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A European river cruise is less a vacation and more a cultural artifact. It represents a specific kind of American pilgrimage, a journey back to an Old World that exists now mostly in the imagination, promising a temporary escape from the relentless newness of the present.

Love on the Danube: Love Song floats directly into this stream of consciousness, presenting a ship gliding through the historical heart of the former Habsburg Empire as a stage for modern romantic negotiation. We meet Sarah (Nazneen Contractor), a woman so tethered to her professional obligations that her phone appears as a biological extension.

She embodies the contemporary crisis of perpetual productivity. Her foil is Jack (Wes Brown), a man who advocates for the radical act of simply being. They are, of course, on this floating sanctuary with their widowed parents, setting the scene for a multi-generational examination of connection in a place meticulously designed for it.

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This July, Netflix is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated final chapter of the worldwide hit fantasy series The Sandman to the much-awaited sequel of the fantasy action film The Old Guard. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Netflix this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the five best films that are coming to Netflix in July 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Captain Phillips (July 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93% Credit – Sony Pictures

Captain Phillips is a biographical action-thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass from a screenplay by Billy Ray. Based on the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking, the 2013 film follows Captain Richard Philips, a merchant mariner, as his ship is overtaken by Somali Pirates and he is taken hostage.

Photo: Wes Brown, Nazeen Contractor

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Starring Nazneen Contractor, Wes Brown and Catherine Disher, Love On The Danube: Love Song is set on a beautiful cruise on the Danube River.

While this and the other Love On The Danube movies first premiered in September 2024 on Hallmark+, they will now be available on Hallmark Channel for fans’ viewing pleasure. Read on to learn more about the movie and its cast, and details of its new premiere on the Og channel.

Love On The Danube: Love Song on Hallmark Channel Photo: Mark Holden, Kathryn Drysdale

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Airing as part of the May Is For Moms movie collection on Hallmark Channel, Love On The Danube: Love Song is the first of the movie series, starring Nazneen Contractor, Wes Brown, and Catherine Disher (Good Witch).

According to the official synopsis, the movie tells the story of fellow cruise passengers,...

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This January, Prime Video is bringing you a lot of entertainment from the Will Ferrell comedy film You’re Cordially Invited to the beloved romantic action comedy film The Fall Guy. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Prime Video this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 10 best films that are coming to Prime Video in January 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Boogie Nights (January 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94% Credit – New Line Cinema

Boogie Nights is a drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The 1997 film is set in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley, and it follows Eddie Adams, a high school dropout working as a dishwasher as he becomes one of the biggest adult film stars,...

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Hallmark+ has announced details of the third installment in its new, original movie series, Love on the Danube. Titled Kissing Stars, the new movie premieres on September 26 and stars Sarah Power and Brendan Penny. Read on to find out more about the movie and its cast and enjoy some images taken on the film set.

Love On The Danube: Kissing Stars on Hallmark+ Photo: Brendan Penny Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Nelly Kiss

According to the official synopsis, Savannah (Power) is a PR professional who works with non-profits. She is expecting a promotion but unexpectedly gets laid off. Meanwhile, her best friend, Teddy (Kathryn Drysdale), the director of a riverboat cruise that is hosting a Rom-Com fan convention called KissCon, invites her to work with talent while on the cruise.

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Photo: Dan Jeannotte, Jessica Sipos Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Nelly Kiss

Airing on Thursday, September 19 on Hallmark’s revitalized streaming channel, Hallmark+, Love on the Danube: Royal Getaway is the second in an exciting trilogy.

The movie tells the story of two people on a riverboat getaway in Europe and how shared interests can bring love. Read on to find out more about the plot and cast of the movie, and see images taken on the film set.

Love on the Danube: Royal Getaway on Hallmark+ Photo: Daniel Fraser, Roy McCrerey, Lesley Molony, Dan Jeannotte Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Nelly Kiss

According to the official synopsis, Ava (Sipos), an art gallery manager, decides to take her honeymoon riverboat cruise alone after her wedding was canceled a year before. On the cruise, she meets Joe (Jeannotte), a handsome fellow passenger she finds intriguing.

Unbeknownst to her, Joe is concealing his identity as the Prince of Baldonia.

Photo: Wes Brown, Nazeen Contractor Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Nelly Kiss

The feel-good channel’s reinvented streaming channel Hallmark+ has announced the first of a new movie trilogy, Love On The Danube: Love Song.

Filmed on an iconic river cruise boat, with spectacular views of Europe, this first movie sees Nazreen Contractor and Wes Brown falling in love while attempting to match-make their parents. Read on to find out more about the plot of the movie and its cast and see beautiful images taken on the film set.

Love On the Danube: Love Song on Hallmark+ Photo: Mark Holden, Kathryn Drysdale Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Nelly Kiss

According to the official synopsis, Sarah (Contractor) is traveling with her mother on a European Riverboat Cruise. Onboard, she meets Jack (Brown), who is cruising with his father.

The couple immediately forms a connection and realizes their parents are also making friends. Sarah...

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“The Masked Talent,” a new format from Korea’s Mbc, creators of global hit “The Masked Singer,” is currently in production.

Unlike the celebrity-driven “The Masked Singer” and spin-off “The Masked Dancer,” where the focus is on who is behind the mask, “The Masked Talent” is a non-celebrity masked audition format concentrating on singing skills and talents. Two episodes, to be broadcast on the Mbc channel during the Chuseok Korean Thanksgiving holidays, invites the audience to participate.

“The purpose of the show is to present the audience with the unique experience to become the masked hero and perform their showmanship,” said Park Jeong-Kyu, chief producer of “The Masked Singer” and “The Masked Talent.” “With prejudice and bias out of the way, the contestants will be judged solely by their genuine voice and talent.”

The show was co-developed by Mbc and France’s Herve Hubert, the production house for the French “Mask Singer,...

Byron Studios has appointed former Network 10 chief Paul Anderson as its CEO, with the executive to work with co-founders Will Gammon and Mark Holden to steer its development.

Currently Byron Studios currently offers four facilities across the Northern Rivers, while also developing with Ballina Shire Council plans for a new and ambitious ‘state-of-the- complex and media precinct.

Anderson relocated to the Northern Rivers earlier this year, having stood down from his dual roles as 10 CEO and EVP ViacomCBS Network International Australia and New Zealand last March after 17 years.

While Byron Bay and surrounds have always been home to creatives from across the arts, Anderson sees the planned studio complex as filling an infrastructure gap that will give sustainability to the region’s screen and media industry, as well as providing a multiplier effect on the economy.

“It’s exciting for the whole region,” he tells If.

“Creating something sustainable,...

The full cast has been announced for the West End production of Pretty Woman The Musical. Joining the previously announced Aimie Atkinson as 'Vivian Ward' and Danny Mac as 'Edward Lewis' are Rachael Wooding as 'Kit De Luca', Bob Harms as 'Happy ManMr Thompson', Neil McDermott as 'Philip Stuckey' and Mark Holden as 'James Morse'. Pretty Woman The Musical begins performances at the Piccadilly Theatre on 13 February 2020, where it will play for a strictly limited engagement.

1981: Alexandra Neil first appeared on Texas as Ruby.

1987: Days of our Lives' Charlotte Ross debuted as Eve.

2001: One Life to Live's Melissa Archer debuted as Natalie.

2004: Kirsten Storms made her last appearance as Belle on Days."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."

― Anselm Kiefer

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

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1934: Musical radio soap opera Dreams Come True premiered on the NBC Red network. The show aired three times a week and revolved around vocalist Barry McKinley. Dreams Come True was sponsored by Procter & Gamble's Camay soap.

1953: On radio soap opera Hilltop House,...

1981: Alexandra Neil first appeared on Texas as Ruby.

1987: Days of our Lives' Charlotte Ross debuted as Eve.

2001: One Life to Live's Melissa Archer debuted as Natalie.

2004: Kirsten Storms made her last appearance as Belle on Days."All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."

― Anne Brontë in "Agnes Grey"

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1934: Musical radio soap opera Dreams Come True premiered on the NBC Red network. The show aired three times a week...

Is there a hit from the past decade more widely imitated than “Homeland”? Perhaps that’s because the spy serial’s action-packed appeal seems easily replicable, even without a character as indelible as Carrie Mathison. Building relatable characters is hard, but ratcheting up tension is easy. Right?

Epix’s new series “Deep State” creates tense situations that don’t quite hit home — because, artfully directed and grimace-inducingly violent as those situations may be, they’re happening to people from whom we feel a strange remove. On “Deep State,” Mark Strong’s Max Easton is called back into the field as an MI6 agent to course-correct a failing mission in the Middle East. In so doing, he’s called away from his bucolic family life in France — including a wife who knows less than she might and who takes it upon herself to learn what her husband’s been up to.

Koch Industries has written a lengthy response to our feature story on the company in the latest issue of Rolling Stone. In tweets the company apparently paid to promote, Koch bills this write-up as a "point-by-point response to Rolling Stone writer Tim Dickinson's dishonest and misleading story." The salient feature of Koch's response is that the company does not argue the core facts of our 9,000-word expose. Instead, Koch targets the messenger. Koch's top target here is not even Rolling Stone, but me, Tim Dickinson.

I find it, frankly,...

Stalled is a horror comedy about a janitor that gets trapped in a womens restroom and encounters an allout attack by a hoard of zombies. The film will have a limited theatrical release beginning October 3 2013 and will be available on VOD starting October 3 2012. Stalled is directed by Christian James Produced by Richard James Kerrigan and Written by Dan Palmer. It stars Palmer (Freak Out) Tamaryn Payne (Hollyoaks) Antonia Bernath (Elvis St.Trinians) Mark Holden (Final Destination XFiles) Victoria Broom (Dead Cert) Giles Alderson (Damned Utd Harsh Light Of Day) and Chris R. Wright (Faintheart Small Town Folk). Synopsis Its Christmas Eve and a soon to be shitcanned maintenance gopher (Dan Palmer) is changing...

Following its recent UK premiere at FrightFest, the zombie comedy, Stalled, has been acquired for Us distribution:

“Los Angeles, CA – Uncork’d Entertainment has inked North American theatrical, V.O.D., digital and home entertainment rights to the critically-acclaimed horror comedy Stalled. The film debuted recently at Film4/FrightFest in the U.K. to two sold-out screenings with a third being added due to the demand. Stalled was written by Dan Palmer and directed by Christian James. The film will have its North American theatrical premiere at the recently opened Alamo Drafthouse in Richardson, TX, followed by additional theaters in early October 2013. Uncork’d Entertainment’s Keith Leopard made today’s announcement.

“Stalled is one of those projects that people can’t seem to stop talking about,” commented Leopard. “It’s got a bit of everything – horror, comedy and zombies. Think ‘Evil Dead’ but in a restroom. We’re pleased...

We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes details on a zombie energy drink, trailers for Ditch Day Massacre and The Dead Inside, and much more:

Zombie Terrors #1 Animated Comic: ”Asylum Press and Visionborne have joined forces to produce a slate of animated comics based on popular Asylum Press titles for the Apple iPad and other mobile devices. After the successful launch of fan-favorite Fearless Dawn #1, Zombie Terrors is the next in the lineup to be released exclusively through the Visionborne app that uses Airmid technology, a process that converts static 2D art into a vibrant 3D animated format that can be read and “experienced” using a reader app on iOS and Android.

Zombie Terrors #1 is available the iTunes store now. It features a gory collection of zombie tales created by an international cast of artistic talent.

From the press release:

Are you ready for a spine-chilling global avalanche of Indian zombies, Israeli oldboys, vengeance-crazed Vikings, Swedish mesmerists, Irish telekinesis, Argentine undead, Aussie bone-crushers, murderous Mormons and Chilean assassins?

Film4 FrightFest 2013, returning for its 4teenth year, has unveiled its biggest line-up in history. From Thurs 22 August to Monday 26 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 51 films on three screens. Empire 1 will house the main event while the Discovery strands will play in Empires 2 & 4. The new FrightFest Xtra strand, also in Screen 2, will allow fans to catch up with sold-out performances of the most popular attractions.

This year there are eleven countries representing five continents with a record-breaking thirty-three UK or European premieres and ten world premieres.

The world premieres include our opening night attraction The Dead 2: India from the Ford Brothers,...

The latest comic horror venture from 'Freak Out' creators Christian James ('Kill Keith') and Dan Palmer ('Evil Aliens') is new British zombie flick 'Stalled'. The project will be hitting the Us courtesy of Uncork'd Entertainment and Odin's Eye this coming October where it'll be receiving a limited theatrical run. Which will in turn follow up with a home release during November. Exact dates are still to be nailed down but in the meantime the movie has managed to piggy-back onto another zombie movie that is enjoying success at the box office currently. The new teaser poster manages to parody and take a literal massive sh#t on the artwork of 'World War Z'. Antonia Bernath ('St Trinians', 'Lykke'), Dan Palmer, Tamaryn Payne ('Hollyoaks'), Mark Holden, Giles Alderson ('The Harsh Light of Day'), Victoria Broom, Mark Kelly and Victoria Eldon all star.

One man. One toilet. And lots of zombies! Lol! Get ready for a completely weird horror movie titled Stalled, which comes from director Christian James and is currently in post production. Yeah, no official release date at this moment, but at least we have a completely fresh (well, if fresh is the right word for a story set in one toilet) teaser trailer for the whole thing. Make sure you check this out, and let us know what you think!

So, Christian James directed the movie from Dan Palmer‘s script which centers on a luckless maintenance gopher who finds himself stuck in a ladies restroom during the zombie apocalypse.

Dan Palmer also stars as the lead, character named W.C (yeah, that’s funny name, too) while the rest of the cast also includes Antonia Bernath, Tamaryn Payne, Mark Holden, Giles Alderson and Chris R. Wright.

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The new teaser trailer for British toilet-based zomedy horror 'Stalled' is here and so its time to get scared shitless! The project comes from 'Freak Out' creators Christian James ('Kill Keith') and Dan Palmer ('Evil Aliens') who direct and write the new undead horror respectively. Palmer takes the lead role as W.C. the office maintenance guy whose Christmas plans soon take a back burner when he gets trapped inside a restroom and faces an apocalyptic zombie outbreak. The gorgeous Antonia Bernath ('St Trinians', 'Lykke') co-stars along with Tamaryn Payne ('Hollyoaks'), Mark Holden, Giles Alderson ('The Harsh Light of Day'), Victoria Broom, Mark Kelly and Victoria Eldon. Check out the new trailer below....

We got our first look at the latest entry into the UK horror comedy genre yesterday, with the first poster for Stalled, and now we’ve had three great behind the scenes images from the production sent our way, giving us a look at some of the blood and festivities we have to look forward to.

Christian James (Freak Out) is back behind the camera once more, directing from a script by frequent collaborator Dan Palmer (Freak Out), who also stars.

“It’s Christmas Eve and a soon to be shit-canned maintenance gopher (Dan Palmer) is changing light bulbs and cleaning toilets instead of drinking egg-nog and making out with drunk receptionists at the annual office party. Unfortunately for this forlorn floor-sweeper he chooses to use the Ladies’ Restroom the very second a Zombie Outbreak occurs! Will he bowl us over and flush away the undead or (like in his...

Currently in post-productions, Stalled is the latest entry into the UK horror comedy genre that British filmmakers often seem to have a handle on better than most. (Naturally, I point you towards Shaun of the Dead as a good starting point if you’re new to the genre.)

We’ve had the first poster for the film sent over, giving us a tease of its intriguing premise:

“It’s Christmas Eve and a soon to be shit-canned maintenance gopher (Dan Palmer) is changing light bulbs and cleaning toilets instead of drinking egg-nog and making out with drunk receptionists at the annual office party. Unfortunately for this forlorn floor-sweeper he chooses to use the Ladies’ Restroom the very second a Zombie Outbreak occurs! Will he bowl us over and flush away the undead or (like in his pre-apocalypse life) simply remain …’Stalled’?

This British horror/comedy is Directed by Christian James,...

Back in 2004 a new British comedy horror flick arrived out of nowhere and landed our desks. The parody-esque slasher feature was called 'Freak Out' and was a great little low-budget production which kept our team chuckling away. Now 8 years on Brit duo Christian James and Dan Palmer are back with their new comedy horror effort 'Stalled'. It's Christmas time zombies, with guaranteed toilet humour all the way and we have caught an early glimpse at the new bloody one-sheet from the project. James helms from a script penned by Dan Palmer who also stars as the suitably named maintenance man W.C. Antonia Bernath ('Lykke'), Tamaryn Payne ('Hollyoaks'), Mark Holden, Giles Alderson, Victoria Broom, Mark Kelly and Victoria Eldon all co-star. Check out the plot into and fresh new one-sheet below....