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The A.V. Club FilmUSAThe Dune 3 popcorn bucket has 2 holes AMC’s popcorn bucket for Dune: Part Two stopped the filmgoing world in its tracks. Featuring an opening shaped like the maw of a sandworm, the device quickly went viral, eventually getting a whole…

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAStuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs formed horror’s friskiest, nastiest trio with Edgar Allan Poe The story of filmmaker Stuart Gordon and actor Jeffrey Combs begins and ends with Edgar Allan Poe. Roger Corman sparked it: His Poe adaptations such as House Of Usher and The Pit And The Pendulum…

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAR.I.P. Elke Sommer, A Shot In The Dark star Elke Sommer has died. According to Variety , the actor died from heart failure at her Los Angeles home.

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAAI documentaries won’t let the dead rest We are reaching AI saturation. Small restaurants lean on generative AI to create generic menus, neighborhood flyers regularly use its weirdly soulless fonts and graphics to advertise events, and…

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAHellraiser reviver David Bruckner to bring the grins with Smile 3 Parker Finn’s Smile franchise has become one of the more interesting new horror series to hit theaters in recent years, combining some pretty brutal meditations on grief and survivor’s guilt with a…

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAThe MTV-to-Hollywood boom has a modern counterpart: YouTube to horror The last time a pressure cooker of stylish shortform video led to a new wave of hit filmmakers descending upon Hollywood, it was music videos that allowed up-and-coming directors to break with…

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAAmazon submits Project Hail Mary‘s Rocky performer for Best Supporting Actor Oscar The Oscars have never been especially kind to performances that break the basic “We stuck a person in front of the camera and then filmed them” paradigm; Lord Of The Rings star Andy Serkis, for…

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAAlexander Payne sued over The Holdovers plagiarism accusations Two years ago —and just a day before the film was set to compete in several categories, including Best Original Screenplay, at the 96th Academy Awards—Alexander Payne’s film The Holdovers was hit…

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The A.V. Club FilmUSANathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim have no more “clarity” on Elizabeth Holmes’ motives now than when they started Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder have been doing a lot of press lately, a natural consequence of having cracked the zeitgeist wide open with their new documentary You Can See Everything .

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The A.V. Club FilmUSALaKeith Stanfield has abandoned the Molepeople It was just a month ago that we were raising our eyebrows in curiosity at Blumhouse and Paramount’s pitch for new horror movie Molepeople , with LaKeith Stanfield set to star in a film about a man…

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Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo