#BOXOFFICE: “SCREAM” MAKING NOISE IN OPENING
SCREAM VI makes some noise in its debut with $42 million from 3,675 theatres for Paramount Pictures/Spyglass Media. This latest installment, a first without Neve Campbell, gets 76% on the Tomatometer from Critics. This marks a best for the Franchise, besting 2022's SCREAM, which opened with $30 million just as theatres were just re-opening during Covid-19, and also a $34 million openings for SCREAM 3 back in 2000.
CREED III is still fighting in its second week with $24 million from 4,007 ...
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#SXSW: “FUCK ME, RICHARD” REVIEW
By Mr. Will Wong
Co-directed, written by and starring Lucy McKendrick, FUCK ME, RICHARD is a twisty Psychological Thriller that will keep you guessing. Sally (McKendrick) is recovering from a broken leg and feeling lonely. Scrolling through a dating app, she finds her match in Richard (Nathan Wallace). The two embark on a passionate relationship over the phone and we learn that Richard's mother is fighting for her life and in need of money. Sally decides to help him in what appears to be ...
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#SXSW: “CONFESSIONS OF A GOOD SAMARITAN” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
When Director Penny Lane decides to donate her kidney to a stranger, she makes the decision to document each part of the process. Initially, she’s met with skepticism and many questions of ‘why’. As we watch her go through each step in the process, Lane manages to change our way of thinking and make us laugh while she does it.
Confessions of a Good Samaritan is an in-depth inquiry into the science, history, and ethics of organ transplantation. Experts across many ...
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#SXSW: “CLOSING DYNASTY” REVIEW
By Mr. Will Wong
After its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, Canadian-Korean Director Lloyd Lee Choi brings his Short CLOSING DYNASTY to SXSW 2023. And what a beautiful work it is. At the heart of the story is seven-year-old Queenie (Milinka Winata), who should be in school, but instead is hustling the streets. Whether it be running her school basketball team scam on the train, hawking roses to turn a profit or dumpster diving for treasures, Queenie is determined to make ...
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#SXSW: “ROGER J. CARTER: REBEL REVOLUTIONARY” REVIEW
By Mr. Will Wong
One of the great things about SXSW is the platform it gives to deserving voices. ROGER J. CARTER: REBEL REVOLUTIONARY is a Documentary Short by Justin Fairweather. It centers on its titular figure (pardon the pun), a Chicago-based Visual Artist who raises awareness of revolutionaries who are changing the narrative of the minority experience in America.
Over six minutes, we meet Carter briefly, who gives us a bit his own backstory. It is however when his craft is ...
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#SXSW: “NAI NAI & WAI PO (GRANDMA & GRANDMA)” REVIEW
By Mr. Will Wong
Up-and-coming Filmmaker Sean Wang is a name to look-out for as evinced by his heartfelt and funny meditiation of life in NAI NAI & WAI PO (GRANDMA & GRANDMA). Wang returns home to visit his two paternal and maternal grandmothers who happen to live together, sleep together and are BFFs.
The Documentary Short, spanning 17 minutes begins as a festive reunion. The energy of their playful banter between the two women is infectious - fart jokes, "making it rain" and ...
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#NEWMUSIC: RODERICK PORTER FT. JAY ISAIAH – “BITTERSWEET”
Emerging Canadian artist Roderick Porter has released his new single “BITTERSWEET” featuring Jay Isaiah.
The single has been teased on Porter’s TikTok for a few weeks now and was picked up by Genius in anticipation for the release. See the Official Music Video below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml89McqzdbA
"Bittersweet is a summary of a real letter I wrote to my ex shortly after she broke up with me. Although the song pulls less punches than the original paper copy, I ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: NEW OFFICIAL TRAILER FOR “THE NIGHT AGENT”
Netflix present to us the new offical Trailer for upcoming Series THE NIGHT AGENT, based on the popular book of the same name. Series arrives March 23, 2023.
Synopsis:
Based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, The Night Agent is a sophisticated, character-based, action-thriller centering on a low level FBI Agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings -- until the night that it does, propelling him into a fast moving and dangerous conspiracy ...
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#SPOTTED: AMANDA SEYFRIED IN TORONTO AT COMEDY BAR FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
Fresh-off her Golden Globe win for her superb performance in THE DROPOUT, Amanda Seyfried is back in-town and she reunits with Atom Egoyan on his latest film THE SEVEN VEILS, wrapping this month in Toronto.
The Drama centers on an earnest theatre director named Jeanine (Amanda Seyfried), who has been given the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera "Salome". Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the ...
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#SPOTTED: ZACHARY LEVI & LUCY LIU IN TORONTO FOR “SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS”
Shazam's affinity with Toronto knows no limits! 2019's SHAZAM! exceeded all expectations both critically and commercially and though its followup wasn't filmed in Toronto like its predecessor, it still gets the red carpet treatment with a special fan screening, brought to us by Audi Canada, being held tonight at Scotiabank Theatre. Shouts of "Shazam!" could be heard throughout the theatre, fans ecstatic for this rare, exciting opportunity.
Stars Zachary Levi, who reprises the titular role ...
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