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fromWIRED
1 hour ago

A New Horror Movie Depicts Realistic Snuff. That's Not the Most Disturbing Thing About It

The reboot of Faces of Death reflects modern society's exposure to real violence through social media and its impact on viewers.
Agriculture
fromGameSpot
4 days ago

Twin Peaks Meets Stardew Valley In A Creepy New Farming Nightmare

Crop combines atmospheric agriculture with investigative thriller elements, focusing on survival and unraveling a psychological horror narrative.
Independent films
fromFast Company
3 days ago

'Exit 8' and liminal space horror: A low-budget movie trend shaped by Gen Z's most traumatic formative years

Independent distributors are focusing on low-budget horror films set in liminal spaces, appealing to Gen Z's love for horror.
Books
fromAnOther
5 days ago

Larry Clark and James Gilroy Revisit Their Youth

Larry Clark and James Gilroy's collaboration captures their unique friendship and shared experiences through photography and drawings, reflecting a life lived authentically.
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fromThe Bold Italic
11 hours ago

Tosca Musk made a movie about sex in San Francisco. It's exactly as weird as it sounds.

Wallbanger is a low-budget romantic film directed by Tosca Musk, available on the niche streaming service Passionflix.
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fromInverse
1 week ago

The Best Paranoid Horror-Comedy That You Missed Is On Peacock

The ' Burbs explores neighborhood paranoia and microaggressions through the lens of a black mother navigating her new community.
fromArtnet News
2 weeks ago

Guillermo Del Toro Scored a Different Prize at the Oscars: A Rare Frankenstein Painting

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein earned nine nominations ahead of the 98th Academy Awards, but he did not win the Best Picture award despite the film's success in other categories.
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fromSFGATE
4 days ago

Movie legend tells all about his SF apartment, taking LSD and people-watching

John Waters' unique filmmaking style has gained recognition and influence, contrasting with mainstream culture since the late 1960s.
Television
fromConsequence
2 weeks ago

Stream On This Week: A Fantastic Time Travel Flick, a James Bond Riff, and Some Mindblowing Color Theories

Stream On provides weekly recommendations for films and TV shows across various streaming platforms.
Independent films
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Just Released An Eerie Psychological Thriller Like No Other

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Chime explores modern terrors through a ringing sound that incites violence, reflecting societal issues and psychological pressures.
fromAnOther
6 days ago

Night Stage: Anatomy of a Modern Erotic Thriller

The illicit thrill of hidden desires definitely propels Night Stage, a riveting queer noir about an up-and-coming actor Matias and an aspiring politician Rafael who begin hooking up in public spaces.
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fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice Has Midnight-Movie Potential

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is a super-violent action-comedy featuring Vince Vaughn in a dual role, reminiscent of early 2000s cinema.
Typography
fromfontsinuse.com
4 weeks ago

Pussy Wagon

The Pussy Wagon, a pink Chevrolet Silverado from Kill Bill: Volume 1, reframes a sexist term through Tarantino's affirmation, becoming an iconic symbol of female revenge and empowerment.
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from48 hills
1 week ago

Screen Grabs: Aliens, witches, mermaids, and other swell company - 48 hills

Love can take unconventional forms, as seen in films featuring relationships with aliens, witches, and other offbeat characters.
Beer
fromFuncheap
1 month ago

Burton Fest: Inspired by the Mind of Tim Burton (Easy Bay)

Burton Fest celebrates Tim Burton's aesthetic with themed experiences, gothic cocktails, and whimsical attractions across multiple immersive zones.
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fromThe Independent
1 week ago

How Backrooms went from a viral 4chan post to an A24 movie starring acclaimed actor

A24's horror film Backrooms explores a fictional liminal space inspired by a viral internet myth from 4chan.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Carnivale revisited: is this HBO's strangest show?

Carnivale, an HBO series cancelled after two seasons, follows a carnival traveling through 1930s America while weaving parallel stories of a mysterious ex-con and a visionary preacher destined to collide in cosmic conflict.
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Henry Darger's Secret World Comes to the Stage | Artnet News

Henry Darger, a reclusive Chicago janitor and outsider artist, has gained significant posthumous recognition through a new theatrical production adapting his life and writings for the stage.
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fromInverse
2 weeks ago

Why The Most Baffling Body Horror Movie Of The Year Is Not What You Think It Is

Julia Ducournau's film Alpha uses an imaginary disease as a metaphor for paranoia during the AIDS pandemic, focusing on family trauma and coming-of-age.
fromLondon On The Inside
3 weeks ago

Escape Reality with This Blade Runner Double Feature

Kick off with Ridley Scott's 1982 OG Blade Runner: The Final Cut, which stars Harrison Ford as a special agent on a mission to exterminate escaped androids. Ford is joined by Ryan Gosling in the Denis Villeneuve-directed Blade Runner 2049, which is sure to whet your appetite for Dune: Part Three - hitting cinemas this December.
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fromIndieWire
2 months ago

A Year After David Lynch's Death, the Band Xiu Xiu Is Keeping 'Eraserhead' Alive Onstage

Xiu Xiu reinterpret David Lynch's film soundscapes, touring Eraserhead while treating fandom as deeply impactful, participatory artistic engagement.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Dead Lover review go-for-broke grotesquerie promises fragrant filth in full Stink-O-Vision

Dead Lover's heroine is odorous by trade, a lovelorn gravedigger of indeterminate age and origin. Glowicki's accent, roaming between Canada, Canvey Island and Canberra, becomes part of the fun—she's driven to extremes after her verse-spouting poet sweetheart perishes in a shipwreck. Part-Burke and Hare, part-Victor Frankenstein, she salvages what she can of the corpse.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

It's a trompe-l'il, it can't even turn you on': Have on-screen bodies become too unrealistic?

Despite increased sexual content in film and television, critics argue these portrayals lack genuine eroticism due to idealized bodies and choreographed encounters, potentially causing audience fatigue.
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fromVulture
4 weeks ago

Paul Thomas Anderson Explains Himself (Kind Of)

Paul Thomas Anderson wrote One Battle After Another for his children to explore how his generation left the world for theirs, addressing complex character portrayals and generational themes.
fromInverse
4 weeks ago

25 Years Later, Christopher Nolan's First Great Noir Thriller Remains His Most Essential

Memento provides a Rosetta Stone to decode deeper meaning within his larger-scale efforts, offering a window into the complex paradoxes that add thematic weight to his intricately plotted stories. Nolan's films often jump from a familiar genre archetype. In Memento, Guy Pearce's Leonard Shelby recalls the weary antiheroes of film noir, but his filmography is full of familiar figures ranging from superheroes to great men of history.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

Uncanny Valley Forge! Here's Why One New AI Movie From A Great Director Looks Bizarre AF

Darren Aronofsky's AI-generated 1776 reenactments feel soulless, visually limited, and historically inaccurate due to current AI cinematic technology.
US politics
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Death in Minnesota: A Tale of Two Alternate Realities

Moral judgments about the Trump administration and ICE shape polarized interpretations of two recent fatal federal shootings in Minnesota, preventing consensus on justification.
Film
fromVulture
1 month ago

What Happens in the Mirror Universe Where Leo Chooses Boogie Nights

Leonardo DiCaprio's decision to star in Titanic instead of Boogie Nights was his biggest career regret, raising questions about how different both actors' trajectories would have been.
Television
fromVulture
1 month ago

'Oh My God, They're Ruining the Show'

Revealing Laura Palmer's killer undermined Twin Peaks' core mystery and disrupted the show's narrative momentum, contributing to its decline in season two.
Arts
from48 hills
2 months ago

His suburban idylls teem with the 'uncanny magic of the exceptionally unexceptional' - 48 hills

Jonathan Crow’s American Realist paintings prioritize mood, composition, and color to evoke intuitive, music-like emotional responses that resist simple verbal definition.
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

Stanley Kubrick's Final Mystery

Eyes Wide Shut was stranger than that: a meditative art film whose much-hyped orgy scene is more creepy than sexy, run by a cabal of rich and powerful men who prey on young women.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

What did I just watch?' The TV shows that utterly baffle us but we can't switch off

The Chair Company revels in surreal, unanswerable absurdity, while Industry immerses viewers in impenetrable finance jargon and an exclusive, money-driven culture.
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

Stunning Dark Occult Art By Los Angeles Illustrator And Anesthetist Lizz Lopez

Global contemporary visual art showcases varied mediums, inventive techniques, and socially engaged, playful projects spanning photography, sculpture, illustration, street art, and design.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

The Perverse, Tender Worlds of Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson uses meticulous sound design and minute details to explore control, narcissism, and power dynamics in intimate relationships within a 1950s London couture setting.
Film
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Six Bizarre Movies That Are Actually Fun to Watch

Atlantic writers recommend bizarre films that balance weirdness with entertainment value, including Iron Sky about Nazis on the moon and Jupiter Ascending.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Gus Van Sant: My assistant wanted to erect a statue of Luigi Mangione. My generation thought: this is murder'

Director Gus Van Sant dramatizes the 1977 Tony Kiritsis hostage crisis, a 63-hour standoff involving a shotgun wire attached to a hostage's head, in the film Dead Man's Wire.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Stunning Daily Renders Blending Cinema 4D And AI Into Otherworldly Scenes by Will Toulan

Dad Gets Tattoo So His 6-Year-Old Daughter Wouldn't Feel Different 21 Watercolors That Show How The Sun And Shadows Change Cities The Designer Reveals His Suggestions for Redesigning Famous Brands Naive, Super: Lovely Paintings by Angela Smyth Creative Spontaneous Sketches of Faces and Figures by Pawe Ponichtera Logo Artists Reinterpreted 38 Of The Most Recognizable Logos With A Single Unbroken Line Artist Paints While Under The Influence Of 20 Different Drugs The Uncannily Realistic Landscapes Of Carolyn H. Edlund
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fromInverse
1 month ago

30 Years Later, The Coen Brothers' First Noir Masterpiece Is Still Chilling

Fargo feels like Blood Simple, the Coens' neo-noir debut, got fed through the genre, well, woodchipper, producing a pitch-black comedy about the emptiness of greed. It's messing with you from the moment it opens with a blatant lie about being a true story, with Joel Coen later saying, 'If an audience believes that something's based on a real event, it gives you permission to do things they may otherwise not accept.'
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fromArtforum
2 months ago

Suburban Sublime

SORRAT transformed Neihardt's grief into a cross-disciplinary psychic experiment that merged poetry, ritual, science, and avant-garde art to probe consciousness and the afterlife.
fromConsequence
2 months ago

The Beauty Review: Ryan Murphy's Deranged X-Files Remix Knows that It's Camp

The new FX series The Beauty opens in Paris, as a model played by Bella Hadid strides down a fashion show runway to the tune of Prodigy's "Firestarter." Then, she starts to overheat, going on a rampage that involves grabbing bottles of water out of people's hands, stealing a motorcycle, drinking out of a toilet, and eventually meeting a gruesome, explosive end.
Television
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

No place like home: A road trip through a father and daughter's nightmares * Oregon ArtsWatch

To pass the time, the pair play a game they've shared since Daughter's childhood, triumphantly rattling off palindromes - words that read the same backwards and forwards, such as "m-o-m," "d-a-d," "s-i-s" and "r-a-c-e-c-a-r." As the game gets increasingly complex ("name now one man"), it becomes clear that Dana's play is a dark palindrome itself, where circling dialog and damaging relationship dramas repeat themselves.
Arts
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Kyle MacLachlan: You have to let failure bring you to uncomfortable places and find out it's never personal'

Kyle MacLachlan (Washington, 66 years old) is not used to contemplating the apocalypse. It's enough to make it to the end of the day, the actor jokes from his Los Angeles home. In one hand, he holds a cup of black coffee a la Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks, and in the other, a fistful of nuts. I'm going to eat breakfast while we talk, he warns, with his habitual blend of amiability and oddity.
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Arts
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

'Pillion' is a wildly entertaining dark comedy about sex and power

A bleak 1970s novel about a young man's abusive BDSM relationship was adapted into a lighter, present-day film that reframes abuse as emotional neglect.
fromPortland Mercury
1 month ago

Bruce Campbell on Death, Dying, and DIYing His New Movie Ernie & Emma

Who needs all those notes? I got tired of that. Really, really tired of that. And I'm like, man, if you're in the arts, you should do everything you can to protect your art. So Campbell knew he wanted to make a movie, and he knew he didn't want to go through the big Hollywood machine.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

Hulu Just Quietly Released The Most Ridiculous Sci-Fi Show Of The Year

I try to be a sophisticated TV viewer. I watch as many miniseries as I can, keep up to date with the latest in Prestige TV, and make sure I don't miss out on any sleeper hits. However, I'm also self-actualized enough to admit that I love my fair share of slop. I religiously watch RuPaul's Drag Race, 90 Day Fiancé, and whatever weird reality craze has grasped pop culture.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time

Crowd-curated liminal photography captures eerie, nostalgic unease in abandoned commercial spaces, reflecting a collective artistic response to late-capitalist decline.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Obex review surreal Lynchian vibes in inventive retro gaming tribute

A surrealist film blends 1980s computing aesthetics with video game fantasy, following a reclusive ASCII artist whose personalized game avatar and a demon invasion blur reality and digital escapism.
fromPortland Mercury
2 months ago

The Portland-Raised Playwright Behind Artists Repertory's Palindrome Play Racecar Racecar Racecar

For playwright Kallan Dana, having Racecar Racecar Racecar produced at Artists Repertory Theatre is a special homecoming. "I feel so lucky to get to come back and do a show there," she says. "The Portland theater scene was such a huge part of my childhood and adolescence." Now living in Brooklyn, Dana grew up in Multnomah Village. Theater was a huge part of her childhood, her parents often took her to Artists Rep shows,
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fromBustle
2 months ago

'Vanished' Starts Sweet, Then Drops You Into A Twist-Heavy Mystery You'll Devour

A woman’s romantic trip turns into a dangerous, twisty thriller as she pursues her mysteriously disappeared boyfriend across Europe, becoming a competent, action-ready heroine.
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

Hyperpop, poetry, BDSM or a Moroccan rave allegory? Choose your own cinematic adventure

Charli XCX stars in The Moment, a hyperpop faux documentary examining fame and commercialization; Alexander Skarsgård appears in both comedic and BDSM-romantic roles.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Eternally spellbinding': the TV shows that baffle you but you can't get enough of

Catterick, Monkey Dust, The OA, and Mrs Davies deliver surreal, darkly comic, and increasingly bizarre narratives blending crime, dreamlike animation, sci‑fi, and oddball humor.
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fromQueerty
1 month ago

With its short-shorts & shocking twist ending, is this slasher problematic or a queer camp classic? - Queerty

Sleepaway Camp is a 1983 slasher featuring a controversial queer twist that has become significant in queer film history despite its problematic nature.
fromEsquire
1 month ago

How A24's Liminal Horror Movie 'Backrooms' Was Born From the Internet

Until recently, "liminal spaces" were only known to architects. But on the Internet, storytellers and amateur filmmakers have morphed these ubiquitous places you pass by on errand runs into caverns of cosmic terror. Now, a new A24 film from 20-year-old filmmaker Kane Parsons is set to kick off the summer and christen it the season of liminal horror.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

The Weirdest Existential Thriller Of The 2000s Just Got A Huge Upgrade

Birth portrays a widow's unresolved grief and rising doubt when a child claims to be her late husband's reincarnation, unsettling her attempt to move on.
fromPinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news
1 month ago

Teaser for Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder's new queer horror lands

After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original movie's star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Grim reapers: what has fertilised the rich new wave of neo-rural noir?

European neo-rural cinema depicts collisions between tradition and modernity in the countryside and portrays nature, not locals, as the primary source of threat.
fromOpen Culture
2 months ago

How the "Netflix Movie" Turns Cinema into "Visual Muzak"

A quarter-century later, it's safe to say that those days have come to an end. Not only does the streaming-only Netflix of the twenty-twenties no longer transmit movies on DVD through the mail (a service its younger users have trouble even imagining), it ranks approximately nowhere as a preferred cinephile destination. That has to do with a selection much diminished since the DVD days
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Another World review kaleidoscopic afterlife fairytale with the dark fury of a Greek tragedy

Another World is a visually stunning, violent fairytale animation exploring human destructiveness and the beauty of the human heart.
Film
fromInverse
2 months ago

'Dead Man's Wire' Proves Gus Van Sant Movies Still Matter

Dead Man's Wire is a taut, timely crime thriller and strong Gus Van Sant comeback dramatizing a 1977 three-day hostage standoff with crowd-pleasing energy.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was never a love story. It was a warning

Memory-erasure technology fails, exposing the limits of control and moral consequences, framing Eternal Sunshine more as hard science fiction than a simple tender love story.
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

"The Psychological Horror of Being a 13-Year-Old": Charlie Polinger on The Plague

After spotting that Eli's rash guard conceals a red, flaky skin disorder, the boys have concluded that he has the titular plague, a contagious disease that affects social standing as much as it does dermatological well-being. If anyone ever touches him, they must thoroughly wash themselves before they're considered full-blown infected. Even something as innocent as Eli sitting at the same lunch table sends his teammates running and screaming.
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fromKqed
3 months ago

'Dead Man's Wire' Is a Retro Thriller That's Pertinent to the Present

Dead Man's Wire channels Dog Day Afternoon's righteous rage and contemporary echoes, propelled by Bill Skarsgård's intense performance and critique of media spectacle and capitalism.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

"Crime 101" Is an Enjoyably Moody Exercise in Michael Mann Lite

Crime 101 blends strong noir elements and coastal motifs with an uneven, cliché-prone depiction of Los Angeles.
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fromQueerty
1 month ago

A raunchy new Gregg Araki comedy just dropped & it's the perfect excuse to rewatch his other queer classic - Queerty

Gregg Araki's I Want Your Sex secured theatrical distribution and one of his acclaimed films will receive a restored re-release.
Film
fromInsideHook
2 months ago

In Defense of Movie Sex Scenes

Onscreen sex scenes can be narratively essential but are often gratuitous, harmful, or disruptive when objectifying participants, reinforcing stereotypes, or damaging a film's flow.
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fromPortland Mercury
2 months ago

Movie Review: 'Dead Man's Wire' Sees Gus Van Sant Return to His True Crime Roots

Al Pacino delivers a low-effort, seated cameo while Bill Skarsgård brings intense energy to a mostly uncomplicated, true-crime potboiler directed by Gus Van Sant.
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fromVulture
2 months ago

Why Are So Many Movies About Kidnappings Right Now?

Contemporary hostage films use captivity to interrogate power imbalances, allowing marginalized figures to confront untouchable elites and reflect wider social anxieties.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

An Office Worker's Fantasy Brought to Life

Sam Raimi is one of Hollywood's finest purveyors of junk. I say this with love and reverence, and with full acknowledgment that he's the man behind such masterpieces as Evil Dead II and A Simple Plan. But the director has spent decades digging for gold amid pulpier genres, turning out oddball horror, thriller, and comic-book movies. As his career went on, Raimi graduated to making blockbuster versions of junk, including the first Spider-Man trilogy and, most recently, a Doctor Strange sequel for Marvel.
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fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

'A whole new experience of Kubrick' - Harvard Gazette

I'm thrilled with any chance to collaborate with the Harvard Film Archive and to make use of Harvard's collection. I've taught several of Kubrick's films in different courses over the years, but never all of them together and never on the big screen. It is a unique opportunity. The HFA is one of Harvard's treasures. I'm really grateful to them for making this happen.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Pillion' stars, director enjoyed their walk on the wild side

Pillion centers a gay dom–sub love story that celebrates leather community visibility, sparking enthusiastic, costumed screenings and earning strong critical acclaim.
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