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Don’t think because Laika founder Travis Knight moved over to live-action with Bumblebee and Masters of the Universe that he’s somehow lost a love for stop-motion animation. Knight will direct his first animated movie since 2016’s incredible Kubo and the Two Strings with the long-awaited dark fantasy film, Wildwood, and an astonish...

A24 is reteaming with Bodies Bodies Bodies and Babygirl director Halina Reijn for her third film, titled Please, and it continues a trend of star-studded ensembles. Already set to feature Tom Burke (Black Bag) and Grammy nominated singer-turned-actress Gracie Abrams, the film has added rising stars David Jonsson and Connor Storrie. Variety reported the news […]

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The preternatural connection between twin siblings is something most of us will never understand. We’ve heard the stories; being able to feel one another’s physical pain, almost a psychic link that bonds them across distances. But what if those twins are together forged by fire, tragedy, and abandonment? What does that connection then look like? […]

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Following his English-language debut The Room Next Door, Pedro Almodovar returns to many of his pet themes with Bitter Christmas. Sony Pictures Classics has released the trailer for Bitter Christmas, a female-focused tragicomedy that tells dual stories on guilt, memory, identity, creative control, and autofiction. Bitter Christmas tells parallel stories, one set in 2004 as […...

This almost always happens with the horror genre, but every now and then, you catch one that you know instantly that it’s going to be a film everyone is talking about. Last year, we all felt that way about Weapons the moment we saw it. And this year, I believe that movie is Obsession. Focus […]

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