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While Gummo, Trash Humpers, and Spring Breakers director Harmony Korine has always pushed the edge of cinema, his latest Edglrd projects certainly bring him into a new echelon. Following his infrared crime thriller/nightmare Aggro DR1FT, he’s back with Baby Invasion, which sports a brand new score from Burial. Following its Venice premiere last fall and ahead of its unique NYC event this Friday, the first trailer has now arrived.

This Friday’s event will take place at Queens’ Knockdown Center and will feature Korine deconstructing and mixing the feature film like a DJ set, transforming Baby Invasion into a pulsating, hypnotic experience. The event, which one can get tickets for here, will also feature live DJ sets by Harmony Korine/Edglrd, Doss, Eyedress, and Yves Tumor.

Here’s the synopsis: “An ultra-realistic, multiplayer Fps game follows a group of mercenaries using baby faces as avatars through the use of AI.

Following its premiere in Venice’s 2019 Biennale College Cinema section and North American launch at Sundance 2020, Lemohang Mosese’s This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection became a noteworthy arthouse success, scoring wide international distribution and eventually gaining a place in the Criterion Collection. Now six years later, Mosese has premiered his follow-up feature Ancestral Visions of the Future, shifting to a poetic, hybrid documentary form while retaining his previous work’s expressive tempo and eye-searingly colourful outdoor cinematography. Whilst Burial was concerned with the maintenance of longterm dynastic communities in Lesotho, the landlocked country of his birth fully enclosed […]

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Following its premiere in Venice’s 2019 Biennale College Cinema section and North American launch at Sundance 2020, Lemohang Mosese’s This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection became a noteworthy arthouse success, scoring wide international distribution and eventually gaining a place in the Criterion Collection. Now six years later, Mosese has premiered his follow-up feature Ancestral Visions of the Future, shifting to a poetic, hybrid documentary form while retaining his previous work’s expressive tempo and eye-searingly colourful outdoor cinematography. Whilst Burial was concerned with the maintenance of longterm dynastic communities in Lesotho, the landlocked country of his birth fully enclosed […]

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Midnight screenings rarely come more fitting than “Baby Invasion,” Harmony Korine’s latest experimental, unconventional and video game-like assault on the senses, which had its world premiere on Saturday night in Venice to an 8.5-minute standing ovation.

The film served up a provocative array of unique visuals: We saw our heavily armed, baby-faced criminals torturing people, dancing to Burial’s thumping techno score, chopping up huge piles of coke and throwing up the middle finger while sitting on the toilet.

Whatever it is we witnessed, the crowd seemed to lap it up. Once the hour and 20 minute movie wrapped, cheers erupted from the audience as Korine danced to the beat that soundtracked the credits. And it didn’t stop there: fans erupted into a chant of “Harmony! Harmony! Harmony!” as the director waved his arms as if to say, “More! More! More!”

At one point in the film, one of...

Exclusive: Vision Entertainment has brought on Chris Bellant as a manager in their talent and literary departments. He’ll work out of the company’s Los Angeles office and will also work with Vision’s production arm to produce both film and TV.

Bellant joins from Zero Gravity Management, where he also worked across talent, literary and production. Before Zero Gravity, he was a manager at Established Artists and previously ran the management and production company Waldorf Entertainment. Most recently, Bellant produced the upcoming crime thriller Nowhere Men, starring Jack Quaid, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Malin Akerman. Previously, he produced films including Loserville, starring Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Matt McGorry, and The Lost Weekend, starring Tony winner Reed Birney and Gracie Gillam.

Bellant’s clients include Emmy-nominated writers Steven White and Daniel Dratch; actors Brad Leland, Taylor Anthony Miller...

Burial has composed the score for Harmony Korine’s new movie Baby Invasion, which is set to premiere at Venice Film Festival this summer.

Baby Invasion isn’t Burial’s first time doing a film score. He also composed the score for Andrea Arnold’s Bird starring Barry Keoghan, which debuted at Cannes Film Festival in May.

Billed as a surreal home invasion thriller, Korine’s new movie comes from his Edglrd company. It was filmed as a first-person shooter and used AI to swap intruders’ faces with those of babies.

“We’ll create these almost like freakish cartoon filters that these invaders will have, that they’ll wear throughout, but then you could also possibly change them as you go,” the filmmaker previously told Variety.

The official description reads: “Baby Invasion is a new ultra-realistic, multiplayer Fps game following a group of mercenaries using baby faces as avatars to conceal their identity.

Burial has composed the score for Harmony Korine’s new movie Baby Invasion, which is set to premiere at Venice Film Festival this summer.

Baby Invasion isn’t Burial’s first time doing a film score. He also composed the score for Andrea Arnold’s Bird starring Barry Keoghan, which debuted at Cannes Film Festival in May.

Billed as a surreal home invasion thriller, Korine’s new movie comes from his Edglrd company. It was filmed as a first-person shooter and used AI to swap intruders’ faces with those of babies.

“We’ll create these almost like freakish cartoon filters that these invaders will have, that they’ll wear throughout, but then you could also possibly change them as you go,” the filmmaker previously told Variety.

The official description reads: “Baby Invasion is a new ultra-realistic, multiplayer Fps game following a group of mercenaries using baby faces as avatars to conceal their identity.

The Venice Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled its official, star-packed lineup for its 81st edition, which runs from Aug. 28 to Sept. 7.

Joker: Folie à Deux, Todd Phillips’ sequel to his 2019 Golden Lion-winning Joker, will also bow in Venice. Joaquin Phoenix, who won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of Arthur Fleck, aka Joker, in the original, returns in the musical sequel, with Lady Gaga playing Harley Quinn, his love interest and partner in crime. Zazie Beetz, Brendan Gleeson and Catherine Keener co-star.

Venice favorites Brad Pitt and George Clooney will return to the Lido with Wolfs, an action drama from Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) about two lone-wolf fixers assigned to the same job. The film, an Apple Original Films production that Columbia/Sony will release theatrically worldwide, will screen out of competition, as will Broken Rage, the latest feature from legendary Japanese director Takeshi Kitano.

Angelina Jolie...

The latest Disney+ Marvel series "Agatha All Along" has dropped its first trailer, proving that this long-gestating "WandaVision" spin-off is, in fact, happening. Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), the witchy villain of said show, is looking to regain her memories and powers after Wanda Maximoff/The Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen -- don't expect to see her in this) stole them. Along the way, she'll be recruiting a whole coven of witches, likely including co-stars Aubrey Plaza and Patti LuPone.

About a minute in, the trailer drops a song. Not "Agatha All Along," the minute long, Grammy-nominated tune that played during the revelation of Agatha's true nature in "WandaVision" episode 7, "Breaking The Fourth Wall." (The song went viral for a bit and was probably a deciding factor in getting this show greenlit.)

No, rather the trailer uses "Seven Devils" by the English indie rock band Florence + The Machine. That eerie anthem's...

Over the past week or so, Apple Music has slowly unveiled the titles included in its list of the “100 best albums.” Today, the top 10 albums were revealed, with Miss Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill claiming the No. 1 spot. Rounding out the top five are Michael Jackson’s Thriller; The Beatles’ Abbey Road; Prince’s Purple Rain; and Frank Ocean’s Blonde.

The top 10 also includes Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life; Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city (Deluxe Version); Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black; Nirvana’s Nevermind; and Beyoncé’s Lemonade.

In all honestly, it’s a pretty safe top 10, especially considering the drama that unfolded when Apple unveiled picks 11-20 and slotted Adele’s 21 at No. 15 and Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) at No. 18 — ahead of albums like Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds,...

Reacher was released to instant acclaim when it debuted on Prime Video in 2022. Following an excellent first season, the show returned in December 2023, picking up on the story of Jack Reacher two years and seven months after the events of Margrave. Following the murder of several of his old 110th Special Investigations Unit friends, the hero returns to action alongside others from the unit. With someone seemingly targeting members of his elite crime unit, the retired officer pulls out all the stops to get to the bottom of a conspiracy.

Reacher's second season went in a different direction from its first, trading in the neo-western setting of small-town America for the grime of the big city. There, Reacher and his 110th friends uncover a secretive arms trade involving assassins, corrupt politicians, and former cops turned killers. Despite some differences with the first season, season two maintained the show's momentum, delivering...

This post contains spoilers for the first six episodes of "Reacher" season 2, as well as for the novel it's based on, "Bad Luck and Trouble."

This week's "Reacher" episode includes perhaps the most emotionally charged moment in the entire series so far: Detective Russo (Domenick Lombardozzi) sacrifices his life in a shootout with Langton's men, saving the life of a young girl in the process. It's a bit of a redemptive moment for him; Russo spent the first half of the season as a potential mole for Langston, and he didn't do himself any favors with his repeated delusional threats to kick Jack Reacher's ass. But after showing his more sensitive side with Calvin Franz's kid in last week's episode, "Burial," and then helping Reacher out in the graveyard shootout sequence, it became clear that Russo really was as honorable as he claimed to be. In hindsight, we should've known he was about to die.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Reacher season 2.

Members of the 110th are under threat in Reacher season 2, and Reacher's loyalty to the Special Investigations Unit could put their lives in danger. Reacher owes Tony Swan for saving his life, and his promise to Swan could complicate things in the upcoming meeting between them. Reacher's honor and integrity may lead to the failure of the 110th's mission, as he is unwilling to let his promise to Swan go unfulfilled.

Reacher season 2 has centered around the titular character's reunion with his old unit, but reconnecting with one member of the 110th could be riddled with disaster. Based on the Jack Reacher book Bad Luck and Trouble season 2 brings the former military colleagues of Alan Ritchson's character into the fold. While the reunion may not be voluntary, it hasn't stopped Reacher from reminiscing about the good old days.

Members of the...

Clockwise L to R: Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott in Bottoms (Image: Orion Pictures), Nicolas Cage in Dream Scenario (Image: A24), Tommy Lee Jones, Jamie Foxx in The Burial (Image: Prime Video), Julia Louis-Dreyfus in You Hurt My Feelings (Image: A24)

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There are only so...

Warning: Major spoilers for Reacher season 2 episode "Burial" below!

Alan Ritchson's portrayal of Reacher in the Amazon series has been a huge success, capturing the character's hulking presence and intelligence. In episode 5 of Reacher season 2, there is an Aquaman reference, connecting to Ritchson's past role as the superhero in Smallville. Ritchson has a history in the superhero genre, including playing Hank Hall in Titans.

It was inevitable really, but Reacher has finally referenced Alan Ritchson's superhero past. Once it was decided that the Tom Cruise Jack Reacher movies wouldn't continue, the property was rebooted by Amazon as a TV series. Of course, that meant finding a new actor to embody the hulking presence of the title character himself. After an involved audition process that saw performers such as Teddy Sears try out for the role, it was Alan Ritchson who won out.

Ritchson has proven to be perfect casting,...

Warning: Major spoilers for Reacher season 2 episode "Burial" below!

In the fourth episode of season 2, the true threat of the "Little Wing" weapon was revealed. Flashbacks in episode 5 reveal that Swan, suspected of being a traitor, once saved Reacher's life and displays bravery and loyalty, hinting at his potential innocence. This also explains why Reacher refuses to believe Swan is guilty, despite the mounting evidence.

A key scene from Reacher's latest episode shows why Alan Ritchson's main character is having a hard time believing Swan is a traitor. In terms of introducing the character of Reacher to audiences, Amazon could scarcely have chosen better than the books they used for seasons 1 and 2. The first series adapted Killing Floor, the original novel in Lee Child's thriller series. This found Reacher shortly after he had left the army, and saw him investigate the murder of his brother and destroying a counterfeiting operation.

The third season of “Slow Horses,” easily TV’s best spy thriller and one of the best shows of the year, comes to a close this week in the game-changing finale “Footprints.” In the 45-minute episode, which is now streaming on Apple TV+, the various members of Slough House find themselves with their backs up against a wall only to defy all possible expectations once more.

As Lamb (Golden Globe nominee Gary Oldman) and Ho (Christopher Chung) attempt to rescue Standish (Saskia Reeves) and evade capture, River (Jack Lowden), Louisa (Rosalind Eleazar), Marcus (Kadiff Kirwan) and Shirley (Aimee-Ffion Edwards) must fight off the Dogs sicced on them by Tearney (Sophie Okonedo) in order to cover her ass and keep Mi-5’s dirty little secrets under lock and key. With plenty of high-stakes drama, memorable performances from Oldman and Lowden, and an impeccable mix of character, action and humor, “Slow Horses...

Warning: Major spoilers below for Reacher season 2 episode "Burial" below!

Reacher season 2 avoided a problem with the Tom Cruise movie by revealing the events of "One Shot" happened offscreen. Episode 5 may have forgotten its "One Shot" easter egg, however, since it's not part of Reacher's record. The possibility of adapting "One Shot" in the future is still open, but the series has a wealth of other books to cover.

The latest episode of Reacher may have already contradicted its Tom Cruise movie explanation. Cruise may be one of the biggest movie stars in the world, but to fans of Jack Reacher, he was still nowhere near big enough to play the titular role in the 2012 movie. The character from Lee Child's novels is a hulking beast, but when producers had a hard time fighting the right combination of star power and physique - even passing on Dwayne Johnson -...

The following contains spoilers for Reacher, Season 2, Episode 5, "Burial" now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

With the first half of Season 2 behind him, Jack Reacher and the rest of the surviving special investigators are finally starting to find more answers than questions. It's a bigger season than the first, with four times as many locations. However, the mystery itself continues to unfold slowly. It's a deliberate choice on the part of the storytellers because as much as Season 2 is about the murder of their former colleagues, it's also about the mystery of Reacher himself.

The episode title, "Burial," is a reference to the funeral for the first fallen member of the 110th Special Investigators Unit, Calvin Franz. Though, it's odd his final resting place isn't in the South Side Cemetery, Allegheny Cemetery, or any of the graveyards on Cemetery Lane in his native Pittsburgh, Pa. After all, his love of...

Warning! Spoilers ahead for Reacher season 2, episode 5.

Jack is the only one who believes in Swan's innocence despite mounting evidence against him. Neagley and Dixon discover incriminating information about Swan at New Age's facility. Swan's absence from the show suggests there may be more to his ties to New Age than being Langston's cohort. Hortense Fields may have been impersonating Swan all along.

Tony Swan's involvement in New Age in Reacher season 2 makes a major villain theory more plausible. Jack Reacher and the other surviving members of the 110th Special Investigators continue their hunt for the killers of their former teammates in Reacher season 2, episode 5, "Burial." With Jorge Sanchez and Manuel Orozco now confirmed dead after Calvin Franz's murder, all eyes are on uncovering the truth about Swan's ties to New Age. That includes whether he actually betrayed the Special Investigators. While the rest of the squad is...

Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) is trying to pay his respects when he gets attacked in a new clip from the next episode of Reacher.

Titled "Burial," the fifth episode of Season 2 is set to debut on Prime Video on Dec. 29. Just ahead of the episode's premiere, The Direct unveiled a new sneak peek that reveals the start of a graveyard shootout. Jack can be seen encouraging survivors to flee as he springs into action, hoping to neutralize the threat before he has to mourn anyone else. How the situation ultimately plays out will be revealed in the episode, but Jack is pretty confident about his plan to take out the active shooters. The new clip can be viewed below.

Related Reacher Star Reveals Reaction to Episode 4's Surprise Cameo The fourth episode of Reacher Season 2 revealed a surprise cameo that Alan Ritchson has now addressed.

"Burial" is the first four...

Reacher season 2 has 5 episodes left out of a total of 8, with each episode being released weekly on Amazon Prime Video. The second season follows Reacher as he tries to solve a series of murders targeting his former military colleagues, setting up a thrilling season-long mystery and a grand finale. The first three episodes of Reacher season 2 were released together on December 14, 2023 — ahead of the official December 15 date — with the remaining episodes being released one at a time on Thursdays until the finale on January 19, 2024.

With Alan Ritchson returning as Amazon Prime Video's Jack Reacher on December 14, viewers are already wondering how many episodes Reacher season 2 has left before its finale. Based on Lee Child's long-running book series, Reacher's titular protagonist is an ex-military police officer who finds himself caught up in various threats and conspiracies. As a self-proclaimed "hobo," Jack Reacher doesn't have a place to call home — and...

Jamie Foxx made a surprise appearance at the Critics Choice Association’s Celebration of Cinema and Television: Honoring Black, Latino and Aapi Achievements on Monday night, taking the stage for his first public outing following his sudden hospitalization in April.

Foxx was honored with the Vanguard Award for his acclaimed performance in “The Burial,” from Amazon’s Prime Video. The Oscar and Grammy winner also starred in Netflix’s “They Cloned Tyrone,” which earned him a Gotham Award nomination last month.

Jurnee Smollett presented the award to her “Burial” co-star, saying he’s a “true vanguard, a pioneer who has broken down barriers and inspired generations of artists like myself to be bold, audacious dreamers.”

“Working with Jamie, I found a generous scene partner I can lean on and trust,” Smollett said on stage. “Even though we were playing rivals battling it out in the courtroom, in him, I found...

A White Mississippi funeral owner hires a Black personal injury lawyer from Florida to sue a behemoth Canadian corporation when they try to force him out of business. The Burial, based on the New Yorker article by Jonathan Harr, is a David versus Goliath comedy-drama about a seemingly mismatched pair finding common ground to achieve an astonishing legal victory. Race plays a big part of a story rooted in poverty and a legacy of Southern transgressions. The film gets hokey and melodramatic at times but grabs you with compelling performances. Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Foxx bring humor, heart, and star power to an overall winning narrative.

In 1995 Biloxi, Jeremiah O'Keefe (Jones), owner of eight funeral homes and a burial insurance company was in financial distress. The World War II hero and father of 13 children wanted to leave an inheritance for his family. The state threatened to pull his business...

Tommy Lee Jones, Jamie Foxx in The Burial Image: Prime Video The Jamie Foxx courtroom drama The Burial is inspired by the true story of African American lawyer Willie E. Gary, his funeral director client Jeremiah O’Keefe, and the seminal 1995 lawsuit they filed against the vast Canadian corporation The Loewen Group.

It’s a typical refrain from moviegoers: which films should I watch next? Fortunately, there are plenty of highly anticipated movies on the way, both in theaters and on streaming services, to keep film fans eating very well in 2023, from blockbuster superhero adventures to spy thrillers to high-concept sci-fi to creepy horrors.

That’s why we’ve put together a list of all the major releases coming this year. There are more than a few films of varying flavors coming in 2023 that should appeal to you: a new Yorgos Lanthimos experiment and a nearly four-hour Martin Scorsese epic about how the West was… poisoned. That, plus plenty of franchise fare, from Aquaman 2 and Wonka to The Marvels and even a new Godzilla flick from Toho! Major horror franchises return in a big way this year too, with Saw X and Exorcist: Believer both slated for the fall.

Want to...

In select theaters October 6 and streaming Globally on Prime Video October 13 is The Burial.

Inspired by true events, when a handshake deal goes sour, funeral homeowner Jeremiah O’Keefe (Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones) enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary (Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx) to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond while exposing corporate corruption and racial injustice in this inspirational, triumphant story. The cast includes Tommy Lee Jones, Jamie Foxx, Jurnee Smollett, Mamoudou Athie, Pamela Reed, with Bill Camp, and Alan Ruck.

Rated R.

The Advance Screening is this Monday night, October 2, 7pm at Ronnies. Please arrive early as seating is not guaranteed.

Enter At The Link:

https://amazonscreenings.com/DUbbF97251

The Burial is directed by Maggie Betts, story by Doug Wright with the screenplay by Doug Wright and Maggie Betts. Based on The New Yorker article by Jonathan Harr.

Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games trilogy set the world ablaze when the first novel in the series, The Hunger Games, was released in 2008. By 2012, the series was ranked by NPR as one of the top series for young adults, coming in second to the much-beloved Harry Potter series. A year after the first book was released, Lions Gate Entertainment and Color Force teamed up to begin production for a film adaptation. The film version of The Hunger Games hit movie theaters worldwide and would attain a box office revenue of almost $700 million. Its cast, which boasted the likes of Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson, and Liam Hemsworth, among many others, was also propelled into the spotlight.

As the trilogy turned into four different movies, it seemed that The Hunger Games had cemented its celebrity status of a book-to-film era previously occupied by and enamored with the Harry Potter and Twilight movies.

Greta Lee and Teo Yoo in Past Lives; Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer; Emma Stone in Poor Things; Jeffrey Wright in American FictionImage: Images courtesy A24, Universal Pictures, Searchlight Pictures, Orion

Now that the big film festivals in Toronto, Telluride and Venice are all wrapped up, it’s time to start...

The Burial tells the story of funeral home owner and former politician Jerry O’Keefe (Tommy Lee Jones) and his case against the Loewen Group, spearheaded by flashy personal injury lawyer Willie E. Gary (Jamie Foxx). The film, based on a real case in Hinds County, Mississippi, in 1995, is the sophomore narrative feature from Maggie Betts, with a screenplay by Doug Wright and Betts.

O’Keefe is the father of 13 children with 22 grandchildren and a mountain of debt he’s been hiding from everyone, including his wife (Pamela Reed). And at his age, his focus is on securing his legacy to make sure his large family is taken care of after he’s gone. Though he owns multiple funeral homes, debt has forced him to sell. His attorney and friend Mike Allred (Alan Ruck) sets up a meeting with Raymond Loewen (Bill Camp), the billionaire owner of the Loewen Group, who...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:

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2023 Emmy Predictions:

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Weekly Commentary: On “Succession,” Sarah Snook shined in every part, becoming the season’s clear standout as Shiv, the political fixer and youngest Roy child of the media empire. From her heartbreaking “Daddy?” over the phone during the masterful “Connor...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers for “Succession,” “The Last of Us” and “Ted Lasso.”

“Choose wisely, for while the true Grail will bring you life; the false Grail will take it from you.”

This quote from “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989) could also apply to selecting episode submissions for the Primetime Emmy Awards. Some choose well, others not so much.

Per Emmy rules, after the nominations are officially announced, the selections for drama series and comedy series each choose six episodes that best exhibit the very best of their nominated seasons. This contrasts with directors and writers, who make their picks before the phase one voting period.

One of the most interesting observations about this year’s submissions surrounds the fourth and final season of HBO’s “Succession.” The third episode, “Connor’s Wedding,” which many called one of the best episodes of the series (and television at...

Gold Derby can exclusively reveal the 48 episodes entered as 2023 Emmy Award submission for the eight Best Drama Series nominees. Each program submits six episodes from this past season. Television Academy voters are asked to watch each of the episodes entered for that category before marking their ballots.

SEEover 150 video interviews with 2023 Emmy nominees

The complete list of submission for this category below:

Andor (Disney+):

“Announcement,” “Narkina 5,” “Nobody’s Listening,” “One Way Out,” “Daughter of Ferrix,” “Rix Road”

Better Call Saul (AMC):

“Point and Shoot,” “Fun and Games,” “Nippy,” “Breaking Bad,” “Waterworks,” “Saul Gone”

The Crown (Netflix):

“Mou Mou,” “Annus Horribillis,” “The Way Ahead,” “Gunpowder,” “Couple 31,” “Decommissioned”

House of the Dragon (HBO Max):

“The Heirs of the Dragon,” “The Princess and the Queen,” “Driftmark,” “The Lord of the Tides,” “The Green Council,” “The Black Queen”

The Last of Us (HBO Max):

“When You’re Lost in the Darkness,...

Gold Derby can exclusively reveal that Melanie Lynskey is entering the “Yellowjackets” episode “Burial” as her 2023 Emmy Award submission for Best Drama Actress. “Burial” aired on May 12, 2023, and is the seventh episode of the Showtime show’s second season.

In “Burial,” Shauna (Lynskey) processes the trauma of losing her son in the wilderness as the adult Yellowjackets survivors reunite for the first time. The episode was directed by Anya Adams and written by Rich Monahan and Liz Phang.

Lynskey is a double 2023 Emmy Award nominee thanks to “Yellowjackets” and her Best Drama Guest Actress nomination for “The Last of Us.” Previously, Lynskey was an Emmy nominee last year in the Best Drama Actress category for Season 1 of “Yellowjackets.”

For this 2023 contest, Lynskey is competing against Sharon Horgan (“Bad Sisters”), Elisabeth Moss (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), Bella Ramsey (“The Last of Us”), Keri Russell (“The Diplomat”), and Sarah Snook (“Succession”). Last year’s category winner,...

Dubstep legends Burial and Kode9 have revealed a new EP called Infirmary / Unknown Summer.

The project, out via Kode9’s label Hypderdub, consists of one song by Burial and one song by Kode9. It follows the artists’ 2018 DJ mix Fabriclive 100, a 74-minute blend of tracks by Klein, David Hykes, Clementine, DJ Taye, and more that marked the 100th installment in Fabric nightclub’s Fabriclive mix series.

Burial and Kode9 were early pioneers of dubstep. Since emerging in 2005, the former — real name William Emmanuel Bevan — has collaborated with Four Tet, Massive Attack, and Thom Yorke, all while initially remaining anonymous to the public. His last project was was October’s Streetlands EP. Meanwhile, last year Kode9 released Escapology and Astro-Darien, his first solo projects since 2015’s Nothing.

Burial and Kode9 Release Split EP Infirmary / Unknown Summer: Stream

Carys Anderson...

Editor’s note: Deadline’s It Starts on the Page features 10 standout drama series scripts in 2023 Emmy contention. It showcases the critical role writers’ work plays in a show’s success. All arrangements were made before the WGA strike began on May 2.

Do the adult Yellowjackets really feel like reminiscing about life in the wilderness?

In “Burial,” Episode 207 of Showtime’s popular drama, a reunion of the adult women finally occurs at Lottie’s Camp Green Pine, where Shauna (Melanie Lynsey) joins Taissa (Tawny Cypress), Misty (Christina Ricci), Natalie (Juliette Lewis) and Van (Lauren Ambrose) to take in a few, er, treatments before gathering for some adult refreshments by the fire. No one, however, is really interested in looking back at their time starving in the forest, especially when there are much heavier developments to wrestle with (like Van’s admission to Taissa that she has a fatal form of...

Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” has officially submitted 18 actors for Emmys consideration, and as part of the show’s campaign, the network has released several FYC posters for each character.

Melanie Lynskey, who earned a nomination last year for playing Shauna, will be joined by Tawny Cypress (Taissa), Juliette Lewis (Natalie) and Sophie Nélisse, who plays the teen version of Shauna, in outstanding lead actress.

Christina Ricci (Misty), Samantha Hanratty (Teen Misty), Courtney Eaton (Teen Lottie), Jasmin Savoy Brown (Teen Taissa), Lauren Ambrose (Adult Van), Sophie Thatcher (Teen Nat) and Simone Kessell (Adult Lottie) are among those vying for outstanding supporting actress. Both Eaton and Kessell are among the Aapi contenders. Should Kessell be recognized for her portrayal of Adult Lottie, she would be the first Pacific Islander to receive a nod in that category. Meanwhile, Kevin Alves (Teen Travis), Steven Krueger (Coach Ben), Elijah Wood (Walter) and Warren Kole (Jeff) will...

Grimmfest, Manchester UK’s International Festival of Fantastic Film, joins Méliès International Festivals Federation.

Regular attendees that look forward to catching up with the annual selection of short film premieres at Grimmfest, will be pleased to hear that this year, Grimmfest will be hosting three short film programmes across the festival period (6th-8th October 2023), in celebration of their new membership of the Méliès International Festivals Federation.

The Federation, recently held their annual general assembly at Cannes film festival, and the 26 member festivals voted for Grimmfest to join, and thus become the only English festival of fantastic film in the Federation.

Each year member festivals vote for their best ‘Fantastic’ feature film and short film, with an award for each, presented at Sitges. Previous winners have included Alex Garland’s Men, Prano Baily-Bond’s Censor, Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders Of Justice, Peter Strickland’s In Fabric, Lars Von Trier...

After premiering on Fandor last fall, the SXSW genre-bender Jethica is now streaming on the Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox. In conjunction with the Screambox premiere, Ship to Shore PhonoCo. is proud to present the original film soundtrack to Jethica on limited edition audio cassette!

The digital/streaming version of the soundtrack is also now available across all major platforms, while the audio cassette is available for pre-order from Ship to Shore PhonoCo.

In Jethica, “Jessica has a problem: his name is Kevin. Kevin is a stalker. After randomly bumping into Elena, an old friend from her school days, Jessica hides out in Elena’s trailer in the middle of the desert. Kevin, unfortunately for everyone involved, is very persistent…

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This article contains spoilers for season 2 of Yellowjackets.

There are silly, insignificant "what if" games that one plays as a kid or even as an adult. I was not once asked what I would do if I were stranded in the wilderness or on an island. These "what if" questions become a harsh reality for the protagonists in Yellowjackets by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson. As Yellowjackets returns for a second season, the fan-favorite group of survivors wraps themselves in an even larger cocoon of lies and risky scenarios before reuniting at Lottie's cult for the vicious and trailblazing doozy of a finale. At the same time, things get dire for the soccer team in the wild as the winter comes and there is no food. Season 2 has a lot in store for us, such as answers about Lottie's mental state and Shauna's pregnancy. At the same time,...

One of the things we love most about the dark Showtime series “Yellowjackets” is all the fantastic ’90s music. Half of the show takes place in 1996, when high school girls’ soccer team crash lands in the wilderness and half is set 25 years later, with the still traumatized adult survivors.

Season 2 features an exclusive track by Florence + the Machine, an eerie cover of No Doubt’s “Just a Girl,” Sharon Van Etten’s “Seventeen,” and such ’90s feminist icons as Tori Amos.

And of course, we love the kind of creepy main title theme, “No Return,” by Craig Wedren and Anna Waronker. The opening credits from Season 1 teased some of the things we would see unfold, and the updated Season 2 credits sequence also gives us hints at what we’ll see in upcoming episodes.

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We've known since the "Yellowjackets" pilot that its leads, stranded in the Canadian wilderness during the late 1990s, would eventually resort to ritualistic hunting and cannibalism. The question is how? Season 1 consistently implied it would be the doing of Lottie Matthews (Courtney Eaton). Midway through the season, she began having visions and divining the will of the Wilderness itself.

The rest of the group increasingly turned to her for guidance. In "Doomcoming," Lottie wears a pair of antlers — foreshadowing the Antler Queen sitting at the head of the cannibals in the Pilot — and in the season finale, "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi," she kills a bear. The episode ends with her placing the bear's heart on an altar, with Van (Liv Hewson) and Misty (Samantha Hanratty) on either side as her disciples.

That finale is also when we learned Lottie was still alive in the present day...

Since its 2021 debut, "Yellowjackets" has had the best soundtrack on TV, and season 2 kept up the momentum across its nine-episode run. Half of "Yellowjackets" is set in the 1990s and so the soundtrack pulls mostly from that era, especially indie rock, pop punk, and grunge. Those styles congeal into "No Return," the show's hypnotic original theme crafted by Anna Waronker and Craig Wedren. It sounds like the kind of song the characters could have listened to as teenagers and one that hints at their dark descent.

If you're in a playlist-making mood, check out /Film's own guide to every song on the "Yellowjackets" season 2 soundtrack. Beyond these songs being kick-ass, what do they bring to the show? I'd argue they not only add to the mood, they make watching "Yellowjackets" extra rewarding for viewers — you don't just walk away with great memories of the show itself, but new songs and...

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Yellowjackets, Season 2 Episode 8, “It Chooses.”]

After a riveting first season filled with sonic callbacks to the ’90s, Season 2 of Showtime’s Yellowjackets kicked off with a similarly wistful tone, thanks to the new trailer, spotlighting Florence and the Machine’s cover of No Doubt’s “Just a Girl.”

Season 1 of the series took viewers back to 1996 when a young group of soccer players survives a plane crash and the aftermath forced the characters to deal with a string of psychologically unfortunate events. Considering when the story starts, music from the era is paramount to the series. So far, we’ve heard everything from Portishead’s “Glory Box” to “Rump Shaker” by Wreckx-n-Effect in the series, with Season 2 promising to keep that same energy while jumping in between timelines.

The ’90s part of the series shows Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Sammi Hanratty, Liv Hewson, and Courtney Eaton playing...

[This story contains spoilers from the seventh episode of Yellowjackets season two, “Burial.”]

Ever since Yellowjackets co-showrunner Jonathan Lisco said that cannibalism wouldn’t be the most transgressive plot point of the second season of Showtime’s hit survival series, the audience has been wondering: What could be more morally confronting than watching that Jackie feast?

The seventh episode, titled “Burial,” answered that question when it ended with Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) beating Lottie (Courtney Eaton) nearly to death. The 1996 timeline picked up after the stillbirth of Shauna’s son, and with Lottie offering herself as a literal punching bag for Shauna’s grief, which has now turned into rage. Lottie lets Shauna swing punch after punch and doesn’t resist, as the rest of the cabin stands by watching and Lottie’s face is left nearly unrecognizable from the blows. But, the fight is intercut with scenes from the present-day timeline, where all of the adult survivors have finally...

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Yellowjackets Season 2 Episode 7

“Burial” is a big moment for Yellowjackets. We see the present-day gang reunite for the first time to buzz around Charlotte’s wellness center hive and get to know themselves and each other a little better. It’s the most centralized, cohesive episode we’ve seen thus far, and seeing this collection of uniquely gifted actresses come together to tell this pivotal chapter of the story is well worth the wait.

The veteran cast really flourishes here, but it’s important not to diminish the contributions of the younger cast. Sophie Nelisse and Courtney Eaton have been emerging as standouts this season, elevating every scene they’re in in their own way. The gruesome explosion of violence between them at the end of the episode feels, for lack of a more eloquent term, real. It’s insanely uncomfortable to watch, not just because of the graphic imagery,...

The winter storm has somewhat abated on “Yellowjackets” and opened up many things in Episode 7, “Burial,” but nothing compares to what Misty discovers within the depths of an immersion tank: John Cameron Mitchell.

Mitchell graces the Showtime series for a brief musical interlude based, according to director Anya Adams, on the wildest, Fosse-est swings in “Cabaret” and “Chicago.” Even though the sequence lasts just three-and-a-half minutes, it was extensively prepped, rehearsed, and shot so that the “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” star would be just as magnetic as Joel Grey’s Mc — even dressed as a parrot.

Because, of course, Mitchell appears in this mental musical interlude embodying Caligula, Misty’s bird friend named for one of the more maligned Roman Emperors (an impressive feat given the murder baseline for Roman Emperors). How does one prepare to play a parrot figment of one of the more unhinged “Yellowjackets” characters? By...

[Editor’s Note: This post contains spoilers for Yellowjackets Episode 7, “Burial.”]

Yellowjackets has always thrived on darkness, and Season 2 just keeps getting more and more bleak — that’s really saying something for a season that embraced cannibalism in Episode 2. The end of Season 2, Episode 7, “Burial,” features one of the most brutal displays of violence shown so far. So, it’s surprising to report that the exact same episode also includes one of the show’s most Wtf moments, in the form of an upbeat, uncharacteristically optimistic musical number starring John Cameron Mitchell. Perhaps even more shocking is the fact that it totally works.

In this week’s “Yellowjackets” episode, which hit Showtime streaming on Friday, Tony-winning singer and actor John Cameron Mitchell makes a surprise cameo as part of Misty (Christina Ricci)’s out-of-body experience in a sensory deprivation tank. [Spoilers for episode 2.07, “Burial” follow]

“I’m the go-to one-off singer/guest star for shows now,” Mitchell quipped in a Zoom interview with TheWrap. Mitchell, who rose to fame for writing and starring in the stage musical and subsequent film “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” has appeared recently in “The Sandman” and costars in Apple TV+’s “City on Fire,” which premieres Sunday.

In previous “Yellowjackets”episodes, we learned that Misty and her fellow Citizen Detective Walter (Elijah Wood) both love showtunes, so a Broadway-style fantasy sequence isn’t entirely out of left field. It unfolds in a theatrically heightened mode with Mitchell against an empty black stage with a few props while wearing a fabulous...

[This story contains spoilers from the seventh episode of Yellowjackets season two, “Burial.”]

Sunshine Honey’s Wellness Community is opening its doors to Yellowjackets viewers.

The Showtime series launched a stunt in the seventh episode of its second season, but only a viewer with citizen detective skills at the level of Walter (Elijah Wood) and Misty could have spotted it.

In the episode, titled “Burial,” the adult main cast of Shauna (Melanie Lynskey), Natalie (Juliette Lewis), Misty (Christina Ricci), Taissa (Tawny Cypress) and Van (Lauren Ambrose) finally reunite onscreen after a season spent apart when they arrive at the wilderness compound run by their fellow 1996 plane crash survivor, Lottie (Simone Kessell). The prior episode ended with all of the survivors laying eyes on Lottie, as the camera panned out to reveal that the infamous symbol at the center of the show (one promoted by Lottie as her spiritual power appears to grow stronger in the wilderness) is etched out in the grounds.