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There’s a moment late in “I Saw the TV Glow” when Owen (Justice Smith), now an adult, watches an episode of “The Pink Opaque,” the ’90s TV series that obsessed him in high school. The supernatural teen genre series now looks and feels completely different to him: Gone is the supernatural mystery, the seductive production values, that magical glow of a vicarious world.

In the cinematic world of Jane Schoenbrun’s film, Owen and Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) are cosmically linked to “The Pink Opaque” lead characters Tara (Lindsey Jordan) and Isabel (Helena Howard), so it’s possible the series has actually altered, but this scene of Owen re-watching it as an adult also speaks to something Schoenbrun experienced.

“There was always this idea of the way that a field that you played in as a kid looked and felt giant, but when you go back, it’s just this...

I Saw the TV Glow director Jane Schoenbrun contemplates a remake of John Carpenter's They Live, flipping the script to reflect late capitalism. Schoenbrun's proposed remake of They Live would portray a world where the aliens have won and everyone is resigned to the fact. While They Live was panned at first, it's now seen as a radical critique of capitalism and media influence ripe for a doomer remake.

I Saw the TV Glow has just begun its slow theatrical rollout, with a much wider release coming May 17. There's been a lot of hype about the hazy, anhedonic, post-vaporwave, anti-capitalist aesthetic of filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun after their first feature film, We're All Going to the World's Fair. Their next film is yet another original quasi-horror tone poem that elaborates Schoenbrun's distinctive vision amid the cinematic landscape (so ber-hip but anti-awesome). So it's interesting that the director is toying with an idea for a remake,...

If the death of cinema is imminent, at least Kleber Mendonça Filho can play it out with some vintage Tropicália. It’s becoming a nice leitmotif of the Brazilian director’s career, whose ultraviolent Bacurau curtain-raised with Gal Costa’s “Não Identificado,” and latest effort Pictures of Ghosts, which premiered as a Special Screening at Cannes, eases in with Tom Zé’s deceptively jaunty “Happy End.” This is a first-person, arguably selfish movie––in that associated genre, the docu-essay––where Mendonça Filho seems to be waving a teary-eyed goodbye to valuable associations and possessions, perhaps only those of individual sentimental resonance. Yet it’s “selfish” in a productive manner, almost as a function of self-care, like a sunny afternoon lounging on the settee revisiting one’s favorite LPs.

The title Pictures of Ghosts has been oddly overlapping in my mind with British theorist Mark Fisher’s posthumous hit essay collection Ghosts of My Life.

Prepare to enter the world of Jumanji.

The 1995 adventure movie, starring Robin Williams — and the Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart-led sequels — will be the inspiration of new rides, lands, retail outlets and themed hotels.

Sony Pictures, the studio behind the billion-dollar film franchise, and Merlin Entertainments, the company that operates Legoland and Madame Tussauds, have entered into a multi-territory exclusivity agreement to develop and operate attractions across Merlin’s Resort Theme Parks and Waterparks in Europe (including the United Kingdom) and North America.

The first “Jumanji” experience to be brought to life will be a theme park ride, which will open in April this year at Merlin’s Gardaland Resort in Italy. A second activation is already in development at a different, yet-to-be announced theme park for a 2023 launch.

The attraction will be called “Jumanji — the Adventure” and will mine material from the latest films, which co-star Jack Black,...

Sony Pictures Entertainment and theme-park corp Merlin Entertainments are teaming to extend the Jumanji brand through a range of exclusive rides, lands, retail outlets, and themed hotel rooms across the latter’s global network of theme parks and waterparks in Europe, UK, and North America.

The first experience to be launched will be the first Jumanji ride —Jumanji – the Adventure– opening in April at Merlin’s Gardaland Resort in Italy, with a second activation already in development at a different theme park next year.

Merlin is teaming up with Oceaneering and Framestore for the development of the Jumanji ride at Gardaland. The attraction will transport guests to the fantastic world of the Dwayne Johnson-Kevin Hart-Jack Black-Karen Gillan movie, where there’s a journey full of pitfalls, surprises and dangers through a wild jungle. The theme park ride will be complemented by the simultaneous launch...

A series of rides, attractions, theme park lands, retail outlets and even themed-hotel rooms inspired by the “Jumanji” franchise are coming to theme parks and water parks across Europe and North America.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has entered into an agreement with Merlin Entertainments and their brands to launch several “Jumanji” branded attractions, including the first to open at Merlin’s Gardaland Resort in Italy in April.

“Jumanji – the Adventure” will open at Gardaland next month, and the ride, on which Merlin teamed up with Oceaneering and Framestore, will transport guests into the exocitc world of Jumanji and is described as a “dark ride” that will have “pitfalls, surprises and dangers through the wild jungle.” Opening alongside the ride will be a series of Jumanji hotel bedrooms. And Merlin is planning a second activation at a different park for launch in 2023.

Merlin has branded attractions including with Lego, Marvel, Peppa Pigg and CBeebies,...