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Game of Thrones fever continues this month with special season 7 fan screenings in select Us cities. Also in today's Horror Highlights: a new episode of the Splathouse podcast, home media release details for Tyler Perry's Boo! A Madea Halloween 2, info on the short film Night of the Witch's Amazon debut, and a trailer for the video game The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker.

Game of Thrones Season 7 Fan Screenings: Press Release: "New York, NY December 6, 2017 – To celebrate the release of Game of Thrones: The Complete Seventh Season on Blu-ray and DVD, HBO® is bringing this season’s most action-packed episode plus never-before-seen bonus content to the big screen for exclusive fan screenings in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Fans will have the opportunity to experience Daenerys’ dragons in full force as she rains down fire and blood on the Lannister army in the jaw-dropping episode,...

Ever wanted to follow in the footsteps of beloved anthropologist Margaret Mead? Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger’s award-winning documentary “The Anthropologist” does just that. The film follows American teen Katie Crate who, along with her anthropologist mother Susie, spends five years studying the impact of climate change on indigenous communities. Along the way, their incredible journey parallels Mead’s, who spent decades of her professional career seeking to understand how global change affects remote cultures.

Watch: The Legacy of Environmentalism Comes Alive in Exclusive ‘The Anthropologist’ Trailer

The film had its world premiere at Doc NYC last November as a co-presentation with the American Museum of Natural History. The film then went on to be selected by more than 30 film festivals, including Cleveland, Dallas, IFFBoston, St. Louis, and San Francisco Green. It was also invited by the United Nations to show at the COP21 Paris Climate...

As the Summer of Trump threatens to turn into the Year of Trump, CNN couldn’t have timed the TV premiere of Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie any better. The documentary, released theatrically back in 2012 and just now finding its way to TV, details how the bombastic right-wing Downey shot to fame as a talk-show superstar in the late 1980s — and then, just as quickly, faded away. Airing tonight at 9 and 10:54 p.m. Est on CNN, the film includes interviews with a slew of familiar faces from the era, including commentator turned Gop presidential contender Pat Buchanan, CNN’s Larry King, and a talk-show titan whose career probably merits a documentary of its own: Sally Jessy Raphael. Before Oprah Winfrey transformed TV, Raphael — she of those iconic red glasses and common-woman demeanor — paved the way for the idea of a woman hosting a topic-driven daily talk...

Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie" co-directors Jeremy Newberger, Seth Kramer and Daniel A. Miller took to Reddit this afternoon to answer questions about the doc, which was released by Magnolia Pictures on June 7 and chronicles the rise and fall of the controversial TV tall show host. More than 6,500 Reddit users showed up for the Ama, reddit's Ask Me Anything platform, and many posed questions to the filmmakers. "Was he related at all to Robert Downey Jr. Or is the connection purely coincidental?" one fan asked. The directors joked that this was "perhaps the most-oft-asked question about Morton Downey Jr. of all time… we finally reveal: Morton Downey Jr. was Robert Downey Jr.'s father! Kidding. No relation." When I asked the filmmakers what Downey Jr. would have made of the movie, they said, "He would have loved the movie, but perhaps pretended he hated it." The filmmakers also suggested that Downey Jr.

The chain-smoking, chopper-mouthed, right-wing eighties-talk-show blowhard Morton Downey Jr. is the subject of the documentary Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, which deftly chronicles (with period footage, interviews, and hilarious gonzo animation) his tortured life. Directors Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, and Jeremy Newberger depict Downey as a man with serious daddy issues. His father was a hugely popular Irish tenor, his mother — one of cinema’s famed Bennett sisters — exiled early from the family manse (and apparently into alcoholism). Sons with an ­obsession to best their dads are trouble. In worst-case scenarios, they get us into cataclysmic wars in places like Iraq. Downey, once a Kennedy loyalist, tried singing, but his voice was buffalo-­abysmal. He found a more powerful voice on Channel 9 in Secaucus.The show owed much to an earlier one by Joe Pyne, but Downey turned his ­red-meat act into a Theater of Cruelty. Footage of...

Used to be to get famous in the rightwing blowhard racket you had to have an act. Not today. Has anyone ever once thought, "Oh, I can't wait to hear what Sean Hannity's going to say next"? (Or "squeak next," in Hannity's case.)

Consider this scene from the funny, arresting new doc Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie. "There are almost no feminists who have ever burned a bra, so let me get that straight," says a young Gloria Allred, her jet-black dome of hair suggestive not of an astronaut's wife's but of an astronaut's helmet.

"There are almost no feminists who ever had anything that they needed to wear a bra for," Morton Downey Jr., snaps back.

"Likewise on your jock strap," says Allred.

The audience hoots. Downe...

Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger's film opens in theaters and on VOD from June 7th via Magnolia Pictures and we have both the red band and green band versions of the movie's trailer up below. The film is produced by Seth Kramer, Newberg and Miller. Before entire networks were built on populist personalities; before reality morphed into a TV genre; the masses fixated on a single, sociopathic star: controversial talk-show host Morton Downey, Jr. In the late ‘80s, Downey tore apart the traditional talk format by turning debate of current issues into a gladiator pit. His blow-smoke-in-your-face style drew a rabid cult following, but also the title “Father of Trash Television.” Was his show a platform for the working man or an incubator for Snooki and The Situation? Ironbound Films’ Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie dissects the mind and motivation of television’s most notorious agitator.

Before the airwaves were built around the faces of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, Morton Downey Jr. was an anomaly in the world of televised news. Throughout the 1980s he was one of the most notorious faces on television, pioneering the reactionary agitator image that can now be seen on almost every popular cable news station.  Now, the documentary "Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie," co-directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger, aims to re-introduce viewers to one of television's most infamous figures. Ahead of its upcoming theatrical release, a trailer has landed for the Magnolia Pictures film. "Évocateur" had its world premiere at last year's Tribeca Film Festival where it received largely positive reviews. The film tracks Downey through his confrontational rise, eventually gaining the title of the "Father of Trash television," and his eventual downfall on the talk show scene. The film will be released...

Catch the first poster Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, produced and directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger. The film will be available on iTunes/On-Demand as well as in theaters from June 7th, 2013 via Magnolia Pictures, and stars Morton Downey Jr. The film is rated R. The film will be available on iTunes/On-Demand as well as in theaters from June 7th, 2013, and stars Morton Downey Jr. The film is rated R. Before entire networks were built on populist personalities; before reality morphed into a TV genre; the masses fixated on a single, sociopathic star: controversial talk-show host Morton Downey, Jr. In the late ‘80s, Downey tore apart the traditional talk format by turning debate of current issues into a gladiator pit. His blow-smoke-in-your-face style drew a rabid cult following, but also the title “Father of Trash Television.” Was his show a platform for the...

Catch the first poster Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, produced and directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger. The film will be available on iTunes/On-Demand as well as in theaters from June 7th, 2013 via Magnolia Pictures, and stars Morton Downey Jr. The film is rated R. The film will be available on iTunes/On-Demand as well as in theaters from June 7th, 2013, and stars Morton Downey Jr. The film is rated R. Before entire networks were built on populist personalities; before reality morphed into a TV genre; the masses fixated on a single, sociopathic star: controversial talk-show host Morton Downey, Jr. In the late ‘80s, Downey tore apart the traditional talk format by turning debate of current issues into a gladiator pit. His blow-smoke-in-your-face style drew a rabid cult following, but also the title “Father of Trash Television.” Was his show a platform for the...

Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to the documentary “Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie,” directed by Ironbound Films’ Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger. The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April and will receive an early 2013 theatrical release. The film tracks Downey’s impact on the talk show scene beginning in the late 1980’s when he brought a brash, confrontational style that earned him the title “Father of Trash Television." “‘Évocateur’ is an incredibly entertaining documentary,” said Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles. “While we tend to think that everything has gotten so extreme in this age of reality television, it’s shocking to see how ‘The Morton Downey Jr. Show’ makes everything today pale in comparison. The filmmakers have done a great job capturing that.” Magnolia exec Dori Begley...

At 85, Tony Bennett looks and sounds great. In The Zen of Bennett, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and will soon appear on Netflix, Bennett relies on a single word, repeated over and over throughout the documentary, to describe his life philosophy. That word is “quality.” For the clothes he wears, for the songs he sings, for the people who are his friends, for everything, quality is his guiding principle. Conversely, the elderly singer with the smoothest pipes in the business, disparages cheap songs, crude and outlandish behavior, and anger. “Everything you do should be done with love, not with anger.”

Going from Tony Bennett in The Zen of Bennett to Morton Downey, Jr. in Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie is like going from a soothing, relaxed discussion in a cinematic sauna to being manhandled out of that sauna and confronted by a raving maniac aiming a flamethrower at your cojones.

Tribeca: Tell us about Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie. How do you describe Morton Downey Jr. to people not familiar with him? Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger: Morton Downey, Jr., was argumentative, divisive, violent - arguably the most controversial talk-show host in the history of television. Think Fox News meets the Saw franchise. Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie examines Mort's mind, motivation, and legacy. Tribeca: What inspired you to tell this story? It clearly seems like a labor of love and passion. Were you fans from way back? Kramer/Miller/Newberger: The three directors of Évocateur - Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, and Jeremy Newberger of Ironbound Films - came of age in the suburbs of New Jersey and Long Island. Watching, discussing, and attending The Morton Downey Jr. Show was our Facebook. Jeremy even played Morton Downey Jr. Show dress-up with his high school friends.

A new big batch of films have been added to the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival line-up, and while there aren't a lot of big premieres in the bunch, there's a lot to catch up with for those of you (and us) who didn't attend Tiff 2011, Sundance 2012, etc. etc.

Highlights for us include Sarah Polley's sophomore directorial effort "Take This Waltz," starring Seth Rogen and Michelle Williams, Julie Delpy's "2 Days In New York," starring herself and Chris Rock in a sequel to "2 Days in Paris," Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's "Chicken With Plums," their directorial follow-up to the very excellent 2007 animated film "Persepolis," Lynn Shelton's "Your Sister's Sister" starring Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt and Mark Duplass, and "Lola Versus," Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister Jones' follow-up to the celebrated 2009 micro-budgeted indie "Breaking Upwards" starring Lister Jones herself alongside Greta Gerwig, Joel Kinnaman (AMC's "The Killing," the new "RoboCop"), Bill Pullman,...

The Tribeca Film Festival announced its Spotlight and Cinemania programs today, including Morgan Spurlock’s latest documentary, Mansome, period drama Cheerful Weather for the Wedding with Like Crazy’s Felicity Jones (right), and Struck By Lightning, written by Glee’s Chris Colfer. “It was important that we head into Tribeca’s second decade highlighting projects that were attuned to the pulse of our cultural climate,” said director of programming Genna Terranova, in a release. “That said, both consciousness and levity play a prominent role in this year’s selection. We are also eager to introduce audiences to a group of...