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Maude Latour’s fans have described her music as being for people who “had glow-in-the-dark stars on their ceilings” as kids. These days, Latour sees her music as “main-character” pop anthems for dramatic people with intense emotions, like herself.

“It’s for any girly who needs to put their headphones on, and that’s where they go to understand everything,” the 24-year-old dream-pop singer says. “It’s for people who journal. For people who love to feel every feeling and have a strong spectrum of emotions, and aren’t afraid to feel anything extremely.

There’s even more Bluey coming this fall.

A new collection of seven minisodes will debut Monday, Oct. 7 at 12 am Pt on Disney+ and will also be available to watch on Disney Jr., Disney Channel and Disney Jr. On Demand throughout the week.

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The upcoming one-to three-minute minisodes, written by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, are as follows:

“Tattoo Shop” – Dad...

Prepare to see more adventures from Bluey and Bingo. Seven more minisodes set in the “Bluey” universe will premiere on Disney+ starting Oct. 7. at 12 a.m. Pt. These short-form episodes will also roll out on Disney Jr., Disney Channel and Disney Jr. on demand throughout the week.

This is the second batch of one-to-three-minute episodes “Bluey” has released following its first batch, which dropped in July. The premiere date for the third and final batch will be announced at a later date. The minisodes are written by “Bluey” creator Joe Brumm and produced by Ludo Studio.

Watch a first look from the upcoming “Blocks,” below:

Disney+ has also released the names and episode descriptions of all seven episodes:

“Tattoo Shop” — Dad visits the ‘tattoo shop’ where the kids give him some ink. Dad wants skulls and snakes, so he can look tough. But when the time comes to look, it...

Gene Tierney, though not an A-list name, had a filmography that rivals Hollywood stars of her time. Tierney excels in film noir roles such as in "Night and the City" and "Whirlpool," showcasing her talents. Tierney's performances in classics like "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and "Leave Her to Heaven" prove her underrated brilliance.

Gene Tierney was one of Hollywood's great leading ladies of the 1940s and 1950s and, though she may not have a name as well recognized as contemporaries like Katharine Hepburn or Ingrid Bergman, Tierney has a filmography that stands up against that of any vaunted actress. Tierney operates in an interesting zone where she is not quite a lesser-known Golden Age Hollywood actor, but she also is not one of the primary celebrities many think of from the era. But despite not being an A-list household name, Tierney is an accomplished actress in her own right.

Tierney...

Warning: This article contains Spoilers for Netflix's One Piece season 1.

Netflix's One Piece season 1 made several changes to the original manga, but most of them are related to pacing rather than altering characters' personalities or purposes. For example, Arlong replaces Don Krieg, who only briefly appears in the show, in the Baratie segment. Some supporting One Piece characters, such as the Usopp pirates or Johnny and Yosaku, were not in the show.

Netflix’s One Piece live-action series changes several elements from the original story, although it still remains faithful to Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece manga. One Piece season 1 consists of eight episodes, and it covers the first 95 chapters of the manga. Considering how many characters and locations the manga deals with from the start, changes from the source material were expected. Fortunately, most of the changes made for the One Piece live-action show have to do with...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

BlackBerry (Matt Johnson)

In BlackBerry, the rise of a blue-chip tech company sets the stage for the dissolution of a longstanding friendship. Sound familiar? Just wait ‘til you hear the score. Directed by Matt Johnson, it tells the true story of Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin, software engineers who founded the company Rim in the mid-80s and later invented a cellphone that could handle email. The film begins on the day when they meet Jim Basillie (Glenn Howerton), a Rottweiler who, alongside Lazaridis’ genius, turned Rim’s invention (only later christened BlackBerry) into the world’s most ubiquitous mobile device––at least for a time. – Rory O. (full review)

Where to Stream: VOD

The Hole in the Fence (Joaquín del Paso...

This is probably an odd thing to say, but whenever watching a modern potboiler I find myself asking, “What would Bertrand Tavernier think?” The kind of French cineaste that found themselves most at home in the company of the disposable American crime film, the esteemed director could wax poetic on the most disreputable of pictures. If you squint during Hypnotic––a collaboration between Robert Rodriguez and Ben Affleck that’s likely been cooking since they first met at a 1997 Miramax holiday party––you can see faint traces of a classic noir like Otto Preminger’s Whirlpool, or something of such ilk.

Though pitched as somewhat of a Christopher Nolan-like mind-bender, this is a throwback of another stripe: to 2010, not 1948. Stripped of the comfortable Hollywood budget that would’ve greeted that pairing during their respective heydays, this initially seems like the pilot for a slightly more high-concept detective show before accounting...

Arrow Video is excited to announce the June rollout of titles on their subscription-based Arrow Video Channel, including the exclusive debut of Miguel Llans&#243's Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway. A hit on the international festival circuit, the film boasts an Irish-accented Joseph Stalin, a kung-fu-fighting Batman, a mix of Afro-futurism, Cold War paranoia, Lynchian surrealism, the dystopian world of Philip K. Dick and 60s exploitation cinema.

Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway is available June 1st exclusively on the Arrow Video Channel in the Us and the UK. Additional new titles available June 1st include The Woman (UK/Us), Bloodtide (UK/Us), Dream Demon (UK/Us), White Fire (UK/Us) and The Stuff (Us). The Arrow Video Channel is available on Apple TV in the UK and Us, as well as on Amazon in the UK.

In Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway,...

We're back with another edition of Horror Highlights! In today's installment, watch the short film The Mother of Beauty, check out the new red band trailer for Becky, and find out what's coming to the Arrow Video Channel:

The Mother Of Beauty Short Film: "In ‘The Mother of Beauty’ a single mother-to-be lives in isolation on the edge of the wilderness. She makes a living through her work with vulture culture: using the remains of dead animals to create art and memorialize the lives that once were. As she attempts to overcome the struggles of parenthood, the forces of life and death pull her in opposing directions, and she must find a way to reconcile the two before they tear her apart."

Director: Nick Meunier

Producer: J.W. Cole

Co-producer & Writer: Lonnie Nadler

Starring: Tristan Risk

Director Of Photography: Steven Hayes

Production Design: Rob Warren

Editor: Adam MacKay

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Becky Red Band Trailer: "Spunky and rebellious,...

The Notebook is the North American home for Locarno Film Festival Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian's blog. Chatrian has been writing thoughtful blog entries in Italian on Locarno's website since he took over as Director in late 2012, and now you can find the English translations here on the Notebook as they're published. The Locarno Film Festival will be taking place August 2 - 12. We can begin with one of those anecdotes that are the stuff of Hollywood, marking the birth of a star and mapping out a whole career. Gene Tierney had already caught the eye of Anatole Litvak when aged only 17 and, after a happy period of study abroad (right here in Switzerland, in Lausanne), had been invited by a cousin to visit a Hollywood film set. But she took her father’s advice and turned down an offer from Warner Bros in favor of starting on the stage, on Broadway.

Coleen Gray actress ca. 1950. Coleen Gray: Actress in early Stanley Kubrick film noir, destroyer of men in cult horror 'classic' Actress Coleen Gray, best known as the leading lady in Stanley Kubrick's film noir The Killing and – as far as B horror movie aficionados are concerned – for playing the title role in The Leech Woman, died at age 92 in Aug. 2015. This two-part article, which focuses on Gray's film career, is a revised and expanded version of the original post published at the time of her death. Born Doris Bernice Jensen on Oct. 23, 1922, in Staplehurst, Nebraska, at a young age she moved with her parents, strict Lutheran Danish farmers, to Minnesota. After getting a degree from St. Paul's Hamline University, she relocated to Southern California to be with her then fiancé, an army private. At first, she eked out a living as a waitress at a La Jolla hotel...

Coleen Gray actress ca. 1950. Coleen Gray: Actress in early Stanley Kubrick film noir, destroyer of men in cult horror 'classic' Actress Coleen Gray, best known as the leading lady in Stanley Kubrick's film noir The Killing and – as far as B horror movie aficionados are concerned – for playing the title role in The Leech Woman, died at age 92 in Aug. 2015. This two-part article, which focuses on Gray's film career, is a revised and expanded version of the original post published at the time of her death. Born Doris Bernice Jensen on Oct. 23, 1922, in Staplehurst, Nebraska, at a young age she moved with her parents, strict Lutheran Danish farmers, to Minnesota. After getting a degree from St. Paul's Hamline University, she relocated to Southern California to be with her then fiancé, an army private. At first, she eked out a living as a waitress at a La Jolla hotel...

★★★★★ Alongside Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, and John Huston, Otto Preminger was one of the most influential film noir directors in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. This new collection by the BFI gives us three of his finest works, namely Fallen Angel (1945), Whirlpool (1949) and Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950). The collection itself is handsomely, if a little sparsely, presented with a small but informative booklet, and trailers and commentaries for each film.

Night and the City

Written by Jo Eisinger

Directed by Jules Dassin

UK, 1950

Harry Fabian is probably the best at what he does, even if he is never very successful. Richard Widmark’s character in Night and the City, out now on a gorgeous new Criterion Collection Blu-ray, is a low-level con who works wherever he can, however he can, doing whatever he can to make a buck. He enters Jules Dassin’s 1950 film noir classic on the run; he will always be on the run: always hustling, always running. Sincere though his half-baked plans may be, he is perpetually—pathetically—down on his luck. He has the ambition, there’s no doubt about that, and as he shrewdly stumbles past one obstacle after another, it becomes almost humorous in the way he manages to charm his way through life, always just by the skin of his teeth. He cooks...

Jean‑Luc Godard's masterpiece remains a startling example of the French new wave and marked the arrival of one of cinema's most influential directors

Two trailers bookend my half-a-century of writing professionally about the cinema and bracket the career of the man who is arguably the most influential moviemaker of my lifetime. Fifty years ago this month I dropped into an Oslo cinema while waiting for a midnight train and saw an unforgettable trailer for a French picture. It cut abruptly between a handsome, broken-nosed actor I'd never come across before, giant posters of Humphrey Bogart, and the familiar features of Jean Seberg, whom I knew to be an idol of French cinéastes as the protegee of Otto Preminger. Shot in high contrast monochrome, rapidly edited, interspersed with puzzling statements in white-on-black and black-on-white lettering, it was like no other trailer I'd seen, and I was captivated. Not until my...

Every Hollywood studio had its distinctive style, partly brought about by artists it had under contract. This quartet of classic 20th Century-Fox thrillers features three films directed by Otto Preminger (Fallen Angel, 1945; Whirlpool, 1949; Where the Sidewalk Ends, 1950). The fourth film is the greatest noir movie made in Britain, Jules Dassin's Night and the City (1950), the first film I saw being made. As an impressionable 15-year-old, I (and my parents) stumbled across a shoot in a Soho alley featuring Fox's new heavy Richard Widmark and femme fatale Googie Withers. Gene Tierney (the eponymous Laura in Preminger's first venture into noir) is in three of the movies, her Laura co-star Dana Andrews in two of them. Indicative of the way the genre reflected disturbing social undercurrents is that in all these films there were people – actors, writers and a director (Jules Dassin) – who became blacklisted McCarthy victims.

DVD and video reviewsPhilip French

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Night and the City is the stand-out title here, a top-quality example of the genre with the unusual feature that the mean streets through which smalltime hustler Richard Widmark plies his trade are the still-familiar ones of postwar London.

Like his lead character, Jules Dassin, whose direction is exhilarating, was on the run – from the McCarthy witchhunt in Hollywood. He's best-known for Rififi , but this is every bit as good, weaving an elaborate plot around its club owners and gangsters. Widmark, slippery but soulful, rises to the challenge amid an excellent cast and this deserves to be much better known. Backing it up are a trio of Fox films made by Otto Preminger, Fallen Angel, Whirlpool and When the Sidewalk Ends. Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney are prominent in satisfyingly shadowy dramas and the BFI gives it lots of useful back-up material in an attractive package.

DVD and video reviewsThrillerRob Mackie

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