Transcending Hell on Earth in Larisa Sheptiko’s “The Ascent” | Far Flungers

Sotnikov stands on the cusp of death. He is among a small group of individuals awaiting death by hanging. We notice an old man among the condemned. His gaze is fixed inward, as though already retreating into the quiet depths of memory. Next to him, a woman breathes in uneven gasps. Her cheeks are stained … Read more

Earth gets a chilling teaser trailer and official synopsis for Noah Hawley’s prequel series overrun with Xenomorphs

Xenomprophs attack as the first teaser trailer and synopsis for Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth prequel series arrive online A few weeks after Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus slithers into theaters, FX is hitting Alien fans with the first teaser trailer and official synopsis for Alien: Earth, a prequel series set three decades before the events of … Read more

The Looney Tunes movie The Day The Earth Blew Up is getting a theatrical release after all

Daffy Duck and Porky Pig’s The Day The Earth Blew Up movie is getting a theatrical release in North America, thanks to Ketchup Entertainment! The Looney Tunes fandom won’t be dropping any anvils on Ketchup Entertainment anytime soon! We’re in the studio’s debt after it swooped in and acquired the North American rights to Warner … Read more

Berlin Film Festival 2024: Meanwhile on Earth, La Cocina, Another End | Festivals & Awards

Much could be said of how adventurous Mara is here and how exacting every member of this deep ensemble assumes their part — but it’s Carmona, playing a man in clear agony, who’s every word is delivered with cataclysmic intent that always draws our interest. When he finally blows, unleashing a cathartic primal scream that … Read more

New Apple Sci-fi Series Constellation Crashes to Earth | TV/Streaming

One character at odds with the mission is Commander Henry Caldera (Jonathan Banks). Above the safety of the astronauts, he’s obsessed with the retrieval of the experiment that might have influenced the trouble on the ISS. Banks, having shown his quietly menacing demeanor throughout his career on shows like “Breaking Bad,” is the ideal actor … Read more

“He Stood on a Firm Piece of Earth”: John Patrick Shanley on Moonstruck director Norman Jewison | Tributes

Jewison’s masterpiece, probably, is “Moonstruck,” written by John Patrick Shanley. Shanley, now 73, is Bronx-born Vietnam veteran who got a degree in Educational Theater from New York University after the war. He ended up writing 23 plays, including Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Italian American Reconciliation, Doubt: A Parable, and Brooklyn Laundry, which opens … Read more

Alien Apocalypse Trailer Sees Earth Attacked by Swarming Invaders

Masters of the low-budget genre movie The Asylum is back with its own spin (sort of) on the alien invasion movie with Alien Apocalypse. Alien Swarm An unmanned spaceship returns to Earth carrying samples from Proxima b in the Alpha Centauri system. As scientists study the specimens, they discover the alien elements are alive! Soon, … Read more

TIFF 2023: Summer Qamp, Boil Alert, Songs of Earth | Festivals & Awards

Throughout, the movie is a great showcase for the promising visual talents of directors Stevie Salas and James Burns. Whether it’s in documentary passages, dreamy sequences with spare VFX, or instances of on-the-ground, cop-tussling journalism, “Boil Alert” shows that Salas and Burns have an exciting intuition as filmmakers. Sometimes, the touches can border on being too … Read more