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On paper, Gori: Cuddly Carnage sounds like the height of 2000s cringe, mixing action-platforming reminiscent of PS2-era Ratchet & Clank and Metal Arms with a grim and gritty fairy-tale aesthetic that takes a page from American McGee’s Alice. Somehow, though, Angry Demon Studio has largely managed to get the formula just right, as Cuddly Carnage is just creepy enough to be unnerving, just edgy and trashy enough to sate a certain type of 13-year-old (and 13-year-olds at heart), and somehow still cute enough to be endearing.

Cuddly Carnage takes place in an disconcertingly cute post-apocalyptic future where humanity has been slaughtered by synthetic pets with advanced intelligence, slathering the world in bucket loads of blood and neon paint. All of them have been seemingly possessed by kill-crazy demons, their flesh contorting and mutating in distressing and increasingly lethal ways. Now, the planet’s only hope is the scientist...

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank has sent shock waves throughout U.S. financial institutions. And nowhere was that felt more than at other regional banks. At New York’s Signature Bank — which is one of the two main banks that works with Broadway productions — the board spent days grappling with the repercussions.

Yes, there were outflows on Friday, March 10, as some clients sought to move cash to “safer” banks, but former Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, a Signature Bank board member, says he believed they would be able to open Monday, March 13, without issue. Nonetheless, he spent the weekend lobbying federal officials to guarantee all deposits. It’s an area Frank knows well, having co-authored the landmark 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, a bill that reformed Wall Street by dramatically overhauling regulation of the financial services industry in an effort to stabilize the sector. The feds agreed to guarantee the deposits, making...

New Delhi, Feb 8 (Ians) A 2016 Facebook malware campaign, known to use a combination of Windows trojan, browser injections, clever scripting and a bug in the social network's platform, has resurfaced in India, targeting millions of users, a new report warned on Monday.

According to an investigation by cyber security firm Kaspersky, India ranks first with 603 infections in January on the list of infected countries by this particular malware.

Brazil (255 infections) and Indonesia (221) followed at second and third position.

The social media malware campaign, run by a hacker group known as SilentFade gang in 2016, was a very sophisticated and rare modus operandi to target Facebook users.

Facebook had revealed that the group managed to defraud infected users of more than $4 million, which they used to post malicious ads across the social network.

Kaspersky experts recently recorded Frank rootkit and after having it analysed, they found it has many similarities to the...

Well, it took four full weeks, but the first queen has finally been eliminated from RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13. (Our condolences, by the way.)

Friday’s episode brought the “winning” and “losing” teams together for the first time all season (and with a shady little twist to boot). While Elliott With 2 Ts hid just off screen, the winners asked the losers why they chose to vote Elliott out, with Kahmora Hall replying, “I just really didn’t get what her drag style was” — words she would find herself eating seconds later when Elliott emerged for yet another Drag Race face crack.

Exclusive: Scoot McNairy, star of Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico, has signed with UTA.

The agency has signed the actor in all areas of representation. He was previously with WME.

McNairy is currently filming the third season of the Narcos spin-off, in which he plays Walt Breslin, the American DEA agent sent to Mexico to bring down the Guadalajara cartel.

He also recently starred as Rod Rosenstein in Showtime’s James Comey miniseries The Comey Rule and has appeared in the third season of HBO’s True Detective, Netflix’s Godless and AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire.

On the feature side, he starred in Ben Affleck’s Argo, Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave, Lenny Abrahmson’s Frank, Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, and David Michod’s The Rover and War Machine.

Noel Gallagher expresses his admiration for the Bee Gees in a clip from the upcoming HBO documentary The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart.

After showing footage of the brothers performing their 1967 hit “To Love Somebody,” Gallagher recalls the first time he heard the trio. “It actually blew my mind,” he says. “Those early records sound like the Beatles’ early records. It’s a classic Sixties guitar-pop sound, but then it had another thing going on.

“When you’ve got brothers singing, it’s like an instrument that nobody else can buy,...

The great actor Robert Picardo, a frequent Joe Dante collaborator and long time Star Trek hologram, joins Josh and Joe to discuss movies that compel him to sit and watch all the way through any time they just happen to be on.

Also… Josh and Bob discuss the best cheesesteak joints in Philly.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Howling (1981)

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

The Running Jumping and Standing Still Film (1959)

Swing Time (1936)

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)

Cabaret (1972)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

On The Waterfront (1954)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Innerspace (1987)

Ordinary People (1980)

Hollywood Boulevard (1976)

Rock ‘N’ Roll High School (1978)

The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather Part II (1974)

Jaws (1975)

The Wiz (1978)

The Godfather Part III (1990)

Alien (1979)

Star Wars (1977)

Death Becomes Her (1992)

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

I Knew It Was You (2009)

Touch Of Evil (1958)

Citizen Kane (1941)

The Day The Earth Stood Still...

Despite David O. Selznick’s desire to keep his cinematic adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s novel Rebecca as true to the source novel as possible and not alienate its built-in fan base, at least one change was unavoidable en route to passing Hollywood’s “Hays Code.” Because it concerns a late-arriving revelation that would spoil things, I won’t say what it was. Just know that this seemingly small alteration on paper beneficially reverberates throughout the entirety of what Selznick and director Alfred Hitchcock put onscreen by allowing their characters room to be sympathetically complex where loyalties are concerned in ways that prove impossible otherwise. So while the ghost of the Manderley estate’s former mistress haunts the proceedings in both scenarios via guilty consciences, only one renders its inhabitants as monsters.

I don’t, however, come to this conclusion in order to share that Du Maurier’s intent...

Oneohtrix Point Never, a.k.a. Daniel Lopatin, has released a fantastical new video for “Long Road Home.” The single appears on his upcoming album Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, out October 30th via Warp.

Co-directed by Charlie Fox and Emily Schubert, the clip features a courtship between two demonic creatures who become one in the end — an homage to Georges Schwizgebel‘s 1982 short Le Ravissement de Frank N. Stein. “I don’t know why I don’t wanna transform,” Lopatin sings, backed by Caroline Polachek. “Taking the long road home.

I love when puppets are naughty. Ironically, I’m also a huge fan of the Muppets, who are somewhat more wholesome, but the concept has always thrilled me. As one of the few who enjoyed The Happytime Murders, I’m always down for a puppet engaging in some weird shenanigans. Now, we have Frank & Zed, a truly unique fantasy horror movie with puppets. A seven years in the making passion project, it’s utterly odd and incredibly gory, making for something you’ve almost certainly never seen before. Folks, if it sounds like something you’d be into, it’s one to truly be on the lookout for! The film is a horror flick, all done with puppetry. The protagonists are a pair of reanimated corpses, the Frankenstein-like Frank, as well as the zombie Zed. They’re both dependent on each other for survival, with a symbiotic friendship ensuing...

Amy Winehouse’s greatest hits will be released on a 7-inch singles box set on November 20th.

Taking from the singer’s albums — Frank, Back to Black, and Lioness: Hidden Treasures — some of the singles featured on 12×7: The Singles Collection box set will include “Stronger Than Me,” “Rehab,” “Love Is a Losing Game,” “You Know I’m No Good,” “Tears Dry on Their Own,” “Valerie” and many more. The set also includes the Grammy Award-winning “Body and Soul,” Winehouse’s duet with Tony Bennett.

Each single will be featured with its original B-side,...

In celebration of the Grateful Dead’s Blues for Allah turning 45 this week, Devendra Banhart released a dreamy cover of “Franklin’s Tower.”

Released on Amazon Music, the rendition is significantly slower and more cerebral than the cheery original that Jerry Garcia sang the lead on. “God save the child who rings that bell,” he sings. “I may have one good ring baby, you can’t tell.”

“We chose ‘Franklin’s Tower’ for its opening line, one of my favorite opening lines of all time: ‘In another time’s forgotten...

Suzanne Vega has shared a cover of her late, long-time friend Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side.” The rendition appears on her upcoming LP An Evening of New York Songs and Stories, out September 11th via Amanuensis/Cooking Vinyl.

Accompanied by a charming video that features collage cutouts depicting the lyrics — including Andy Warhol superstars Holly Woodlawn and Candy Darling — the cover stays true to the original, with Vega’s melodic, husky vocals backed by guitar. “Sugar Plum Fairy came and hit the streets/Lookin’ for soul food and a place to eat,...

You’d think it would be easy to make a movie about the dangers of child stardom and the pressures put on children who want or are pushed to become actors at a young age. All you’d have to do it present a chronicle of the many young actors whose careers and sometimes lives melted down prematurely in the wake of early success.

But while Alex Winter shows us some of those cautionary tales in his new HBO documentary “Showbiz Kids,” they don’t occupy center stage. His focus, instead, is on a group of smart and articulate former child stars, some of whom still have careers in Hollywood – and while you wouldn’t think of Evan Rachel Wood, Jada Pinkett Smith, Henry Thomas, Wil Wheaton or Milla Jovovich as casualties by any means, the stories that they tell make “Showbiz Kids” even more powerful than it would be...

For some reason, Marvel have always found the Punisher to be one of their trickiest characters to adapt in live-action, with Dolph Lundgren, Thomas Jane and Ray Stevenson all getting big screen outings as the vigilante that didn’t gain much traction with either audiences of critics. However, it turned out that the small screen was the ideal place for Frank Castle.

Having initially been cast in Daredevil, Jon Bernthal’s take on the troubled military veteran was given his own solo series that ran for two seasons before being canceled along with the rest of Netflix’s Marvel lineup. The general consensus is that The Walking Dead star was the best Punisher we’d seen yet by a country mile, and the actor himself has made it abundantly clear that he’d love to reprise the role in the future.

With the rights set to fall back into the hands of Marvel Studios,...

Stand By Me Here's our latest slice of films to catch on telly and streaming services this week. You can read last week's here, some of which are still available to catch, and don't forget to check out our latest Streaming Spotlight which focused on sea stories to tie in with World Oceans Day.

Room, 4 on Demand until Friday, June 19

Director Lenny Abrahamson had already shown he knew a thing or two about careful pacing and shifting the mood in his previous films What Richard Did and Frank. In Room, these strengths come together with a keenly observed screenplay from Emma Donoghue, adapting from her own novel to tell the tale of the heartbreaking lengths a mother has gone to protect her son. Joy (Brie Larson) and her five-year-old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay) are living - held captive - in the room of the title, although Abrahamson shows how...

From the people that brought you Pandemic Parade chapters 1-8, comes yet another thrilling episode featuring Jesse V. Johnson, Casper Kelly, Fred Dekker, Don Coscarelli, Daniel Noah, Elijah Wood and Blaire Bercy.

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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Wondrous Story of Birth a.k.a. The Birth of Triplets (1950)

Contagion (2011)

The Omega Man (1971)

Panic In The Streets (1950)

The Last Man On Earth (1964)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Innerspace (1987)

The Howling (1981)

The Invisible Man (2020)

The Sand Pebbles (1966)

Where Eagles Dare (1969)

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Goldfinger (1964)

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965)

Murder On The Orient Express (1974)

Dr. No (1962)

From Russia With Love (1963)

Bellman and True (1987)

Brimstone and Treacle (1982)

Richard III (1995)

Titanic (1997)

Catch 22 (1970)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)

The Graduate (1967)

1941 (1979)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Jaws (1975)

The Fortune (1975)

Carnal Knowledge (1970)

Manhattan...

A new image from Denis Villeneuve‘s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune has been released by Empire this week, and it’s a mid-action shot featuring Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides and Josh Brolin as Gurney Halleck. Villeneuve explains the shot, which sees Paul and Gurney flying over the planet Arrakis, “It’s Paul’s first contact with the deep desert, where […]...

Remember going out at night? Those were different times. But late-night brooding can be the perfect time to lose yourself in music. And these songs are a perfect soundtrack to get lost in, for those long, moody evenings on your own. As part of Rolling Stone’s new weekly playlist series, “Music at Home,” here are 14 songs designed to buoy your spirits and keep you company after midnight, whether you’re battling insomnia, avoiding the news, or just sitting in the kitchen with a cup of tea and your memories.

Film4 deputy director and industry titan Sue Bruce-Smith has died following a battle with cancer. She was 62.

Bruce-Smith had been receiving treatment for cancer at home in Dublin, Ireland, with the support of her family. She died Saturday morning, Film4 confirmed to Variety.

Bruce-Smith, a well-respected figure in the British film industry, spent 20 years of her career at Film4, having first joined the organization in 1997 following stints at the BFI, where she was head of international sales, and BBC Worldwide, where she served as marketing and distribution manager. She began her career at Palace Pictures in 1985 as print and marketing manager.

In 2001, Bruce-Smith relocated with her family to Dublin, and joined independent producer Little Bird. She returned to Film4 in 2004. Most recently, in 2017, Bruce-Smith was appointed deputy director of Film4 by director Daniel Battsek.

Her recent credits as deputy director have included “The Favourite” and “The Little Stranger.” Previously, as...

What do Tom Brady, Flash Gordon, Jason Momoa and Mr. Peanut have in common? They all popped up in some of Sunday’s most memorable Super Bowl commercials.

Every year advertisers pony up big bucks to wave their wares in front of 100 million-plus viewers. Below, we have curated a list of ads that everyone will be talking about — for better or worse. They include the reincarnation of a beloved mascot, a Frozen sing-along headlined by the true hero of Winterfell, an “Old Town Road” dance battle featuring an unlikely competitor to Lil Nas X, and Lisa Bonet spotting the true Jason Momoa.

Though Alan Ball’s latest film “Uncle Frank” is not autobiographical, it is very personal, and it led him back to directing and back to film for the first time in over a decade. And in order to write this story, he had to get in touch with his roots.

“I’m a playwright, and I’m from the South, so I have an inner Tennessee Williams, and over the years it took off and became ultimately what it is now, ‘Uncle Frank,'” Ball said at TheWrap Studio in Sundance.

“Uncle Frank” is set in the South in the ’70s and follows a gay professor named Frank (Paul Bettany) returning home for his father’s funeral as he grapples with the decision to come out as gay to his family. The film blends a coming-of-age story for Frank’s niece (Sophia Lillis) with some road trip comedy and drama between Frank and his nurturing,...

Acquisition beats previous record set by The Birth Of A Nation in 2016.

Hulu and Neon confirmed on Monday evening (27) that the worldwide deal for Sundance drama Palm Springs is a record-breaker, eclipsing the $17.5m Fox Searchlight paid for The Birth Of A Nation in 2016 by 69 cents.

The partners negotiated the acquisition with UTA Independent Film Group after the wedding celebration romp premiered in U.S Dramatic Competition on Sunday. It screens again late on Monday night, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Neon plans a theatrical release on the feature, which stars Andy Samberg as the jaded date of a bridesmaid and...

Acquisition beats previous record set by The Birth Of A Nation in 2016.

Hulu and Neon confirmed on Monday evening (27) that the worldwide deal for Sundance drama Palm Springs is a record-breaker, eclipsing the $17.5m Fox Searchlight paid for The Birth Of A Nation in 2016 by 69 cents.

The partners negotiated the acquisition with UTA Independent Film Group after the wedding celebration romp premiered in U.S Dramatic Competition on Sunday. It screens again late on Monday night, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Neon plans a theatrical release on the feature, which stars Andy Samberg as the jaded date of a bridesmaid and...

Neon and Hulu are in talks to team up on distributing Andy Samberg’s “Palm Springs,” but no deal has been closed, an insider with knowledge told TheWrap.

The comedy stars Cristin Milioti, J.K. Simmons, Meredith Hagner, Camila Mendes, and Peter Gallagher, and was directed by Max Barbakow. Andy Siara wrote the screenplay.

The film is about a maid of honor, Sarah, who is in Palm Springs for her younger sister’s wedding. She quickly meets Nyles, the date of another bridesmaid. They quickly begin to wreak havoc on the wedding and soon find themselves in a surreal state of mine.

Also Read: Amazon Studios Acquires Alan Ball's 'Uncle Frank'

Samberg, Becky Sloviter, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, Dylan Sellers, and Chris Parker produced. The film made its premiere on Sunday at the festival.

Monday has been a busy day at the festival — Amazon Studios acquired “Uncle Frank” and “Herself,...

To the frustration of many awards watchers, the annual Directors Guild of America ceremony doesn’t air live on TV. But worry not — Gold Derby has you covered with our informative play-by-play of the ceremony. Follow along with our updating live blog on Saturday, January 25 as we reveal all of the 2020 DGA Awards winners as they happen. We’ll also let you know the superstar presenters for the three film races and eight television categories plus the honorary awards.

Last year’s ceremony previewed the upcoming Academy Awards when the DGA voters named their Best Director winner as Alfonso Cuaron (“Roma”). In fact, he was the sixth in a row to prevail at both kudos, following Guillermo del Toro for “The Shape of Water” (2017), Damien Chazelle for “La La Land” (2016), Alejandro G. Inarritu for “The Revenant” (2015), Inarritu for “Birdman” (2014) and Cuaron for “Gravity” (2013).

SEE2020 DGA Awards winners: Full list of...

This moving, valuable documentary marking the 75th anniversary of the Auschwitz liberation draws on the testimony of many Holocaust survivors

The 75th anniversary of the Auschwitz liberation has been marked by this heartfelt and valuable documentary, presented on camera by Helen Mirren, centring on the Anne Frank story but also bringing in testimony from many current Holocaust survivors, and their families, as well as talking to archivists and historians.

It is a film that is targeted at younger people with what is perhaps an educational mission, and with this in mind there is a connecting-thread motif. It periodically imagines a young woman travelling by rail all over Europe to various historical sites, ending in Amsterdam, posting pictures and thoughts on Instagram, hashtagging key phrases.

Kirsten Howard Jan 23, 2020

The director of Blade Runner 2049 admits he sometimes wakes up in the night after dreaming about a new Blade Runner story.

Ambitious sci-fi outing Blade Runner 2049 may have disappointed its studio at the box office, but Denis Villeneuve's updated take on Ridley Scott's android-heavy universe wowed critics, and has a lot of fans on the ground. In a new interview with Empire, Villeneuve suggests he may not be done with the intoxicating world of Blade Runner, and says he'd like to work on it again in the future, albeit with a project that might not be deemed a traditional follow up to his 2017 film.

“It’s such an inspiring place, the Blade Runner world,” he said. “The problem is have is the word ‘sequel.’ I think cinema needs original stories. But if you ask me if I’d like to revisit this universe in a different way,...

Where is Anne Frank?

A project seven years in-the-making, Israel’s Ari Folman should finally return with his high-profile animated feature Where is Anne Frank?, which will be the first we’ve seen of Folman since his underrated anime live-action hybrid The Congress in 2013. A co-production between Belgium-Netherlands-Israel-Luxembourg, with Diana Elbaum and Jani Thiltges as producers amongst a host of co-producers, the project is photographed by Tristan Oliver, who served as cinematographer on Wes Anderson’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and Isle of Dogs (2018). Folman also voiced his characters in English, with Emily Carey, Ruby Stokes, Skye Bennett, and Sebastian Croft amongst the voice cast.…...

Update (12/27): Damon Dash and Raquel Horn have responded to the $50 million lawsuit filed by photographer Monique Bunn, who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Dash in the home he and Horn share.

“This is what setting up a black man looks like live… First they come into your house then they try to rob you. When they get caught, they try to make a good guy look like a bad guy, then try to extort you,” Dash said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “#chrisbrownthelawyer is clearly the ring leader of this conspiracy.

Years ago, in a writing room far away, the screenwriters for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia wrote the script for the episode "Gun Fever Too: Still Hot." This episode featured an opening scene of Frank Reynolds appearing on a local television station, advocating for gun ownership by providing a story about him fighting off two robbers by shooting in their general direction. Classic Frank! Little did the writers know that this opening scene would go down in meme history.

Related: It's Always Sunny: 10 Times The Gang's Schemes Actually Worked

In September, Facebook user Josh Davis posted the earliest known version, and, since then, the format has received significant spread on the internet. To celebrate, here are 10 of the most hilarious versions of this meme.

In today’s film news roundup, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” receives an award, “Lost in Shangri-La” is becoming a movie and Andy Kindler lands a role.

Cast Award

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” has been selected to receive the best ensemble cast award at the 24th edition of Capri Hollywood – The International Film Festival.

The festival takes place in Capri between Dec. 27 and Jan. 2. Organizers have previously announced two awards – Steven Zaillian for his best adapted screenplay for Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” and Marco Bellocchio’s “The Traitor,” which has been named the best international feature film of the year.

“Leonardo Di Caprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie are the leading members of an outstanding cast that also includes Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern, Lorenza Izzo and Al Pacino,” said honorary president Tony Renis. “Combined, these amazing performers populate...

Sneak Peek new Season 14 footage from the long-running situation comedy TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia", starring Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson and Danny DeVito, as "The Gang," who run the Irish bar 'Paddy's Pub' in 'South Philly', premiering September 25, 2019 on FX:

"...so-called 'depraved underachieving' might look easy at first, but for the egocentric 'Mac', 'Charlie', 'Dennis', 'Frank' and 'Dee', it's an art form. 

"'The Gang', as they care called, owners of the unsuccessful 'Paddy's Pub', are a group of degenerates who love nothing more than to scheme, conspire and revel in each other's misery. 

"Whether gaming the system, exploiting the innocent, impersonating officers, or faking funerals, 'The Gang' will never stoops too low in the name of making a buck..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" - Season 14...

This evening the great and good gathered in the capital to celebrate the best films playing in this year’s London Film Festival.

The winners of the awards were Sudabeh Mortezai, Documentary award winner Roberto Minervini, Lukas Dhont who won the First Feature Film Award, and Ultraculture supremo Charlie Lyne who collected another award, this time for his short film Lasting Marks.

Attending the awards ceremony were BFI Lff Artistic Director Tricia Tuttle, Frank/Room/The Little Stranger director Lenny Abrahamson Jury Chair. Official Competition (Best Film Award), Academy Award®-nominated director, nominee for the Lff Best Film Award for Room Francis Lee – Jury Chair, First Feature Competition (Sutherland Award) – Winner of the 2017 Bifa for Best Début Screenwriter for God’S Own Country- Simon Chinn – Jury Chair, Documentary Competition (Grierson Award) – The prolific, award-winning documentary producer who won the 2009 and 2013 Academy Award® for Best Documentary for Man On Wire and Searching For Sugarman respectively.

Like Lenny Abrahamson‘s previous two movies, “Room” and “Frank,” “The Little Stranger” is a study in restraint. A bare bones description of the film – a doctor discovers strange occurrences at an English estate in the 1940s – makes it sound like high-brow horror, but the filmmaker has far more on his mind than simple scares. Adapted from Sarah Waters‘ novel, “The Little Stranger” instead explores tension created not only by the supernatural, but also by the changing balance of power in postwar Britain.

Continue reading ‘The Little Stranger’ Is A Beautiful Gothic Drama That Is Uninterested In Horror Genre Conventions [Review] at The Playlist.

One of the great things about Lenny Abrahamson as a director is that none of his films are ever the same. Even Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski knows what’s up and described Abrahamson as “a filmmaker who has proven to redefine every genre he takes on.”

His first film, “Adam & Paul,” was a buddy comedy about drug addicts, then his 2014 breakout film “Frank” was about an enigmatic musician who constantly wears a paper-mâché mask over his head, and he followed that with the Oscar-winning kidnapping drama “Room.

Continue reading ‘The Little Stranger’ Trailer: The Director Of ‘Room’ Turns To Supernatural Gothic Horror at The Playlist.

“Room” director Lenny Abrahamson surprised the industry when he landed one of the five Oscar nominations for best director in 2016. Prior to his Brie Larson-starring drama, Abrahamson was best known as the director behind small, offbeat character studies like “Adam and Paul,” “Garage,” and “Frank,” but “Room” arguably chained the course of the Irish filmmaker’s career. In a surprise move, Abrahamson is tackling the period horror genre for his “Room” follow-up “The Little Stranger.”

Based on the 2009 gothic novel by Sarah Waters, “The Little Stranger” is set in 1947 and stars indie favorite Domhnall Gleeson as Dr. Faraday, who is called to a manor named Hundreds Hall to investigate the haunting of the Ayers family, played by Charlotte Rampling, Ruth Wilson, and Will Poulter. Little does Faraday know that his new subjects are at the center of a ghost story that will become entwined with is own.

“The Little Stranger...

A lot has changed since Domhnall Gleeson and Lenny Abrahamson made the quirky and great "Frank." The former has been launched into both blockbuster and Oscar season glory this fall with "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and "Brooklyn" (not to mention his key role in the breakout sci-fi "Ex Machina"), while the latter is also angling for awards with his moving, and very well received, "Room." But the destinies of the pair are set to align again. Baz Bamigboye reports that Gleeson will star in Abrahamson's next film, "The Little Stranger." An adaptation of the acclaimed best-seller by Sarah Waters, with a screenplay by Lucinda Coxon ("The Danish Girl"), the film is a ghost story set in a crumbling mansion during Britain's postwar years. Here's the book synopsis:  One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of...

One of the more interesting films touring the festival circuit this year was director Lenny Abrahamson‘s Frank, which enters limited release this weekend. The film follows an eager musician named Jon (Domhnall Gleeson) who is suddenly thrust into a touring band’s role of keyboardist. Leading that band is Michael Fassbender‘s Frank, who wears an overlarge papier-mâché head both […]...

What is success? How do you define it? If you're an artist, perhaps success is completing a project without compromise, in a way that is true to your ideal. Perhaps though it is completing a project which a massive number of people enjoy. Maybe the balance lies somewhere in the middle. Lenny Abrahamson's newest movie, "Frank," is all about an indie band which for the most part wants nothing anything close to commercial success. In fact, there are moments in the movie where it seems as though if anyone actually likes their music, they will be disappointed. They are a group so wrapped up in themselves and what they want to do that they have even chosen a name for the group that is unpronounceable. That anti-populist charge in the film is led by Maggie Gyllenhaal's Clara, where as the push for greater commercialization is led by Domhnall Gleeson's Jon.

Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson are no strangers to big event movies.  However, their latest film, "Frank," does not fall into that category.  Directed by Lenny Abrahamson, and also starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, the movie is an off-beat comedy loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom, but it is its own tale. Here, Gleeson plays a would-be keyboardist, Jon, who finds himself with a gig in a band when the previous keyboardist has a breakdown.  A relatively normal guy, Jon soon meets the enigmatic, odd, leader of the band, Frank (Fassbender), who, it must be noted, wears a huge fake head all the time. As perhaps should not be surprising in a band where the leader wears a huge fake head, Jon finds that Frank and company are not terribly invested in making popular, catchy, or even very accessible music.  Still, being in a band, Jon is loathe to quit and he soon...

You've already heard the smash hit song (okay, not quite), "I Love You All," from the upcoming offbeat comedy "Frank," but now's your chance to see the masked man himself — Michael Fassbender — perform the song live. The actor hit "The Colbert Report" earlier this week to promote the film, and had something special up his sleeve (even if it isn't the full Wu-Tang Clan reunion that was going on over on the "The Daily Show"). Donning the papier maché head from the movie, Fassbender took to the TV studio and belted out "I Love You All." And that's all we're going to say about it, so you should just watch the clip below. "Frank" opens on August 15th.

The Sundance Film Festival announced the titles selected to screen in its out-of-competition Premieres and Documentary Premieres sections. Last year, the movies that were launched in these categories — which typically highlight filmmakers who’ve appeared at Sundance before — included Before Midnight, Don Jon, and The Way Way Back; this year appears to be just as promising. In Lynn Shelton’s Laggies, a young woman stuck in arrested-development (Keira Knightley) has her life upended by an unexpected marriage proposal. In David Wain’s They Came Together — surely, a naughty pun, yes? — Wet Hot American Summer alums Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd...

Michael Fassbender’s “Frank,” Keira Knightley’s “Laggies,” Ryan Reynolds’ “The Voices” and “The Raid 2″ highlight the 2014 Sundance Film Festival’s lineup of premieres along with documentaries about Whitey Bulger, Roger Ebert, Fela Kuti, Mitt Romney, Jerry Sandusky and George Takei. “The Premieres and Documentary Premieres sections of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival feature new work from many established independent filmmakers who began their careers at our Festival years ago, which allows us to reflect on the impact, legacy and growth of the independent film movement over the past 30 years,” said John Cooper, director of the Sundance Film Festival. “In many of the.

Anton Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man is among a particularly strong group of narrative and documentary features premiering at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the festival on Monday unveiled this year's lineup of premieres, which also will include the Michael Fassbender starrer Frank, Lynn Shelton's coming-of-age comedy Laggies featuring Keira Knightley in the role that Anne Hathaway famously abandoned and David Wain's send-up of the romantic comedy genre They Came Together, starring Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd.

A Most Wanted Man has been generating

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London – Maggie Gyllenhaal has signed up to join Lenny Abrahamson's Frank opposite Domhnall Gleeson (Anna Karenina), Michael Fassbender (Prometheus) and Scoot McNairy (Argo). Production is set to start later this week in New Mexico before moving to Ireland at the end of the month. Directed by Abrahamson (Adam & Paul), the movie also stars musician Carla Aza, most recently drummer on Jack White's Blunderbuss album and French actor/musician Francois Civil. Abrahamson's movie is a comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon (Gleeson), who discovers he's bitten off more than he can chew when he joins a band of eccentric

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Maggie Gyllenhaal is onboard to star with Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson in "Frank," a comedy about an aspiring musician (Gleeson) who joins an outlandish rock band toplined by Fassbender. Lenny Abrahamson ("What Frank Did") will direct, from a script by Jon Ronson ("The Men Who Stare at Goats") and Peter Straughan (who received an Oscar nomination for adapting 2011's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"). Scoot McNairy, who's had a break-out year with supporting roles in both Ben Affleck's "Argo" and Andrew Dominik's "Killing Them Softly," is also on board. Gleeson was most recently seen in Joe Wright's "Anna Karenina," in which he plays hopelessly romantic, lower-class Levin. Fassbender is attached to various projects, the most prominent of which include Terrence Malick's upcoming untitled film about the Austin music scene, Lynne Ramsay's "Jane Got a Gun"...