, following the short “RM10” (2016), while his credits also include supervising the SFX for Namron’s “Crossroads: One Two Jagga“.

On the occasion of “Roh” streaming on Mubi, we speak with him about his approach and his inspiration about the film, his visual approach and the location the film was shot, working with Namron, Malaysian cinema and the role of streaming services, and other topics.

Action and horror flicks are, probably, the two most popular genres in Malaysian cinema, with films like “Munafik” and its sequel being the first that come to mind. You, however, did something completely different with “Roh”. Was that one of your purposes regarding the film, to shoot a different horror movie?

“Roh” doesn’t follow the Malay horror flick archetype, because I wanted to adopt a playful approach for it. I wanted to utilize Malay folktales for...

Welcome to this week’s Ring of Honor review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have 69…heh heh. 69. H…69! Ha ha ha! 69!!!!!! Hahahahaha!!!!! 69!!!!!!!!!! I said…what the… Phil: Shut up! Do the review! Nathan: Fine! We have stupid wrestling and stupid wrestling matches on a stupid wrestling show for all of you stupid wrestling fans! Phil: That’s it! Nathan: No! Not the belt! Ow! Ow!! Ow!!! Ring Of Honor brings two more singles matches to you…Ow!…including Dalton Castle versus Brody King…Ow!…and it starts n…Ow Ow Ow Ow Ow!!!!!!!

Match #1: Dak Draper def. Brian Johnson – Pure Rules Match The following is courtesy of rohwrestling.com:

Draper and Johnson were chosen as alternates for the Roh Pure Title tournament, but neither of them got an opportunity to compete. This match allows them to showcase their skills as pure wrestlers and potentially...

Creepy horror film “Impetigore” by hotshot director Joko Anwar has been selected by Indonesia as its national representative in the Academy Awards’ best international feature film category.

The news was announced by the Indonesian Academy Awards Selection Committee on Tuesday. Anwar quickly retweeted the information, adding: “Hopefully this film can be a good representation and raise the international audiences’ interest in Indonesian films.”

The film, which premiered at the Sundance festival in January this year, tells the story of two women who are not making a great success of big city life, and who return to their home village. While promised an inheritance there, they encounter numerous strange events.

“Impetigore” stars Marissa Anita, Tara Basro, Christine Hakim and Asmara Abigail, who was last year named as an Asian Star Up Next by Variety and the International Film Festival and Awards Macao. The film is handled in the U.S. by Shudder.

Malaysia has selected art-house horror film “Soul” (aka “Roh”) as its contender in the Academy Awards best international feature film section.

Set in an indeterminate period in the past, the film tells the story of the arrival a small girl who brings ominous predictions and strange incidents to a poor family living in a forest.

The selection was made by a special committee arranged by the National Film Development Corporation (Finas) and was announced on Wednesday. “The selection went through a detailed evaluation process based on filming criteria like direction, storyline, cinematography, screenplay, acting, music score, artistic elements and editing apart from adhering to the rules set by the organizers of the Oscars,” it said.

A first feature by Emir Ezwan, the film had its world premiere at the Singapore International Film Festival and then the Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival, both this time last year. In summer 2020, it also played...

Welcome to this week’s Ring Of Honor review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and Suspiria is a horror movie in America and Tuesday in Aunt Carol’s basement. Those pants are slimming on you! Okay, let’s get to more from this fabulous Pure Title Tournament…toots!

Match #1: Fred Yehi def. Silas Young – Block A First-Round Match The following is courtesy of rohwrestling.com:

Silas Young has been a fixture in Roh for the better part of the past eight years and is a two-time former World Television Champion. Fred Yehi spent those same eight years competing on the independent circuit and has never stepped inside an Roh ring. While their careers have taken different paths, both men are more than capable of making a deep run in the tournament. Young has a well-deserved reputation for being a tough-as-nails brawler who’s not unwilling to take short cuts.

Film streaming service ​Mubi has announced that​ Emir Ezwan’s acclaimed horror film​ “Roh” will be available to watch exclusively on the platform starting October 2 2020. Following a successful theatrical release in August in Malaysia and Singapore, “Roh” will be exclusively presented on​ Mubi Sinema​, the streaming service’s movie channel which features a hand-picked selection of local cinema and box office hits from Malaysia, Indonesia, and beyond. Written and directed by the award-winning Emir Ezwan, “Roh” received its world premiere at Singapore Film Festival and was produced by Amir Muhammad’s production company​ Kuman Pictures​.

Synopsis

The Malay-language horror tells the story of two children who find a young girl (Putri Syahidah Nurqaseh​) in the forest and take her into their family home in a remote jungle village. The following morning the girl makes a frightening prediction,and things get worse for the family as they begin to suffer from a series of strange misfortunes.

As we have mentioned before, the epicenter of (Asian) martial arts productions have moved from Hong Kong to the Asean countries for some time now. Malaysian “Geran”, which won the prestigious Daniel A. Craft Award for Excellence in Asian Cinema from New York Asian Film Festival is a proper testament to the fact.

Geran is screening at New York Asian Film Festival

The film revolves around a family of five, with the father, Pak Nayan, being a teacher of silat Gayong, the local martial art, and his three offsprings, Ali, Fatimah and Mat Arip, his long-time students. The latter one, however, is the black sheep of the family, with his constant gambling in illegal fights and drag races, which have caused a number of problems for the family. The worst, however, occurs when he steals the deed of the family’s land and pawns it to the local loan shark,...

Bradley Cooper is in talks to star in Paul Thomas Anderson’s next film, a currently untitled coming-of-age drama, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Set in a San Fernando Valley high school in the 1970s, Anderson hopes to shoot the film this year, subject to Covid-19 shooting protocols.

This film was one of the 13 titles eligible for the California tax credit from the Film Commission of California, which reports that it will shoot in Ventura County and is an indie being developed by Anderson’s Ghoulardi Film Company.

Also Read: Paul Thomas Anderson to Return to High School in 1970s for Next Film

Some of Anderson’s breakout films, including “Boogie Nights,” “Magnolia” and “Punch-Drunk Love,” were all also set in the San Fernando Valley, with “Boogie Nights” playing on ’70s nostalgia and the burgeoning pornography industry in the 260 square miles just north of Los Angeles.

Anderson’s last feature,...

Reports have emerged that Paul Thomas Anderson’s ninth movie, a comedy-drama set in the 1970s in the San Fernando Valley, is moving from Focus Features to MGM. While MGM declined to comment to IndieWire on the report that first emerged in Deadline, the production is said to be leaving Universal-owned specialty label Focus Features, which propelled Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2017 romantic drama “Phantom Thread” to six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. The move is said to be a part of rebranded MGM’s interest in auteur-driven films.

The untitled upcoming project is still in pre-production, though Anderson is said to have finished writing the movie, which revolves around a high school student who is also an exchange student. It will be the fourth film that Paul Thomas Anderson has set in the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles area where “Boogie Nights,” “Magnolia,” and “Punch-Drunk Love” unfolded in glorious color.