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Now Playing: GODZILLA MINUS ZERO, PARADISE LOST, RAMAYANA: RISE OF A LEGEND
Plus: 'The Last Temptation of Becky,' 'Trauma or, Monsters All,' 'Hen,' 'Wild Horse Nine,' 'Club Kid,' 'Mouse,' 'I Play Rocky,' 'Being Heumann.'
Friday One Sheet: KAROSHI
The future Manhattan skies will rain blood in the key art for Takashi Doscher's Karoshi. The term itself is Japanese for 'died from overwork.' The producer of the film is one of the hardest working guys in modern action cinema:...
Echoes: 7 Pakistani Folk Tales That Could Become Incredible Fantasy Movies
The Pakistani film industry has certain weaknesses, which it is trying to overcome with its recent risk-taking endeavors, and it has proven fruitful to some extent. The country's mainstream attempt in the zombie genre with Zombeid (2026) and the region's...
Opening This Week: GODZILLA MINUS ZERO, PARADISE LOST, RAMAYANA: RISE OF A LEGEND
Plus: 'Wild Horse Nine,' 'Club Kid,' 'Hen,' 'Mouse,' 'Being Heumann,' 'Trauma or, Monsters All,' 'The Last Temptation of Becky.'
Friday One Sheet: DUNE PART 3
Like everything with WB and Denis Villeneuve's Dune franchise, things are designed and presented with polished perfection. I do not believe we have highlighted any of the key art from the franchise in this column previously, though. So here we...
Echoes: What Does a 13-Minute Oscar-Qualifying Short Film Mean for Pakistan's Short Film Industry?
I've talked at length about how the Pakistani film industry has always suffered from limited resources, lack of funding, and insufficient training for newcomers, but time and again, a short film has proven that Lollywood can shine through, no matter...
Sound And Vision: Lance Oppenheim
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Phoebe Bridger's Lost Boys, directed by Lance Oppenheim. Lance Oppenheim currently is the most buzzy name in...
Now Playing: WICKER, WILDWOOD, CLAYFACE, POSSIBLE LOVE
Plus: 'A Talent for Murder' and 'Klara and the Sun.'
Friday One Sheet: THE PRESTIGE @ 20
Arguably Christopher Nolan's best film, The Prestige returns to the biggest of screens, blown up from its gorgeous 35mm photography to screen via 70mm and IMAX presentations, just over twenty years after its original release in 2006. The film has...
Opening This Week: WICKER Man, WILDWOOD Rescue, CLAYFACE Horror
Plus: 'A Talent for Murder,' 'Klara and the Sun,' 'Possible Love.'
Now Playing: WHALEFALL, STREET FIGHTER, MUSK, YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING
Plus: 'Ken Russell's The Devils,' 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,' 'Sense and Sensibility,' 'Once Upon a Time in Harlem,' 'La Bola Negra,' 'Crawlers.'
Friday One Sheet: HURRICANNA
Francesca Gregorini's look at the final days of model, actress, billionaires wife, and eventual celebrity punchline, Anna Nicole Smith, gets the arthouse marketing treatment with this 'slide puzzle' style key art. It features an out-of-focus Sylvia Hoeks as Smith in...
Echoes: Do Pakistani Films Need International Recognition to Prove Their Worth?
Iram Parveen Bilal's Wakhri (2024) won the Best Director Feature Film award at the 5th Yellowstone International Film Festival (YIFF) in New Delhi, India. Co-produced and directed by Iram Parveen, the drama film is inspired by the life of late...
Opening This Week: WHALEFALL Swallowed, STREET FIGHTER Mauled, KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS Restored
Plus: 'Musk,' ''You Can See Everything,' 'Crawlers,' 'Sense and Sensibility,' 'La Bola Negra,' 'Once Upon a Time in Harlem,' 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.'
HALLOWIEBE OVERDRIVE: This Is NOT A Review...
I normally don't review Dutch movies aimed at children, but there is a first time for everything and last year that was what happened with Hallowiebe, a fun family film with a Halloween theme. I am a big fan of...
Now Playing: OTHER MOMMY, FJORD, ANIMALS, TENZING
Plus: 'Once Upon a Time in the Middle East,' 'The Beast,' 'The Social Reckoning.'
Friday One Sheet: MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE
It has been 20 years since Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette was booed at its Cannes debut, before becoming an instant cult classic in its commercial release. I remember the splashy marketing, the contrast of a lavishly produced period picture with...
Pretty Packaging: Imprint's SPECIES And SPECIES II Boxset Is One Of A Kind
I always love it when a distributor goes crazy with releasing a film, and few go quite as crazy as Australian distributor Via Vision with their Imprint label. Note that their more normal editions are nothing to sneeze at either,...
Echoes: HANGING BY A WIRE, Pakistan's First Academy Award Documentary Entry, Was Shot Entirely on a Phone
On the morning of August 22, 2023, people in the Allai Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, looked up. No one could believe their eyes when they saw a cable car hanging hundreds of feet above, suspended by the last cable that was...
Opening This Week: OTHER MOMMY, FJORD, ANIMALS, TENZING
Plus: 'Once Upon a Time in the Middle East,' 'The Beast,' 'The Social Reckoning.'
