Category: Movie

They say there are no bad seats at The Eras Tour, but one "mysterious figure" had a very surprising seat.

Read our review of 'Late Night with the Devil,' starring David Dastmalchian, that premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film & TV Festival and is now releasing.

"All animals deserve to go back home, no matter where they come from." An in-production promo trailer has debuted online for a stop-motion animation film titled Brave Cat, the very first feature film made by the Chilean animation group called Punkrobot Studio. Punkrobot is already a renowned animation studio - they won Chile's first Oscar in 2016 for the short film Bear Story (watch here) then went on to work for Lucasfilm making one of the Star Wars Visions: Vol. 2 shorts that debuted last year. Their new feature film follows Kona, a teenage forest cat who decides to face her fears and search for her missing mother, who was kidnapped by the circus dogs long ago. She's joined by Colin, an abandoned guard dog puppy, and Bernard, a runaway old circus bear. Director Gabriel Osorio explains that this is "a successor to Bear Story in a way... while [that film] told a story from the point of view of someone exiled, Brave Cat tells the story of someone searching for their missing loved one." It's still in the works ...

Saying goodbye isn't fun.

Look at all these cute lil' buggers! Crawling around and being adorable. But wait, what happens next? This amusing 4-minute animated short film called Zoon is now online for everyone to watch. It first premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and has been screening at tons of other festivals for the past two years. Zoon is created and directed by German animation filmmaker Jonatan Schwenk, who really loves hybrid animation and always cooks up clever concepts in his funky stop-motion shorts. (He also did sound design for this short Rules of Play with his friend Merlin Flügel.) Residing in a swamp at the bottom of a nocturnal forest, a group of gleaming axolotls pursue lustful games. The creatures relish nuzzling one another & also nibbling their companions' limbs. One review says this is about "the beauty and cruelty of nature." Though I'd argue that what happens in the second half is more about the idiocy and careless of humanity, messing around with things they have no understanding of. As usual. Maybe you have another interpretation of this? Thanks to Vimeo ...

"By protecting others you save yourself." Janus Films in the US has revealed their own trailer for the 4K re-release of Seven Samurai honoring the 70th Anniversary of this iconic B&W action classic from Japan. Kurosawa's Seven Samurai first opened in Japan in 1954 and also played at the 1954 Venice Film Festival. To celebrate this year's 70th anniversary, the 2024 Cannes Film Festival just hosted a screening of this fresh 4K restoration (here's the French trailer from last week). Seven Samurai is "one of the most renowned films in the history of Japanese cinema. We decided to restore this film in 4K using the latest technology at TOHO Archives Co., Ltd. [for the] 70th anniversary of its initial theatrical release in Japan." The tranquility of a small Japanese village is disturbed by repeated attacks by a band of looters. Seven masterless samurai agree to defend the helpless peasants in this seminal classic. With Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, and Keiko Tsushima. The film is already available on Criterion Blu-ray and will also be getting a proper theatrical re-release in US ...

Since it first aired in 2001, Band of Brothers' dramaticization of the D-Day campaign has only become more resonant, despite its unusual approach.

'The Boys' released a new poster ahead of the Season 4 premiere on Prime Video highlighting the sinister Homelander and his supe son Ryan.

Joe's observations about the world, the hilarious and spontaneous one-liners, and his incredulous lines about love and literature are quite memorable.