Author: Hanry Dawson

Horror fans got their first real look this week at one of the more unusual reimaginings in the genre’s history: a fully hand-drawn, rotoscoped animated version of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 Dark Sky Films and Exurbia Films have unveiled the first still from the project, along with the announcement that an exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette will be shown in theaters next Tuesday. footage Dark Horizons reports comes from a team tracing the original film frame by frame. The project is led by Animation Director and Art Director Paul Beck, an Austin-based multimedia artist whose credits include Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped features “Waking Life”…

Willy Wonka is heading back to the big screen, but this time by way of Netflix rather than a traditional studio. The streamer confirmed this week that its animated film “Charlie vs. The film will make its worldwide theatrical debut on November 5, 2027, before becoming available on the platform on December 22. The Hollywood Reporter also confirmed the movie’s complete voice cast as part of the announcement. Taika Waititi voices Willy Wonka, years after his factory’s Golden Ticket contest ended with him behind bars for turning a child into a blueberry. Kit Connor voices Charlie Paley, a new character…

Andrew Patterson doesn’t make movies that fit neatly into a single genre, and “The Rivals of Amziah King” is no exception. Patterson’s sophomore feature, opening in theaters today after premiering at SXSW last spring, folds a heist thriller, a bluegrass musical, a coming-of-age story and a revenge tale into one film centered on an Oklahoma beekeeper, a mash-up The Globe and Mail describes as boasting “enough genres to choke a kingdom.” Matthew McConaughey stars as Amziah King, a beloved small-town beekeeper and bluegrass musician whose hive gets stolen by rivals, pulling him into a honey-theft investigation that reconnects him with…

Ken Russell’s most notorious film is finally getting the release its director never lived to see. Warner Bros. Clockwork, the studio’s newly launched arthouse and repertory label, will bring “Ken Russell’s The Devils” to North American theaters October 16 for an exclusive one-week engagement, a full 4K restoration cut to the specifications Russell laid out before his death in 2011, a version IndieWire confirms is the only cut the director ever wanted audiences to see. The 1971 film, adapted from Aldous Huxley’s “The Devils of Loudun” and John Whiting’s stage play, dramatizes the real 17th-century Loudun possessions, following a politically…

Switzerland has selected “Who Is Still Alive,” Nicolas Wadimoff’s documentary about nine Palestinian refugees who fled Gaza during the war, as its official entry for the 2027 Academy Award for Best International Feature. The pick, announced by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, sends a stripped-down, formally daring documentary into a category that typically favors narrative features, a choice The Hollywood Reporter noted marks a departure from Switzerland’s more conventional past submissions. The film gathers nine Gazans on a bare black soundstage marked only with white outlines of their old neighborhoods. Production ended up filming in South Africa rather than…

Paramount has dropped a second trailer for “Heart of the Beast,” and this one leans even harder into the emotional stakes behind all the wilderness carnage. The two-minute cut, released this week, follows Special Forces veteran James Belmont and his combat dog Odin as a routine flight over the Alaskan backcountry turns into a fight for survival after their plane goes down, footage Screen Rant broke down shot by shot shortly after release. Brad Pitt plays Belmont opposite Odin, played on-screen by a Belgian Malinois named Uber. The bond between the two is the trailer’s real engine: early shots show…

Sunny Sandler is stepping fully into the spotlight, and critics are largely convinced she’s earned it. “Don’t Say Good Luck,” which begins streaming Friday, August 14, has landed to a rare wave of near-unanimous praise, with all twelve of its early reviews registering positive and an aggregate score settling in the “generally favorable” range on ROTTEN TOMATOES, a reception uncommon even by the standards of Netflix’s crowded original-film slate. Director Julia Hart, known for “Fast Color,” built the film around Sophie Birenbaum, a devoted theater kid who lands the lead role in her school’s production of “Waitress” just as her…

Netflix has released the official trailer for Crew Girl, its upcoming young-adult coming-of-age sports drama centered on high school rowing. The trailer, which dropped on August 12, 2026, offers the first extended look at the series ahead of its global premiere next month. Trailer Highlights Rivalry, Romance, and Fresh Starts The trailer introduces 16-year-old Teagan Tao, a talented single-scull rower whose promising future is derailed by a public family scandal involving her father’s financial fraud. Forced to relocate with her mother to the East Coast, Teagan enrolls at the elite Easton Prep. With no girls’ rowing team available, she takes…

“The End of Oak Street” has finally reached the release date fans have been waiting more than two years for. Warner Bros.’ mysterious sci-fi thriller from “It Follows” director David Robert Mitchell opens in theaters, IMAX and premium large-format screens nationwide on August 14, closing out a bumpy road to release that included two prior delays, according to Deadline, which posted its review of the finished film Tuesday. The movie was initially scheduled to arrive in theaters in May 2025 under the working title Flowervale Street, before Warner Bros. later changed its release plans. pushed it to March 2026 and…

Ben Affleck isn’t done with Netflix crime thrillers just yet. Months after “The Rip” became the streamer’s most-watched film of the year so far, racking up 4.4 billion minutes viewed, Affleck is back with the first teaser for “Animals,” a kidnapping thriller he directed, co-wrote and stars in alongside Kerry Washington, according to Screen Rant. The film marks Affleck’s return to the director’s chair for the first time since 2023’s “Air,” and puts him in front of the camera as Mark Kimball, a Los Angeles mayoral candidate whose campaign unravels the moment his son is kidnapped. Washington plays his wife,…