Netflix and Mr. Will would love to give Readers a chance to win Advance Virtual Screening Passes to see THE MITCHELLS vs. THE MACHINES on Tuesday, April 27 at 6PM ET, complete with pre-show fun and games. Pre-show starts 5:15PM ET! 

Synopsis:

From the minds behind The Lego Movie and Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, The Mitchells Vs. The Machines is an animated action-comedy about an ordinary family who find themselves in the middle of their biggest family challenge yet…saving the world from the robot apocalypse.

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THE MITCHELLS vs. THE MACHINES arrives on Netflix Friday, April 30, 2021.

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A bit of casting news! Common has joined the Cast of Netflix‘s NEVER HAVE I EVER! Common joins the cast as Dr. Chris Jackson, a suave and debonair dermatologist who works in Nalini‘s (Poorna Jagannathan) building. His high-end practice and celebrity clients are impressive to everyone — except Nalini.

Synopsis:

In Season 2 of the coming-of-age comedy Never Have I Ever, Indian American teenager Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) continues to deal with the everyday pressures of high school and drama at home, while also navigating new romantic relationships.

Some stills from Season 2:

NEVER HAVE I EVER Season 2 arrives July 2021.

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Disney shows their commitment to nurturing new, young talent with LAUNCHPAD, a collection of six short films.

Synopsis:

The filmmakers, all from underrepresented backgrounds, were selected from more than 1100 U.S. applicants and were given an opportunity to share their perspectives and creative visions with audiences around the world. Each filmmaker was assigned executive mentors from the various divisions of the company, including Disney+, Lucasfilm, Marvel Studios, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production.

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LAUNCHPAD arrives Friday, May 28, 2021 on Disney+.

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A new F9 Trailer is here at long last!

Synopsis:
No matter how fast you are, no one outruns their past.

Summer 2021 is the time for F9, the ninth chapter in the saga that has endured for almost two decades and has earned more than $5 billion around the world.

Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto is leading a quiet life off the grid with Letty and his son, little Brian, but they know that danger always lurks just over their peaceful horizon. This time, that threat will force Dom to confront the sins of his past if he’s going to save those he loves most. His crew joins together to stop a world-shattering plot led by the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they’ve ever encountered: a man who also happens to be Dom’s forsaken brother, Jakob (John Cena, next year’s The Suicide Squad).

F9 sees the return of Justin Lin as director, who helmed the third, fourth, fifth and sixth chapters of the series when it transformed into a global blockbuster. The action hurtles around the globe—from London to Tokyo, from Central America to Edinburgh, and from a secret bunker in Azerbaijan to the teeming streets of Tblisi. Along the way, old friends will be resurrected, old foes will return, history will be rewritten, and the true meaning of family will be tested like never before.

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F9 is in theatres Friday, June 25, 2021.

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Zack Synder writes and directs ARMY OF THE DEAD, starring David Bautista! Here’s your first look.

Synopsis:

From filmmaker Zack Snyder (300, Zack Snyder’s Justice League), ARMY OF THE DEAD takes place following a zombie outbreak that has left Las Vegas in ruins and walled off from the rest of the world. When Scott Ward (Dave Bautista), a displaced Vegas local, former zombie war hero who’s now flipping burgers on the outskirts of the town he now calls home, is approached by casino boss Bly Tanaka (Hiroyuki Sanada), it’s with the ultimate proposition: Break into the zombie-infested quarantine zone to retrieve $200 million sitting in a vault beneath the strip before the city is nuked by the government in 32 hours. Driven by the hope that the payoff could help pave the way to a reconciliation with his estranged daughter Kate (Ella Purnell), Ward takes on the challenge, assembling a ragtag team of experts for the heist. They include Maria Cruz (Ana de la Reguera), an ace mechanic and Ward’s old friend; Vanderohe (Omari Hardwick), a zombie killing machine; Marianne Peters (Tig Notaro), a cynical helicopter pilot; Mikey Guzman (Raúl Castillo), a go-for-broke influencer and Chambers (Samantha Win), his ride-or-die; Martin (Garret Dillahunt), the casino’s head of security; a badass warrior known as the Coyote (Nora Arnezeder) who recruits Burt Cummings (Theo Rossi), a slimy security guard; and a brilliant German safe cracker named Dieter (Matthias Schweighöfer). Scott finds an unexpected emotional hurdle when Kate joins the expedition to search for Geeta (Huma S. Qureshi), a mother who’s gone missing inside the city. With a ticking clock, a notoriously impenetrable vault, and a smarter, faster horde of Alpha zombies closing in, only one thing’s for certain in the greatest heist ever attempted: survivors take all.

ARMY OF THE DEAD is directed by Zack Snyder (who also served as director of photography) with a screenplay by Snyder & Shay Hatten and Joby Harold from a story by Snyder. The film is produced by Deborah Snyder, p.g.a.; Wesley Coller, p.g.a.; Zack Snyder, p.g.a. The film also stars Richard Cetrone and Michael Cassidy.

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ARMY OF THE DEAD arrives Friday, May 21, 2021.

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By Mr. Will Wong

The 2018 capture of Bruce McArthur helped alleviate much anxiety that haunted not only Toronto’s LGBTQ+ community, but also a nation as it became known that a serial killer targeting the Church-Wellesley village was on the loose and unaccounted for. Despite a guilty plea to eight counts of murder, one thing that the public couldn’t quite reconcile was how an unsuspecting 66-year-old landscaper and sometimes Mall Santa could be capable of such gruesome acts.

While Documentary Catching a Serial Killer: Bruce McArthur got its premiere earlier this month in the U.S., the story returns home to Canada with the Film set to premiere on SuperChannel. We certainly haven’t forgotten about McArthur‘s crimes, which have left an indelible scar on the community. The Film dares to ask the question how it was so many victims quietly and anonymously began disappearing for so many years, bringing into the conversation the question of race and ethnicity of his victims, a majority who were of Middle-Eastern or South Asian descent and closeted. It was his final victim Andrew Kinsman, a Caucasian man, whose disappearance drew police closer to their target.

While the Film attempts to paint a portrait of the Serial Killer through expert analysis and commentary, ultimately we don’t get that extra layer of insight from the criminal himself like recent features on the similar topics like Don’t F**k With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer. What the Film does do well is compile a panel of subjects who offer their analysis of McArthur and his crimes like University of Toronto Criminologist Jooyoung Lee, who makes some sense how McArthur‘s very unassuming professions served to mask his secret dark behaviours. One of the most compelling subjects is an ex-lover who was lucky enough to make it out alive after nearly being choked to death by McArthur. There’s also Karen Fraser who employed McArthur as a landscaper before the grisly discovery that among some of his victims’ body parts might have been stored at among others, her home. She tried convincing the police he was innocent because she couldn’t believe what he was being accused of. And there’s also Toronto Police’s Hank Idsinga and Lead Investigator David Dickinson, who recount for us the painstaking journey gathering evidence, ultimately to having overwhelming evidence (6,000+ pages) finding their man.

There are things about the investigation that have never seen the light of day and perhaps it is best kept that way. The victims, families and the community have been through enough. Catching a Serial Killer: Bruce McArthur brings some needed closure to something that has been deeply unsettling, even long after the crime was solved. And if anything, McArthur‘s victims have a voice in all this after having lived their lives in the dark.

The 90-minute Documentary airs in Canada Friday, April 30 at 9 p.m. ET on Super Channel Fuse and is available via Super Channel On Demand the next day.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Rachel Brosnahan star in the gripping Thriller THE COURIER, and this is your chance to win a Digital Download!

Synopsis:

THE COURIER is a true-life spy thriller, the story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. 

At the behest of the UK’s MI-6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer 

Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Elevation Pictures release THE COURIER digitally and on-demand Friday, April 16, 2021.

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Tom Holland and Daisey Ridley star in CHAOS WALKING which is coming soon to Canada. The Film is directed by Doug Liman. See the new Trailer!

Synopsis: 

In the not too distant future, Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) discovers Viola (Daisy Ridley), a mysterious girl who crash lands on his planet, where all the women have disappeared and the men are afflicted by “the noise” – a force that puts all their thoughts on display. In this dangerous landscape, Viola’s life is threatened – and as Todd vows to protect her, he will have to discover his own inner power and unlock the planet’s dark secrets.

eOne Films release CHAOS WALKING on PVOD Friday, April 23, 2021.

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Hollywood Suite presents a second season of their A Year in Film podcast which will launch its second season beginning tomorrow, April 13, 2021. The season features 24 episodes.

Episodes are as follows:

Day of the Locust & At Long Last Love: Old Hollywood Unhinged

Rollerball & Death Race 2000: Dystopias

Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS & Gina: Canuxploitation

Mahogany & Cooley High: Black Rep

Tommy & Lisztomania: The Who

The Passenger & Seven Beauties: Viva Italia

Labyrinth & Legend: Dark Fantasies

Night of the Creeps & Invaders from Mars: Comic Book Horror

Heavy Metal Parking Lot & Trick or Treat: Metal Heads

The Great Mouse Detective & An American Tail: House of Mouse

The Boy in Blue & Flying: Canadian Sports

Blue Velvet & The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2: The New American Gothic

Muriel’s Wedding & The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert: Australian Quirk

The Flintstones & The Little Rascals: Old IP

The Shadow & Radioland Murders: Radio Days

Wolf & Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Return of the Monster

Shallow Grave & Four Weddings and a Funeral: British Invasion

In the Mouth of Madness & Cemetery Man: It Creeps

Cecil B. Demented & But I’m a Cheerleader: Queer Counter Culture

Mission to Mars & Red Planet: Baroque Space

Godzilla 2000 & Dracula 2000: The Millennial Monster

Girlfight & Love and Basketball: Women in Sports

Bamboozled & Nurse Betty: Cutting Comedies

Bring it On! & Center Stage: Werk It

The first two episodes of Season 2 cover 1975 films The Day of the Locust, At Long Last Love, Rollerball and Death Race 2000, and will be released on April 13, 2021 with the remaining episodes following weekly on Tuesdays. All episodes will be available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever else you find podcasts. 

Learn more here.

I AM SYD STONE premieres on OUTTV next month. The semi-autobiographical Series from Denis Theriault which premiered at Inside Out 2020, speaks truths about his own experience navigating his sexuality in the Entertainment business.

Synopsis:

This six-part series was written and directed by Denis Theriault and produced by Gharrett Patrick Paon. The series, which sprung from the 2014 Iris Prize-nominated short film of the same name, is based on Theriault’s own experiences circumventing his sexuality within the film industry as an actor. The show follows a washed-up Hollywood heartthrob as he enters a secret affair, the ensuing drama potentially derailing his life and career. Shot in Halifax, the series stars Travis Nelson as Syd Stone and Benjamin Charles Watson as the lawyer he falls for. I Am Syd Stone is another success story out of Telefilm‘s Talent to Watch Program, which supports emerging Canadian filmmakers’ discovery and career progression.

Trailer:

I AM SYD STONE premieres April 22, 2021 at 8:30 PM on OUTTv with the first two episodes and one new one each week following.

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