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This is Part One in a series about Chicago’s Experimental Film Coalition; and covers the organization’s inception.

In 1983, a group in Chicago, Illinois formed the Experimental Film Coalition to promote and provide support nationally for independent, avant-garde, experimental and underground filmmakers. In their hometown, the Coalition hosted monthly screenings, founded a long running film festival and published two periodicals during their decade-plus existence.

Perhaps the first mention of the Coalition was in a “Letter to the Editor” in the February 25, 1983 edition of Crumbs, a student publication at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Saic).

The unsigned letter lays out the writer’s frustration with the experimental filmmaker’s extreme difficulty in finding funding to create work, as opposed to traditional narrative and documentary filmmakers. The plan for the Coalition was to create a non-profit corporation to help “apply and lobby for private, state, and federal funds” for experimental filmmakers nationwide.

Presented by Fathom Events, The Jim Henson Company, and Universal Pictures as a two-night event, the recently restored The Dark Crystal (1982) will mesmerize audiences in theaters on February 25th and 28th. Keep reading for more awesome news on the beloved film from the minds of Jim Henson and Frank Oz:

Press Release: Denver – December 12, 2017 – Thirty-five years after it first stunned audiences and critics with its unprecedented visions and mythic storytelling, Jim Henson’s 1982 epic fantasy-adventure “The Dark Crystal,” co-directed by Henson and Frank Oz, will return to big screens nationwide in a special two-night presentation from Fathom Events, The Jim Henson Company and Universal Pictures.

Newly restored in 4K (at select theaters), “The Dark Crystal” is a visually spectacular tale of a young hero who must find a legendary relic in order restore harmony to the universe. A watershed in fantasy filmmaking produced by Gary Kurtz (Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back...

Just head of tonight’s winter finale, ABC said its drama series Designated Survivor will return for the remaining half of Season 2 at 10 Pm Wednesday, February 28. On tonight’s episode titled “Line of Fire,” it's Christmas time and President Kirkman (Kiefer Sutherland) is alerted to a group of religious extremists who refuse to evacuate when a forest fire threatens to engulf their cabin. Deploying Emily and Aaron to help defuse the situation, Kirkman must act quickly to…...

35 years later, The Dark Crystal remains one of the finest works to ever come from the mind of Jim Henson. To celebrate the recently restored, 4K version of the movie, Fathom Events is re-releasing The Dark Crystal in theaters this February, which comes a year after the Dark Crystal 2 comic was released. Many fans of the classic have never had the chance to experience it on the big screen and this gives them the opportunity to do just that. But the screenings are only happening on two nights, so if you want to go, you'd better clear your schedule and get tickets asap.

The Dark Crystal will play in U.S. movie theaters on Sunday, February 25, and Wednesday, February 28, at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. local time on both days. So you'll have a couple of chances to catch the movie in theaters. Tickets for the event...

The Tiffany Network has released its winter schedule. The 36th season of the Survivor TV show will premiere on CBS on Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 8:00pm Et/Pt. The network also announced release dates for the Instinct series premiere, the Living Biblically series premiere, the Big Brother: Celebrity Edition series premiere, and a new season of The Amazing Race.A competitive reality TV series, Survivor is hosted by Jeff Probst. The CBS reality-competition series follows the castaways as they compete to outwit, outplay and outlast the competition. We'll update you as information about this season's competitors becomes available. Read More…...

Grasshopper Film has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun?, Travis Wilkerson’s documentary that played both the Sundance and New York film festivals The film will open theatrically on February 28, 2018 at Film Forum in New York City, followed by a national rollout. The film chronicles a 1946 murder in Alabama, committed by the filmmaker’s great-grandfather S.E. Branch, who killed Bill Spann, a black man. The murder has become hidden family…...

DC Comics' "Mera: Queen Of Atlantis" #1, available February 28, 2018 is written by Dan Abnett and illustrated by Lan Medina, with covers by Nicola Scott and Stanley Lau:

"...as the brutal 'Atlantean Civil War' rages, 'Mera' must keep the peace between the surface world and 'Atlantis' as its newly anointed queen in exile. But when Aquaman's brother 'Orm', aka 'Ocean Master', learns of his homeland's fate, he'll stop at nothing to return to Atlantis as its king and savior..."

Actress Amber Heard plays Mera in the features "Justice League" and "Aquaman".

"It’s interesting", said Heard about her 'Mera' wardrobe. "It’s like, half a suit of armor and half scales.

The comic book character Mera debuted in DC's "Aquaman" #11 (September 1963), created by writer Jack Miller and illustrator Nick Cardy...

...as the former 'Queen of Dimension Aqua', 'Queen of Atlantis' and wife of 'Arthur Curry' aka 'Aquaman'.

DC Comics' "Detective Comics" #975, available February 28, 2018 is written by James Tynion IV and illustrated by Alvaro Martinez, Raul Fernandez, with covers by Guillem March and Rafael Albuquerque:

"...in 'The Trial of Batwoman', Batwoman faces scrutiny from Batman and 'Red Robin' but stands up for her actions.

"Will Batman allow her to continue bearing his symbol after everything she has done?..."

'Batwoman' is a wealthy heiress who becomes inspired by 'Batman' and chooses, like him, to put her wealth and resources towards a war on crime as a masked vigilante in her home of 'Gotham City'. 

The identity of Batwoman is shared by two heroines in mainstream DC publications; both women are named 'Katherine Kane', with the original Batwoman commonly referred to by her nickname 'Kathy' and the modern incarnation going by the name 'Kate'.

Batwoman was created by writer Edmond Hamilton and illustrated...

Wintertime, and the streaming is easy.... Hulu has announced the release dates for two new TV series: The Looming Tower and Hard Sun. Based on Lawrence Wright's non-fiction book, The Looming Tower TV show explores the lead-up to the terrorist attacks which struck the U.S. on September 11, 2001. The scripted drama stars Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Peter Sarsgaard, Bill Camp, Virginia Kull, Louis Cancelmi, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, Wrenn Schmidt, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Alec Baldwin. The Looming Tower season one, premieres on Hulu on Wednesday, February 28, 2017. Airing on BBC One in UK, the Hard Sun TV show comes from Luther creator Neil Cross. The Hulu crime drama follows detectives Robert Hicks (Jim Sturgess) and Elaine Renko (Agyness Deyn) who are just trying to put up with one another and do their jobs,...

Mirror mirror on the wall, who are the 2018 recipients of the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Awards? That would be Oscar-winning makeup man Greg Cannom and Emmy-winning hair-doer Mary Guerrero. Iatse Local 706 will apply its career honors during the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guildon February 28 at the Novo by Microsoft at L.A. Live. The Lifetime Achievement Award is given annually to…...

Achievement in Directing winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu “The Revenant” at The 88th Oscars® in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 28, 2016. ©A.M.P.A.S.

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Wednesday (October 25) to present a Special Award – an Oscar® statuette – to director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s virtual reality installation, “Carne y Arena (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible),” in recognition of a visionary and powerful experience in storytelling.

“The Governors of the Academy are proud to present a special Oscar to ‘Carne y Arena,’ in which Alejandro Iñárritu and his cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki have opened for us new doors of cinematic perception,” said Academy President John Bailey. “‘Carne y Arena,’ Iñárritu’s multimedia art and cinema experience, is a deeply emotional and physically immersive venture into the world of migrants crossing the desert of the American southwest in early dawn light. More than...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon is returning to the franchise to write a new spinoff comic book series based on a young Giles.

Whedon is co-writing alongside Erika Alexander on the four-issue series, which is called Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Giles. The art will be done by artist Jon Lam and colorist Dan Jackson. This will be the first time Whedon has written for Buffy since first two issues of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9.

The story follows Giles after he enrolls in a public city high school so that he could investigate a series of mysterious disappearances involving the school’s teachers. According to Av Club, the series will go back to its roots while exploring a very different educational environment. Whedon talked about the new story saying:

“Sunnydale was, apart from being on a hellmouth, a pretty privileged place. Giles has never really dealt with...

President Donald Trump isn’t just known for his tweets, but also, his manner of tweeting. He’s got a distinct voice, and favorite words that he loves to sprinkle throughout his 140 characters. The word that’s most synonymous with Trump? The label that’s become his go-to insult?

Sad.

Trump doesn’t hesitate to label something sad. In fact, he says it rather often, in both a serious way (when something actually brings him sorrow) or as an insult (when it’s a synonym for pathetic). By our count, he’s said it 64 times on Twitter alone. These are the people,...

ProducersScott RudinandRoy Furmanwill soon presentRodgers amp Hammerstein's classic musicalCarousel, directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien and choreographed byJustin Peck.Carousel will beginpreview performances on Wednesday, February 28, 2018, and willofficially openon Thursday, April 12 at the Imperial Theatre 249 West 45th Street.

A Colorado couple faces murder charges in the February death of their six-week old son, People confirms.

Married couple John Ostrander, 21, and 23-year-old Donica Mirabal were arrested Monday on first-degree murder and child abuse charges in the death of their son Zayden.

The couple has not been charged yet. They will remain in jail without bail until their first court appearance on September 14.

A medical examiner determined that the baby allegedly died as a result of “prolonged, intentional neglect/lack of care on the part of the caretakers,” according to an arrest affidavit obtained by People.

The arrests came after a six-month investigation,...

A killing spree which left people across Idaho terrified in the 1980s is profiled tonight on an Investigation Discovery. Paul Ezra Rhoades left three people dead when he went on the rampage in the state between February and March 1987. His reign of terror started when he abducted 21-year-old Stacy Baldwin Larsen at midnight on February 28 that year while she was working a late-night shift at the Red Mini Barn convenience store in Blackfoot. ID’s episode Night Shift Nightmare looks at how she was found in a pool of blood-soaked snow a few miles from the town after being...read more...

From the Los Angeles Times, February 28, 1959:

Conviction of Raymond Rohauer, 34, on the misdemeanor charge of exhibiting “obscene, indecent and immoral” motion pictures was reversed yesterday by the Appellate Department of Superior Court.

Rohauer was arrested Oct. 11, 1957, at a theater he was operating, 366 N La Cienga Blvd., following the showing of two films, “Fireworks” and “Voices.” Police charged that the pictures dealt with homosexuality and one depicted a nude woman.

But in an opinion written by Judge Frank G. Swain and concurred in by Judge Edward T. Bishop the appellate court found that the films merely discussed sexual problems and that the showing of a disrobed woman was not in itself obscene. Judge Leon T. David dissented.

Rohauer was found guilty Feb. 20, 1958 and later was fined $250 and placed on three years’ probation. He appealed through Atty. Stanley Fleishman. The conviction was recorded in Municipal Court.

Underground Film Journal notes:...

Kevin Tuerff was honored when his story was included in the Broadway musical, Come From Away. Tony-nominated American actor Chad Kimball portrays the author's story onstage. River Grove Books published 'Channel of Peace Stranded in Gander,' a memoir by author Kevin Tuerff, on February 28, 2017. It is the only first-person book of the events in Gander, Newfoundland on September 11, 2001.

France-based artists Patrick Massobrio and Nan take the long forgotten VHS tape and breathe new life (or death) into them. Long before Netflix, streaming, and even DVDs, there was the VHS tape, which are now sitting in landfills by the tons or at the thrift store. The bulky tapes didn't offer much in the way of fidelity, but they were a tangible item to hold in your hand to see the cover art and read the synopsis of the movie. It didn't take long for the smaller DVD, promising crisp visuals and unparalleled sonic capabilities, to wipe the VHS completely out of favor.

But now Massobrio and Nan have taken the VHS tape and repurposed it as a canvas for their art. Massobrio takes the tapes and paints iconic horror villains and other movie characters on to the tape, utilizing the guideposts as eyes for his renditions. He then affixes...

E3 2016, a time of great revelation and hope. Gaming companies took the stage, one by one, promising gamers the most incredible gaming experiences with sensational trailers and gameplay. While most of them debuted in glorious fanfare, several either disappointed, got pushed back, or were scrapped. As we look ahead to the promise of E3 2017, we first must look back and find out Where the biggest titles of E3 2016 are now.

Electronic Arts

We kick off this retrospective with the company that kicked off the most exciting part of E3 weekend, the E3 Press Conferences. This was the first year Electronic Arts had decided not to be part of E3, but to hold their own event a few doors down at La Live. EA didn’t just make waves with their sudden departure, they also made waves with the strange way they decided to hold their press conference. Instead of just...

"Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta" star Karlie Redd says 2 men broke into her garage and jacked her beloved Porsche, and she's suing a car dealership for organizing the heist. Now, the dealership -- Vanderhall Exotics of Houston -- would call it your run-of-the-mill repo ... but in docs, obtained by TMZ, Karlie says her 2014 Panamera was straight stolen. She says she'd made $43,300 worth of payments on the car she purchased for $57,397 -- but on February 28, around 2:53 Am,...

President Trump has long defined himself through photographs. But now that he’s in the White House, he’s learning that they can define him too.

As a business executive and later a reality TV star, Trump used carefully staged photographs to define his brand. The cover photo of “The Art of the Deal,” his best-selling book, showed him looking handsome, confident and rich while posing on top of the world in New York City.

In the White House, the trappings of the presidency have given Trump’s images even more power. At the same time, he’s photographed every...

Anyone who found “Manchester by the Sea” unbearably depressing would do well to turn back now. According to a prosecutor in New York, a married couple took a cue from Kenneth Lonergan’s Oscar-winning film by allegedly killing their adoptive son with special needs and attempting to cover up the murder by starting a fire.

Read More: Kenneth Lonergan on the Quiet Extremes of ‘Manchester by the Sea’: Awards Spotlight

In the film — spoilers to follow — the children of Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams’ characters die in an accidental house fire. “Within two hours of that movie playing to this defendant and her husband, Jeffrey’s deceased,” attorney Joseph McBride said of the crime. The couple are said to have watched “Manchester by the Sea” on February 28, just two days after it won the Academy Awards for Best Actor (Affleck) and Best Original Screenplay (Lonergan). Jeffrey Franklin was...

Carrie Kosinski dreamed of being a mother to a large family from the time she was a small child. So when doctors told her and her husband, Craig Kosinski, that they couldn’t have children naturally, she was devastated. Then fate intervened.

In July 2013, an acquaintance who was several months pregnant contacted her on Facebook to see if she and her husband wanted to adopt her baby. They agreed — but didn’t find out until later she was actually expecting twins. Adalynn and Kenna were born on Feb. 28, 2014.

The following year, the same woman reached out to them to say...

90th Academy Awards air March 4, 2018, after Winter Olympics in South Korea.

The Academy and ABC Television Network on Tuesday announced key dates for the 2018 season.

The 90th annual Academy Awards will air live on March 4, 2018, following the conclusion of the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, on February 25.

The Academy will announce the nominations on January 23, 2018.

Nominations voting opens on January 5, 2018, and closes on January 12, 2018. Final voting opens on February 20, 2018, and closes on February 27, 2018.

The Governors Awards are set for November 11, 2017.

The 91st Oscars will take place on February 24, 2019, followed by the 92nd on February 23, 2020, and the 23rd on February 28, 2021.

The Academy and the ABC Television Network today announced key dates for the 90th Oscars.

Back on the list is the Oscar Concert which had its inaugural premiere at the 86th Academy Awards during Oscar Week in 2014. Read our report here.

The Academy Awards presentation will air live on ABC on Oscar Sunday, March 4, 2018. Dates for the 91st, 92nd and 93rd Oscars presentations are set for February 24, 2019, February 23, 2020, and February 28, 2021, respectively.

Academy key dates for the 2017 Awards season are:

Saturday, November 11, 2017 Governors Awards Friday, January 5, 2018 Nominations voting opens Friday, January 12, 2018 Nominations voting closes Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Oscar Nominations Announcement Monday, February 5, 2018 Oscar Nominees Luncheon Saturday, February 10, 2018 Scientific and Technical Awards Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Finals voting opens Tuesday, February 27, 2018 Finals voting closes Wednesday, February 28, 2018 The Oscar Concert Sunday, March 4, 2018 90th Oscars

The date for the 90th Oscars was previously announced.

The 90th Oscars will be held at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood,...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the key dates for the 90th Academy Awards today and the biggest winners are, as expected, the Golden Globes.

Additionally, the Academy and ABC announced the telecast dates for the 91st, 92nd and 93rd Academy Awards which are set for February 24, 2019, February 23, 2020, and February 28, 2021, respectively.

Before jumping into how these dates impact awards season here’s the schedule announced:

Saturday, November 11, 2017 – Governors Awards

Friday, January 5, 2018 – Nominations voting opens

Friday, January 12, 2018 – Nominations voting closes

Tuesday, January 23, 2018 – Oscar Nominations Announcement

Monday, February 5, 2018 – Oscar Nominees Luncheon

Saturday, February 10, 2018 – Scientific and Technical Awards

Tuesday, February 20, 2018 – Finals voting opens

Tuesday, February 27, 2018 – Finals voting closes

Wednesday, February 28, 2018 – The Oscar Concert

Sunday, March 4, 2018 – 90th Oscars

The 90th ceremony was previously set for March 4 outside of its traditional February date because the 2018 Winter Games take place during its broadcast window.

Continue reading 2018 Oscar Voting Dates Give Golden Globes Boost at The Playlist.

The 90th Academy Awards will air live on ABC on March 4, 2018. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC also set dates for the 91st, 92nd and 93rd Oscars presentations: February 24, 2019, February 23, 2020, and February 28, 2021, respectively. Nominations for the upcoming Oscars will be announced January 23, 2018. The news comes as Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr reported that this year’s Oscar show producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd are near a deal to…...

The 90th Academy Awards will air live on ABC on March 4, 2018. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC also set dates for the 91st, 92nd and 93rd Oscars presentations: February 24, 2019, February 23, 2020, and February 28, 2021, respectively. Nominations for the upcoming Oscars will be announced January 23, 2018. The news comes as Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr reported that this year’s Oscar show producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd are near a deal to…...

The Academy of Arts and Motion Picture announced key dates for the 90th Academy Awards. The 90th Oscars will air live on ABC on March 4, 2018. It also announced dates for subsequent years,...

The Academy and ABC have confirmed key dates for the 90th Academy Awards, which will be held a week later than 2017. The 2018 Oscar show will air live on ABC on Sunday, March 4, as previously announced. The 2017 Oscars were held on February 26.

Going forward, the show will return to February: the 91st, 92nd and 93rd Oscars presentations are set for February 24, 2019, February 23, 2020, and February 28, 2021, respectively.

Read More: 2018 Oscar Predictions

Other Academy key dates for the 2017 awards season are:

Saturday, November 11, 2017

Governors Awards

Friday, January 5, 2018

Nominations voting opens

Friday, January 12, 2018

Nominations voting closes

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Oscar Nominations Announcement

Monday, February 5, 2018

Oscar Nominees Luncheon

Saturday, February 10, 2018

Scientific and Technical Awards

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Finals voting opens

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Finals voting closes

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

The Oscar Concert

Sunday, March 4, 2018

90th Oscars

As usual, the 90th Oscars will be held at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised...

Two of the Trump administration’s most prominent women, first daughter Ivanka Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, made an appearance together Tuesday morning in honor of Women’s History Month.

The pair were joined by Nasa astronaut Kay Hire at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, to celebrate and support women in science, technology, engineering and math — also known as Stem — fields with a special screening of the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures.

Hear from @NASA_Astronauts, @IvankaTrump & more at @AirAndSpace Museum for #WomensHistoryMonth on Nasa's @Snapchat: https://t.co/lcDapCrSnS pic.twitter.com/uEZfk6OGeV

— Nasa (@Nasa...

Actress Adria Arjona makes the leap from television (Emerald City) to the big screen in The Belko Experiment, currently playing in movie theaters, and she’s currently shooting the Pacific Rim sequel, Uprising to be released February 28, 2017. The actress is new on the Hollywood scene, but the Latina is already making waves and playing strong female leads in all three projects. While others have been sworn to secrecy surrounding Pacific Rim: Uprising, Arjona gives CineMovie the scoop on who she plays and why she won’t settle for just being the love interest.

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There was no This Is Us last night, but it was a primetime with a bit of song and dance, some explosions and a lot of encores. The second-to-last episode of the often-comedic crime procedural Bones (0.8/3) saw a blast go off and ratings rise. Coming off a New Girl (0.8/3) that was even with its March 14 show and an episode of The Mick (0.8/3) that was down a tenth from its last original February 28, Bones, which is wrapping 12th season, was up 14% among adults 18-49…...

After a month of longing to meet his newborn son, a Kurdish man stuck in northern Iraq due to Trump’s controversial executive order was finally able to enter the United States legally — and hold his baby boy for the very first time.

Hoger Ameen, 29, and his wife, Missouri nurse Rachel Adrian, welcomed son Aland into the world on February 2, but Trump’s entry ban into the U.S. from seven predominately Muslim countries left Ameen stuck overseas.

On February 28, days after Trump’s ban was lifted, Ameen returned home with help from U.S. Representative Sam Graves, who...

Broad City star Ilana Glazer secretly married longtime boyfriend, David Rooklin, on February 28, but kept the happy news hidden from the public. But now, Instagram posts from friends congratulating the newlyweds have been popping up on social media. Ilana Glazer’s Secret Wedding Revealed Two weeks ago, a friend posted a picture of the adorable couple, with […]

Source: uInterview

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Fans of classic film noir movies will not be disappointed in Cut To The Chase.

In the style of pessimism, fatalism, intrigue and plenty of twist and turns, director-actor Blayne Weaver’s Cut To The Chase delivers a fascinating film about a man who enters the underworld of Louisiana in order to search for his missing sister while being pursued by a notorious crime boss.

The film stares Weaver in the title role. Lance Henriksen (Aliens), Lyndie Greenwood (Sleepy Hollow) and Erin Cahill (Power Rangers Time Force) also star in the film.

The film opens theatrically nationwide on February 28 and will be available on VOD/Digital download on March 7. A DVD release is set in August.

Lrm was granted the video to announce exclusively the behind the scenes interview with the lovely actress Erin Cahill. She talks about her role and experience in Cut To The Chase.

Check it out below.

Michelle Obama is still devoted to “letting girls learn.”

The former first lady marked International Women’s Day with a surprise visit to 12 female students at a combined middle and high school in Washington, D.C.

Obama had a roundtable talk with the girls at Cardozo Education Campus, several of whom are from the school’s international program for recent immigrants, including some girls from Africa and Latin America.

She announced the visit on Snapchat Wednesday morning, saying: “We’re celebrating International Women’s Day with a group of amazing young women. We’re going to talk about education — the...

NBC’s “This Is Us” broke series records on Tuesday, reaching 11 million total viewers with its Season 1 penultimate episode. The show also set a new high-water mark in the key 18-49 demographic for a regular episode, putting up a 2.9 rating. “This Is Us” posted a 3.0 for a special January 10 airing at 10 p.m., which followed President Obama’s farewell address. Forget the lead-in asterisk, that one has to be thrown away due to its time slot. Originally, last night was intended to be the show’s Season 1 finale, though President Trump’s February 28 address to the nation pushed it back a week.

We Are The Flesh (Tenemos la carne)

Blu-ray

2017 / Color / 1:85 widescreen – though the aspect ratio changes at the director’s whim/110 min. / Street Date February 28, 2017

Starring: Noe Hernandez, María Evoli and Diego Gamaliel.

Cinematography: Yollótl Alvarado

Film Editor: Yibran Asuad and Emiliano Rocha Minter

Written by Emiliano Rocha Minter

Produced by Julio Chavezmontes and Moisés Cosío

Directed by Emiliano Rocha Minter

Teetering on that thin edge between the ludicrous and the even more ludicrous, Emiliano Rocha Minter’s We Are The Flesh is a spittle-flecked, willfully deranged vision of life in a post-apocalyptic Mexico. Since its release in 2016, Minter’s movie, adrift in bodily fluids and overwrought speechifying, has been turning both heads and stomachs at film festivals across Europe.

An unconvincing mix of Living Theatre provocations and Eraserhead-like tableaus of bursting placentas and the drip, drip, drip of menstrual blood, Minter’s movie announces itself with the...

A Democratic congressman has apologized for making a lewd joke about White House adviser Kellyanne Conway’s now-infamous Oval Office couch picture.

Rep. Cedric Richmond of Louisiana referenced the controversial photo of Conway kneeling on a couch in the Oval Office during a comedy routine at last week’s annual Washington Press Club Foundation congressional dinner, saying President Trump‘s top adviser looked “kind of familiar there in that position.”

The joke was met by groans from the room full of journalists, congressional staffers and politicians, ABC News reported.

After initially defending his comment, Richmond issued an apology Sunday night.

Taapsee Pannu’s character is all set to break some bones in her upcoming film, Naam Shabana, in which she plays a spy. The actress recently took to her Twitter, tweeting, “Bond may have had the gadgets but women make ‘bloody good spies’ coz they can multitask n hav a better understanding of emotions,” along with a new still from the film.

Bond may have had the gadgets but women make 'bloody good spies'coz they can multitask n hav a better understanding of emotions#NaamShabana pic.twitter.com/tFtsE5I7oE

— taapsee pannu (@taapsee) February 28, 2017

In a recent interview, Taapsee spoke about reprising her role of Shabana Khan, “The response that my character received in Baby made the filmmakers plan an entire film based on Shabana aka Meera. Frankly, there was no sequel or prequel.” The actor further shared that Naam Shabana is a perfect example of how audience...

It’s awful, it’s terrible, it’s difficult to watch — but it’s finally available in its original 3-D, in the improved Space-Vision process. A giant monkey attacks Seoul, trashing cardboard buildings, toy boats and a dead shark (and it’s not shamming). Keep a good movie on hand to rinse this one away immediately afterwards. Not recommended for people taking prescription medication. If simians persist, consult your doctor.

A*P*E

3-D Blu-ray

Kl Studio Classics

1976 / Color / 2:35 widescreen 3-D / 87 min. / ‘Attacking Primate monstEr’ / Street Date February 28, 2017 / 29.95

Starring Joanna Kerns, Alex Nicol, Rod Arrants, Nak-hun Lee.

Cinematography Tony Francis, Daniel L. Symmes

Editor Paul Leder

Original Music Bruce McRae

Written byPaul Leder, Reuben Leder

Produced by Paul Leder, K.M. Leung

Directed by Paul Leder

They say home video 3-D is in trouble, but viewers properly equipped are presently experiencing a renaissance in retrofitted and refurbished 3-D features.

It’s the question of the week: Where were you when the %100 Rotten Tomatoes score for Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” was broken? The Jordan Peele-directed social thriller had gotten all perfect reviews across the board from 149 critics, a rare feat that is pretty awesome considering the movie is a Jason Blum horror film and not the prestige dramas that usually rank high on the Tomatometer.

Read More: ‘Get Out’ Is the First of Many Jordan Peele ‘Social Thrillers’ Has Planned

But then came the 150th review from the infamous Armond White, who, let’s face it, was never going to agree with the status quo. He bashed the film as an “Obama movie for Tarantino fans” and criticized Peele for exploiting racial discomfort and “irresponsibly playing racial grief and racist relief off against each other, subjecting imagination and identification to political sway.”

Fans were heartbroken when the film...

Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture: Dream Casting of the Day: Russell Crowe has expressed interest in playing Cable in Deadpool 2, so of course BossLogic shows us what that'd look like: Revised my cable with some @russellcrowe since the idea is being pitched #Deadpool pic.twitter.com/yjDL3eLQv5 — BossLogic (@Bosslogic) February 28, 2017 Character History of the Day: Get ready for the release of Logan this weekend with Burger Fiction's look at the evolution of Wolverine in movies and TV: Fake Commercial of the Day: Since Wolverine is an old man in Logan, Nerdist made a pharmaceutical drug ad befitting the character and movie: Movie Franchise Recap of...

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What do you get when you combine an invisible dog, a frozen man in a diving suit, and a gender bending shocker? One kick ass show, that's what!

On Legion Season 1 Episode 4, answers are Finally being given, and boy, are we in for a wild ride going forward. In addition to telling us what the deal was with Kerry and Cary Loudermilk, we are finally drilling down to what's Really going on with David.

I was starting to get frustrated with the "unreliable narrator" model being used so far, and maybe the show-runners realized you can't build an entire series that way.

Thankfully, they fixed it in one fell swoop.

Melanie, finally figuring out they were spinning their wheels, sent the Scooby gang out into the real world to suss out just what was real and what wasn't. Thank you, Jesus!

Syd: What was real? That was the mission. We had seen things: heard things.

Can't you just picture the inscription on a certain mighty Martian marine's tombstone?

"Here lies Badass Bobbie Draper. She was always spoiling for a fight. If she'd only heeded the age-old Earth adage: 'Be careful what you wish for, because you mIght get it," she might've lived a little longer.

No amount of mixed-martial arts or combat training looks enough to save Bobbie — lying wounded on Ganymede's surface with a cracked helmet — from whatever the hell that sentient being is, standing above her and looking seriously pissed off.

Bobbie Draper's apparent demise, along with the deaths of her comrades in her unit and aboard the Martian military ship, the Scirroco, was one of several threads featured on The Expanse Season 2 Episode 6.

There were so many, in fact, this may have been the series' most ambitious, if not stellar, hour. It went down like an overstuffed burger with everything on it — tantalizingly juicy and delicious looking,...

The quest to bring Alice back took a dramatic turn.

When Quentin couldn't summon her Niffin, he headed back to Earth to say goodbye beside her parents on The Magicians Season 2 Episode 6 "The Cock Barrens."

That's when he received the biggest surprise of them all: Alice's Niffin survived the fight with his demon.

And Alice has been hitching a ride inside Quentin's tattoo all this time!

We have to take a moment to applaud this twist.

I assumed Alice would be back from the moment she appeared to die. These guys are magicians. They regularly travel to a magical fantasy world. How hard could it be to resurrect a powerful magician?

Alice did tell the Beast she knew what she was doing on The Magicians Season 2 Episode 3. She chose to become a Niffin. But now we have a bigger question: did she do it just to save her friends and stop the Beast?...

Clothing brand Zara is under fire for an ad that shows two slim models with the tagline, “Love your curves.”

Irish radio broadcaster Muireann O’Connell spotted the ad in Dublin, and posted a photo to Twitter with the caption, “You have got to be s——- me, Zara.”

She later clarified that she isn’t implying that the models are too thin.

“Can i just say, this is nothing to with the models. It’s the marketeers that have distorted their image & f—– up,” O’Connell said.

People has contacted Zara for comment.

Other Twitter users quickly responded in agreement.

Caroline Manzo is saying goodbye to reality television.

Just days after she welcomed her first grandchild — granddaughter Marchesa Anna Scalia — into the world on Feb. 24, the new grandmother is closing her chapter of starring in her own reality TV show.

On Tuesday, the Manzo’d with Children star revealed in a sweet Instagram post featuring her newborn granddaughter that the series — which documents her life with her husband (Albert) and three children (sons Albie and Christopher, and daughter Lauren) — has ended with its third and final season.

“After three Seasons of Manzo’d we out – Markie drops – we are forever grateful to our viewers,...