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Exclusive Interview: Director Joe Penna talks feature film debut Arctic

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Sean Wilson chats to YouTuber turned filmmaker Joe Penna about his gripping survival drama Arctic, starring Mads Mikkelsen…A man stalks his way across the icy tundra. We don’t know anything about him, save his commitment to scraping beneath the snow and bedrock with a a pickax. After a few minutes of close-up, hard-scrabble minutiae, we […]

Exclusive clip from Peel starring Emile Hirsch

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Ahead of its digital release tomorrow, we’ve got an exclusive clip from Peel, a quirky, coming-of-age story starring Emile Hirsch (Never Grow Old), Amy Brenneman (The Leftovers), Jack Kesy (The Strain), Shiloh Fernandez (Evil Dead), Yaya DaCosta (The Butler) and Jacob Vargas (Luke Cage). Check it out below, courtesy of Sony…Peel follows a young man’s […]

Watch an exclusive clip from The Bastards Fig Tree

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Thanks to Dark Star Pictures, we’ve got an exclusive clip from The Bastards Fig Tree, a whimsical comedy from filmmaker Ana Murugarren which provides a fresh, magical exploration of the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, showing both the brutality of war and its ability to inspire hope and change in a broken society. Check […]

Exclusive clip from award-winning drama Just Say Goodbye

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Thanks to Leomark Studios, we’be got an exclusive clip from the award-winning drama Just Say Goodbye, which stars Katerina Eichenberger (Star) a young woman trying to save the life of her suicidal friend, played by Max MacKenzie (The Hunt). Check it out here or watch it over on our YouTube channel…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWySu52XMpcAfter enduring years of abuse […]

Exclusive Interview – Tolkien director Dome Karukoski on his English language debut and the Tolkien family response

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Tom Beasley sits down with Finnish director Dome Karukoski to chat about his new biopic Tolkien, in which Nicholas Hoult plays the iconic fantasy author…The man behind The Lord of the Rings is finally getting the biopic treatment. With Skins star and current X-Man Nicholas Hoult in the lead role, Tolkien examines the friendships and […]

Exclusive Interview – Tolkien stars Patrick Gibson, Tom Glynn-Carney and Anthony Boyle on friendship and chemistry

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Tom Beasley sits down with three of the cast members of Tolkien to chat about forming the film’s crucial central ‘fellowship’…With Peter Jackson’s epic Middle Earth saga now consigned to cinema history, fans of J. R. R. Tolkien may be a little bereft when it comes to the cinema. That’s set to change this week, […]

Exclusive Interview: Sun Scorched Studios discuss the development behind Negative Atmosphere

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Liam Waddington chats with one of the members of the development team behind Negative Atmosphere…After being blown away by the brief hands-on demo of Negative Atmosphere at EGX Rezzed, I had the opportunity to interview Harry Wills, the composer and designer, on Negative Atmosphere about the development behind the game and using crowdfunding for development.For […]

Exclusive Interview – Dynamic Music Partners talks Young Justice: Outsiders, The Zeta Project, and DC music

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Red Stewart chats with Dynamic Music Partners….Kristopher Carter, Lolita Ritmanis, and Michael McCuistion are a trio of composers who have been working in the animation, film, and television industries since the mid-90s, late-80s, and early-90s respectively. They are best known for their long-standing compositions for animated DC projects, most famously those in the DC Animated […]

Exclusive Interview – Composer Jim Dooley on scoring the final season of A Series of Unfortunate Events and the Kim Possible movie

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Even though the A Series of Unfortunate Events season 3 poster says, “We’ve saved the worst for last” the show’s creators, Barry Sonnenfeld and Daniel Handler, have done anything but that. The show wraps up with a deeper message and leaves the viewer with enriching moral lessons meant to help kids take on the harsh […]