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What do 'Village of the Damned,' 'Dead Calm,' and 'Rare Exports' have in common?

Annette Bening, Sam Neill, Jake Lacy and Alison Brie star in a family melodrama, now streaming on Peacock TV. Or, you can watch the search for Abe Lincoln's killer on Apple TV+.

The Piano is a difficult and amazing film. It asks viewers to fully invest in the images, sounds, in its nuances, subtext, foreshadowing, and provocations. It’s not a difficult film to understand on its most surface level, but it is...

Shamier Anderson, Golshifteh Farahani, Sam Neill, Firas Nassar and Shioli Kutsuna star in a series created by Simon Kinberg and David Weil, now streaming on Apple TV+.

Sam Neill stars in director Roger Donaldson's provocative action drama, with Warren Oates in a featured role.

John Carpenter -- Halloween, The Thing, In the Mouth of Madness -- is a legend within horror filmmaker circles, with an undeniable reach that has extended beyond the black-clad hordes. In addition to his terrifying titles, he did some more mainstream films. Today, we're going...

Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country opens with Sam Neill's preacher Fred Smith sharing a meal with his Aboriginal farmhands Sam and Lizzie Kelly (exceptional newcomers Hamilton Morris and Natassia Gorey-Furber). "We're all equal in the eyes of the Lord," the preacher sermonizes as he...

This year's Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival - curated by the HKIFF Cinefan programme - revealed its line-up this morning, with Woody Allen's Cafe Society announced as opening film and Paul Verhoeven's Elle closing festivities which run from 16-30...

Taika Waititi can do no wrong. From his wonderful short films to his features, and through his work on the hilarious TV show Flight of the Conchords, all of his efforts have been pitch perfect. Yet because of his last...

Simon Stone's The Daughter is an interesting debut drama about a small community united by a somewhat brooding lumber mill owner played by Geoffrey Rush. The real focus of the film falls on two families both united by this slowly liquidating timber...

Taika Waititi can do no wrong. From his wonderful short films to his features, and through his work on the hilarious TV show Flight of the Conchords, all of his efforts have been pitch perfect. Yet because of his last...

(It's a psychological art-house drama, but with rather more gore, explosions and tentacle-sex than is usual in this genre...) Ever since Criterion coined the term "Special Edition" for some of their laserdiscs, over two decades ago, the concept has...

The Adventurer reminds me a lot of films from my youth like Something Wicked This Way Comes and Young Sherlock Holmes. Family oriented films, but slightly darker. But, perhaps just going by the title I expected a bit more... fun....

In anticipation of its theatrical release this Friday we have been given an exclusive clip from the family adventure and fantasy film The Adventurer: Curse of the Midas Box. The movie is based on the novel Mariah Mundi: The Midas...