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I was pretty bummed to read earlier this week that Wings Hauser had passed away. While often written off as a C-level action star thanks to a long line of eighties and nineties direct-to-video flicks, the fact is Hauser was beyond talented, and when he put the effort in, he could be unforgettable. Such was the case when Michael Mann cast him against time as a slimy lawyer for big tobacco in The Insider where, in one ninety-second scene, he and Bruce McGill all but walk away with what, for the rest of the 158-minute running time, is ostensibly a star vehicle for Al Pacino and Russell Crowe.

Such was the power of Wings, who could be great in the right role. I also vividly remember him being terrific as a slimy bounty hunter hired by Luke Perry’s Dylan in an atypically action-packed episode of Beverly Hills 90210, while...

Wings Hauser, the versatile character actor known for his intense turns in Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, Vice Squad and Tough Guys Don’t Dance, has died. He was 77.

Hauser died Saturday at his home in Santa Monica after a long battle with Copd, his daughter, Bright Hauser, told The Hollywood Reporter. She noted that he was using an oxygen tank most recently.

Survivors also include his son, actor Cole Hauser, now playing the fixer Rip Wheeler on Yellowstone.

Hauser had his breakthrough when he starred as a psychopath pimp known as Ramrod in Avco Embassy Pictures’ lurid Vice Squad (1982), directed by horror veteran Gary Sherman. He also sang the theme song for the movie, “Neon Slime.”

Later, he played a racist U.S. Army officer in A Soldier’s Story (1984), directed by Norman Jewison; a cocaine dealer in Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986), starring Richard Pryor; and a...

Actor Wings Hauser, who appeared in dozens of roles over the course of his career, has passed away. He was 77 years old.

The news of Hauser's death was posted on his official Facebook account, sharing how he'd died in the arms of his wife, Cali Lili Hauser, with whom he'd been married since 2002. A cause of death was not mentioned in the post, which included an image of Wings and Cali with a dog by the sea.

“Movie icon Wings Hauser took flight in the arms of his film & music partner, Cali Lili Hauser at their studio this weekend," the announcement stated. "Born in Hollywood, proud Academy member and prouder son of Academy Award winning writer, director, producer Dwight A. Hauser and loving mother Geraldine T. Hauser, Wings Hauser’s one of a kind, legendary career spanned 58 years in movies, TV & music working alongside many of the greatest artists...

We have some sad news to share today, as the official Wings Hauser page on social media has revealed that the prolific character actor passed away over the weekend at the age of 77. As the post reads, “Movie icon Wings Hauser took flight in the arms of his film & music partner, Cali Lili Hauser at their studio this weekend.“

Known for having one of the coolest names in cinema history, Wings Hauser was actually born Gerald Dwight Hauser on December 12, 1947. “Wings” was part of a stage name (Wings Livinryte) he used for a 1975 folk music album called Your Love Keeps Me Off the Streets, and he was credited as Wings Livinryte when he appeared on an episode of the TV series Cannon that same year. After that, he moved on to calling himself Wings Hauser.

Hauser made his screen debut with an uncredited appearance in the 1967 film First to Fight.

Prolific character actor Wings Hauser has passed away at the age of 77.

“Movie icon Wings Hauser took flight in the arms of his film and music partner, Cali Lili Hauser, at their studio this weekend,” Hauser’s official Facebook page announced.

Born in Hollywood to Academy Award-winning father Dwight A. Hauser, Wings Hauser appeared in over 100 films and TV shows throughout his 58-year career.

His horror credits include Tales from the Hood, Rubber, Vice Squad, Mutant, Nightmare at Noon, The Wind, Watchers III, Pale Blood, The Carpenter, and an episode of “Freddy’s Nightmares.”

Outside the genre, Hauser appeared in films like The Insider, A Soldier’s Story, Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time, and Tough Guys Don’t Dance, which earned him an Independent Spirit Award

He also guest starred on such shows as “House,” “Criminal Minds,” “The Mentalist,” “Bones,” “Castle,” “Monk,” “CSI,” “Roseanne,” and “The A-Team.”

Behind the camera, Hauser worked as a screenwriter,...

The hilarious sci-fi samurai is returning for a light-hearted anime season titled Gintama '3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-sensei' later this year, and the first trailer has finally been revealed. With the last content from the franchise being more than 3 years ago, fans are ecstatic at the chance of receiving this wholesome new season.

During this year's Jump Festa event, a trailer for Gintama '3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-sensei' has been released as promised this October, and it looks amazing. The series is scheduled to air in October 2025, and the full staff and cast have already been revealed. However, the episode count is unavailable as the season is still in progress, but as the countdown to fall 2025 begins, more information and teasers will be released.

Gintama Takes To The Classroom In The New Season Based On The Manga By Hideaki Sorachi

Based on the spinoff manga written by Tomohito Osaki, this anime season...

Rumours may have a mundane name, but this jet black horror comedy is one of the most insane films you will see all year – just don’t expect to understand it.

Set at the G7 summit in Dankwarderode Castle in Germany we meet the men and women who lead the most powerful countries on the planet. Assembling together to work on a provisional statement for the present crisis they eat, drink and pose for photos in the picturesque grounds of the ancient and eerie local.

Hosted by Hilda Ortmann (Cate Blanchet), the Chancellor of Germany we also meet elderly and oddly English accented Edison Wolcott (Game of Thrones and Alien 3’s Charles Dance), the President of the United States; poetic wannabe intellectual Sylvain Broulez (Inglorious Basterds Denis Ménochet), the President of France; practical and pragmatic Cardosa Dewindt (Nikki Amuka – Bird from Old and Knock on the Cabin), the Prime...

The following contains spoilers for Doctor Odyssey season 1, episode 8, "Quackers."Doctor Odyssey stars talk about the midseason finale reveal and how it impacts the rest of season 1. The new ABC series is set on a luxurious cruise ship named The Odyssey. In the previous episodes, Avery (Phillipa Soo), Max (Joshua Jackson), and Tristan (Sean Teale) engaged in a threesome that didn't sit well with them in the morning and decided to focus on their work life. Avery is getting the opportunity to become an MD with full sponsorship, but the midseason finale unveils that Avery is pregnant.

In an interview with Deadline, Jackson and Soo spoke about the midseason finale and its significance. With drama being a norm on Doctor Odyssey, Jackson joked that Quackers might be a bigger surprise than the throuple and the pregnancy. Soo explained that the pregnancy is going to turn everybody's world upside down with...

The trailer for the horror-comedy The Invisible Raptor, starring Sean Astin, has debuted. Known for his performances in Stranger Things and The Lord of the Rings, Astin joins a cast of characters that include a disgraced paleontologist, his ex-girlfriend, an eccentric amusement park security guard, and a famous chicken farmer. They take on the near-impossible task of chasing and attempting to kill the hyper-intelligent invisible raptor on the loose in their town.

Well Go USA Entertainment has now released a trailer showing the invisible raptor stalking its prey, along with the hilarious attempts to take down the formidable predator. Check out the trailer below:

Astin appears to be a scientist who works in the laboratory where the invisible raptor was made and where it escapes from before terrorizing the local town. Mike Capes, who is also one of the movie's producers, plays paleontologist Grant Walker, whose dinosaur knowledge proves useful when hunting the raptor.

From “Rubber” to “Wrong” to “Smoking Causes Coughing” and “The Second Act,” eccentric French auteur Quentin Dupieux is quickly becoming one of Europe’s most prolific filmmakers akin to a Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Albeit with eccentric, often fourth-wall-breaking comedies. He had two films debut at festivals in 2023, including the heckler hostage comedy “Yannick” at Locarno and the Salvador Dalí “real fake biopic” “Daaaaaalí!” out of competition at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. A movie where five actors play the surrealist icon, “Daaaaaalí!” is now making its way to U.S. theaters courtesy of Music Box Films, and IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer below.

Here’s the official synopsis: “For journalist Judith Rochant (Anaïs Demoustier), the assignment to interview renowned artist Salvador Dalí is a great career opportunity–if only he would agree to sit still and answer a single question. What begins as a 15-minute conversation blows up into a bonafide cinematographic documentary portrait,...

Ace Ventura quotes showcase Jim Carrey's unique physicality and comedic talent, making the character and movies highly entertaining and rewatchable. Courteney Cox's role as Ace's love interest in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective adds a great dynamic to the film, allowing Ace's immaturity to shine. The Ace Ventura movies are a mix of silly humor and detective parody, with memorable quotes that highlight Carrey's comedic genius and ability to improvise.

Ace Ventura quotes prove the hilarious Pet Detective was a character only Jim Carrey could play. Carrey was still transitioning from a stand-up comedian to a movie star when he debuted as Ace Ventura, the role that would define his early success. 1994's Ace Venture: Pet Detective is a wild comedy starring Carrey as an eccentric sleuth who specializes in animal cases. The success of the movie led to Carrey's first-ever sequel, 1995s Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls.

With 13 features made since 2007, and six in the past four years, French DJ-turned-director Quentin Dupieux is clearly no slacker. Not only has he helmed all these films — he’s also written, shot and edited them, as well as composed many of their scores.

Starting with his surreal deadpan début, Rubber, and up through last year’s Yannick and Daaaaali!, Dupieux has had an impressively prolific run, gradually improving with each new movie while honing a style and tone that are completely his own.

If, however, there’s one drawback to this incessant activity, it’s that his films all have very short running times because they tend to lack classic denouements. They’re well-executed, high-concept affairs blending comedy, sci-fi, horror and other genres in fun ways, but they often play out like long second acts without real endings.

Dupieux was perhaps aware of this flaw when he decided to call...

In France, the concept of irony is referred to as “deuxième degré” (second degree), where the “premier degré” is the literal or surface meaning, which can be twisted as audiences read an entirely different, often contrary meaning into the material. But the game doesn’t necessarily stop there. There is also “troisième degré,” “quatrième degré” and so on, as deep as you want to go.

For absurdist trickster Quentin Dupieux (whose films “Deerskin” and “Rubber” have found a cult following), “The Second Act” presents a frivolous fun-house mirror, in which actors Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Vincent Lindon and Raphaël Quenard play actors playing actors in a pointless romantic comedy. They all know they’re making a bad movie, and one by one, they keep interrupting the shoot to air their personal grievances. But that’s only the beginning in a slender meta-textual doodle selected to kick off the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

Even after decades of masked killers armed with increasingly ludicrous weapons, cinemagoers still flock to theaters to experience the raw thrills of watching homicidal maniacs hunt the most dangerous game. And while there’s nothing wrong with filmmakers choosing to rely on tried-and-true formulas when depicting classic cat-and-mouse conflicts, the sheer amount of these movies means that horror fans often find themselves wishing for riskier takes on these familiar ideas.

Thankfully, there are some brave filmmakers out there that use of the basic premise of a slasher as a jumping off point to tell more creative stories. A recent example of this is Chris Nash’s highly ambitious In a Violent Nature, a Friday-the-13th-inspired horror film told from the melancholy perspective of the undead killer himself. And with the film impressing genre fans with its artsy reinvention of common clichés, we’ve decided to come up with a...

Quentin Dupieux's Yannick is now showing exclusively on Mubi from April 5, 2024.Yannick.Ever since he dogged a sentient tire on a killing spree in Rubber (2010), musician-turned-filmmaker Quentin Dupieux has been distilling a singular form of gonzo. The films he’s crafted—a body of work swelling at the speed of Hong Sang-soo, with six features released since 2019—all belie their modest means. Rarely stretching longer than eighty minutes, they’ve followed a number of deranged characters, which have recently included a man reprogrammed as a killing machine by his leather jacket; a pig-sized fly and the two bums who try to make a pet out of it; a gang of Power Rangers–type avengers armed with tobacco smoke’s chemical constituents, and a middle-aged couple who discovers a time-travel portal in their basement. Dupieux—who routinely writes, shoots, directs, and edits his own films—likes to work with a...

Quentin Dupieux’s The Second Act gets the opening out of competition berth at the Cannes Film Festival Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival Ahead of next week’s big reveal of the Cannes Film Festival’s main programme for the 77th edition the organisers have jumped the gun by announcing Quentin Dupieux's The Second Act (Le Deuxième Acte) will open the event with an out of competition premiere. The latest production from the wacky and prolific French director, screenwriter and musician will also seen simultaneously at French cinemas across the country on the same night ahead of its French release.

The occasion will deliver a starry cast of among others Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel and Raphaël Quenard, and of course, Dupieux himself who has managed to make 13 features including Deerskin, Rubber, Mandibles, Incredible But True and Smoking Causes Coughing shown at Cannes out of competition in 2022.

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Quentin Dupieux’s Le Deuxième Acte (The Second Act), starring Léa Seydoux and Vincent Lindon, will kick off the 77th Cannes Film Festival.

The French director will world premiere his latest film out of competition on May 14, with the surreal comedy to be released in French cinemas on the same day. Dupieux and his cast will walk the red carpet at the Grand Théâtre Lumière, to help launch the film and the wider Cannes Film Festival.

Cannes organizers praised the prolific French director for having “freed himself from convention through an already extensive body of work (13 feature films in 17 years), establishing the absurd as a genre in its own right and shaking up all the others – of which The Second Act is a perfect case in point!”

The marquee French festival earlier announced Barbie director Greta Gerwig will serve as the Cannes jury president, becoming only the second female director to take over the post,...

The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will kick off with Quentin Dupieux’s “The Second Act,” a star-studded surreal French comedy headlined by Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel and Raphaël Quenard, Variety has learned.

The anticipated movie is produced by Hugo Selignac at Chi-Fou-Mi, a Mediawan company, and is represented in international markets by Kinology. The film will play out of competition on May 14 and will be released on the same day in French theaters.

Laced with absurdist humor, the meta movie follows actors starring in a doomed film production. Dupieux is one of France’s most popular and prolific filmmakers. He delivered two films in 2023: “Daaaaaalí,” which played out-of-competition at Venice, and “Yannick,” a French box office hit that sold around the world.

In confirming the film’s selection at Cannes, the festival described Quentin as a “filmmaker who embraces freedom – in tone, form and...

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at several of Quentin Dupieux's music videos. Quentin Dupieux is infamous for his offbeat French surrealist films, since his breakthrough film Rubber, which was his third feature. Dupieux started directing as a teen almost at the same time he started a career as a musician. First he started soundtracking his own short films. This was after he made a short using existing music, only to find out when trying to sell it to distributors that he needed to own the rights to the tracks. Under the moniker Mr. Oizo he became a well known trailblazer in the electronic music scene. Not one to rest...

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The U.S. Albums is one of the most celebrated releases for fans of The Beatles, with the box set containing remastered versions of all 13 American albums released by the Fab Four between 1964 and 1970. Now, a surprise Amazon deal has the limited-edition box set back in stock and on sale for 50% off. Listed at a price of $199.99, you can get The U.S. Albums on Amazon right now...

Foamstars, the 4v4 party shooter title developed by Toylogic and published by Square Enix, was released for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 on February 6, 2024. The game was first announced during the PlayStation State of Play event last year and sees players engage in battles using foam to attack or defend against opponents.

The game has several characters to choose from and dynamic game modes to play, but it has not done well so far, and only a small number of players are playing the game. Foamstars has now got a new update and is giving out a free celebration item to celebrate the launch and also in an attempt to attract new players to the half-dead game.

Foamstars Update 1.05 Launches With A Free ‘Celebration’ Item

Foamstars update 1.05 brings bug fixes and a special Celebration item.

Foamstars Update 1.05 was released today and brings several improvements and bug fixes to improve the experience. The...

Amazon Prime Video has an array of great movies, from recent hits like Top Gun: Maverick to classics like Shrek and Good Will Hunting. While these are films that are sure to please a demanding audience, the streaming service also has a wide range of options for viewers. Quirky movies, for instance, are perfect entertainment for those looking for something absurd to watch.

Some of the weirdest movies on Amazon, like Burning and The Vast of Night, are thought-provoking and clever, leaving the audience with an odd but entertaining plot. On the other hand, dark comedies like Come To Daddy and Rubber are so strange it's hard for the audience to look away (even if they want to). These Amazon films are the best editions to the weird collection of strange but enticing storylines.

Updated on February 15, 2024, by Ajay Aravind: Weirdness is a subjective quality, but there are some movies...

Mr. Oizo, also known as Quentin Dupieux, found success as an electronic musician before transitioning to filmmaking. His early English-language films, like Rubber and Wrong, gained a cult following despite mixed critical reception. Dupieux's shift to French-language films, such as Deerskin, led to greater international acclaim and recognition as a unique and talented director.

It is common for those working in one artistic field to try their hands at another, whether music, literature, film, or performance art. While success is not always guaranteed, this often acts as a showcase for the diversity of talent of many. Sometimes, these other projects go overlooked, as not everyone will follow a celebrity they are vaguely aware of enough to know that they have tried their hands at a new creative endeavor.

One example of this comes from Mr. Oizo, a.k.a. Quentin Dupiuex, who saw success as an electronic musician before transitioning to cinema.

Now a week into the new year, Max is, like many of us, cleaning house. The streamer is ushering in a new month of library additions and new originals, and, like usual, we have to give to get.

While the streamer has lost a few titles already this month, including 2018’s “The Nun,” nearly all of Max’s departures will make their exit during the final week of the month, including “Birdman,” “Barbarian,” and more!

Before January comes to an end, check out The Streamable’s top picks of what to watch before they’re gone, and see the full list of what’s leaving Max throughout the rest of the month!

7-Day Free Trial $9.99+ / month Max via amazon.com What are the 5 Best Shows and Movies Leaving Max in January 2024? “Barbarian” | Wednesday, Jan. 24

Georgina Campbell leads the horror-thriller as Tess, a young woman who books a rental home only to...

South Korean cinema has been a fixture in the horror genre, especially over the past 25 years. From classics like A Tale of Two Sisters, The Host, and Three... Extremes to more recent masterpieces like The Wailing, Train to Busan, and Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, South Korean horror films have provided unique scares that are perfect for the spooky season. Now, a lo-fi and decidedly bizarre film, The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra, will be added to that pedigree when it's released in North America on Oct. 20.

The official synopsis reads as follows:

After a mysterious mold starts spreading across the surface of an abandoned mattress, a sentient creature begins to take shape from within. Feasting on its unsuspecting victims' vertebrae while they rest, the creature grows stronger, finding nourishment not only in the bones and sinew it assimilates but also in the hopes, fears, and emotions of all those it encounters.

Starring Jihyeon Park,...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read ahead if you have not watched Season 10, Episode 2 of “The Masked Singer,” which aired Sept. 27 on Fox.

“Black-ish” star Anthony Anderson was revealed as Rubber Ducky on Wednesday night’s episode of “The Masked Singer.” The Fox competition show’s Season 10 was back to kick off regular season game play — following a special episode on Sept. 17 that featured the unmasking of Demi Lovato.

Ken Jeong got it right, straight off the bat, with Anthony Anderson. Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg thought it was Marlon Wayans, Robin Thicke went with David Arquette and Nicole Scherzinger named Jaleel White.

Anderson as Rubber Ducky sang “Come On Eileen,” by Dexy’s Midnight Runners, for his performance. Here was his clue package voiceover: “Hey there. The name’s Rubber Ducky. Ready to splash on the stage. Here’s how my story goes. Movies and TV shows, I’m used to being the rage.

One Piece has never been afraid to wear its inspirations on its sleeve, with the whole story delighting in showing off Eiichiro Oda's favorite things and visibly drawing inspiration from the media that shaped him as a creator. This also applies to the anime adaptation, where the animators often pay tribute to their favorite genres and tropes. And nowhere is this better seen than with episodes 1071 and 1072, titled "Luffy's Peak - Attained! Gear 5" and "The Ridiculous Power! Gear 5 in Full Play," where the animators use Luffy's powerful new Gear 5 form to pay tribute to many classic Western cartoons.

One of the most noticeable and long-running cartoon references in One Piece is Luffy's powerset, as his ability to stretch his limbs is highly reminiscent of classic rubber hose animation. Popular in the 1920s, rubber hose's distinctive style arose due to many early animators getting their start in newspaper comics.

Horror movies have a knack for making us jump out of our seats, but what happens when they become self-aware? Enter the world of meta-horror, where the lines between fiction and reality blur, and the characters might just be more in the know than you are. These films don’t just break the fourth wall; they smash it with an axe. Here’s a list of ten meta-horrors that will have you questioning every horror trope you thought you knew.

Magnolia Pictures 10. Rubber (2010)

Ever wondered if a tire could be the central character of a horror film? Look no further than Rubber. This film follows Robert, a sentient tire with telepathic abilities, as he goes on a murderous rampage. But here’s the twist: there’s an audience within the movie watching Robert’s antics through binoculars. It’s a bizarre, hilarious take on the genre that pokes fun at horror clichés.

Over the past six years Quentin Dupieux has been working at Hong Sangsoo’s speed, churning out a film every few months. The streak kicked off in 2018 with the deranged police procedural Keep an Eye Out; since then the Frenchman’s trained his camera on a leather jacket with homicidal urges (2019’s Deerskin), an oversized fly-turned-bankable-pet (2020’s Mandibles), a married couple rewinding time through a tunnel in their new house (2022’s Incredible But True), and a team of leather-clad avengers ridding the world of monsters with the power of tobacco’s lethal substances (2022’s Smoking Causes Coughing). Tying these disparate projects isn’t just their director’s proclivity for the gonzo, but also a certain narrative economy. Dupieux––who’s written, directed, shot, and edited all his films since the 2010 breakthrough Rubber (in which a tire rolled through the U.S. on a killing spree)––likes to traffic in short,...

August is heating up on Max, with “90 Day: The Last Resort” premiering on the streamer Aug. 15 (one day after it airs on TLC).

Five fan-favorite couples from “90 Day Fiance” have reached their breaking points. In a final attempt to salvage their relationships, each couple will participate in a couples retreat to determine whether or not they can heal old wounds. Alongside a team of professionals, they’ll actively navigate issues with trust, sex, jealousy, anger and intimacy. Explosive group therapies, intense couples sessions, past life regressions, unique on-and-off-resort activities and so much more ensue. At the end of the retreat, each couple must decide if they will stay together or move on separately.

Fans of dating and relationship shows may also be interested in “Kim vs Kayne: The Divorce” on August 7, which chronicles the split between Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. There’s also Season 18 of “Sister Wives,...

Summer isn’t over yet but HBO and its streaming arm Max are already moving on to fall. With its list of new releases for August 2023, Max is focusing on football! The American kind, mind you, not the actually footy kind.

August 2023 sees the release of two major football documentaries on HBO and Max. The first is the premiere of Hard Knocks on Aug. 10. The new season of long-running NFL training camp docuseries will center on the New York Jets, new employers of legendary quarterback Aaron Rodgers. On Aug. 23, Max will air the aptly named Bs High. The doc tells the stranger-than-fiction story of high school football team Bishop Sycamore, which pulled off one of the more notable sports scams you’re likely to ever hear about.

Not of the football variety but in keeping with the North American sports theme will be season 2 of Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty on Aug.

DeVaughn Nixon, Quincy Isaiah, and Delante Desouza in ‘Winning Time’ season 2 (Photograph by Warrick Page/HBO)

Hard Knock‘s new season focusing on the New York Jets and the second season of the original drama Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty join Max’s August 2023 lineup, along with Tracy Morgan’s latest comedy special. August’s schedule also includes the season finales of And Just Like That… and Warrior.

Rap Sh!t season two premieres on August 10th, and the new half-hour young adult animated series Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake arrives on August 31st.

Series & Films Arriving On Max In August 2023:

August 1

A Hologram for the King (2016)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child...

In Viewfinder players will come across collectibles in every chapter. These collectibles will be different in appearance for every chapter. For example, in chapter 1 players will be looking for rubber ducks. However, in another chapter players will be looking for different planets.

In Chapter 1, as stated above, players will be looking for different rubber ducks, which make up the collectibles of this level. There is also an associated trophy, if players are able to find all the collectibles in a specific chapter. The trophy for this level is going to be "Get Your Ducks In A Row".

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Where To Find All Rubber Ducks

There are four rubber ducks to be found in Chapter 1. The first will be in level 2.1, the second and 2.3, the third and 3.2, and the fourth in 4.1. However, 4.1 is considered an optional level, but if players want all the collectibles,...

Kinology has boarded Quentin Dupieux’s (“Rubber”) ferocious comedy “Yannick” which will world premiere in competition at the Locarno Film Festival.

The anticipated film is produced by Thomas et Mathieu Verhaeghe at Atelier de production, and Hugo Selignac at Chi-Fou-Mi Productions. “Yannick” stars Raphaël Quenard, Pio Marmaï, Blanche Gardin and Sébastien Chassagne.

Yannick” unfolds during a mediocre stage performance of “Le Cocu” during which an audience member revolts and takes the full reins of the room.

“‘Yannick’ is Quentin Dupieux’s most mature film; it’s both melancholic and thoughtful,” said Gregoire Melin, Kinology’s founder and president. “We’re so excited to be reteaming with him after ‘Daaaaaali!’ and ‘Wrong’ on this new film which could become even more cult than his previous movies,” Melin continued.

Diaphana will release “Yannick” in France on Aug. 2. Kinology will kick off international sales at Locarno. Dupieux, who is one of France’s most prolific filmmakers,...

‘Yannick’ stars Pio Marmaï alongside Raphael Quenard, Blanche Gardin, Sébastien Chassagne and Agnès Hurstel.

France’s Quentin Dupieux has revealed that his upcoming film Yannick will be released in France on August 2, the latest in a marathon of titles from the prolific absurdist filmmaker.

Daaaaaal! producers Atelier de Production teamed with Smoking Causes Coughing co-producer Hugo Selignac’s Mediawan-owned Chi-Fou-Mi Productions and Dupieux for Yannick, which stars Pio Marmaï alongside Raphael Quenard, Blanche Gardin, Sébastien Chassagne and Agnès Hurstel.

Dupieux confirmed the release via Twitter on Wednesday (June 28). According to distributor Diaphana, the film is set “In the middle of...

Now available On Demand, courtesy of Magnet Releasing, we have an exclusive clip from Smoking Causes Coughing! While everything may start out looking like a scene from Power Rangers, things take a very R-rated turn that you'll have to see for yourself!

"Labeled Dupieux’s “funniest yet” by The New York Times, Smoking Causes Coughing, the critically-acclaimed and Certified Fresh comedy arrives On Demand on June 27 from Magnolia Home Entertainment under the Magnet Label. The latest entry into the celebrated filmography of director Quentin Dupieux, Smoking Causes Coughing stands as a must-see French film, full of crude humor and absurd comedy as a group of heroes prepare for the fight of their lives by taking a mandated retreat in the woods.

After a brutal battle, the Tobacco Force, a team of five frivolous superheroes, receive a call from their boss informing them of their most difficult battle yet; Lézardin, Emperor of Evil,...

There have been some crazy horror movie premises over the years. There was Rubber, a bizarre film about a killer tire. Before that there was Teeth, in which a woman grows a set of chomping teeth in a part of her body that will make every man cringe. Just two years ago was James Wan's rather successful Malignant, where a woman has a parasitic half-grown twin growing out of the back of her head. Then there was Bad Milo!, a film made between these examples with a hook so messed up that it's impossible to not get your attention.

Quentin Dupieux made his statement of principles with the opening monologue in Rubber, his notorious self-aware movie starring a tire that comes to life and then uses its telekinetic powers to kill animals and humans. Paraphrasing said speech, for Dupieux all great films have absurd elements, since life itself is like that. His cinema is a constant and hilarious homage to the “no reason.” Currently, with two movies presented last year – Incredible But True and Smoking Causes Coughing, both excellent – Dupieux continues to prove that he is, quite possibly, the best exponent of absurd humor working today. Smoking Causes Coughing starts out as his peculiar version of the stories that follow a team of superheroes. But here the concept of the avengers is...

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For starters, they’re called the Tobacco Force, and these intergalactic “avengers” battle extraterrestrial monsters by giving them cancer via chemicals like nicotine, mercury and ammonia… but let’s assume that any similarities to other groups of helmeted, high-kicking heroes, living or dead, are not coincidental.

This quintet — technically a sextet if you count their suicidal robot, Norbert 500 — have just blown up an oversized, homicidal turtle in a quarry when a message comes through from their leader. His name is Chief Didier, and though he’s a grotty rat puppet...

As the new crop of 2023 festival favorites roll out, Focus Features presents A Thousand And One in over 900 carefully curated theaters, testing the appetite for specialty fare at a challenging moment.

Short film and video director A.V. Rockwell’s feature-length debut stars Teyana Taylor as free-spirited Inez, who kidnaps her six-year-old son Terry from the foster care system. Holding onto their secret and each other, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity, and stability in a rapidly changing New York City. Reviews are stellar, see Deadline’s. The winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize is at 97% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, 82% with auds. The fest called it “an elegant ode to the terribly beautiful power of family as an anchor in an ever-changing world, making us into who we are in ways we can only haltingly understand.”

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French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux has almost never steered us wrong with his droll satires like psychokinetic horror movie “Rubber,” about a murderous anthropomorphic tire, awards season satire “Reality,” or insectoid comedy “Mandibles.”

With his latest parody, “Smoking Causes Coughing,” the zany maestro also known as Mr. Oizo takes a puff off Marvel and other superhero IP by centering his bizarre comedy on a band of spandex-clad dimwits known as the Tobacco Force. It’s , even if not for all tastes, which he knows.

The ridiculously named fivesome are made up of Benzene (Gilles Lellouche), Nicotine (Anaïs Demoustier), Methanol (Vincent Lacoste), Mercury (Jean-Pascal Zadi), and Ammonia (Oulaya Amamra). We first meet them by happenstance, following a family on a road trip who stumble upon them battling a giant, rubber-made tortoise.

Everything looks cheesy by design, with Justine Pearce’s costumes stretching over-the-top artifice to its limits thanks to the giant, hulking tortoise,...

Editor’s note: Last year at Berlinale, Rory O’Connor caught up with Quentin Dupieux who was there to premiere Incredible But True, which would go on to be the first of two features of 2022, the latter of which was the Cannes premiere Smoking Causes Coughing. With both films now available stateside, we’re sharing the conversation.

It’s early afternoon in Berlin, crisp and cold, the kind of February day you always seem to get around the Berlinale. The festival cautiously returned in 2022 to a live, in-person event after going online, like so many others, in 2021, and had reopened its doors earlier with Peter Von Kant, the latest from François Ozon, a reimagining of the Fassbinder classic that had itself premiered at the same festival almost exactly a half-century before.

The director we’d come to talk to is not so fond of reimagining. Premiering in the Berlinale Special, Incredible...

If you know the name Quentin Dupieux, you likely know it from "Rubber," the slapstick thriller about a sentient, bloodthirsty car tire he directed in 2010. Now acclaimed in his home country of France for his unique brand of surrealism — at once wickedly humorous and nonchalant, even underplayed — Dupieux's filmmaking career took off in America with a string of riffs on schlock films. Before that, he was acclaimed (again) in France as Mr. Oizo, an electronic musician whose 1999 single "Flat Beat" spawned the beloved Levi's mascot "Flat Eric," built by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

Dupieux has lived a storied life, and his latest film, "Smoking Causes Coughing," could only have been made by someone who understands the power of stories. The film follows a ragtag squadron of superheroes called The Tobacco Force who harness the powers of noxious fumes to destroy giant turtles and evil lizard men from space. More Power Rangers than Avengers,...

French surrealist Quentin Dupieux is not only one of the most prolific directors on the festival circuit, but one of the most consistent too. What started with his 2010 breakout – beautifully bonkers killer tyre movie Rubber – has since blown into an entire oeuvre of bizarro deadpan comedy, built on fascinating hooks, and satisfyingly short run times. And while his latest, a semi-satirical swipe at superhero culture, is very much more of the same (baffling jokes told in just over an hour), it’s also arguably Dupieux’s loudest and most openly entertaining in some time.

Hot on the heels of last summer’s somewhat understated Incredible But True (robotic-penis subplot aside), Smoking Causes Coughing wastes no time at all doling out the silliness, opening on a rubber-suited super team blowing a giant tortoise-man into bloody chunks, with their combined tobacco powers. But it’s not all victory dances and celebratory high-fives for the Tobacco Force five.

The singular styles of filmmakers in the Woche der Kritik (aka Berlin Critics’ Week) often result in some of the year’s most under-appreciated and formally exciting cinema. I’ve covered this section of Berlinale for the past three years and each year, I find at least a few movies that I continue to think about long after watching them. The unfortunate reality remains that many of these films don’t find distribution or seem to get lost in the shuffle––especially the short films––because of their experimental nature. A few movies from the past few years I’d like to single out here as absolutely worth going out of your way to find and watch: Adam Khalil & Bailey Sweitzer’s Nosferasta: First Bite, Ekaterina Selenkina’s Detours, Manoj Leonel Jahson & Shyam Sunder’s Kuthiraivaal, and Kamal Aljafari’s An Unusual Summer.

Now for my favorites from this year...

Hypothetical scenario: a serial killer has entered your 10th floor apartment. Against all odds, you’ve managed to barricade him in the bathroom. You run out the door, take the elevator downstairs, get in your car, and flee to the safety of the local police station. Is that the correct thing to do? No. The elevator could decide to kill you, as seen in 1983's The Lift. And if it doesn’t, your car could, like the black sedan in The Car. And if it doesn’t, but you get a flat tire, the spare tire could, as it does in Rubber. Sounds crazy, but if the makers of these films are right, you may never be safe again.

The trailer for Smoking Causes Coughing offers a glimpse at the bizarre Power Rangers-inspired film. Smoking Causes Coughing is the new film from Quentin Dupieux, the director behind Rubber, Wrong Cops, and Mandibles. The French film stars Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Vincent Lacoste, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Oulaya Amamra, and Adèle Exarchopoulos, and follows the Tobacco Force, a team of vigilantes fighting to save the world.

Magnolia Pictures shared the trailer for Smoking Causes Coughing on YouTube, giving audiences a glimpse at a unique riff on the Power Rangers-style team versus monster formula.

The trailer sees the Tobacco Force taking down a monster before being subjected to a week-long retreat meant to rebuild the team's spirit. As their retreat begins, one absurd occurrence after another permeates the trailer, offering viewers a look at the ridiculous humor and off-the-wall gags the movie has in store.

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Look, you're either on Quentin Dupieux's wavelength or you're not. Over the last 20+ years he's pumped out some of the weirdest, goofiest, most bizarre comedies you could possibly see. Most folks took notice of his film work with 2010's "Rubber," about a car tire that gains sentience and goes on a telekinetic killing spree. If that doesn't set you up for his patented brand of humor then nothing will.

His latest film is called "Smoking Causes Coughing," about a team of (mostly) middle-aged crime fighters in a "Power Rangers" style group who are starting to buckle under the stress of their job of saving the world from odd monsters and alien masterminds, so their puppet rat boss sends them on a sort of team-building retreat, which just happens to coincide with yet another world-ending threat that they keep putting on the back-burner in order to hammer out the kinks in their interpersonal relationships.

If you ask estate agents, every house has a unique selling point, something just sensational which buyers could not possibly accept being without. Usually it’s something like a feature window, a Aga or mature trees in the garden. In this case, however, it really is unique – so much so that the estate agent has to persuade buyers to try it out before they will accept it as the truth. Underneath this particular suburban house is a mysterious tunnel. Go through it and you jump 12 hours into the future, but you also get three days younger.

Although it’s presented as a surprise, this doesn’t really constitute a spoiler, because it’s introduced right at the start of the film. Perhaps it doesn’t seem quite so incredible given that this is a film by Quentin Dupieux – the man previously responsible for the likes of sentient tyre tale Rubber and petty.

In his debut feature “Dug Dug”, director Ritwik Pareek tackles a very divisive topic, the birth of a cult and later, a religion. But unlike some movies from recent history that have explored similar themes (“The Master” comes to mind), it does it with a sense of fun and ebullience. “Dug Dug” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

“Dug Dug” is screening at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles

Thakur (Altaf Khan), a drunken motorbike rider, dies in a gristly traffic accident. His beat blue and pink bike gets towed to the police station, where it is destined to rot. Only that next day it is nowhere to be found in the police premise because it has miraculously teleported at the scene of the incident. It is brought to the station again, only to disappear the next day. The strange behavior of the inanimate object gets the attention...