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Shudder have announced that they will premiere their queer, psychological thriller, Haze, at New York’s LGBTQ Film Festival, NewFest. It marks another addition to the growing number of queer genre films that festivals like NewFest can add to their programming to draw in genre fans who are members of the LGBTQ community and we're here for it. A young man returns home after rehab and uncovers the secrets of his town's abandoned psychiatric center. Cole Doman, Brian J. Smith, David Pittu, and Annie Golden star in a film written and directed by Matthew Fifer. Shudder released the first look still today and will stream Haze this Fall. Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural announced today that Haze (formerly known...

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NewFest, a New York LGBTQ+ film and media organization, revealed the full lineup for their fourth annual NewFest Pride summer film series. NewFest’s five-day festival kicks off LGBTQ+ Pride Month from May 30 – June 3, 2024, in-person in New York and streaming throughout the United States, and will feature a mix of premieres and conversations, virtual screenings, and social events. The announcement came today from NewFest’s Executive Director David Hatkoff and Director of Programming Nick McCarthy.

“It’s no accident that this year’s NewFest Pride starts on May 30; it’s part of our not-so-secret mission to celebrate Pride 365 days a year,” said NewFest Executive Director David Hatkoff. “We can’t wait to provide a space for the community to come together for bold new films and series, thought-provoking conversations, and joyful social gatherings. This moment calls for celebration and resistance, and we intend to offer opportunities for both in equal measure.

The Twilight Masquerade expansion for Pokémon Tcg will feature a new Ogerpon Illustration Rare card. An Ogerpon card will be included in the Japan-exclusive expansion, Mask of Change. The artwork for Ogerpon's card in Twilight Masquerade is one of the best, capturing the mascot's joy.

A new Ogerpon Illustration Rare card for Pokémon Tcg’s upcoming Twilight Masquerade expansion is an absolute necessity for fans of the Teal Mask Dlc for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Twilight Masquerade is a new set arriving in late May and will portray most of the elements from the first Dlc for the Gen 9 titles. As such, it will feature several Pokémon, characters, locations, and other elements from the land of Kitakami, which Trainers visit when playing through the content. Of course, Ogerpon is the Teal Mask Dlc’s mascot, so her presence is abundant.

Pokémon Tcg: Twilight Masquerade set will be composed of two distinct Japan-exclusive expansions,...

Katy Perry is making it known how she feels about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce‘s all-but-confirmed relationship!

Taylor, 33, and Travis, 34, sparked romance rumors when the “Lavender Haze” singer was in attendance to support the NFL player at his Kansas City Chiefs game on September 24. Taylor has since attended two more of Travis‘ games.

On October 14, the pair hard-launched their relationship when they were spotted holding hands after making a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live.

Keep reading to find out what Katy had to say about the new romance…

Underneath Vogue‘s Instagram post featuring photos of Taylor and Travis heading to an SNL afterparty, Katy commented, “I ship.”

Katy‘s comment drew lots of attention given that the “Firework” singer had a very public feud with Taylor from 2013 to 2016, which was widely believed to inspire Taylor‘s song “Bad Blood” and Katy‘s track “Swish Swish.”

The two have since resolved their differences,...

As with the world of movies and TV, there are untold scores of promising video games that entered development and, for whatever reason, never actually saw the light of day. But for "Star Wars" fans, going on 15 years later, nothing hurts quite as bad as the loss of "Battlefront III" does. And we're not talking about a sequel to the version of the series that was rebooted after Disney purchased Lucasfilm. We're talking about the original "Star Wars: Battlefront III" that was scrapped by LucasArts in 2008. What hurts the most? The game was damn near finished when the plug was pulled.

Recently, Michael Barclay, the current lead designer at Naughty Dog (the studio behind the "Last of Us" video games) who worked as a developer on "Battlefront III" back in the day, decided to spill some tea on Twitter. Barclay responded to a prompt asking game developers to name the...

5 Seconds of Summer slowly unveiled new details about their upcoming fifth studio album.

Days after announcing their second single, titled “Me, Myself, and I” (out May 11) the band members — Michael Clifford, Luke Hemmings, Calum Hood, and Ashton Irwin — teased the rest of the record’s tracklist in a rolling Twitter thread on Tuesday.

In a nod to their upcoming world tour, each song was announced in different language before being added to the translated list in English.

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— 5 Seconds of Summer (@5Sos) May 10, 2022

The first single,...

The new film from Argentine duo Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn effectively asserted its destiny with its title: How could the Venice festival programmers resist putting a film called “Official Competition” in their official competition? Some things just make sense, and by premiering in this way, Duprat and Cohn’s droll, dippy insider comedy neatly completes the last of its many, many in-jokes: Whatever life the film has beyond the festival circuit, it will never again play to so perfectly targeted an audience.

How amused viewers outside the film’s satirical crosshairs will be by “Official Competition” remains to be seen. As it traces the fractious pre-production process of an art-house film being made for cynical commercial purposes, the film will certainly mine dark laughs of recognition from industry folk. Perhaps civilians will appreciate its puncturing of the egos and pretensions of the privileged artist class, after being drawn in by big,...

Today sees the opening of "The Cabin In The Woods," one of the freshest, most enjoyable horror movies in years, one that we can only urge you to go see (read our review here). To mark its release, Time Out have polled critics, programmers and filmmakers as to their favorite horror movies, and collated their finds in a mammoth list.

Topped by "The Exorcist," it's an excellent read, and one you'll want to sit down with over the weekend, and as a taste, below you can find the top ten picks of ten of the most notable filmmaker contributors. You can find the full list, as well as picks from many, many more interesting figures, from Antonio Campos and Joe Dante to Simon Pegg and Rob Zombie, over at Time Out's site. And why not weigh in with your own ten picks over in the comments below?

Roger Corman ("The Pit & The Pendulum,...

I’ve been a Shinya Tsukamoto fan for several years now, thanks in part to the director’s iconic film “Tetsuo: The Iron Man” and his ultra-violent boxing opus “Tokyo Fist.” These classics, in addition to his twisted short film “Haze,” drastically reshaped my cinematic tastes, transforming yours truly into an Asian film junkie who prefers the strange and esoteric to the simple and mainstream. The only other director that has had this much influence over me is Takashi Miike, another Japanese filmmaker who dabbles in the strange and unusual. However, over the past few years, Tsukamoto has focused his attention on more commercial fare — “Nightmare Detective” immediately springs to mind — making his return to the gleefully demented Tetsuo universe all the more surprising. Filmed in English, “Tetsuo: The Bullet Man” marks the third entry in Tsukamoto’s cult franchise, and judging from the trailer, promises to be just...

[I’m bouncing this back to the top of the page purely because my set just arrived and it is gorgeous.]

A beautiful-looking boxset put out by the Jeonju International Film Festival showcases the work of filmmakers from Asia, Africa and Europe, and includes both the long-awaited English-subtitled version of Song Il-gon’s Magicians as well as Shinya Tsukamoto’s Haze and Bong Joon-ho’s Influenza. This from Tom Giammarco’s Seen in Jeonju:

Every year since the first Jeonju International Film Festival back in 2000, Jiff selects three filmmakers who are given 50 million Krw to create a thirty-minute digital movie. No restrictions are given to the topic or type of film to be made and many of the results have been outstanding. Now, gathered together for the first time, these 27 films from 2000-2008 have been made available in a 915 minutes, 9-disk set.

The DVD will be sold at the Jiff website beginning June 15.

Excuse me while I jab a magnificent fist into the air and strike this breathtaking pose. Indulge me, because being away for the past two weeks covering Sfiff had prevented me from noticing awesome news a-happenin'. And yes, this is awesome news indeed.

On Wednesday, Screen Daily broke the news that a third installment of Tetsuo: The Iron Man is in the works, currently called Tetsuo Project. Not only that, but apparently it's already finished shooting, and a cut is being rushed to Cannes for buyers. Yeah, like the festival wasn't already mindblowing enough. Dammit.

The pic above is a promotional image for the film, which shows its star Eric Bossick in his half-machine make-up.

I began my love affair with Shinya Tsukamoto in high school, when I first discovered the original Tetsuo on video. It was a mesmerizing work of art for the younger and more reckless me: there it was,...