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Plot: The fourth and final season tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed, and charitable work. Despite constant bickering, Gemstone family ties run deep, and this season, the family’s codependence is tested as they attempt to move forward without letting go of their storied past.

Review: Danny McBride has had a fantastic run on HBO. From Eastbound & Down to Vice Principals, McBride has partnered with Jody Hill and David Gordon Green to tell bizarrely American stories centered on professional sports and the education system. The Righteous Gemstones, the first of the series to be solely created by McBride, is also the longest-running but is ending with the fourth season. Chronicling the behind-the-scenes antics of a family of televangelists and the enemies they have amassed over the decades, The Righteous Gemstones spent its first three seasons putting the wealthy clan in the crosshairs for blackmail,...

Like many of Danny McBride’s other shows, the religious spoof The Righteous Gemstones has amassed a devoted cult following over its past three seasons on HBO. For its fourth and final season, everyone involved with the show is on their A-game, delivering a consistently funny, smart, and exciting conclusion that reminds us of how great of a comedic mind McBride is.

The Righteous Gemstones Season 4 Review

This season of The Righteous Gemstones follows the eponymous family of pastors as they unearth past tensions that threaten to destroy their future. As always, we get to see this family of people who often live on a pedestal come crashing down, dealing with everything from wacky conspiracies to salacious scandals.

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"The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away" has never been more true than this moment. The Righteous Gemstones will be concluding its incredible run on HBO after four seasons later this spring. The hit comedy from the creative minds of Vice Principals and Eastbound & Down satirized televangelists and the megachurch business. The titular Gemstones family has been near and dear in fans' hearts for over five years now, but they will get one last chance to redeem themselves in the eyes of the lord later this year.

According to Variety, The Righteous Gemstones Season 4 will be the show's last outing on HBO. The final episodes will begin airing sometime in March 2025, although no specific release date has been confirmed yet. The final episode count remains unclear, but it seems the beloved comedy series was not canceled abruptly and will indeed come to a natural conclusion. Series co-creator and...

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There are many ways to start 2025, from starting with your new goals to spending quality time with your friends. However, there is something equally intriguing: watching movies. Thanks to the plethora of streaming services and their options, you can now view these films from the comfort of your couch. The only problem is that far too many movies are coming to these platforms each month, making it difficult for entertainment enthusiasts to choose one. To help you keep track, we've created a directory of every movie that will be available on major streaming services in January 2025, including Netflix, Shudder, Hulu, Prime Video, and more.

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Stars: Chelsea Clark, Daniel Gravelle, Damian Romeo, Kate Corbett, Ryan McDonald | Written and Directed by James Villeneuve

Making its debut at this year’s edition of the Blood In The Snow Film Festival, Pins and Needles is the first feature directed by James Villeneuve. While he had only directed one short, The Ticket, before this, Villeneuve has plenty of experience with genre film. He has a long list of credits as an editor on films such as 5ive Girls and Silent But Deadly, and more recently wrote the horror comedy Vicious Fun.

For Pins & Needles, he’s dispensed with most of the comedy in favour of a straight thriller about Max a diabetic biology grad student who’s getting a ride home from a class project with Harold. Things start to go wrong after he stops to pick up his sketchy-looking friend and they end up having to take a detour.

Exclusive: Underbelly has added two to its cast, with Lucian-River Chauhan and Kate Corbett signing on to the twisty crime drama. Cameras are rolling on the series, which is for Canadian streamer Crave.

Underbelly stars Stephen Amell as a cop in the 1000 Islands region that straddles Canada and the U.S. His character, Officer Henry Roland, finds evidence linking a case he is working on to his childhood best friend, Tommy Hawley, played by Hamza Haq.

Chauhan will play the younger version of Tommy in the six-episode series. He starred in Apple TV+ supernatural drama Me, which bowed earlier this year. His other credits include Amazon’s Encounter and Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Kate Corbett will also appear, and play a character called Liv. Little else is known about her part at this point. Her credits include Canadian procedural Coroner and indie movie The Righteous.

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Kathryn Hahn and J.K. Simmons are among the new cast members added to Season 3 of Kevin Hart’s “Die Hart.”

Tony Cavalero and Anna Garcia have also joined the third installment of the action comedy series, which premieres Dec. 13 on the Roku Channel.

“Die Hart” stars Hart as a fictionalized version of himself alongside Nathalie Emmanuel. John Travolta and Josh Hartnett were Season 1 regulars.

In Season 3, “Kevin Hart is done with the action — what he really wants is critical success,” according to the logline. When he teams up with Jackson Pepper, “one of the all-time great directors” played by Simmons, Hart is launched onto “the wrong kind of ‘most wanted’ list.”

Hahn plays Jillian Avery, “a recognizable Oscar-winning movie star at the peak of her profession.” Cavalero is Agent Fisher, “a focused, intense, and easily agitated FBI agent with a deep secret.” And Garcia’s character Pearl is a “sweet and clueless aspiring actress,...

Though many core crafts in Hollywood have been members of organized labor organizations for decades and decades — some around a century — casting directors unionized for the first time just 19 years ago. Their vote to join two Teamsters Locals in 2005 was a watershed moment for the group responsible for scouting the next class of bankable movie and television stars and matchmaking actors and projects. In their first union contract, reached the next year, casting directors secured protections like union health and pension benefits, paid vacation days, and grievance and arbitration procedures.

But one typical component for a Hollywood union contract was missing from that first deal that is now having ramifications for the group, according to some members: minimum wage rates. Just like they had before they were union-represented, these freelancers negotiated their own rates in the years that followed. And now, at a moment of intense anxiety and strict cost-cutting regimens in Hollywood,...

Of all the shows out there that are keeping audiences waiting with bated breath for their next season, Mike White and HBOs The White Lotus may very well be at the top of that list. Following an incredible critical and audience response after its first season in 2021, the second season rolled out a year and a half later in late 2022. Now, its been nearly 2 years since audiences checked in with Theo James, Aubrey Plaza, Michael Imperioli, and the rest of the stacked cast at the titular resorts Italian location, and were ready for more. We know that filming for Season 3, which will take place in Thailand, has recently wrapped, with newcomers like Jason Isaacs (The Oa) and Walton Goggins (The Righteous Gemstones) having nothing but positive things to say about the experience. Still, because weve been largely kept in the dark about the new characters and how their lives will intertwine,...

Phoebe Dynevor joins ‘Famous’ (Photo Credit: Greg Williams / Provided by Black Bear)

Phoebe Dynevor, Bridgerton‘s Daphne Basset, has signed on to star in Famous, described as a thriller about the dark side of celebrity. Dynevor has been cast alongside Zac Efron, who was already confirmed to play the lead role in the drama directed by Jody Hill.

“In Famous, Zac Efron (The Iron Claw) will star in dual roles, playing both overzealous fan, Lance Dunkquist, and Hollywood heartthrob, James Jansen,” reads Black Bear and Esmail Corp’s synopsis. “Lance Dunkquist has one asset that’s about to change his life – he has the face of a movie star. And not just any movie star – Lance is the spitting image of a Hollywood icon, James Jansen. Lance is about to travel to Los Angeles to make his dream come true. Lance is going to be famous, no matter what it takes…...

Pretty Freekin Scary will not be returning to the network for a second season, TVLine has confirmed with Disney Channel.

Rumblings about the acquired live-action series’ unfortunate fate first started months ago via streaming analyst Drew Ryan‘s socials, and were recently bolstered by Instagram comments made by cast member Eliana Su’a.

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Pretty Freekin Scary Season 1, which aired its finale in August 2023, followed Frankie...

Danny McBride and Walton Goggins shine as a ruthless duo in HBO's Vice Principals, joined by a stellar supporting cast of talented actors. The dark comedy series was uniquely planned for two seasons, with every episode written before filming began, setting it apart from traditional TV productions. From Dr. Belinda Brown to Gale Liptrapp, the Vice Principals supporting characters add depth and humor to the twisted tale of school politics.

Danny McBride and Walton Goggins lead a stacked ensemble of hilarious performers in the cast of HBOs twisted dark comedy series Vice Principals. Vice Principals revolves around a pair of spiteful and vindictive vice principals both gunning for the top job. When theyre both passed over in favor of an outside hire, they reluctantly join forces to usurp the new principal. Vice Principals was an oddity in the world of TV production, because it wasnt designed to go on indefinitely...

Clay McLeod Chapman And Andrea Mutti Conjure The New Horror Series “SÉANCE In The Asylum”: "We’re receiving a message from the beyond! Dark Horse Comics presents Séance in the Asylum, a new historical horror series from renowned writer Clay McLeod Chapman and artist Andrea Mutti that will have you questioning what’s real and what’s not. Chapman will write the series and Mutti will illustrate, with Trevor Henderson, Francesco Francavilla, Lukas Ketner, and Jenna Cha rounding out the circle and providing variant cover art on issues #1-4.

“Years back, I uncovered an esoteric text -- The Homeopathic Principle Applied to Insanity: A Proposal to Treat Lunacy by Spiritualism by Dr. James John Garth Wilkinson -- written all the way back in 1857, and I knew within my bones, my blood, that this was destined to be a story,” said Chapman. “As a lifelong acolyte of the Fox Sisters,...

Horror film “The Voices of Our Mother,” headlined by Sheila McCarthy (“Women Talking”), has wrapped principal photography.

The film is written and directed by Mark O’Brien, who is also an actor, with his most recent credit being Atom Egoyan’s Toronto and Berlinale selection “Seven Veils.” It tells the story of a family who is brought together when their matriarch falls ill, only to find that their lineage is connected by more than blood. The film was shot in Hamilton, Ontario.

The cast also includes Georgina Reilly (“Quantum Leap”), O’Brien, Carolina Bartzcak (“Painkiller”), Alex Ozerov-Meyer (“The Americans”), Anna Ferguson (“Lost Girl”) and Shawn Doyle (“Star Trek: Discovery”).

The film is produced by Canada’s Vortex Productions, a subsidiary of boutique distributor Vortex Media. This marks the second collaboration between O’Brien and Vortex Media who helped to finance and distribute the filmmaker’s Fantasia and Grimmfest-winning feature directorial debut “The Righteous.

Colin Hanks and Mark O’Brien are set to star in “Nuremberg” from writer-director James Vanderbilt.

The pair round out an all-star cast that also includes Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, Richard E. Grant, Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Lydia Peckham, Wrenn Schmidt, Lotte Verbeek and Andreas Pietschmann.

O’Brien will play Colonel John Amen, one of the chief interrogators at the trial, while Hanks will play Dr. Gustav Gilbert, a military psychiatrist assigned to evaluate the Nazis. John Papsidera (“Oppenheimer”) is casting the film.

From Bluestone Entertainment and Walden Media, the film is now set to begin principal photography in Hungary on Feb. 23. Adapted from the book “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist” by Jack El-Hai, “Nuremberg” chronicles the eponymous trials held between 1945 and 1946 by the Allies against the defeated Nazi regime.

Bluestone Entertainment, Walden Media, and Széchenyi Funds acquired the rights to El-Hai’s book and Vanderbilt’s script and are financing the film.

The following contains spoilers for The Righteous Gemstones Season 3, Episode 9, "Wonders That Cannot Be Fathomed, Miracles That Cannot Be Counted," now streaming on Max.

When it comes to male nudity, HBO definitely pushes the boundary. Even South Park pointed it out, with shows like Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, Big Little Lies, Minx and Beforeigners often seeking to break the mold. Of course, Euphoria must be mentioned, as it embraces sexuality with a Gen Z edge.

In Season 3 of The Righteous Gemstones, male nudity gets kicked up a notch. In this case, it's not about romance or anything sexy. Full-frontal nudity is instead used to terrifying effect in one of the show's scariest scenes, reminding fans how the series loves mixing dark comedy and action.

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Ahead of its Season 3 finale, “The Righteous Gemstones” has been renewed for a fourth season on HBO. The nine-episode current season is set to conclude Sunday night.

“Get ready for more of the hilarious adrenaline ride that is ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ As this truly biblical season comes to a close on Sunday night, I am delighted to announce that we are picking up a fourth season,” Amy Gravitt, executive vice president of HBO programming and head of HBO and Max comedy series, said.

At the moment, it’s unknown when Season 4 is expected to premiere.

The third HBO series from Danny McBride, the religiously focused comedy follows a dysfunctional family of televangelists who run a megachurch set in the Carolinas. The first two seasons revolved around the three Gemstone children — Jesse (Danny McBride), Judy (Edi Patterson) and Kelvin (Adam DeVine) — untangling their various crimes and misdeeds as they vied to...

Sturgill Simpson, who plays militiaman Brother Marshall in The Righteous Gemstones, covered Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers Band’s “All the Gold in California” during Sunday night’s episode. Simpson’s studio version has also been released.

The a cappella tune with backing harmonizing choir appears under the moniker Brother Marshall and the Choir of Fire.

Sturgill’s character Brother Marshall was first introduced in the trailer for the HBO series’ third season. Brother Marshall serves as one of the foot soldiers in Steve Zahn’s militia, and his performance...

Exclusive: Rotten Science has rounded out the cast for its first feature, Operation Taco Gary’s, enlisting Dustin Milligan (Schitt’s Creek), Brenda Song (Dollface), Tony Cavalero (The Righteous Gemstones), Jason Biggs (American Pie), Doug Jones (Star Trek: Discovery) and Arturo Castro (The Menu) for roles opposite the previously announced Simon Rex.

Written and directed by Michael Kvamme, the film tells the story of Danny (Rex), an off-the-grid conspiracy theorist takes his estranged brother, Luke (Milligan), on a road trip with a secret agenda. Details as to the characters to be played by our other new cast members haven’t been disclosed.

Matthew Vaughan, Rotten Science and Milligan will produce, with Jimmy Miller and Matt Riley exec producing for Mosaic, along with Brian David Cange. Range Select, a division of Range Media Partners, is repping the film on the sales side.

Said writer-director Kvamme, “We’re so lucky to have Dustin...

Plot: When the spoiled Gemstone children finally get their wish to take control of the Church, they discover leadership is harder than they imagined and that their extravagant lifestyle comes with a heavy price.

Review: If you are still grieving the end of HBO’s marquee series about a filthy rich family vying for power and acting like assholes, rest assured that the cable network still has another series that fits that description. Danny McBride’s The Righteous Gemstones is back for a third season of hilarious hijinks of sacrilegious genius. While the second season of The Righteous Gemstones took things in a darker direction with insight into the youth of Eli Gemstone (John Goodman) with a downbeat ending, this new run is decidedly lighter with just as many dick jokes and brilliant insults. Led by the great Goodman, McBride, Edit Patterson, and Adam DeVine, The Righteous Gemstones’ third season...

Danny McBride's The Righteous Gemstones is returning for its third season on June 18, 2023.

HBO and Warner Bros. Discovery have released the first trailer for The Righteous Gemstones' third season. Created, written, executive produced and starring McBride, the first two episodes of The Righteous Gemstones air on HBO on June 18, 2023. The season will have nine episodes in total.

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The logline for The Righteous Gemstones' third season reads, "The Righteous Gemstones tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed, and charitable work. When the spoiled Gemstone children finally get their wish to take control of the Church, they discover leadership is harder than they imagined and that their extravagant lifestyle comes with a heavy price."

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The Righteous Gemstones' first season aired in 2019 on HBO, followed...

Exclusive: Starz’s eight-episode drama series The Venery of Samantha Bird has added Mission: Impossible actor Henry Czerny and Desperate Housewives actor Doug Savant in recurring roles.

Katherine Langford stars as Samantha Bird, who, while visiting family in New England, reconnects with her childhood sweetheart (Finn Jones) and falls headlong into a seemingly perfect storybook romance. But underneath their fever dream lurks a more unsettling interpretation of this affair. The series is described as a haunting portrayal of addictive love and the repercussions that a relationship has on the families in a small New England town.

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Czerny will play Teddy, Samantha’s father and a former artist and teacher. Theodore “Teddy” Bird moves to Little Yorn with his wife, Nan, reuniting with their longtime friends, Al and Carol Minot.

Savant plays Al Minot, a sharp businessman who is deeply invested in maintaining the town of...

Exclusive: Mark O’Brien (Your Honor) will exec produce and star in the coming-of-age drama Topper from 1A Motion Pictures and Bad Lad Productions, which has wrapped production in Detroit. Others set for major roles include Paul Johansson (God Is a Bullet), Amanda Clayton (City on a Hill), and actor-comedians Jimmy Shubert (Entourage), Bryan Callen (Warrior) and Erik Griffin (Workaholics).

The first feature written and directed by actor Kevin McNamara (Why Women Kill) follows Topper (O’Brien), a hard-drinking middling comedian with a seemingly endless capacity for self-sabotage. Topper receives news that his estranged father (Johansson) is terminally ill and begrudgingly returns to Detroit to sell the family home, which was never much of a home to him.

While back in Detroit, the friends he left behind — Lucas (Callen), Cooper (Griffin) and Ray (Shubert) — aren’t shy about pointing out how far he has drifted off course, despite showing early promise as a young comic.

Arrow Films Debuts First Look at The Righteous From Director/Actor Mark O’Brien Starring O’Brien, Henry Czerny & Mimi Kuzyk O’Brien’s Debut Chiller Set for June 10th Release Arrow Films have unveiled the official trailer for the extraordinary chiller The Righteous, an award-winning standout on the genre festival circuit. Arrow Films is planning a June 10th …

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Structured like a play and filmed in inky black and white, actor Mark O’Brien’s feature directorial debut The Righteous is a dialogue-driven examination of grief, responsibility and penance. The film follows Frederic Mason (Henry Czerny), a former priest who left the brotherhood to marry Ethel (Mimi Kuzyk) and raise a little girl. Ethel is devout […]

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Mark O’Brien makes an impressive filmmaking debut as writer, director and star of The Righteous (alongside Henry Czerny and Mimi Kuzyk), heading to Arrow on June 10th. As the subject of our latest Q&a, O'Brien talks about the film's black and white cinematography, its influences, and what's next!

The Righteous is a gorgeous film and one of its most striking elements is the use of black and white cinematography. What was the purpose behind the bold aesthetic?

This film appeared to me in black and white the day I began writing it. It was a natural progression from the words on the page, to the images in my head. The story is really about a man’s subconsciousness, what’s underneath, beneath the surface, psychologically. To me, our subconsciousness is murky and indecipherable. Color would bring too much reality and understanding to this story, which our lead character is lacking.

Mark O’Brien’s debut feature is more meditative than scary but is electrified by subtle performances, including his own

The marketing – poster, trailer and the like – for this monochrome low-budget feature is selling The Righteous like it’s a horror film. It’s all dark figures lurking in the murk, ominous, droning synth music and lots of talk of sin, suggesting it issues from the horror subgenre that’s soaked in a Catholic mindset: God v Satan, crime and punishment and, aptly given the cinematography here, black and white morality. But while this feature debut for writer-director-co-star Mark O’Brien is certainly suffused with uncanny dread, it’s much more thoughtful and meditative than it is scary, and barely supernatural until the end. This slipperiness really works in the film’s favour, and suggests that O’Brien, who also gives a tremendous performance here, has proper, big boy directing talent.

We are back on track and keeping an eye on what the fine folks at Arrow have to offer on the Arrow Player next month.  Canadian thriller The Righteous leads the pack next month. Our own Kurt caught the film while it was on the festival circuit. We won't say too much but here is a short excerpt.  This film is a slow burning tragedy of strain, filmed in the high contrast black and white, and set in the visually alien interior woods of Newfoundland... It oozes cabin fever, complete with wintry, leafless deciduous trees (a rarity on the island) and good old-fashioned catholic guilt... The films eventual arrival into a kind of wormwood, in the biblical sense of a bitter corruption of everything, which feels...

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Digital Release Announced for So Vam: "Distribution Solutions, a division of Alliance Entertainment, announces the Digital release of Mutiny Pictures’ So Vam coming June 21, 2022. The queer horror is impressively co-written, produced, and directed by then 16-year-old Alice Maio Mackay, a young trans filmmaker in her feature debut!

Kurt is a high school outcast in a conservative town who dreams of moving to the city to be a famous drag queen. When he is kidnapped by a predatory old vampire and attacked, he is rescued just in time by a gang of rebellious vampires who feed on bigots and abusers. As a

vampire, he finally knows empowerment and belonging. However, his killer is still out there, creating new minions with their own rotten

hatred and threatening all that he loves. Until Kurt faces the monster, he will never truly be free. But, this time, he need not face it alone.

The...

Watch the Trailer for The Righteous: "Arrow Films have unveiled the official trailer for the extraordinary chiller The Righteous, an award-winning standout on the genre festival circuit. Arrow Films is planning a June 10th digital release in the UK, US and Eire on Arrow, the brand's SVOD service.

This first feature from director-actor-writer Mark O’Brien is a dark chiller about a burdened man who feels the wrath of a vengeful God, after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger. The film stars O'Brien, Henry Czerny and Mimi Kuzyk.

The Righteous was produced by Mark O’Neill and Allison White. Executive producers Marc Hamou, Walter Lawlor, David Miller and Mark O’Brien.

The Righteous had its World Premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival in 2021, winning the Cheval Noir and Silver Award, and has since gone on to win a Bloodie at the 2021 Blood in the Snow Film Festival,...

Arrow Films revealed the trailer for Canadian chiller The Righteous, the debut feature film from Mark O'Brien. The award winning film and Canadian Screen Award nominated film had its world premiere at Fantasia last Summer and will debut on the Arrow Player on June 10th. A unique and darkly engaging spiritual thriller, strikingly shot in black and white, The Righteous tells the story of Frederic (Henry Czerny) a grieving man struggling with his faith, who helps an injured young man, Aaron Smith (Mark O’Brien) who stumbles onto his property one night, claiming to be lost in the woods. Frederic and his wife (Mimi Kuzyk) invite the man to stay for the night, but Frederic soon begins to have doubts about this enigmatic stranger’s story...

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The Righteous opens with the funeral of a young girl. Her mourning adopted parents, an ex-priest and his wife, still maintain active ties with the biological mother. There is an awkward visit in the family living room, adorned with many pictures of the deceased child. Doris (Kate Corbett in perpetually running mascara), the somewhat dim, jittery mother, a young woman clearly aging faster than she should by working dead-end jobs and living in poverty, gave up raising her child, likely for mental health reasons. The pressure to be polite and accommodating, by Frederic (Henry Czerny) and Ethel (Mimi Kuzyk), in this socially fraught situation, where the all around pain is this raw is uncomfortable to watch, even as it gives off unquestionably Canadian vibes. Doris...

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The first feature from Mark O’Brien is titled The Righteous, debuting on streaming in the US on June 10 from Arrow Video. The Righteous is being billed as a “dark chiller,” centered on “a burdened man who feels the wrath of a vengeful God, after he and […]

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Perhaps this will push the fractured Gemstone family toward reconciliation: HBO has renewed The Righteous Gemstones for a third season, TVLine has learned.

The pickup comes just three weeks into the comedy’s current second season, airing Sundays at 10/9c. Five episodes remain in the sophomore run, with the finale set for Feb. 27.

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“After a season of literal fire and brimstone, blood, sand and rollerblading,...

Alternative streaming service Arrow, the home for all things cult, art, horror and world cinema, has snapped up Mark O’Brien’s debut feature “The Righteous.”

Having acquired the film’s U.K., Eire and U.S. rights and Canadian home entertainment rights, Arrow will roll out a digital release in the U.K. U.S. and Eire this summer as well as a deluxe collector’s edition Blu-ray in the U.K., U.S., Canada and Eire under the Arrow Video brand.

The film will be released theatrically and on digital in Canada this summer by Vortex Media.

Starring O’Brien (“Marriage Story”), Henry Czerny (Mission: Impossible franchise) and Mimi Kuzyk (“Private Eyes”), “The Righteous” is a a psychological horror about “a burdened man feels the wrath of a vengeful God after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger.”

The film first premiered at the 2021 Fantasia International...

Exclusive: Actor and filmmaker Mark O’Brien is set to star in season 2 of HBO’s Perry Mason in the recurring guest star role of Thomas Milligan.

Thomas is Los Angeles’ ambitious Deputy District Attorney. He’s described as an aggressive attack dog in court as he strives to make his mark and ascend to greater heights, no matter whose blood he has to spill to get there. Season 2 will be eight episodes long with Matthew Rhys returning to the title role in the Emmy-nominated series.

Season 2 of Perry Mason takes place months after the end of the Dodson trial. Perry (Rhys) has moved off the farm, ditched the milk truck, he’s even traded his leather jacket for a pressed suit. It’s the worst year of the Depression, and Perry and Della (Juliet Rylance) have set the firm on a safer path pursuing civil cases instead of the tumultuous work criminal cases entail.

Tonight in Manchester, England, Grimmfest has drawn to a close and the ‘Grimm Reaper’ awards have just been handed out in a live streamed ceremony. Oh-seung Kwon’s Midnight was awared the Best Feature by a jury made up of UK Horror Channel's managing director Stewart Bridle, director Justin McConnell, US actress and director Natasha Halevi, Diabolique magazine editor Kat Ellinger, and UK based actor and director Dominic Brunt. They gave a special mention to Rob Tabbaz’s The Sadness, which the audience voted their most favorite film of the year. Mark O'Brien's The Righteous was a multi award winner, for Best Screenplay and Cinematography. Likewise Jeremiah Kipp's Slapface took home two awards for Best Score and young August Maturo won Best Actor. All...

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Other winners include ‘Blast’, ‘The Righteous’.

Oh-Seung Kwon’s Korean thriller Midnight has won the best feature award at UK genre festival Grimmfest, which ran as a hybrid in-person and online event this year.

The film, which debuted in South Korea in June this year, centres on a deaf mother and daughter who interrupt a serial psychopath as he attempts to claim his next victim, only to finds his wrath redirected toward them instead. Korean sales firm Finecut is handling sales on the title.

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The award was chosen by a jury consisting of Stewart Bridle,...

Stars: Cassandra Magrath, John Voce, Nicholas Denton, Nikola Dubois, Lee Mason | Written by Darren Markey | Directed by Kate Whitbread

Filmed and released in its native Australia as The Unlit, Witches of Blackwood is a slow-burning tale of family secrets and dark heritages. How does writer Darren Markey and director Kate Whitbread’s (Surviving Georgia) addition to the current folk horror revival compare to other recent additions like The Last Thing Mary Saw and The Righteous? Is it at least better than Hellbender?

Claire is a cop. She’s currently on suspension pending the results of an investigation of a suicide that happened in her presence. A call from her Uncle Cliff (John Voce; Primeval) with news of another death brings her back to her hometown of Blackwood.

Blackwood is a beautiful looking town, but its streets seem deserted. Indeed some old letters she finds at her late father’s farm talk of people,...

In the wake of the spread of  'Covid-19', with viral variants now infecting both cast/crew working in live action and animation, TV studios including Netflix, Hulu, CBS, ABC, Fox, Starz, Paramount and a whole lot more, have quietly shut down numerous popular series, despite Season renewals, designating new episodes "on hiatus":

TV Series on Hiatus:

911 Lone Star 

A Discovery of Witches 

After Life 

All American 

Amazing Stories 

American Horror Stories 

Atlanta 

B Positive 

Better Call Saul  

Better Things 

Big Sky

Black Monday 

Black-ish 

Blindspotting 

Blood and Water 

Blue Bloods  

Bob Hearts Abishola 

Bob's Burgers 

Breeders

Bridgerton 

Bull  

Call Me Kat 

Carnival Row 

Charmed  

Chicago Fire 

Chicago Med 

Chicago Pd 

City on a Hill 

Clarice 

Claws 

Clickbait 

Coyote 

Creepshow  

Criminal Minds 

Cruel Summer 

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Dash and Lily 

Dead to Me 

Dear White People  

Dickinson 

Dirty John 

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The Fantasia International Film Festival brought its 25th edition to a close on Wednesday, August 25th with the sold-out in-person screening of Takashi Miike’s The Great Yokai War – Guardians, bowing for its International Premiere at the festival, and the unveiling of this year’s esteemed award winners.

Once again responding to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, Fantasia took up a hybrid format for the 2021 festival, returning to Festival Scope and Shift72 for our Canadian geo-locked virtual component and holding in-person screenings at Montreal’s historic Cinéma Impérial and the Cinéma du Musée. Across digital and physical screenings, the festival boasts over 100,000 in viewing numbers that include ticket sales, badge purchases, and streamed events. More than a record-breaking 500 journalists from around the world were accredited for Fantasia, which also saw a heightened industry presence with numerous distribution and sales acquisitions being announced out of the fest, including pick-ups by Shudder,...

Voice Of Silence

Last night saw this year's Fantasia International Film Festival come t a close with a special screening of Takashi Miike's The Great Yokai War. The full slate of awards presented by the festival has now ben announced, with Hong Eui-jeong's remarkable Voice Of Silence receivng the prestigious Cheval Noir award for Best Film.

The hybrid festival, which attracted over 100,000 viewings between its online and in-person events, saw Taiwanese pandemic thriller The Sadness celebrated as Best Début by the New Flesh Jury, while Eiji Tanigawa's Vulnerability was named Best Short Film. The award for Best Documentary went to Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched by Kier-La Janisse.

Those awards in full:-

Cheval Noir

Best Film: Voice Of Silence Best Director: Igor Legarreta, All The Moons Best Screenplay: Mark O'Brien, The Righteous Best Score: John Adams, Hellbender Best Actor: Yoo Ah-in, Voice Of Silence Best Actress: Zelda Adams, Hellbender Jury Special Mention - Cinematography:.

Korean director Hong Eui-jeong’s indie crime drama Voice of Silence has picked up the Cheval Noir best film prize at the Fantasia Film Festival, which wrapped on Wednesday.

Eui-jeong’s debut feature also earned Yoo Ah-in the best actor trophy. Voice of Silence shared top honors in the juried competition in Montreal with Igor Legarreta, who won for best director for his work on the vampire pic All the Moons.

Legarreta also earned the audience award for best international feature for his France-Spain co-production. And Mark O’Brien won for best screenplay for The Righteous, the psychological thriller that he also directed.

The Cheval ...

Korean director Hong Eui-jeong’s indie crime drama Voice of Silence has picked up the Cheval Noir best film prize at the Fantasia Film Festival, which wrapped on Wednesday.

Hong’s debut feature also earned Yoo Ah-in the best actor trophy. Voice of Silence shared top honors in the juried competition in Montreal with Igor Legarreta, who won for best director for his work on the vampire pic All the Moons.

Legarreta also earned the audience award for best international feature for his France-Spain co-production. And Mark O’Brien won for best screenplay for The Righteous, the psychological thriller that he also directed.

The Cheval ...

Korean director Hong Eui-jeong’s debut feature “Voice of Silence” stood out at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival as the year’s best film from its Cheval Noir main competition section. The film, about two men who clean up after an organized crime organization, has enjoyed an impressive international festival run, having built up strong buzz as a project when it was selected to Venice’s Biennale College Cinema program in 2016.

“In a film festival that’s known as a melting pot of genres, ‘Voice of Silence’ feels like an excellent representative for the top prize in the Cheval Noir section. It’s earnest and sincere in tone but also unpredictable and experimental, impossible to pin down, and truly idiosyncratic,” said the jury in a statement accompanying the announcement.

Basque filmmaker Igor Legarreta was honored as the year’s best director for his sophomore effort “All the Moons,” a 19th...

Yoo Ah-in (Voice Of Silence), Zelda Adams (Hellbender) win acting prizes.

EuiJeong Hong’s South Korean thriller Voice Of Silence has won the 25th anniversary edition Fantasia International Film Festival’s Cheval Noir award for best film.

Hong’s film follows a mute low-level gangster tasked with taking charge of an 11-year-old kidnapped girl from a wealthy family. The jury described Voice Of Silence as “impossible to pin down, and truly idiosyncratic. Put simply, it’s unlike anything we’d seen before”.

Juried awards

In other Cheval Noir awards Yoo Ah-in who plays the mute man won best actor while...

After helming a number of shorts over the years, Canadian actor Mark O’Brien—who has appeared in major mainstream films like Arrival, Bad Times at the El Royale, and Marriage Story, and had a recurring role on the AMC series Halt and Catch Fire—makes his feature directorial debut with The Righteous. The film, shot entirely in brooding black-and-white, follows ex-priest Frederick Mason as he and his wife Ethel (Mimi Kuzyk) are struck by the tragic, accidental loss of their adopted daughter. “Have you ever considered that you aren’t even with God?” Frederick questions of his local priest following his daughter’s funeral, portending both the ensuing plot and method by which such thematic questions are to be answered. Though The Righteous works best by showcasing the acting skills of its talented cast, it’s ultimately bogged down by its literalist, overly verbose approach to spiritual atonement.

In...

The Righteous tells the story of a peculiar stranger that visits the home of a former priest and his wife. The priest had left the church in the hopes of starting a family, only to have tragedy strike when his young daughter is killed. The lonely couple are content but plagued with the grief of what was lost. When a young stranger arrives, the man and woman give him shelter. What follows is a series of unexpected turns and a twist of the knife in exposing the real cause of the priest’s loss of faith. Sins are laid bare.

Mark O’Brien makes an impressive filmmaking debut as writer, director and star of The Righteous alongside Henry Czerny (Ready Or Not) and Mimi Kuzyk.

With its rich, black and white cinematography and haunting design The Righteous is an exercise in atmosphere. The film’s moody aesthetic and shadowy presence makes...

Mark O’Brien enjoyed a rare privilege for a pandemic-era director on Sunday night — being in a movie theater and seeing the opening titles of his debut feature, The Righteous, roll and hearing the sound of a live audience cheering and clapping after a late night showing at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal.

“I’m getting on a plane riding on a high. I feel different. I feel a bit surreal, not even over my movie coming out, but that I watched it in a theater,” O’Brien, a first-time feature director, told The Hollywood Reporter as he flew ...

Mark O’Brien enjoyed a rare privilege for a pandemic-era director on Sunday night — being in a movie theater and seeing the opening titles of his debut feature, The Righteous, roll and hearing the sound of a live audience cheering and clapping after a late night showing at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal.

“I’m getting on a plane riding on a high. I feel different. I feel a bit surreal, not even over my movie coming out, but that I watched it in a theater,” O’Brien, a first-time feature director, told The Hollywood Reporter as he flew ...