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Exclusive: Barbara Broccoli, with her theater hat on, is transferring the Sing Street musical to London. The play is based on John Carney’s charming 2016 coming-of-age movie about a group of skint schoolkids in 1982 Dublin who form a rock band to help them find love and forget their troubles.

The show, from the team behind Once, is another musical adapted from a film created by Carney.

Once, with James Bond producer Broccoli as lead producer, went on to win eight trophies at the 66th Tony Awards, including Best Musical and a Best Book win for playwright-screenwriter Enda Walsh, who performs the same writing duties on Sing Street.

Walsh confirmed that the Sing Street musical will preview at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, West London beginning July 8 for a limited run until August 23.

The show is billed as A Lyric Hammersmith Theatre Theatre Production but it’s being led by Broccoli, as...

Announced this past July at Comic-Con, Come Find Me: An Autumnal Offering is an upcoming folk horror one-shot from Dstlry. Curated by Becky Cloonan, and featuring a diverse group of horror storytellers, I'm excited to check out the full one-shot this Halloween, but we have an exclusive preview from HamletMachine and Joe Pavelka's The Devil's Trill that you can read right now!

"New 56-page One-shot from Dstlry. In Come Find Me: An Autumnal Offering, auteur Becky Cloonan curates a coven of the most sinister, trailblazing storytellers in sequential art for a haunting collection destined to become a Halloween tradition.

Within these pages, Cloonan unearths a corpse with two coins laid over its decaying eyes. When an opportunistic thief robs the cadaver of its last possessions, a sinister curse erupts, dooming all it touches. HamletMachine (Lucifer’s Garden) presents a chilling tale of a musical demon who makes Faustian pacts with unsuspecting victims,...

I was sold on "folk horror one-shot" from Dstlry, but knowing that it's curated by Becky Cloonan and features a diverse group of horror storytellers has me dying to get my hands on Come Find Me: An Autumnal Offering. We have the official press release with all the details, along with a look at cover the jaw-dropping cover art:

"Dstlry, the next-generation comics publisher and physical-digital collectibles company, surprised San Diego Comic-Con with the announcement of Come Find Me: An Autumnal Offering, a new folk horror short story one-shot curated by Somna co-creator Becky Cloonan. The creator also contributes one of the book’s chilling entries.

Come Find Me unites six creators including E.M. Carroll (A Guest in the House), HamletMachine (Lucifer’s Garden), Vanesa R. Del Rey (Scarlet Witch, Redlands), Céline Loup (The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs), and Molly Mendoza (Skip, Stray). Come Find Me will debut in late October,...

In a plotline nobody saw coming (let alone a movie being made about it) a young Bernie Sanders swears a blood oath to Joseph Stalin in the trailer for the upcoming satirical comedy, “Free Lunch Express.”

The movie is clearly not trying to portray Sanders in a positive light. For example, at one point, a young Sanders can be seen in front of a propaganda poster of Stalin, saying, “I totally pledge with this blood oath to dedicate my life to never picking up a dinner check, never donating to charity, and like in the glorious Soviet Union, making sure the government pays for everything.”

Malcolm McDowell serves as the film’s narrator. “Aw, Bernie, bless his cotton socks,” McDowell caps off the trailer by saying.

There’s really no way to properly describe “Free Lunch Express,” so here is how the producers sum up the film:

Once upon a...

Humble Bundle is a great way to add some bulk to your digital comics (and games) collection while also doing some good in the world. They offer pay-what-you-want deals that let you divert however much of your purchase you want to charity, and if you spend at certain levels, you get more stuff. Since its inception, they’ve had bundles covering everything from G.I. Joe and Transformers comics to kids books or Top Shelf art books.

The latest bundle covers almost $1600 worth of collected editions from Image Comics, with proceeds being sent to two outstanding charities: the Binc Foundation, the nonprofit helping independent bookstores weather the Covid-related economic downturn; and the Hero Initiative, a nonprofit that helps provide a safety net to comic creators in need. But the question that might jump to mind for an overwhelmed reader is “Is this bundle actually a deal?”

The answer is undoubtedly yes,...

Boom! Studios, in partnership with 20th Century Fox, revealed a first look at a special issue, Buffy the Vampire Slayer #13, from acclaimed writer Jordie Bellaire (Redlands), Harvey Award-winning guest artist Rosemary Valero-o’Connell (Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me), colorists […]

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Redlands (2014) Video Movie Review, a movie directed by John Brian King and starring Nicole Fox, Clifford Morts, Sam Brittan, Melissa Johnston, Leland Montgomery, and Taylor Reynolds. Redlands‘ plot synopsis: “The lives of three residents of Redlands, California — a middle-aged glamour photographer named Allan, his nude model Vienna, and her indie-musician boyfriend Zack [...]

Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Redlands (2014): Finding Horror In The Ordinary...

As an art-house piece, Amok Books founder/owner John Brian King‘s debut feature film Redlands is pretty much what you’d expect from someone who’s curated an exhibit of John Wayne Gacy‘s “clown” paintings, produced an S&M performance entitled “Nailed!,” and interviewed Charles Manson at San Quentin Prison. It’s a darkly serene drama focusing on an outgoing [...]...