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Chile’s ‘Erratics,’ Blending Denis Lavant, Speculative Fiction and Ghost Cinema, Bows at San Sebastián New Directors Competition
Chilean filmmaker Thomas Woodroffe’s debut feature, “Erratics”, will have its world premiere in the New Directors competition at the San Sebastián Festival. Combining speculative fiction, ghost cinema and Patagonian history, the film follows the ghost of French filmmaker Lucien Castelnau, who awakens after a century trapped in a glacier and searches for meaning in a…
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15 Years Later, Steven Spielberg’s 52-Episode Sci-Fi Is Still Worth Revisiting
The article argues that Steven Spielberg-produced *Falling Skies* remains worth revisiting 15 years after its premiere. It stands out by focusing on humanity’s survival after an alien invasion has already devastated Earth, rather than concentrating solely on the initial attack. Created by Robert Rodat, the 52-episode series follows the 2nd Mass militia, led by history…
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The Beekeeper Meets Ghost Recon in Jim Caviezel’s New Action-Thriller Movie
Ghost Soldier is a forthcoming action thriller starring Jim Caviezel as Henry “Fitz” Fitzgerald, a former Special Forces soldier who defends a community from a powerful corporation seeking to seize its land. The film combines revenge-action conventions associated with The Beekeeper, John Wick and The Equalizer with futuristic military technology, including stealth and cloaking equipment.…
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Netflix’s Unabomber arrives; celebrities fight for water nationalisation
Netflix releases Unabomber on twenty-fifth September, starring Russell Crowe and Jacob Tremblay. Celebrities including Danny Dyer protest for bringing water industry into public ownership.
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‘The Assassin(s)’ Review: A Riveting South Korean Popcorn Thriller About a Real Assassination
“The Assassin(s)” is a South Korean political thriller inspired by the 1974 attempted assassination of Prime Minister Park Chung-hee, in which his wife, First Lady Yuk Young-soo, and a bystander were killed. Director Hur Jin-ho turns the gaps and unanswered questions surrounding the public investigation into a fast-paced mystery about press freedom, censorship and possible…
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Netflix’s New Sherlock Holmes Mystery Is Officially 5 Days Away
Netflix’s four-part period thriller The Final Problem follows Basil, a retired actor who once portrayed Sherlock Holmes, as he investigates a suspicious death at an isolated hotel in Mallorca in 1959. When Elisa Mander’s apparent suicide begins to look like murder, Basil must determine which of the stranded guests is responsible, while facing criticism that…
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Fears as lethal new drug 10 TIMES stronger than fentanyl devastates American families… and mom of teen killed by undetectable opioid warns: ‘You can’t survive this’
Cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid up to ten times more potent than fentanyl, is rapidly spreading across the United States and claiming lives in increasing numbers. The drug differs critically from other opioids in that standard fentanyl test strips cannot detect it, and it overwhelms Narcan (naloxone), the usual emergency antidote. This combination has devastated families,…
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Arcola adaptation adds shocks but weakens Henry James’s psychological tension
The Arcola Theatre in London is presenting Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s adaptation of Henry James’s gothic novella “The Turn of the Screw,” which adds contemporary jump scares and a new framing device featuring an unnamed man interrogating the governess’s account of possessed children. Directed by Nicky Allpress, the slick, stylised production generates genuine shocks through sound…
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Human remains identified as fisherman missing off California coast for 26 years
Jonathan Raxa disappeared off the Northern California coast in December 1999 when an 18-foot wave tore the pilothouse from his commercial fishing boat, the Silver Spray. More than 26 years later, a human sacrum found on Centerville Beach was identified through DNA testing as belonging to Raxa, resolving the long-running mystery and notifying his family.…
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Was Wrexham’s trailblazing black footballer also the first Indigenous Australian to play overseas?
Peter Baines was a pioneering black footballer who played for Wrexham and other English clubs during the 1930s and 1940s, predating Liverpool’s first recognised black player Howard Gayle by more than three decades. Historians and researchers have become increasingly interested in uncovering whether Baines was also the first Indigenous Australian to play football overseas, though…