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Scream Factory is bringing Vampires, The Howling, and Renfield to Steelbook 4K Uhd + Blu-ray in November.

John Carpenter‘s Vampires will be released on November 4.

The 1998 action horror western is directed by Carpenter from a script by Don Jakoby (Arachnophobia), based on John Steakley’s 1990 novel Vampire$.

Disc 1 – 4K Uhd:

4K Restoration From The Original Camera Negative Presented In Dolby Vision Audio Commentary With Director John Carpenter

Disc 2 – Blu-ray:

4K Restoration From The Original Camera Negative Audio Commentary With Director John Carpenter Time To Kill Some Vampires – Interviews With Director Jon Carpenter, Producer Sandy King Carpenter, And Cinematographer Garry B. Kibbe Jack The Vampire Slayer – An Interview With Actor James Woods...

Julie Pacino’s I Live Here Now is a heady nightmare of a film. A story that takes place almost in a dream space and dissects the various aspects of its lead character’s life and personhood. From life in the entertainment industry to romantic partners to exploring the scar tissue left behind from childhood trauma, this film breaks apart everything that our lead character has experienced in her life and asks her to reexamine it before putting herself back together.

Rose (Lucy Fry) is an aspiring actress. She has been seeking out a living and finally has the opportunity to audition for one of the major Hollywood talent agents.

If you’re planning a movie night, this is the week to press play on a long list of titles that are cycling off Netflix between Monday, 9/1 and Sunday, 9/7. Below you’ll find each departing movie with quick details on what it’s about, who’s in it, and how it came together behind the scenes, plus the exact exit date so you can time your watch.

The mix spans big studio spectacles, award-winning dramas, beloved comedies, anime specials, and cult favorites. Skim for your must-sees, add them to your queue, and make a plan before they disappear.

‘After Earth’ (2013) Columbia Pictures

M. Night Shyamalan directs this sci-fi adventure about...

Writer, director, and auteur filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has a pretty strong directorial style and even stronger opinions. The man behind films like "Reservoir Dogs" and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" has been no stranger to controversy over the years, like getting in trouble for his flagrant usage of racist slurs in his plantation revenge film "Django Unchained" or for his tendency toward extreme violence. One would think that might make him a little more empathetic toward other creatives whose work isn't received the way it was intended. Far from it, however, Tarantino has rarely hesitated to verbally trash his fellow directors when interviewed by the press, even putting down...

Donna Hayward. This "Twin Peaks" character might elicit mixed reactions, but Donna is an integral part of the titular town and every beautiful and terrifying sentiment it stands for. Donna — played by Lara Flynn Boyle in the first two seasons of "Twin Peaks" — is our closest connection to Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) after her death, her perspective being intimate, complex, and tinged with a sense of naivete. But there's more to Donna than her perfectly routine teenage existence, which she wants to desperately shed in anticipation of a more adventurous life. Boyle plays Donna with both sweet tenderness and fierce intensity, etching a character that adds to the mythos of "Twin Peaks" in understated ways.

Back when "Twin Peaks" season 1 was first airing, the biggest surprise for everyone was how much material the show was giving Sheryl Lee. Her character was Laura Palmer, introduced as a corpse in the pilot. Outside of a few minor flashbacks, the real Laura remains up to the viewer's imagination throughout the season, with us assuming her personality through the way her friends and family remember her. 

It was a pretty standard, thankless "dead mystery girl" role for Lee, which is why she wasn't expecting to be called back after the first episode. In a 2016 interview Lee recalled: 

"After we shot the pilot, I stayed in Seattle and kept doing theater.

The late David Lynch was born in Missoula, Montana, in 1946 and raised by a father who worked for the Department of Agriculture. He spent his childhood driving through the woods with his dad and settling in placid, 1950s suburbs in towns such as Spokane, Washington, Boise, Idaho, and Durham, North Carolina. His childhood provided him with an idealized portrait of what we might now think of as "classic Americana." One can see elements of Lynch's upbringing in his films, such as "Blue Velvet," and TV shows, such as "Twin Peaks."

Of course, "Blue Velvet" and "Twin Peaks," as one can immediately note, are harsh admonitions of 1950s Americana. "Blue Velvet" may take place in a placid world of neatly cut lawns and picket fences, but there is rot, crime, and kinky sex just underneath the surface. The town of Twin Peaks may be full of sweet, quirky, coffee-drinking-and-pie-eating locals,...

John Carpenter is one of our favorites of all time. Even his lesser stuff is fun to watch, or you get to see a glimpse of what could have been. He has a decade of work that is full of the best that horror and sci-fi have to offer as well as things later like the best Lovecraft adaptation that isn’t actually an adaptation. Speaking of which, the man has directed quite a few adaptations in his career. From the non-literal like the previously mentioned In the Mouth of Madness or even Assault on Precinct 13 being a loose adaptation of Rio Bravo to the very famous adaptations of Village of the Damned and of course The Thing, the man has made his mark on adapting. One that doesn’t get talked about as much, both as a movie itself and the fact that it’s an adaptation is...

Julie Pacino’s feature film debut, I Live Here Now, is, simply put, stunning. A confronting debut that screams in the face of patriarchy, it demonstrates Pacino’s assured vision as a filmmaker. After a successful world premiere at the 2025 Fantasia International Film Festival, the film is now heading to the Locarno Film Festival to continue its tour around the world.

Read the full synopsis below:

In the surreal landscape of I Live Here Now, Rose (Lucy Fry), a struggling actress in Los Angeles, is thrown into crisis by an unexpected pregnancy. Believed to be infertile due to childhood trauma, she’s forced to confront a future she never thought possible, just as a major career opportunity with top agent Cindy Abrams (Cara Seymour) comes into view.

Things spiral further when her casual boyfriend, Travis (Matt Rife), and his overbearing mother (Sheryl Lee) weigh in, pushing Rose to the brink.

Writer/director Julie Pacino makes her feature film debut with the lush & surreal psychological thriller I Live Here Now. Shot on a mix of 35mm and 16mm film, this journey through the mind of an aspiring actress is a nightmare odyssey of scarred memories, bad boyfriends, and the cruel standards of the film industry. From a story perspective it’s maybe not the most groundbreaking examination of trauma but it is an undeniable visual feast from start to finish, with a stunning colour palette and a cast of kooky characters.

I Live Here Now stars Lucy Fry (Bright) as Rose, an actress that’s being pushed to the brink of...

I Live Here Now

Director Julie Pacino's début feature, I Live Here Now, stars Lucy Fry as Rose, a struggling actress who discovers she's pregnant. However, Rose had been told she was infertile due to childhood trauma. This unwanted pregnancy collides with an opportunity to sign with Cindy Abrams (Cara Seymour), a top talent agent in Los Angeles. And to make matters worse, her lover Travis (Matt Rife) refuses to stand up to his domineering mother (Sheryl Lee), who appears set to deprive Rose of autonomy over her own body when she decides to abort the pregnancy.

I Live Here Now Photo: Fantasia International Film Festival

Pacino's short films tackle a diverse range of subjects, from reckoning with one's dark past and lost souls seeking belonging in Abracadabra, to grief in To See The Day, and what it's like to be an assistant on a porn shoot in Hard Work.

An actress, Rose, stands at a precipice. It is a classic setup. A career-defining role hangs in the balance, contingent on the absurd demand that she shed pounds she does not possess. Simultaneously, her body stages a quiet, biological coup: a pregnancy she was assured by medicine and trauma was an impossibility.

The world conspires to close in. Her boyfriend, Travis, a man of breathtaking unseriousness, and his mother, Martha—a chilling Sheryl Lee, whose ownership of her son’s progeny is nothing short of feudal—present a united front of external control.

They have plans for her, for the child. Rose has other ideas. Her flight from their suffocating benevolence is not toward freedom, but toward a clinical solution in a remote town. She checks into The Crown Inn in Idyllwild, seeking a sterile anonymity. She finds something else entirely. The place is not a refuge; it is a crucible.

One of the boldest aspects of David Lynch and Mark Frost's "Twin Peaks: The Return" (which was basically "Twin Peaks" season 3) was the way it looked like it was going to give fans the closure they had always wanted, only to swerve dramatically in the other direction at the eleventh hour. "Part 16" and "Part 17" were filled with cathartic, long-awaited moments for "Twin Peaks" enthusiasts; they even featured a brief scene where all our favorite characters happily hang out together, celebrating how they finally defeated the evil Bob (Frank Silva) by ... well, punching him really hard. But then the finale, "Part 18," took us into dark, ambiguous, aggressively Lynchian territory.

"The Return" ends with the heroic Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) bringing an alternate version of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) back to the Palmer family home. He's hoping this will give her (and him) some sense of peace, but when they arrive,...

Rose is in a state of quiet panic. The young (but no longer young) actress receives a last-minute opportunity, a part for which the no-nonsense casting agent -- played by a delightfully wicked Cara Seymour, who smokes cigarettes like she means it -- has told her to drop a few pounds over the weekend, and get back to her with a fast-tracked audition tape. This happens on same day that Rose finds out she is pregnant from her callow, unserious, boyfriend, with the mother from hell. Twin Peaks’ Sheryl Lee vamps it up here in a small role, in a scarlet dress and a glass-box modernist home straight out of The Lost Highway. For better or worse, Lynchian shenanigans abound. Intent on commandeering Rose’s...

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Plot: A woman finds herself trapped in a remote hotel where the violent echoes of her past come alive, blurring the lines between her darkest nightmares and the waking world.

Review: You just never know what to expect when the children of famous actors start getting into the film world themselves. Sometimes it’s a disaster, and other times they blossom into great filmmakers of their own. Hailing from Julie Pacino, there’s sure to be a certain spotlight on her finally stepping into the world of feature film. And rather than play it safe, she’s decided to enter the world of surrealist horror. On the surface, it’s a subgenre without answers and more up for interpretation, but it requires a firm vision to pull it off. I Live Here Now rides the line and ultimately is able to accomplish what it’s trying to do.

I Live Here Now...

Premiering at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival, “I Live Here Now” is a hellish, fever-dream-like trip. In her feature debut, writer-director Julie Pacino has chosen to explore the labyrinths of human psychology and memories. Comparisons with David Lynch’s works, specifically “Inland Empire,” are inevitable. Admittedly, “I Live Here Now” pulls its punches and remains a little more rooted to ‘reality’ than what “Inland Empire” did. Whether that is for the good or the bad, it depends entirely on whether you find Lynch frustratingly impenetrable or bizarrely brilliant. I tend to veer towards the latter while appreciating the frustration mentioned in the former. So, as someone who does not mind an occasional nightmare, “I Live Here Now” just about works for me.

Like “Inland Empire,” “I Live Here Now” centers around an actress and her bid to play a role. Rose (Lucy Fry) is an aspiring actress who...

Rose (Lucy Fry) has always known she cannot have children. The tragic result of a childhood surgery whose trauma embedded itself in her mind as a nightmare, this truth became a major part of her identity. A crucial piece to the puzzle that was her so-called brokenness. This is why she can’t wrap her head around the news when the doctor tells her she’s pregnant. It’s not just the irony that this discovery comes as a result of being ordered to lose three pounds for a potential acting role, but the horrible timing of finally catching a big career break when the opportunity to start a family miraculously manifests. Rose must escape the chaos. She must figure out what she wants. Who she is. Who she can still become.

The debut feature from Julie Pacino, I Live Here Now embraces an unsettling humor from the beginning. There’s the noted,...

Lucy Fry’s Rose, a woman haunted by trauma, ends up checking herself into an inn where reality seems to unravel, blurring the lines between past and present, and waking life and dreams. That’s the set-up for I Live Here Now, writer-director Julie Pacino’s feature directorial debut, which world premieres on Thursday at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal before screening at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland in the out-of-competition lineup and then traveling to the Edinburgh International Film Festival for its Midnight Madness program.

“The film pulses with competing anxieties: the pursuit of perfection, the weight of generational trauma, and the invisible fist of capitalism tightening its grip around the necks of its characters,” the Fantasia synopsis reads. “Pacino plunges us into a vibrant and nightmarish psychodrama that reverberates with echoes of David Lynch, Dario Argento and the Coen brothers.”

Shot on 35 millimeter film, with...

Twin Peaks was definitely an iconic horror-related television series, and its legacy lives on 35 years after it made its debut on ABC. It had a unique blend of horror, comedy, mystery, drama and surrealism that captivated audiences, and the two-hour pilot episode became the highest-rated movie for televisions 1989-1990 season, but was sadly cancelled after its second season.

The series began with the discovery of a young woman’s body washed up on the bank of a river in the small town of Twin Peaks, Washington. When the body turns out to be that of prom queen Laura Palmer, everyone is shocked and saddened, because she was known to be kind, even delivering meals to the homebound.

Special FBI Agent Dale Cooper comes to town to investigate, suspecting that Laura’s killer may have also been responsible for murdering another young woman a year earlier. As Coop gets to know...

John Carpenter set off on a hot streak in the ‘70s and it ran all the way into the ‘90s. The majority of his output during that time period is iconic and universally beloved. During his decades-spanning hot streak, the celebrated filmmaker tackled the slasher genre, body horror, exploitation cinema, and more.

Despite a proven track record of noteworthy output, Carpenter’s films often failed to resonate with theatergoers. Case in point: Both The Thing and Big Trouble in Little China bombed at the box office. Yet, both went on to become cult classics on home video, suggesting that he is targeting a base less prone to turn out to theaters.

Carpenter’s struggles to consistently deliver results at the box office carried into the ‘90s when he released his screen adaptation of the John Steakley novel Vampires. The flick is a gritty take on the horror Western and a gruesome good time,...

The Criterion Collection‘s October line-up is stacked with genre heavy hitters: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Eyes Without a Face, The Shrouds, A History of Violence, Altered States, Deep Crimson, and Nightmare Alley.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on October 7.

Serving a prequel to “Twin Peaks,” the 1992 psychological horror film is directed by David Lynch from a script he co-wrote with Robert Engels.

Director-approved special features:

4K digital restoration, with 7.1 surround DTS-hd Master Audio soundtrack, both supervised by director David Lynch Alternate original 2.0 surround DTS-hd Master Audio soundtrack One 4K Uhd disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features The Missing Pieces, ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from the film, assembled by Lynch Interview by Lynch with actors Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, and Grace Zabriskie Interviews with Lee and composer Angelo Badalamenti...

Several cast members of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks are reuniting for a US tour, during which the’ll discuss the iconic franchise, meet with fans, and share a special video tribute to the late auteur.

“Twin Peaks: Conversations with the Stars” will feature appearances from Ray Wise (Leland Palmer), Harry Goaz (Deputy Andy Brennan) and Kimmy Robertson (Lucy Moran), as well as Sheryl Lee (Laura Palmer) at select dates. Update: Dana Ashbrook, who played Bobby Briggs, will also appear on select dates of the tour.

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Lynch apparently gave the tour’s blessing prior to his death earlier this year. “David was very happy that we were going to have this cast tour to celebrate Twin Peaks with the fans all around the U.S.,” Sabrina S. Sutherland, who manages his estate, said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “It...

“Twin Peaks” co-creator Mark Frost is putting the possibility of a Season 4 on ice. The filmmaker said that without late auteur David Lynch, “Twin Peaks” would be a different entity entirely. Lynch died January 16, 2025, at the age of 78 due to complications from emphysema. Prior to his passing, Lynch was in discussion with Frost about potentially revisiting the beloved series.

“Twin Peaks” first premiered on ABC in 1990 and aired for two seasons. Prequel film “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me” was released in 1992; in 2017, Lynch and Frost reunited for revival series “Twin Peaks: The Return” on Showtime. Lynch also reprised his acting role as FBI agent Gordon Cole for “The Return.”

“We had talked a little bit about where a fourth season might go,” Frost recently told Empire, “but with David having left us, it’s hard to imagine doing anything beyond this. It certainly feels like it closed the circle.

It’s that time of the year again, and I, for one, could not be more excited. Fantasia International Film Festival 2025 kicks off on July 16th and, like usual, they’ve got a great selection of films to check out. It’s a decidedly more independent group of films this year, but that’s just how the horror genre has been going in 2025. Our Editor-in-Chief Chris Bumbray already checked out Together earlier this year at Sundance (read his review Here), so while that’s not on this list, it’s definitely one of my most anticipated of the entire summer. If you’re attending the festival in person, you’re going to want to check all of these out. And if you’re not, you’re going to want to take note of these, as they’ll release throughout the rest of 2025 (and sometimes beyond) and often prove to be...

Screenwriter and television producer Mark Frost recently got candid about the possibility of a fourth season of Twin Peaks, the dreamlike mystery series he co-created with the late David Lynch. After introducing audiences to a world "both wonderful and strange" with two seminal seasons in the early 1990s, Twin Peaks returned in 2017 with a third season that truly embraced Lynch's surreal vision.

Sadly, David Lynch passed away on January 16, 2025, at the age of 78, after being diagnosed with emphysema the previous year. Although Frost said he had spoken with Lynch before his death about a possible fourth season,he finds it "hard to imagine" doing another installment at this point. Check out his full quote below (via ComicBook.com):

We had talked a little bit about where a fourth season might go, but with David having left us, it's hard to imagine doing anything beyond this. It certainly feels like it closed the circle.

It turns out the gum we like may not be coming back in style after all, as Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost has lost faith in the series ever coming back without David Lynch.

Following the January death of David Lynch, Mark Frost said he would have to evaluate the future of Twin Peaks. But now that he’s had some time to mull it over, the idea may have gone the way of Laura Palmer. As he told Empire (via ComicBook.com), “We had talked a little bit about where a fourth season might go, but with David having left us, it’s hard to imagine doing anything beyond this. It certainly feels like it closed the circle.”

And so 2017’s Twin Peaks: The Return will almost certainly be the final piece of the puzzle that we ever get. Recalling how he and Lynch approached concluding that third season of Twin Peaks,...

“Twin Peaks: The Return” is returning to the screen, and this time, it’s the big one. IndieWire announces that the Metrograph theater in Lower Manhattan will host a weekend-long marathon of the 2017 David Lynch series, as presented with Mubi.

The two-day marathon will take place July 5 and 6 to mark the 35th anniversary of Lynch and Mark Frost’s original “Twin Peaks.” The sequel series, also known as “Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series,” debuted on Showtime in 2017; it’s one of late director Lynch’s final projects.

“Twin Peaks” sound designer and collaborator Dean Hurley will be in attendance to introduce the series for select showtimes, and will also participate in a special pre-screening conversation.

“Twin Peaks” first premiered in 1990 on ABC. The second season aired in 1991 before being canceled by the network; it was later revived in 2017 with “Twin Peaks: The Return.” The first two seasons of “Twin Peaks...

Deep into the second season of "Twin Peaks," the groundbreaking TV series created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, the twisted Windom Earle (Kenneth Welsh) holds Major Garland Briggs (Don Davis) hostage, torturing him for more information on the mysterious and mystical Black Lodge. When Earle asks a drugged Briggs about what he fears most in the world, the warm-hearted soldier responds, "The possibility that love is not enough." It's a statement which, like so much in Lynch's work and in the show itself, has enormous resonance and weight. In particular, the sentiment refers not just to one of the major themes of the series but also to the real-world fate of the show itself.

When the episode containing that scene aired in early 1991, the reception of "Twin Peaks" as one of the most popular and exciting new shows to air on network television had shifted, with not only...

“Twin Peaks” actors Ray Wise (Leland Palmer), Kimmy Robertson (Lucy Moran), Harry Goaz (Deputy Andy Brennan), and Sheryl Lee (Laura Palmer) along with “Twin Peaks: The Return” executive producer Sabrina S. Sutherland will embark on a US tour for a “Conversation with the Stars.”

They’ll share first-hand recollections and behind-the-scenes stories on the East Coast in August before heading to the West Coast in October. Lee will only be in attendance for the October dates.

The events include a special video tribute to co-creator David Lynch. Photos and autographs are also available for an additional fee.

“David was very happy that we were going to have this cast tour to celebrate Twin Peaks with the fans all around the U.S.,” Sutherland told THR. “It’s sad that I won’t be able to call him each night to let him know how the show went as I had promised.

The David Lynch and Mark Frost series Twin Peaks made its premiere on ABC in 1990 and ran for two seasons before being cancelled. It was followed by the feature film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and a couple decades later the series was revived for a third season on Showtime, called Twin Peaks: The Return. Now, to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the show’s premiere, some Twin Peaks cast members will be going on a national tour to meet with fans and discuss the series with them!

The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Ray Wise (who played Leland Palmer), Harry Goaz (Deputy Andy Brennan), and Kimmy Robertson (Lucy Moran) are joining Twin Peaks: The Return executive producer Sabrina S. Sutherland for the tour, which is called Twin Peaks: Conversation with the Stars and will see them “share their experiences on the series and swap behind-the-scenes stories at the ticketed events.

Twin Peaks fans who were left wanting more following the series’ long-awaited third season in 2017, rejoice: Top members of the original cast are set to tour the country later this year.

Starting in early August, stars of the surreal David Lynch and Mark Frost-created saga will be sitting down for nostalgic conversations in cities across the U.S., from Tysons, Virginia, to Seattle, Washington. Ray Wise (who played Leland Palmer), Harry Goaz (Deputy Andy Brennan) and Kimmy Robertson (Lucy Moran) as well as Twin Peaks: The Return executive producer Sabrina S. Sutherland will share their experiences on the series and swap behind-the-scenes stories at the ticketed events.

Sheryl Lee, who played the high school homecoming queen whose murder formed the central mystery of the story and gave a startling starring turn in 1992’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, will additionally appear at certain stops in the Western U.

“It’s not personal.”

How many times have you heard this before knowing full well that everything in life, no matter how hard you spin it, is personal? We are all, quite literally, persons after all (though at times it may be questionable). And yet, for the sake of our own sanity and the need to work with others, we accept it, compartmentalize, and move on. But what if there was another way?

Speaking to IndieWire’s Future of Filmmaking for the latest episode of “What No One Tells You,” TV creator Mara Brock Akil offered valuable insight on how to manage what may seem like rejection, but could turn out to be a blessing in disguise. It’s all about perspective, so keep reading to learn how to shape your own.

‘Don’t Feel Rejected, Feel Redirected’ ‘Moesha,’ Brandy Norwood, Sheryl Lee Ralph©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection

“In finding your voice,...

Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival unveiled the first wave of its upcoming 29th edition on Thursday, a boisterous roster that brings new work from Hwang Wook,the Adams Family, Steve Pink, Julie Pacino, and Brock Bodell.

One year after debuting Mash Ville at Fantasia, South Korea’s Hwang returns with The Woman, a psychological thriller starring Han Hye-ji in which a girl pursues a mysterious stranger after an innocent act results in her friend’s suspicious suicide.

The first wave includesMother Of Fliesfrom John and Zelda Adams and Toby Poser, about a woman who seeks dark magic from a...

As summertime approaches, anticipation starts to grow for the annual Fantasia International Film Festival, held every year in Montreal. This year makes the festival’s 29th edition with an electrifying program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 17 through August 3, 2025, presented by Mels in collaboration with Concordia University. Fantasia returns to their usual venues of Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional screenings and events at Montreal’s Cinéma du Musée.

Fantasia will announce the full lineup in July, but for now, they’ve provided a delicious list for its first wave of titles, which include Julia Pacino’s feature film debut, the latest from the Adams’ Family, Kurtis David Harder’s sequel film Influencers, and so much more.

Check out the first wave of 2025 Fantasia titles below: Terrestrial (dir. Steve Pink)

World Premiere

As director of the Hot Tub Time Machine films, Accepted, and About Last Night,...

The 29th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is set to run from from July 17th through August 3rd at the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas in Montreal, with additional screenings and events at Cinéma du Musée – and today the festival announced the first wave of titles that will be screening there this year! The full line-up will be announced in early July, but for here’s a sample of what attendees can expect to see there, with the information coming directly from the Fantasia press release:

Terrestrial Reveals A Different Shade Of (Steve) Pink: As director of the Hot Tub Time Machine films, Accepted, and About Last Night, and the co-writer of High Fidelity and Grosse Point Blank, Steve Pink has made a distinctive name for himself with individualistic comedy works that ooze personality. Now, he’s exploring darker edges of his sensibilities with Terrestrial,...

Filmmaker Julie Pacino, producer and daughter of actor Al Pacino, makes her feature directorial debut with I Live Here Now. Pacino’s debut is set to premiere at Fantasia this summer, bringing a first look at the Lynchian psychodrama.

I Live Here Now was announced in Fantasia’s first wave of programming.

Night Teeth and Bright actor Lucy Fry stars as “Rose, a woman haunted by trauma and trapped in a motel where reality unravels, the film blurs the lines between past and present, dream and waking life, captured in vivid 16mm.”

Fantasia’s description provides additional insight, stating Pacino’s debut is about “competing anxieties: the pursuit of perfection, the weight of generational trauma, and the invisible fist of capitalism tightening its grip around the necks of its characters.” It’s also described as a “vibrant and nightmarish psychodrama” that “reverberates with echoes of David Lynch, Dario Argento, and the Coen brothers.

The Fantasia International Film Festival is one of the very best events to experience the latest and greatest genre films from around the world. There's nothing quite like it, and if you haven't had a chance to attend, I highly recommend planning a visit to Montreal this summer, especially now that the first wave of titles has been officially announced:

From the Press Release: "The Fantasia International Film Festival will celebrate its upcoming 29th edition with an electrifying program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 17 through August 3, 2025, returning to the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional screenings and events at Montreal’s Cinéma du Musée.

The festival’s full lineup will be announced in early July but in the meantime, Fantasia is excited to reveal a select first wave of premiere titles.

Terrestrial Reveals A Different Shade Of (Steve) Pink

As director of...

The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 29th edition with another densely packed slate of events and programming running from July 17 through August 3, 2025, returning to the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas and presented by Mels, with additional screenings and events at Montreal’s Cinéma du Musée.

The festival’s full lineup will be announced in early July, but in the meantime, Fantasia 2025 has revealed a select first wave of premiere titles. Highlights include Influencers, writer-director Kurtis David Harder‘s follow up to his 2022 thriller. Actor Al Pacino‘s daughter, film producer Julie Pacino, makes her feature directorial debut with the Lynchian I Live Here Now. From the director behind Hot Tub Time Machine and multiple episodes of “Santa Clarita Diet,” Steve Pink, comes an unconventional sci-fi comedy Terrestrial. The Adams family (Hellbender) is back with Mother of Flies, desrcribed as a personal dark fairy tale.

Steve Pink’s “Terrestrial” and Julie Pacino’s “I Live Here Now” are among the 2025 Fantasia International Film Festival’s first wave line-up, the festival announced.

This year’s Fantasia runs July 17-Aug. 3, bringing a wide range of genre film screenings, workshops and launch events to Montreal. Of the first wave of films, “Terrestrial” marks Pink’s (“Hot Tub Time Machine”) first time directing a thriller, while Al Pacino’s daughter Julie Pacino makes her directorial debut with “I Live Here Now,” featuring “Twin Peaks” star Sheryl Lee along with Lucy Fry and Madeline Brewer. The line-up also includes Mexico’s first stop-motion feature “I Am Frankleda” and the latest Adams Family filmmaking collaboration, “Mother of Flies.”

Last year’s Fantasia included world premieres like Chris Stuckmann’s “Shelby Oaks,” “The Beast Within” starring Kit Harington and “Bookworm” starring Elijah Wood and Nell Fisher.

The full line-up will be unveiled in early July.

When you hear John Carpenter’s 1998 classic, your mind immediately goes to Halloween H20: 20 Years Later. However, Carpenter was not involved in this seventh instalment of the Halloween franchise. He turned down the directing gig of the film after the Weinstein brothers rejected his salary demand of $10 million.

Carpenter instead committed to the vampire genre film, Vampires, starring James Woods. The 1990s weren’t kind to Carpenter, as none of his films up until Vampires made any financial gains for the studios despite the fact that many of them went on to become cult hits. The 1998 film broke this pattern and went on to become financially successful.

John Carpenter’s must-watch blood-sucking thriller of 1998 is on Netflix James Woods in a still from John Carpenter’s Vampires | Credits: Columbia Pictures

John Carpenter‘s Vampires came at a time when the director thought about quitting the industry. However, when the...

Mubi has acquired David Lynch and Mark Frost’s iconic 1990 series Twin Peaks, along with its 2017 follow-up Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series. The news comes amid Twin Peaks’ 35th anniversary celebration and months after the iconic filmmaker’s passing. Both series will debut on the platform this June. The arrival of the series on the platform provides a brilliant opportunity for fans to revisit Lynch’s surreal, dreamy world or for those who want to experience the beloved series for the very first time.

The original series debuted in the 1990s and follows an investigation led by FBI special agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) into the murder of local teenager Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). The intriguing mystery drama is revered by fans for its detective fiction, supernatural elements and campy feel. The first season of the series has a 78 percent Rotten Tomatoes score while the audience score sits as high as 92 percent.

Mubi has acquired rights to Twin Peaks, the iconic 1990 series from David Lynch and Mark Frost, as well as the 2017 follow-up Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series, with plans for both to debut on the service on June 13.

The news comes amid Twin Peaks‘ 35th anniversary celebration. Of course, the works of Lynch are also being reexamined at present, just three months’ out from the iconic surrealist filmmaker’s passing.

Twin Peaks follows idiosyncratic FBI agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), as he investigates the murder of a young woman — local homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) — in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. As the investigation progresses, several other mysteries and conspiracies, edging on the supernatural, are uncovered around town, all linking back to Laura’s murder.

Mubi subscribers will have access to all 30 episodes of the show, as well as all 18 parts of A Limited Event Series,...

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Thirty-five years after “Twin Peaks” premiered, and just months after late auteur and series co-creator David Lynch died at age 78, the series in all its entirety will stream on Mubi this June.

Lynch and Mark Frost co-created cult classic show “Twin Peaks,” which premiered in 1990 on ABC. The second season aired in 1991 before being canceled by the network; it was later revived in 2017 at Showtime with “Twin Peaks: The Return,” a limited event series. All seasons will come to Mubi starting June 13, with all 30 episodes of “Twin Peaks” and all 18 parts of “Twin Peaks: The Return” on the platform.

The first two seasons of “Twin Peaks” followed FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) as he investigates the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) in the border town of Twin Peaks.

MacLachlan, as well...

Sheryl Lee Ralph is being honored!

The 68-year-old Emmy-winning actress was was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Wednesday (April 16) in Los Angeles.

Stepping out support Sheryl at the ceremony were her Abbott Elementary co-stars Quinta Brunson, Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Chris Perfetti, Lisa Ann Walter, and William Stanford Davis.

Keep reading to find out more…Loretta Devine, who starred with Sheryl in Dreamgirls on Broadway, along with Jenifer Lewis, Victoria Rowell, and Brandee Evans were also at the big event.

Sheryl also had the support of her husband Vincent Hughes along with her kids Ivy-Victoria and Etienne.

“There are so many people in the audience that means so much to me,” Sheryl shared during the ceremony, according to Essence. “I can still feel the determined spirit of that little girl who dared to dream big. Growing up, I felt my big dreams had to be whispered,...

FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper of Twin Peaks is one of the most iconic TV protagonists of all time. His distinctive appearance, mannerisms, and eccentric approach to investigating the murder of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) in the eponymous Washington town are all part of why "Coop" is arguably the most famous role of actor Kyle MacLachlan's career. But, even before the show premiered on ABC in 1990, traces of the character of Dale Cooper could be seen in some of MacLachlan's film roles. For instance, both MacLachlan (New York Times) and Twin Peaks co-creator David Lynch (LA Times) have described Cooper as an older version of Jeffrey Beaumont, the protagonist played by MacLachlan in the 1986 film Blue Velvet, which Lynch directed.

But, one year after Blue Velvet, MacLachlan played another character who arguably bears an even greater resemblance to Cooper — one whom Lynch had nothing to do with. That would be Lloyd Gallagher,...

John Carpenter's underrated horror film, Vampires, has been resurrected on Netflix. The film was originally adapted from the novel Vampire$ by John Steakley.

John Carpenter's Vampires sees James Woods starring as Jack Crow, the leader of a group of vampire hunters. He leads the team as their "master slayer", working to prevent a centuries-old cross from falling into the hands of Jan Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith), the progenitor of all vampires. The film's supporting cast includes Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Tim Guinee and Maximillian Schell.

Carpenter took a unique approach to the film's casting, actively avoiding "another musclebound meathead" for the lead role, which led to Woods' casting.Clint Eastwood, Kurt Russell, Bill Paxton, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, and R. Lee Ermey were all reportedly considered for the role, but either declined or had scheduling conflicts. Sheryl Lee, who plays a prostitute with a psychic link to Valek, was...

The late filmmaker David Lynch's iconic TV series Twin Peaksrevolves principally around a simple question: Who killed Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee)? However, as the show's protagonist, FBI agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), soon learns, answering this question is impossible without first answering a far broader question: Who was Laura Palmer? To that end, Cooper spends the show's entire first season and part of its second season gradually becoming acquainted with each of Twin Peaks' colorfully eccentric residents, learning everything he can about Laura's life and relationships in hopes of finding her killer - which he ultimately (and controversially) does.

Yet, despite the vast amount of information that the show reveals about Laura, one perspective remains noticeably absent from the show: that of Laura herself. While Lynch would partially rectify this omission in his polarizing prequel film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), which depicts the terrifying final week of Laura's life,...

Director David Fincher's hit feature film adaptation of Fight Clubis headed to a new streaming home.

Per Hulu, 1999'sFight Club will make its debut as a part of the streaming platform's extensive film library beginning March 14. Fight Club is just one of several genre fan-favorites slated to arrive on Hulu the very same month, including 1994's True Lies, 2011's War Horse, and the entire Predator feature film franchise.

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Based on critically acclaimed author Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel of the same name, Fight Club was directed by Fincher from a screenplay by writer Jim Uhls. The film stars Edward Norton as the unnamed Narrator, a middle-aged man working a...

Moving with a frenetic, vérité-style energy, Ricky exists in the in-between, following a man who is neither fully free nor fully imprisoned, a man still haunted by the rhythms of incarceration even as he walks the streets of his hometown. Stephan James delivers a gripping, deeply internalized performance, allowing Ricky’s emotions to simmer beneath a surface that is always on the verge of cracking. But despite James’ anchoring presence, much of the film itself remains unsteady.

After spending half his life behind bars, Ricky (Stephan James) steps back into a world that has moved on without him. Set in East Hartford, Connecticut, Ricky follows its titular character through the first month of his release, a period defined by parole restrictions, fractured relationships, and the silent, ever-present weight of his past. Reentry is supposed to be a fresh start, but it quickly becomes clear that freedom is conditional, and survival is a test.

As Hollywood still mourns David Lynch’s passing, New York’s Metrograph Theater is honoring the late auteur.

IndieWire can announce the Metrograph will be hosting all-day David Lynch marathon tribute on February 19 with Lynch’s longtime collaborator cinematographer Frederick Elmes onsite.

Elmes will be participating in panels, and also is lending his personal 35mm print of “Wild at Heart” for the mini festival. Elmes was the cinematographer on a trio of Lynch films, “Eraserhead,” “Blue Velvet,” and “Wild at Heart.”

“It’s been such a privilege to be part of David’s unique vision, one that transports us to worlds that are familiar and mysterious, frightening and dark, beautiful and inspirational,” Elmes told IndieWire with the Metrograph announcement. “I’ll miss him dearly.”

Titled “In Dreams: A David Lynch Tribute,” the Metrograph marathon will begin at 1:00 p.m. Et with a screening of “Mulholland Drive.” The program also...