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Frankie Freako review – cheap and cheesy comedy horror channels 80s schlock

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Ineffectual office worker Conor calls on the services of a gremlin that looks like someone dipped a Muppet in latex, covered it in caustic soda, and ran a car over it a few times Canadian writer-director Steven Kostanski has been one of the creative forces behind a bunch of silly-sweet horror pictures such as The Void and PG: Psycho Goreman that appear to skew towards a younger demographic. Or perhaps his target audience is really the gen X crowd that never outgrew its affection for 1980s fare such as Critters or Gremlins, cheap and cheesy schlock reliant on practical special effects. Luckily, the latter happens to be Kostanski’s speciality; he’s also worked as a prosthetic FX artist on bigger budget films such as Crimson Peak and the TV series Hannibal. All of that comes together for this daft comedy horror farrago, seemingly set in the 80s, about a nebbishy Canadian office worker called Conor (Conor Sweeney). Conor’s beige jumper alone bespeaks a man deeply risk averse and afraid...
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Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Vala Video director Raaj Shaandilyaa apologizes for ‘unauthorized’ use of content from Stree 2 after being heavily trolled

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The recently released Rajkummar Rao, Triptii Dimri starrer Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Vala Video, despite its 90s ‘clean’ comedy entertainment, came under the scanner for a completely different reason. The film faced backlash after picking up content from the highly successful horror comedy Stree 2 which also featured Rao along with Shraddha Kapoor. Now, after trolls started heavily targeting the comedy set in the 90s, filmmaker Raaj Shaandilyaa have taken to social media to issue a statement of apology. On October 12, Saturday, Raaj Shaandilyaa along with the entire team of producers of Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Vala Video took to the social media platform X to share a note where they have apologized for ‘unauthorized’ use of content from Stree 2. “I Raaj Shaandilyaa the director of the film “Vicky Vidya ka Woh Wala Video” on behalf of myself and on behalf of Super Cassettes Ind. Pvt. Ltd., Balaji Motion Pictures and Wakaoo Films, the producers of the film, extend our sincere and unconditional apol...
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After 6 years of Tumbbad, Sohum Shah announces his next titled CRAZXY

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The re-release of Sohum Shah's Tumbbad has left everyone astonished with its phenomenal success at the box office. The film received appreciation for seamlessly bringing together a thrilling mix of folklore and intrigue along with cutting-edge storyline and it was known for being a grand visual spectacle. Remarkably, on its 6th anniversary, the makers have made an exciting announcement of their next project, titled CRAZXY, starring Sohum Shah. Taking to social media, the makers of Tumbbad including Sohum Shah, shared the new motion poster of their upcoming film, CRAZXY on the occasion of Dussehra, on October 12. Directed and written by Girish Kohli, featuring Sohum Shah as the protagonist, the makers unveiled an impressive and intriguing poster which once promises to be another visual spectacle. The makers, we hear, have moved to the other end of the spectrum and were keen on presenting a film whose poster is thrilling, edgy, new age and something incredibly innovative. They capt...
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Anil Sharma announces his next film Vanvaas on Dussehra, after of Gadar success

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Zee Studios and Anil Sharma have produced films such as Gadar: Ek Prem Katha and Gadar 2, and now they are set to release a new film titled Vanvaas. Director Anil Sharma announced this project following the success of Gadar 2. The announcement was made on Dussehra, providing a glimpse into the story that explores themes of duty, honor, and the consequences of one’s actions. Taking to social media, the makers shared an announcement video, offering a first glimpse of  ‘Apne Hi Apno Ko Dete Hai: Vanvaas,’ capturing the film's fervor with enthralling visuals and a mind-blowing BGM. The video also captured the Ram Ram song that further takes us in it's divine world and is sure sure to rule the hearts of the audience with it's release. They further added the caption, “Kahani zindagi ki..... Kahani jazbaat ki. Kahani apno ke vishwaas ki! Pure parivaar ke sang dekhiye parivaar ki film, #Vanvaas, coming soon in theatres near you. Aap sabhi ko Dussehra ki hardik shubhkamnayein.”   ...
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Streaming: Kneecap and the best hip-hop movies

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The Belfast rappers’ riotous semi-biopic adds an Irish-language twist to a sub-genre that ranges from 8 Mile and Straight Outta Compton to Patti Cake$ The list of hip-hop acts who have starred in their own biopic is a short one, and it has perhaps its unlikeliest entry in Kneecap . The spiky Belfast trio’s pro-republican protest rap – much of it pointedly in the Irish language – has made them cult figures on home turf, and comedian turned film-maker Rich Peppiatt’s ebullient film, simply titled Kneecap , aims to do the same internationally. Avoiding a lot of self-important biographical tropes as it depicts their scrappy rise to fame and lays out their blunt political principles, it could easily be mistaken for fiction, with its knockabout tone and heightened comedy, though that just helps it as a mythmaking exercise. As in much of rap culture, being a little larger than life is the point. In the ranks of hip-hop cinema, Kneecap is certainly sui generis – as is the band itself – thou...
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REVEALED: Ajay Singh Pal aka Nandu of Akshay Kumar’s popular anti-smoking ad CONFESSES that he smokes in real life occasionally over drinks

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He’s an actor who appears the maximum time on screen throughout the year. We are talking about Ajay Singh Pal, who plays Nandu, in the famous anti-smoking ad that also features Akshay Kumar. He made some interesting remarks when he interacted recently with Mayank Shekhar of Mid-Day. Ajay Singh Pal revealed that women recognize him instantly more than men. The reason why the latter doesn't recognize him easily, he said that's because "men are always stuck in zindagi ke kashmakash". He further said that people also get confused seeing him and they wonder if he's Nandu. And if indeed he is, why is he in Bhopal. In the same interview, he was asked whether he smokes in real life. Interestingly, he replied that he does. He said, "(I smoke) Very, very occasionally, with close friends, over jaam. I will never do it in public." The other interesting bit revealed by Ajay is that he hates shooting reels and being made to repeat his lines from the iconic ad. In 2...
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‘It feels very personal’: Anna Kendrick on coercion, not wanting children and making a movie about dating a killer

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She became a Hollywood star despite enduring industry misogyny and an abusive relationship. Now, she has poured her experiences into her directorial debut This may be the year of the childless cat lady , but Anna Kendrick isn’t ready to team up with Taylor Swift just yet. “I don’t ever think about having kids, so I guess I spend just as little time thinking about weaponising that,” she says from the kitchen of her apartment in Los Angeles, hugging her grey cardigan close. One of the takeaways from the 39-year-old actor’s candidly funny 2016 book, Scrappy Little Nobody , in which she dished the dirt on the inherent weirdness of the film industry and her place in it, was: “Anna Kendrick in ‘Doesn’t Want Children’ Shock!” As she explained later, any child of hers would only end up being “another kid that your kid is going to have to fight when the water wars come”. She sounds today like someone beyond even JD Vance’s comprehension : a woman who makes no apologies for wanting neither kid...
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Lonely Planet review - Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth heat up beach-read travel romance

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BFI apologises to film-maker over racial discrimination complaint

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CEO Ben Roberts admits Faisal Qureshi has been ‘let down’ after report finds his complaint was badly handled The chief executive of the British Film Institute has apologised to a prominent film-maker of colour for mishandling his complaint about racial discrimination. The apology from Ben Roberts comes after an independent report found that the BFI had “badly handled” a complaint by Faisal Qureshi, the producer behind hit UK film Four Lions, and that it was “understandable that [he] feels deeply dissatisfied”. Continue reading... from Film | The Guardian https://ift.tt/nSc5Tk7 via IFTTT
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Timestalker review – Alice Lowe’s anti-romcom is a darkly hilarious spin through history

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The actor and film-maker’s ingenious comedy sees her play a gamut of characters who meet gory ends chasing a not-worth-it love interest T he Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly – but couldn’t be sure if the butterfly wasn’t the one having the dream about him. Film-maker Alice Lowe dreams her way into a cosmically recurring persona in this likably chaotic, flawed comedy; she plays a woman who regenerates Blackadderishly throughout the years, from the 1680s to the 1980s, forever in love with the same man, forever destined to sacrifice herself for him, almost but not quite in possession of the knowledge that this guy is unworthy of her. At each stage, the incarnations of the past are perhaps dream-memories and the personae of the future are prophecies. Or … is she just very, very mad? In 1688, Lowe is Agnes, a humble Scottish maidservant who is enamoured of a heretical preacher (Aneurin Barnard) who is about to be executed. In 1793, she is a poutingly bored noblewom...
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Buffalo Kids review – CGI old west adventure with a big, warm heart

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Three children and a puppy traverse 19th-century America in this wholesome family film – which is especially admirable for its representation of disability This is the family-friendly animated story of Tom and Mary, a pair of parentless 19th-century mites making the journey from Ireland to California in search of their uncle, who they hope will adopt them. Along the way they fall in with a tiny puppy and a boy named Nick who uses a wheelchair, and this gang proceed to have various wholesome adventures before the happy ending, which ties everything up neatly at the hour and a half mark. Some family films – while not reaching the god-tier of Wallace and Gromit or Paddington – are perfectly decent entertainments for their intended audience, no more no less. It is into this category that we can slot Buffalo Kids. It’s amiable and rattles along nicely enough without ever really surprising anyone. It is seamlessly dubbed into English from the Spanish original, and while the CGI character d...
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