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Well, not many rich folk survived the ending of Netflix’s Delicious because, spoiler spoiler, Teodora and her little anarchist group ate them all. It’s quite ironic though; just like the rich hunger for luxury and all those materialistic things, Teodora and her friends are hungry for the rich man’s flesh. But you may ask, what are they trying to achieve? This is where things get murky. In the pursuit of wealth, the affluent widen the gap between the rich and the poor, therefore promoting inequality in society. And what does Teodora and her group want to eliminate? They kill the rich to eliminate this class divide so that the wealthy can’t exploit the poor anymore. So, without any further ado, let’s take a look at all those people who were turned into delicious meals for the poor.

1. Marten, the Rodent

The first thing that Teodora...

Thirteen years after “Mummy Is Coming,” American filmmaker Cheryl Dunye (“The Watermelon Woman”) is gearing up to produce a new feature film with “Black Is Blue” through her production company Jingletown Films. The film, loosely based on her eponymous 2014 short, is one of the projects selected at this year’s CineMart, the co-production market of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Speaking with Variety at the festival, Dunye says the idea for the “sci-fi trans erotic thriller” first came to her during the early days of the pandemic when she began rewatching classic films and thinking of her love for film noir, particularly Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard.”

The film is set to chronicle the erotic tale of a Black trans couple brought together by AI technology: Blue, a 40-something Black trans woman who was once a successful tech executive for a multinational in control of the world’s largest DNA database,...

Globetrotting festival, markets, film development and training veteran Marten Rabarts is joining the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) team to lead its industry activities as Head Of IFFR Pro.

The New Zealand-born film professional already has strong connections with the Netherlands. He was artistic director of development hub the Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam for 12 years, followed by a four-year stint as Head of Eye International (now SeeNL), promoting Dutch film and film culture worldwide.

Rabarts left the latter position in 2019 to take on the role of festival director at the Whanau Marama – New Zealand International Film Festival for two years. Most recently he worked as a script mentor on the inaugural edition of Jane Campion’s A Wave In The Ocean Lab, among other activities on the international film circuit.

In his new role, Rabarts will work closely with IFFR’s Festival Director, Vanja Kaludjercic, and report into Chief of Content,...

International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has named Marten Rabarts as head of its industry strand IFFR Pro, effective immediately.

He replaces Inke Van Loocke, who announced her departure from the festival in August.

Rabarts was festival director of the New Zealand International Film Festival from 2019-21.

More recently, New Zealand-born Rabarts worked as a script mentor on the inaugural edition of Jane Campion’s A Wave In The Ocean Lab.

Rabarts also has strong connections to the Dutch industry: he is a former head of Dutch film promotion organisation Eye International, now SeeNL, and was artistic director of the development...

The revised and expanded version of The Gunslinger makes The Man In Black a pivotal villain in King's connected universe. Flagg, Walter, Marten are the same person: a powerful, ambiguous, ageless villain. Flagg is revealed to be a master manipulator, influencing Roland's journey through Mid-World and beyond over countless years.

Stephen King's epic The Dark Tower series has no shortage of memorable antagonists, but a change made in the revised and expanded edition of The Gunslinger helped elevate one villain above all others. King's long and storied fantasy series acts as the backbone of his connected universe, containing elements from many of his other novels and short stories. Perhaps the most important of these cross-over elements is the villains that Roland Deschain and his ka-tet encounter throughout the course of his journey across Mid-World.

Chief among those villains is The Man In Black, who acts as Roland's primary foil in The Gunslinger,...

Billie Marten’s fourth album starts with a hum. A crystalline exhale that warbles across three minutes of softly strummed guitar and slowly swelling strings. The track itself is a demo, titled “New Idea” after the throwaway filename Marten had initially used to save it to her laptop. It’s a reset button and a palette cleanser. An invitation to unfurrow your brow and drop your shoulders. To listen. By the time her vocals roll in on “God Above”, you’re already caught in the slipstream of Drop Cherries – which, it quickly transpires, is no bad thing.

Since she was discovered as a Yorkshire schoolgirl on YouTube aged 12, Marten has made music rooted in English folk tradition. Her album before this, Flora Fauna (2021), took leave of that. Out went the bare-bones production and whispered words, replaced by noodling beats and left-field compositions. Now, on her fourth record and second since splitting from Sony,...