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True Brit Entertainment has picked up U.K. and Irish rights to The Creep, director Christopher Smith’s reimagining of his 2004 horror cult classic.

Top Boy’s Jasmine Jobson, Wicked actor Andy Nyman, and U.K. rapper Aitch, in his acting debut, co-star in the Gen Z Creep update.

The original film follows a woman (Run Lola Run star Franke Potente) locked in the London Underground overnight. She later finds herself being stalked by a hideously deformed killer living in the sewers below.

In the new film, Jobson plays Chloe, a struggling artist and former drug mule who gets pulled into doing one final job: Running drugs across London for an old contact, the elusive Mads. Carrying a holdall of narcotics and an envelope of cash, Chloe boards the last train on the London Underground, only to find herself trapped in a nightmare. A masked killer slaughters her fellow passengers in a blood-soaked frenzy,...

Leading sales agency Beta Cinema has revealed a tranche of sales to major territories for “Let It Rain,” “The Physician II” and “The Light.”

The Swedish comedy “Let It Rain,” directed by two-time Oscar-nominee Hannes Holm, was sold to Leonine (German-speaking territories), Benelux and Singapore (September Film), Czech Republic (Film Europe), Former Yugoslavia (Blitz), Bulgaria (Beta Film) and Israel (Lev Cinemas).

Robert Gustafsson (“The 100-Year-Old Man”), Jonas Karlsson (“The Snowman”) and Karin Lithman (“The Bridge”) star in the tale of a grumpy widower who, by miracle or coincidence, finds himself at the center of an event that could transform not only his own life but the fate of his entire village—and possibly the world. Holm earned two Academy Award nominations for “A Man Called Ove” in 2015. The film became an international box office hit in 2016, grossing over $30 million worldwide, and was later remade as “A Man Called Otto,” starring Tom Hanks.

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Streaming platform Netflix has been home to some of the most popular crime thriller shows like Adolescence, Narcos, and Dark, to name a few. But a highly rated mind-bending time-loop thriller might have flown under the radar. And interestingly, it is neither a series nor a movie. Wondering, what are we talking about? Read on to find out.

This Mind-Bending Thriller On Netflix Deserves Your Attention

Without wasting any more time, let us tell you that we are talking about the point-and-click mystery adventure game Twelve Minutes, which can be played on the Netflix platform. It has elements of sci-fi, thriller, mystery, and romantic drama genres. The game’s basic plot is narrated from the perspective of a husband (voiced by James McAvoy) who enters his small apartment and starts talking to his wife (voiced by Daisy Ridley).

But the...

A struggling seamstress comes upon a drug deal gone awry in Sew Torn, the feature debut by writer-director Freddy Macdonald, kickstarting a narrative structure that borrows liberally from Tom Tykwer’s propulsive Run Lola Run. The seamstress weighs her options, opening up three different story paths and outcomes. Macdonald nestles Run Lola Run’s loop-like structure inside a cozy crime thriller, the type that’s more intimate and self-contained in scale and comes heavily armed with a sense of whimsy. That it’s all stitched together by an almost preternaturally gifted seamstress makes for a visually arresting and charming debut, if a bit subdued.

“Choices, choices, choices,” Sew Torn‘s seamstress Barbara (Eve Connolly) says in the opening voiceover narration. She has no idea that she’s distilled the plot so simply; the events that follow will lay daunting choices at her feet, though she doesn’t know it yet.

Dark Winds rode the rails in its third-season finale, as Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon) chased down a murderer making his way out of town on a train. In a new Hollywood Reporter interview with Dark Winds showrunner John Wirth and director Chris Eyre, they revealed the reasoning behind the Wild West-style showdown. Not only did it tie in with the show's Western themes, but one of the show's executive producers happened to own a locomotive.

The series finale is titled "Béésh Łį́į́ (Iron Horse)," a reference to the nickname for the steam engines that "tamed" the West. Says Wirth, who previously worked on AMC's Western series Hell on Wheels, "You know, cowboys and trains kind of go together, and in a neo-Western like this one, it felt like there would be a train." And where did they get the train? George R. R. Martin,...

One of the best Disney Channel television shows during the early 2000s is "Lizzie McGuire," a middle school sitcom about the growing pains of crushes, wanting to be popular, and finding your teenage identity. It was nominated for Outstanding Children's Program in the 2003 and 2004 Emmy Awards. "Lizzie McGuire" was also one of the most popular series on the channel, with up to 2.3 million viewers per episode, and it became the first Disney Channel series to have a feature film released in theaters. Created by Terri Minsky, the short-lived but adored series has a truly unique and creative vision.

"Lizzie McGuire" features all sorts of experimental filmmaking and editing techniques, inspired by "Run Lola Run," to create silly moments (via Vice). "There were Dutch angle close-ups of Mrs. McGuire's lips sternly demanding, 'Tell me the truth,' or shots that turned into still photos with the sound of popping flashbulbs, like...

A sewing supply shopowner who stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong is faced with three choices – commit the perfect crime, call the police, or run away

Thread-slingers with an addiction to YouTube tutorials (like me) may have seen an amusing film by seamstress/historian Bernadette Banner in which she reacts to a bunch of films that feature actors sewing, or at least pretending to sew. Examples include How the Grinch Stole Christmas (not convincing) to The Phantom Thread. Each one is picked apart with waspish scrutiny by Banner, who can spot the difference between a vintage treadle-operated chain stitch machine and a lockstitch machine from different periods in the 19th-century. Hopefully Banner will get a chance to scrutinise this loosely sewing-themed thriller and nitpick its faux pas, such as the bit where the seamstress protagonist Barbara (Eve Connolly) seems to sew a button on a client’s wedding dress in less than a minute.

Swiss director Tim Fehlbaum’s English-language dramatic thriller September 5,set in a US newsroom during the 1972 hostage crisis at the Munich Olympics, leads the contenders for this year’s German Film Awards, also known as the Lolas, with 10 nominations including for best film, director and screenplay.

Produced by German outfit BerghausWöbke Filmproduktion with Constantin Film,September 5premiered at Venice 2024 and has been distributed by Paramount Pictures in key international territories.

Andreas Dresen’s From Hilde, With Love garnered seven nominations, closely followed by Iranian-born director Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, with six nominations. The latter was...

Oh, Hi! has now found a studio. The upcoming dark romantic comedy, which was written and directed by Sophie Brooks (The Boy Downstairs), follows a couple - Iris and Isaac (Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief star Logan Lerman) - whose new marriage swiftly unravels when they embark on a road trip. The cast of the movie, which has already earned a solidly Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 72%, also includes Blockers' Geraldine Viswanathan and Stranger Things supporting player John Reynolds.

Per Variety, Oh, Hi! has been picked up by Sony Pictures Classics just over a month after its Sundance premiere on January 26. So far, there has been no official release date set for the project. Read comments on the acquisition from Sophie Brooks and Sony Pictures Classics below:

Sophie Brooks: I couldn’t be more thrilled that we have found our home with Sony Pictures Classics. For as long as I can remember,...

Dark Winds has added a major player to the cast for season 4. The AMC thriller series, which is based on the Leaphorn & Chee books by Tony Hillerman, follows Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon), Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten), and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon), a trio of Navajo Tribal Police officers who work in the Four Corners region. The show, which is so popular that Dark Winds season 4 was renewed before season 3 even premiered, has featured appearances by a variety of stars, including Rainn Wilson, Bruce Greenwood, Jenna Elfman, and Jeri Ryan.

Per Deadline, Franka Potente has joined the cast of Dark Winds season 4 in the season's first new guest role, playing an as-yet unknown character. The German actor has most recently been seen another AMC series, Mayfair Witches, playing the role of Annamieke, who is a member of the secret society Talamasca, in two episodes of season 2 of the Anne Rice's Immortal Universe series.

Exclusive: Franka Potente has joined the cast of AMC’s Dark Winds in a key guest role for Season 4. Details regarding her character are under wraps.

The series was renewed for a fourth season ahead of the show’s third season premiere. New episodes are currently airing Sunday nights at 9 p.m.

Set in 1971 on a remote outpost of the Navajo Nation near Monument Valley, Dark Winds follows Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police (Zahn McClarnon) as he is besieged by a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. The closer he digs to the truth, the more he exposes the wounds of his past. He is joined on this journey by his new deputy, Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon). Chee also has old scores to settle from his youth on the reservation. Together, the two men battle the forces of evil, each other and their own...

Casting director An Dorthe Braker, known as “casting queen” of German cinema, will receive an honorary German Film Award for outstanding contributions to German cinema, the German film academy announced Monday.

Braker was a pioneer in Germany, bringing a U.S.-style casting approach to the German film industry in the early 1990s, before the profession was formally recognized in Germany. Through her work on such features as Run Lola Run, Downfall and Nowhere in Africa, she has elevated repeated generations of German talent to the international stage.

“Many biographies of actors would not have been written without her,” said German Film Academy president Alexandra Maria Lara, whose own breakthrough came in the Oscar-nominated Downfall. “With her strong, clear attitude, she has had a strong influence on the profession of casting directors and has done great things for German film.”

Braker’s many credits include the Oscar-nominated features The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) and Schtonk!

It’s said that all of the greatest movie stars can make the camera fall in love with them. But something else that the camera is undoubtedly besotted by is the casino. There’s something about these places that make them a natural for filmmakers, in fact there are plenty of things.

Firstly, they’re uniquely glamorous locations that are also full of action. From spinning roulette wheels to slots games flashing enticingly, they make for a great background to the action. Then there’s the drama of the games themselves. We see characters winning and losing fortunes on the turn of a card thus reversing their role in the movie.

The fact that conflict lies at the heart of all drama also makes them a great place for adversaries to face off against each other. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in the first of out audacious moves.

Casino Royale...

The Nana Patekar-John Abraham film, Taxi No 9211, released 19 years ago and Subhash K Jha looks back at the movie that is a drama, a thriller and a comedy all rolled into one.

Milan Luthria’s Taxi No 9211 is a fearless fable about the feel before the fall. The ‘heroes’—if one may call them that—are two losers from two totally different stratas of life. Nana Patekar is the inebriated, sullen, deceitful taxi driver who has told his wife (Sonali Kulkarni) and son that he’s a government officer.

Broken rule: never lie about your job when you’re on the road all the time.

John Abraham is the spoilt rich heir who spends his time drinking, fornicating, and making out with hedonism.

Broken rule: don’t tempt a nemesis into catching up.

As luck and scriptwriter Rajat Aroraa would have it, the two unlikely ‘heroes’ end...

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Tom Tykwer’s “Das Licht” (The Light) opened Berlinale 2025 with the kind of divisiveness rarely seen in festival history. Echoes of boos resonated through the press screening, but one could almost sense an undercurrent of guilty applause. Perhaps this was fitting for a film so deeply entangled in the complexities of performative guilt, social justice satire, and white savior tropes. But “Das Licht” is no straightforward commentary. It’s an extravagant, muddled spectacle that walks a fine line between satire and sincerity, never quite deciding which path to follow.

Right from the opening sequence, the camera flying over Berlin, gives a scent of “Wings Of Desire.” But Tykwer’s ambition is different: a propulsive, ever-present score propels us through a rain-soaked Berlin, where the downpour is less a noirish atmosphere and more a visual metaphor for perpetual societal discontent. It is an unmistakably stylish film, brimming with visual flair and...

Tom Tykwer, whose cinematic resume includes innovative projects that once spun the dizzying thrill of “Run Lola Run” and the intense chronicles of “Babylon Berlin,” reenters the German-language scene with a film that mirrors the modern malaise of society. Here, his return is marked by a refreshing, if occasionally puzzling, pursuit of intellectual questions. Tykwer’s work has often sparked conversation about the interplay between kinetic storytelling and the weight of historical memory—a curiosity that finds new expression in this film.

Berlin itself is cast not merely as a backdrop but as a character of its own; the city’s relentless drizzle and angular urban spaces provoke thoughts on isolation and collective fatigue. In this setting, the narrative orbits around a family unraveling under the strain of internal conflicts and unspoken disappointments—a microcosm of a society grappling with its past and present. A figure arrives unexpectedly, an emblematic...

A bloatedly operatic saga about a liberal Berlin family coming apart and together again with the arrival of a Syrian housekeeper (Tala Al-Deen), German director Tom Tykwer’s “The Light” almost rudely keeps its audience in their seats for a very long 160-plus minutes. A discordant symphony of ideas around white guilt wherein the filmmaking itself does much of its own virtue-signaling despite trying to critique that very gesture, this slog of a Berlin Film Festival opener feels destined to languish on the European film circuit, a quote-unquote epic that would’ve been better framed as a four-part miniseries than a single feature that lacks the compression and punch of Tykwer’s 1998 breakout “Run Lola Run.”

Here is a quasi-musical, pseudo-sci-fi set in the drabbest pockets of a rain-drenched Berlin, unless it’s flinging us to Nairobi where Melina (Nicolette Krebitz) does penance for her own white guilt through Ngo work,...

The 75th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival opens today and, following the rather unceremonious end of its previous two directors’ respective tenure, all eyes are on new Berlinale head Tricia Tuttle and whether she can help the wintry film fest level up vis-à-vis competitors in Cannes and Venice. While we have ten days to reach a verdict, the opening-night selection isn’t the surprise some might have hoped for. Screening out of competition, The Light is a wannabe urban fairytale that finds German filmmaker Tom Tykwer succumbing to his worst maximalist impulses. Bombastic and nearly charm-free, this misfire may have its heart in the right place but is so deeply inarticulate one can’t even be sure of such.

Its story revolves around a bourgeois family in Berlin: Tim (Lars Eidinger) is a successful advertising executive who no longer has the coolest ideas; Milena (Nicolette Krebitz) works on...

What Martin Scorsese is for New York; what Paul Thomas Anderson is for Los Angeles; Yasujiro Ozu is for Tokyo and Federico Fellini is for Rome, so Tom Tykwer is for Berlin.

Tykwer has only made three films set in the German capital — his 1998 breakout Run Lola Run, the mid-career highlight 3 (2010) and now The Light, the opening film of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival — but no other director so exemplifies the city, in all its messy glory and contradictions.

“I’ve spent nearly 40 years in Berlin, and everything I need is here,” says Tykwer from his apartment in Prenzlauer Berg. “I have the people I love, the cinemas I need, and the city’s strange aesthetic — these beautiful districts next to catastrophically ugly architecture. It’s what delights and infuriates and inspires me.”

The Light is also Tykwer’s third Berlinale opening-night film, following Heaven (2002) and The International (2009) and...

"Would you say that my actions were justified?" Vertigo Releasing has unveiled an official trailer for a film called Sew Torn, an intriguing crime comedy + psychological thriller with Run Lola Run-esque vibes. This first premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival last year, and it also played at the Locarno, Sitges, and Camerimage Film Festivals. Eve Connolly stars as Barbara Duggen, a mobile seamstress, who gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In an escalating, frightening game of cat and mouse, her different choices lead her to drastically different outcomes along the way. The narrative presents the repercussions of all three of her decisions, and the deadly confrontations that result from each as she gets entangled with the case's owner. Using thread to free herself, Duggen stops at nothing to save her store. The film also stars Calum Worthy, John Lynch,...

Starring Elsa Pataky and “Money Heist’s” Enrique Arce and Hovik Keuchkerian, SkyShowtime Original “Shades” (“Matices”) and Bulgarian drama “Shattered Bonds” will head Beta Film’s slate at the Berlin Festival’s European Film Market.

“Shades” is one of the two titles featured at a Berlinale Series Market Spanish Thrillers showcase on Feb. 17. Toplining “The White Lotus’” Julian Kostov, “Shattered Bonds” will center the EFM showcase “Narratives Against Rising Youth Violence” on Feb 18.

“Shades” and “Shattered Bonds” join official Berlinale TV entry “Other People’s Money,” inspired by the true story of Europe’s biggest known tax fraud, which screens as the sole TV series in the festival’s Panorama Section.

Beta Cinema represents Berlinale opening title “The Light” by Tom Tykwer and the Panorama entry “Cicadas” by Ina Weisse (“The Audition”).

Produced by Secuoya Studios and Stellarmedia for SkyShowtime, “Shades” marks SkyShowtime’s second locally commissioned original in Spain.

The...

Chinese star Fan Bingbing (I Am Not Madame Bovary, The 355) and German actor/director Maria Schrader (I’m Your Man, She Said) will join jury president Todd Haynes to judge the competition films at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale announced Thursday.

Berlin unveiled its international jury for the 2025 event, which runs Feb. 13-23, which will see the Far from Heaven and Carol director heading up the four-woman, three-man jury that will pick this year’s Gold and Silver Bear winners.

Alongside Fan and Schrader, the 2025 Berlinale jury includes Moroccan-French director Nabil Ayouch (Much Loved, Horses of God), German costume designer Bina Daigeler (TÁR, Mulan), Argentine director Rodrigo Moreno (The Delinquents), and American critic and podcast host Amy Nicholson.

Haynes has a long history with the Berlinale. His debut feature Poison won the Teddy Award, for LGBTQ+ cinema, at Berlin in 1991.

The 75th Berlinale kicks off with...

Contenders for prestigious Golden and Silver Bear unveiled with 75th edition of festival due to open on 13 February

Richard Linklater’s long-awaited Broadway biopic Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley, a Mexican love story with Jessica Chastain as a socialite who falls for a émigré ballet dancer, and a British family drama set in Spain featuring Emma Mackey and Fiona Shaw will premiere in competition at next month’s Berlin film festival.

The 75th edition of the Berlinale, Europe’s first major cinema showcase of the year, will open on 13 February with the world premiere of The Light by Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) about the intertwined fates of a Syrian refugee and a middle-class German family.

New films from Richard Linklater, Michel Franco and Hong Sang-soo are among the competition highlights for the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, the world’s largest public film festival, which unveiled it full lineup today.

Linklater’s Blue Moon, a period drama about the final days of Lorenz Hart, half of the Rodgers & Hart songwriting team, will have its world premiere at the Berlinale, marking Linklater’s fourth time in Berlin competition. At his last go-around, with Boyhood in 2014, he walked away with the Silver Bear for best director. The feature, starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott, will be released worldwide by Sony Pictures Classics.

Berlinale regular, and four-time Silver Bear winner Hong Sang-soo returns with his latest intimate drama, What Does That Nature Say to You?; and Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud, whose feature Sex was an audience favorite at Berlin last year, is back with Dreams,...

As far as modern action heroes go, one of the most enduring has certainly been Jason Statham, who’s headlined a slew of modestly budgeted action flicks that have made him one of the few genre staples left in the game. His career has been interesting, with him alternating smaller-scaled action flicks with bigger, tentpole event films, such as the Fast & Furious films and The Meg 1 & 2. Yet, the movie that established his persona wasn’t the Transporter films or any of his Guy Ritchie movies. Nope, instead, it was a small-scale but ambitious quasi-remake of the film noir classic D.O.A that put him on the map in a big way. That’s right, folks, it’s time to figure out Wtf Happened to Crank!

Jump back to 1997, when a young English director named Guy Ritchie released a little film called Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, which caused a sensation.

A “typically dysfunctional German family” gets a spiritual makeover in Das Licht (The Light), the new film from Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run, Cloud Atlas), which will open the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival.

The first (German) trailer for the film dropped Thursday, via local distributor X Verleih and Warner Bros. Germany (see below). It shows Lars Eidinger and Nicolette Krebitz as Tim and Milena, the unhappy heads of the Engels family. In the words of their daughter Frieda, played by Elke Biesendorfer: “We’re typically dysfunctional German family, where everyone does their own thing and does give a sh** about one another.”

The Engels get help in the form of a mysterious woman, Farrah (Tala Al Deen), a housekeeper from Syria, who enters their lives, bringing to light feelings that have long been hidden. But Farrah is pursuing a plan all of her own that will fundamentally change the family’s life.

John Magaro, Kate Dickie and Jason Isaacs will be heading to the chilly streets of Berlin. The Berlin Film Festival unveiled the first gala screenings for its 2025 edition, which runs Feb. 13-23.

Islands, the new feature from German director Jan-Ole Gerster (Lara, A Coffee in Berlin), is among the gala highlights. The thriller stars British actor Sam Riley (Control, Maleficent) as a once-promising tennis professional now working as a tennis coach for holidaymakers on a resort island, filling his time with alcohol and brief affairs. Stacy Martin, Jack Farthing, and Dylan Torrell co-star.

Köln 75 from director Ido Fluk, follows the true story of Vera Brandes, teenage patron saint of the 1970s Cologne music scene, who risked everything to organize Keith Jarrett’s legendary Köln Concert, considered by many to be the greatest solo concert in music history. German actress Mala Emde play Fluk with John Magaro, Michael Chernus and Alexander Scheer co-starring.

Mexican filmmaker Everardo Gout, known for “Days of Grace,” “The Chosen One” and “The Forever Purge,” has signed on to direct action thriller “Clementine,” a co-production between Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios and Yeardley Smith and Ben Cornwell’s Paperclip Ltd.

Gout will direct from the 2022 Blacklist script by David L. Williams, with Paperclip’s Jordan Foley, Nick Smith and Cornwell, and AGC’s Ford producing. Paperclip’s Yeardley Smith, AGC’s Lorelle Lynch and Gout will executive produce. AGC Studios will fully finance the film and AGC Intl. will handle worldwide sales. Casting is underway for an early 2025 start.

The film, set in real time, centers on Clementine, a young mother in Miami who barely escapes a pawn shop shootout and goes on the run from her violent ex-husband, a terrifying mob boss, and a relentless hitwoman, all while protecting her young diabetic daughter.

“As a thriller, ‘Clementine’ has...

Tom Tykwer is returning to the Berlinale.

The acclaimed German director of Run Lola Run, Cloud Atlas and Drei will open the 75th Berlin International Film Festival with his new feature, Das Licht (The Light).

Tykwer’s first feature since 2016’s A Hologram for a King is a family drama set in modern-day Germany featuring Lars Eidinger, Nicolette Krebitz and Tala al Deen. It tells the story of the Engels family, parents Tim (Eidinger) and Milena (Krebitz), their twins Frieda (Elke Biesendorfer) and Jon (Julius Gause) and Milena’s son Dio (Elyas Eldridge). The family has been growing apart for years before housekeeper Farrah (Al-Deen), a mysterious woman from Syria, enters their lives, bringing to light feelings that have long been hidden. Farrah is pursuing a plan all of her own that will fundamentally change the family’s life.

“We knew as soon as we saw Das Licht (The Light...

Paradox Effect follows Karina, a lady struggling to repair her life and reconnect with her daughter, Lucy, in the aftermath of addiction. Set against the backdrop of Italy’s criminal underground, the plot takes a violent turn when Karina sees a murder committed by Covek, a corrupt Interpol official motivated by his desperate desires.

What began as a casual encounter quickly becomes a difficult, high-stakes journey as Karina is forced into a dangerous partnership with Covek. Together, they must negotiate not only the immediate risks posed by crime boss Silvio but also their moral quandaries and personal conflicts.

At first look, the idea appears to follow several thriller genre conventions: a hesitant protagonist thrust into a life-or-death situation, a ticking time, and dark figures looming big. However, the plot hints at the possibility of character-driven storytelling, particularly Karina’s personal struggles and redemption arc.

Thrillers of this kind frequently tread...

Prime Video’s November programming will dip its toe into Christmas and other holiday offerings such as The Holiday (2006) starring Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz and Jack Black. The streamer will also add some films with sequels arriving in theaters this month, like Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) and Ridley Scott’s 1992 film Gladiator.

For the full list of Prime Video programming in November 2024, see below.

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Movies:

12 Days of Christmas Eve (2004) 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (1995) 50 To 1 (2014) A Knight’s Tale (2001) Absolute Deception (2013) Across The Universe (2007) Agent Cody Banks (2003) Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) Airplane! (1980) All Saints (2017) Almost Christmas (2016) Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid (2004) Anger Management (2003) Apache (1954) Bad Company (2002) Battlefield Earth (2000) Battleship (2012) Big Night (1996) Blizzard (2003) Blown Away (1993) Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004) Boomerang (1992) Bucky Larson Born To Be A Star (2011) Carrie...

Now that they’ve set the year’s best film for a December 10 debut, the Criterion Channel have unveiled the rest of next month’s selection. John Waters’ films are inseparable from John Waters’ presence, making fitting Criterion’s decision to pair an eight-film retrospective (Multiple Maniacs to Cecil B. Demented) with his own “Adventures in Moviegoing” wherein the director extols virtues of Bergman, Chabrol, Barbara Loden, and Samuel Fuller. His own Polyester will have a Criterion Edition alongside the Bob Dylan doc Don’t Look Back, an iconic film in its own right and, I think, fitting companion to The Unknown with Lon Chaney, also streaming on Criterion. No Country for Old Men and Election receive likewise treatment; the latter appears in “MTV Productions,” a series featuring Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, The Original Kings of Comedy, and (coming close to Freddy Got Fingered for least-expected 2024 addition) Jackass: the Movie.

This November, the 12-year-old sci-fi film Cloud Atlas will be coming to Paramount+. Made by Matrix directors, Lana and Lilly Wachowski joined Tom Tyker to create the polarizing movie.

The 2012 Sci-fi film Cloud Atlas will land on Paramount+ on November 1st. Written and directed by the Matrixs Wachowski sisters and Tom Twyker, known for the 1999 film Run Lola Run, Cloud Atlas divided critics upon its release. While some disliked the film, others considered it to be incredibly underrated. Anyone looking to judge for themselves who hasn't yet seen the film can check it out next month on Paramount+.

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The Fountain and Cloud Atlas were released six years apart, and both featured an ancient concept -- reincarnation. But which was better?

Based on David Mitchell's 2004 novel of the same title, Cloud Atlas stars boasts an all-star cast...

Let it be said that nowhere, absolutely nowhere, on the unwritten list of movie rules is it specified the pace at which any one film should set for itself; on one end, there’s the frenetic energy of “Run Lola Run,” on the other exists such slow-movie behemoths as the seven-hour “Satantango” or the 22-minute opening of 2009’s “Friday the 13th.” 2024 brings us “The Wolves Always Come at Night,” a film that attempts to blend documentary and a fictional narrative alongside purportedly commenting on the displacement of rural herdsmen from one specific climate change-affected part of the globe, all under the direction of Gabrielle Brady and co-writers/stars Davaasuren Dagvasuren and Otgonzaya Dashzeveg.

Continue reading ‘The Wolves Always Come At Night’ Review: Climate Change Forces Mongolian Displacement In This Dull Narrative [TIFF] at The Playlist.

Movies like Triangle and Palm Springs prove time travel isn't just for sci-fi; it's used creatively in horror and romcoms too. Time travel in Harry Potter and Run Lola Run is used as a tool to show different ways that the action could unfold. About Time and Groundhog Day use time travel to explore deeper themes, proving that the trope can be emotional and thought-provoking when handled with care.

Time travel is usually associated with the sci-fi genre, but there are plenty of movies which have elements of time travel without necessarily being classified as sci-fi. Time travel is one of the oldest sci-fi tropes, since it taps into the human desire to rewrite the past and to predict the future. The best time travel movies use the concept to explore universal themes of mortality, determinism and power.

Most time travel movies are sci-fi, since they require time machines like...

Exclusive: South Asian film star Taapsee Pannu has signed for representation with Crimson Media.

She becomes the latest Indian talent to sign with Crimson this year, coming after the likes of Farhan Akhtar, Sayani Gupta and Rajshri Deshpande.

Pannu, who works across Hindi, Telugu and Tamil film, is coming off 2023 hit Dunki, where she appeared opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Rajkumar Hirani’s feature about an illegal immigration technique called ‘donkey flight.’

In Tamil film, her notable roles gave come in the likes of 2011’s Aadukalam, comic horror Kanchana 2, tense action thriller Arrambam and thriller Game Over. In Telugu cinema, she first gained attention from her role in K Raghavendra Rao’s 2010 feature Jhummandi Naadam and romantic drama Mr. Perfect, which also starred Prabhas.

She began acting in Hindi films in 2013 in David Dhawan’s Chashme Baddoor, co-starring Siddharth, Rishi Kapoor, Divyendu Sharma and Ali Zafar, and in 2016 acted opposite...

Several alternate realities, none of them remotely acquainted with ours, exist side-by-side in “Sew Torn,” a high-concept crime farce that pits guns against haberdashery, innocence against culpability, and genre grit against fruit-loop fantasy. Even as it nakedly steals its structural conceit from Tom Tykwer’s Nineties trendsetter “Run Lola Run” — a film made before 24-year-old writer-director-editor Freddy Macdonald was born — this is a debut feature strange and singular enough to attract its own keen following, with its blend of folksy small-town hijinks, nasty neo-noir tension and literally crafty comedy, centered around a heroine who calls to mind MacGyver with a pocket sewing kit. Some will thrill to the film’s silliness, others may find it a joke stretched beyond elasticity, but it’ll have many putting a pin in Macdonald’s name.

Eye-catching if hardly substantial, “Sew Torn” is quite obviously expanded from Macdonald’s 2019 short of the same title:...

In the distended field of movies and TV spun out of video games, there are blockbusters like Sonic the Hedgehog and The Super Mario Bros. Movie, long-running franchises like Resident Evil and lauded viewer favorites like The Last of Us. Many of them gain commercial traction — even a critically savaged dud like Assassin’s Creed did respectable business internationally. But there are just as many that probably should have been left on the console, like the role-playing first-person shooter game, Borderlands. Humor hasn’t generally been director Eli Roth’s strong suit, but neither is the constant bang-kapow of gunfire, explosions and violence in this stale and stubbornly unexciting sci-fi action comedy.

The big mystery is how such a noisy nothing of a movie landed the stacked cast, led by Cate Blanchett with as much conviction as the material merits. Borderlands was shot in 2021, immediately before Blanchett did Tár, and boy,...

AMC Networks’ Anne Rice Immortal Universe invaded Comic-Con International’s Ballroom 20 with entertaining panels for Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire and Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, moderated by TV Guide’s Damian Holbrook.

For Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, panelists included Mark Johnson, who oversees the Anne Rice Immortal Universe, Showrunner and Executive Producer Rolin Jones, Production Designer Mara LePere-Schloop, Composer Daniel Hart and cast members Sam Reid, Assad Zaman and Delainey Hayles, who discussed the series’ explosive second season and teased the recently announced third season. Attendees were given an exclusive first look at season three, along with a blooper reel revealing a peek behind the scenes filming season two:

Immediately following, the Mayfair Witches cast and creatives, including Johnson, Showrunner Esta Spalding and cast members Alexandra Daddario, Harry Hamlin, Tongayi Chirisa, Ben Feldman and Alyssa Jirrels discussed the highly anticipated second season, returning early next year,...

The British Film Institute (BFI) is set to make waves with its upcoming “Art of Action” season, anchored by a re-release of Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 cult classic “Point Break.”

The U.K.-wide celebration of action choreography in cinema will run from October to December, offering audiences a high-octane journey through the evolution of the genre.

BFI Distribution will bring “Point Break,” starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, back to U.K. cinemas on Nov. 8. The film’s return to the big screen after years of limited theatrical showings is expected to be a major draw for both nostalgic fans and new viewers alike.

The “Art of Action” season, presented by the BFI Film Audience Network using National Lottery funds, aims to showcase the artistry behind action sequences that have kept audiences enthralled for decades. The program will feature a diverse array of films, including silent era classics like Buster Keaton...

AMC Networks’ Anne Rice Immortal Universe invaded Comic-Con International’s Ballroom 20 this weekend with entertaining panels for Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire and Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches.

For Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, panelists included Mark Johnson, who oversees the Anne Rice Immortal Universe, showrunner and executive producer Rolin Jones, production designer Mara LePere-Schloop, composer Daniel Hart, and cast members Sam Reid, Assad Zaman, and Delainey Hayles, who discussed the series’ explosive second season and teased the recently announced third season.

Attendees were given an exclusive first look at season three and a blooper reel revealing a peek behind the scenes at the filming of season two. You can watch the Season 3 first look here and the blooper reel here.

Immediately following, the Mayfair Witches cast and creatives, including Johnson, showrunner Esta Spalding, and cast members Alexandra Daddario, Harry Hamlin, Tongayi Chirisa, Ben Feldman, and...

AMC Networks has welcomed three new cast members to the cast of its upcoming Mayfair Witches Season 2. They will be joining lead star Alexandra Daddario (The White Lotus), as she reprises her role as Rowan Mayfair.

Shared on the networks official social media account for its Immortal Universe, it has been announced that Callan McAuliffe (The Walking Dead), Franka Potente, and Ian Pirie (Halo) have been tapped to join the next installment of the hit supernatural drama. McAuliffe and Potente are set to play the respective characters of Abel Mayfair and Annamieke, while Pirie will be portraying Ian Mayfair. Full descriptions of their characters have not been disclosed. This marks McAuliffes first major TV project in a long while, after appearing as Alden for four seasons in The Walking Dead. As for Potente, her most recent TV credits were villain roles in shows like Titans Season 4 and Castlevania: Nocturne.

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Check out the sexy beast exploring his inner David Lee Roth in season 3 of Interview With the Vampire.

As previously revealed, the new season of the AMC drama will focus on Lestat (Sam Reid) starting a band and going on tour. At Saturday’s Comic-Con, Reid brought down the roof in Ballroom 20 when fans got a look-see at his rocker alter-ego.

Vampire, which is a contemporary adaptation of Rice’s gothic novel of the same name, just wrapped its second season. The series was renewed for season 3 ahead of its season 2 finale on June 30.

The Vampire panel was followed by a visit from the stars of Mayfair Witches, which has already begun production on an eight-episode second season in New Orleans with the addition of Alyssa Jirrels as a series regular, Ted Levine as a recurring guest...

Synopsis

A thrilling post-MTV roller-coaster ride, Run Lola Run is the internationally acclaimed sensation

about two star-crossed lovers who have only minutes to change the course of their lives. Time is running out for Lola (Franka Potente). She’s just received a frantic phone call from her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), who’s lost a small fortune belonging to his mobster boss. Manni will suffer severe consequences if Lola doesn’t replace the money in twenty minutes. Written and directed by Tom Tykwer.

Disc Details And Bonus Materials

4K Ultra HD Disc

• Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision

• German 5.1 DTS-hd Master Audio

• Special Features:

o Audio Commentary with Director Tom Tykwer and Actor Franka Potente

o Audio Commentary with Director Tom Tykwer and Editor Mathilde Bonnefoy

o Making-Of Featurette

o Still Running Featurette

o “Believe” Music Video

o Theatrical Trailer

Cast And Crew

Written and Directed By:...

Exclusive: Angel Studios, the outfit behind global blockbuster Sound of Freedom, has unveiled the full trailer for its true-life WWII thriller Bonhoeffer – see it above. Spotlighting the courage and sacrifice of the titular German pastor and theologian-turned-spy, the film is written and directed by Sully scribe Todd Komarnicki. Angel Studios will release domestically on November 22.

The drama’s subject is World War II hero Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Jonas Dassler), a pacifist pastor who conspired to bring an end to the Nazi regime, fearlessly speaking the truth while facing unyielding oppression and evil.

The official synopsis reads: When a pacifist is called to a political act that could change the course of history, how will a man of honor respond? This is the true story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man who preached love while plotting the assassination of an evil tyrant. With world-shattering stakes, Bonhoeffer begs the question, how far will you...

In honor of her receiving this year’s AFI Life Achievement Award, Nicole Kidman is being celebrated with a career retrospective at Nashville’s non-profit film center, The Belcourt, starting next week. Having undergone extensive renovations and preservations in 2016, The Belcourt is now one of Nashville’s most beloved homes for the arts, attracting audiences from all over Tennessee and the Southeast region, as well as visitors from across the country and globe. The theater programs over 300 films a year across 4,500 screenings, some of which feature Q&As with filmmakers and scholars.

Born in Hawaii, but raised in Australia, Kidman made her feature acting debut at the age of 16 and has been working steadily ever since. During her speech at the AFI ceremony, Kidman said, “It is a privilege to make films. And glorious to have made films and television with these storytellers who allowed me to run wild and...

Run Lola Run Image: Sony Pictures Classics Given the bleak prospects of our collective futures in this eco-wrecked, cash-strapped, politically decimated 21st century, it’s no wonder stories about alternate paths continue to enjoy their moment in pop culture. After all, what is the multiverse but a vibrant kaleidoscopic dream...

Run Lola RunImage: Sony Pictures Classics

Given the bleak prospects of our collective futures in this eco-wrecked, cash-strapped, politically decimated 21st century, it’s no wonder stories about alternate paths continue to enjoy their moment in pop culture. After all, what is the multiverse but a vibrant kaleidoscopic dream of...

Run Lola Run.For movie lovers of a certain age, the image of Franka Potente and her shock of Manic Panic red hair in Run Lola Run (1998) is iconic. A still-potent mix of postmodernism, action cinema, and existential drama, Tom Tykwer’s film fits neatly on the shelf between other millennial canonical classics with strong (or strong-ish) female leads like The Fifth Element (1997) and Amélie (2001). Some saw the breakout success of Run Lola Run as evidence that international arthouse cinema had succumbed to the influence of MTV and Hollywood; others found it a blast of fresh air. The elevator pitch is deceptively simple: Lola (Potente) receives a phone call from her boyfriend, Mani (Moritz Bleibtreu): he was supposed to deliver 100,000 stolen deutschmarks to his crime-lord boss, but left the money bag on the subway by mistake, and now Lola has just twenty minutes to come up with a different...