“What makes you think I can do this?!” In honor of the Annecy Film Festival for animation this week, I’m featuring a few animated short films that are worth watching. This one is titled Spell of the West, made by CalArts student Sam Lane. She made this as her third year film in the Experimental […]
“The Devil doesn’t have to hide. He roams freely amongst us…” IFC Midnight has debuted an official trailer for an Irish horror film titled The Devil’s Doorway, which played at the Seattle Film Festival earlier this summer. The film is the feature directorial debut of Aislinn Clarke, and tells the story of two priests who […]
I’m back in France! Only one month after the Cannes Film Festival, I have returned to France for another film festival – Annecy. For years I’d heard about Annecy, but for years I thought it was a festival only for animators and industry insiders and people who work on the films. Last year I learned […]
“One week clean! Then a whole lifetime…” Netflix has released an official trailer for a documentary titled Recovery Boys, the latest from filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon (Lincoln County Massacre, Hollow: An Interactive Documentary, 11/8/16). This just premiered at the Hot Docs festival last month, and will be available on Netflix at the end of this […]
We are well into the 2018 summer movie season, and it’s a good time to step away from the extraordinary heroes, superhuman villains, and dangerous technology that generally make up the blockbuster fare seeing release. Instead we’ll be discussing Upgrade, a film about, well, an extraordinary hero, some superhuman villains, and dangerous technology but on […]
“There’s something evil in this house…” Focus Features has debuted the first official trailer for The Little Stranger, the latest film from director Lenny Abrahamson (Frank, Room). This suspense horror is set in the 1940s, where a country doctor encounters a family “haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life.” The film […]
“Whatever that was, it wudn’t baseball!” Gravitas Ventures has released the first official trailer for an indie comedy titled Benched, formerly known as Rounding Third while in production. This awkward, amusing comedy is about two little league baseball coach dads assigned to the same team who have to figure out how to work together, and […]
“You know what we call it?” A teaser trailer has debuted online for a film titled Friday’s Child, the latest feature from filmmaker A.J. Edwards, who worked for Terrence Malick as his editor before jumping into making his own films. Tye Sheridan stars as young drifter Richie, fresh out of foster care, trying to figure […]
“Why are you here?” “I had a run in with a space alien.” 20th Century Fox has debuted a new TV trailer, a 60-second spot, for Shane Black’s new The Predator movie. We only just got the very first teaser trailer for this a month ago, and it’s scheduled for release in September, so it’s […]
“There are risks, but we have every intention of coming back.” Universal has unveiled the first official trailer for Damien Chazelle’s highly anticipated next film, titled First Man, a look at the life of astronaut Neil Armstrong leading up to his voyage on Apollo 11 and first steps on the moon in July of 1969. […]
