Playback: Yorgos Lanthimos, Disorder and Discomfort, from KINETTA to BUGONIA

Yorgos Lanthimos delights in discomfort. Lanthimos built a career on ritualized absurdity and moral distortion, spinning stories where love, control, and social order are pushed to the brink of the surreal. From Dogtooth’s domestic isolation to Poor Things’s sexually-charged, Frankensteinian fantasy, his movies dissect the rules that govern human behavior with deadpan precision and feral wit. It may not be a necessarily enjoyable ride, but, for me, it’s always worth enduring the turbulence. Last week ended with the theatrical release of Bugonia, the newest entry in Lanthimos’ filmography and his fourth consecutive collaboration with the inimitable Emma Stone. A reimagining of Jang Joon-hwan’s Save the Green Planet! (2003), the film follows two eco-conspiracists, Teddy (Jesse Plemons) and Don (Aidan Delbis), who become convinced that a…

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Star Wars: Visions – Volume 3 is streaming now, on Disney+

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A former soldier with a tragic past is thrown into an uneasy alliance with three outlaws, a beautiful woman, and her injured husband, to battle the harsh elements and hostiles in a desperate bid for survival in the Arizona of the 1870s.

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Variety reported today that everyone’s favorite action star, Iko Uwais, will headline a new film called, MRI, a hospital siege thriller.    Uweais is reuniting with Liam O’Donnell, the director of Beyond Skyline and the upcoming Skyline: Warpath. Pre-sales will launch at the American Film Market next month. Principal photography is anticipated to start in Jakarta early next year.   The plot centers on a broken-down hitman (Uwais) with a shattered family and a busted knee, who undergoes a routine MRI when the entire hospital is taken over by ruthless gangsters. Now, he’s the only man who can rescue their target, the daughter of a powerful crime boss, and somehow save the day, one agonizing step at a time.    “Iko’s sheer charisma, soulful depth…

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Korean thriller, The Old Woman With The Knife, will be released on Digital from the folks at Well Go USA on November 5th. An all-new trailer was recently released. Might be worth checking out down below.    Acclaimed actress Hyeyeong Lee (In Front of Your Face, Sudden Change) stars as an aging assassin in bloody crime thriller THE OLD WOMAN WITH THE KNIFE, on Digital on November 25 from Well Go USA Entertainment. Directed by Min Kyu-dong (Memento Mori) and also starring Kim Sung-cheol (The Night Owl), Yeon Woo-jin (The Killers), Kim Moo-yul (Ballerina), and Shin Sia (The Witch: Part 2 – The Other One), the film depicts the aging hitwoman working with her young protegee to take out society’s trash. They quickly bond as…

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The sequel to 2023’s INFLUENCER streaming on Shudder December 12th

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Someone, somewhere is always fighting the good fight to preserve historic film venues in their town. A victory in any city is a victory for film lovers all over.    Recently, here in Toronto, a lot of work was done to hold onto one of the city’s favorite spots for repertoire programming and second-run contemporary films. Vancouver has its own thriving film community, of course, and the folks behind the famed Rio Theatre have been able to secure another historic film venue in the city, the Park Theatre.    Just as a filmmake like Guillermo Del Toro got behind the push to protect the theatre here in Toronto, the list of filmmakers and industry folk who got behind the Park Theatre project in Vancouver is…

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Westerns from Lawrence Kasdan and Sam Raimi are new to 4K UHD steelbook.

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Tessa Thompson, Nina Hoss, and Imogen Poots Star in Nia DaCosta’s Adaptation of the Norwegian Drama

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The Netherlands have their very own Japanese Film Festival. It’s called Camera Japan and is held every year in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. This year, the festival opened with a treat: Korean-Japanese director O Mipo’s Futsū no Kodomo, which translates literally to “normal kids”. Her film got a slightly more catchy title for its international release: the Greta Thunberg quote How Dare You? Both titles are perfectly valid though, and give plenty to think about after the film has ended. In How Dare You? we follow some 10-year-old children who are in the same school class. Yuishi has a crush on the hot-spirited Kokoa, but has no clue on how to win her friendship or even approach her. That changes when all kids need to prepare…

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