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Indie Film Release Guide: October 5th [An ONTD Original]
The big studio wide releases this week - Venom, A Star is Born and The Hate U Give - are all battling it out at the box office, with two of those films having much better Rotten Tomatoes scores than the one that’s gonna make the most money. This week in indies is pretty mellow though, with several docs and lots of genre fare, so it's a good week to catch up on the new releases from the past few weeks. FYI, Colette and The Sisters Brothers are expanding to more cities on Friday, so keep an eye out for those at a theater near you.
The films listed below are from studios other than the “Big Six” - Paramount, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Universal, Columbia and Disney. Note that some of the movies listed are in their first week or two of limited release in the USA, so it may take them a few more weeks (or months) to show up in your local arthouse theater or on VOD. Check out the posts from the past few weeks for more movies that may have just opened near you: September 28th, September 21st, and September 14th.
Studio 54
Director: Matt Tyrnauer
Genre: Documentary
Storyline: In 1977, New York night club Studio 54 opened its doors. Frequented by celebrity guests, the club became the place to be. A look underneath the glitz and glamour of New York's most famous club.
What you should know: This one doesn’t have Ryan Phillippe in short shorts, but is better reviewed than that one so you win some, you lose some.
Opens in: NYC
Shine
Stars: Alysia Reiner, Musetta Vander, David Zayas, Artem Chigvintsev
Writer: Anthony Nardolillo, Corey Deshon, Ahmadu Garba, Fred Lozano
Director: Anthony Nardolillo
Genre: Drama, Music
Plot: Two Puerto Rican brothers from New York's Spanish Harlem and the street's best Salsa dancers, are separated after a tragedy only to reunite years later on opposing sides of gentrification.
What you should know: The soundtrack is all salsa music.
Opens in: Wide release
Await Further Instructions
Stars: David Bradley, Holly Weston, Sam Gittins, Abigail Cruttenden
Writer: Gavin Williams
Director: Johnny Kevorkian
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Plot: After a mysterious phenomenon traps them inside their house, a series of increasingly disturbing instructions on TV lead the Milgram family into a cycle of paranoia and violence.
Opens in: Select Cities and available VOD
Private Life
Stars: Kathryn Hahn, Paul Giamatti, Lizzy DeClement, Emily Robinson
Written and directed by: Tamara Jenkins
Genre: Drama
Plot: A couple coping with infertility struggle to keep their marriage going as they navigate through the world of adoption and assisted reproduction.
Opens in: Select cities and Netflix
Heavy Trip
Stars: Torstein Bjørklund, Antti Heikkinen, Johannes Holopainen, Samuli Jaskio
Writer: Juuso Laatio, Aleksi Puranen, Jari Olavi Rantala, Jukka Vidgren
Director: Juuso Laatio, Jukka Vidgren
Genre: Comedy, Music
Plot: A young man is trying to overcome his fears by leading an unknown heavy metal band to the hottest metal festival in Norway. The journey includes heavy metal, grave robbing, Viking heaven, and an armed conflict between Finland and Norway.
What you should know: It’s in Norwegian, and AKA as Hevi reissu or A Band Called Impaled Rectum.
Opens in: Select cities
Living in the Future’s Past
Director: Susan Kucera
Genre: Documentary
Storyline: Jeff Bridges, alongside prominent scientists and authors, offers this reflection on the environmental challenges facing the world today.
What you should know: It was a selection for over 20 film festivals.
Opens in: NYC & LA
Moynihan
Director: Joseph Dorman, Toby Perl Freilich
Genre: Documentary
Storyline: A biographical portrait of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, twentieth century colossus: public intellectual, policy specialist, ambassador and NY senator. The film captures the spirit of Moynihan's remarkable ideas as they evolved over the course of his tumultuous life in postwar America, featuring both the triumphs and the controversies.
What you should know: I tried to figure out if he and Bobby are related, but I’m still not sure.
Opens in: NYC & LA
Morning, Noon and Night
Stars: Michael Bugard, Brent Medaugh, Anne Alexander Sieder, Mara Kanyon
Written and directed by: Josh Becker
Genre: Comedy
Plot: Exploring a day-in-the-life of six people battling different addictions, the film examines three college students, a history teacher, a lawyer and a top executive as they struggle to make it through a single day.
What you should know: Anyone can make a movie - watch the trailer if you doubt this!
Opens in: LA
A Crooked Somebody
Stars: Michael Mosely, Ed Harris, Amanda Crew, Clifton Collins, Jr.
Writer: Andrew Zilch
Director: Trevor White
Genre: Drama
Plot: An attention-seeking psychic is kidnapped and tries to use the situation to boost his popularity.
What you should know: Lots of supporting cast members from TV shows in this one - Joanne Froggatt from Downtown Abbey and Rich Sommer from Mad Men show up as well.
Opens in: NYC & LA
Bayou Caviar
Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Famke Janssen, Richard Dreyfuss, Lia Maria Johnson
Writer: Eitan Gorlin, Cuba Gooding Jr.
Director: Cuba Gooding Jr.
Genre: Drama
Plot: A former boxing champion dreams of reclaiming glory from his dull life as a bouncer. Instead, he finds himself pulled into the criminal underworld when he witnesses a murder.
What you should know: This is Cuba Gooding Jr.’s directorial debut.
Opens in: Select cities
Also opening: Viking Destiny (Trailer), Longing (Trailer), The Great Buster (Trailer), Ride (Trailer), The Church (Trailer), Trouble (Trailer)
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Kanye West has another bizarre interview with TMZ
Bruh. pic.twitter.com/J8DQSgy948
— Navjosh (@Navjosh) October 2, 2018
Kanye West stopped by TMZ Live to chat with Harvey Levin, and things got... bizarre as usual. After being asked a question about Trump, Kanye spaces out, points out to a stranger saying she's giving him energy, then refuses to let Harvey cut to commercial because he needs "time to think".
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Barnes & Noble is Possibly For Sale
Another retailer is possibly up for sale.Barnes & Noble says it's exploring strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the company https://t.co/4v6mI5yS51pic.twitter.com/TseiuVU5Ko
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 4, 2018
Barnes & Noble is America's largest bookseller, but has faced increasing competition, even in an enviroment where brick and mortar stores are seeing more business, from (of course) Amazon - and independent bookstores.
"Consumers want unique experiences and escapes — we think they are finding that in independent bookstores," said David Schick, managing partner at Consumer Edge Research.
Their Nook side has also been having troubles, going from $500m in E-Book sales to 111$m in the 2018 fiscal year.
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I remember reading about their troubles last year, and how long-time employees were let go with no help.
Today marks the 14th anniversary of “rebelde”
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14 years ago the famous telenovela started, with 440 episodes total and a successful pop group. Launching into stardom the likes of Anahi (queen of Chiapas), Alfonso Herrera, poetess Dulce María, Diego Boneta, among others
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DreamWorks unleashes a new trailer for She-Ra!
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power drops on Netflix on November 16, 2018. What do you think ONTD?
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What Are You Scared Of? A Guide to the Ghastly Subgenres of Horror
A full moon reveals a flash of teeth and fur? It's a werewolf:
The Wolf's Hour by Robert McCammon
About: On the eve of D-Day, a British secret agent with unique powers goes behind Nazi lines
Michael Gallatin is a British spy with a peculiar talent: the ability to transform himself into a wolf. Although his work in North Africa helped the Allies win the continent in the early days of World War II, he quit the service when a German spy shot his lover in her bed. Now, three years later, the army asks him to end his retirement and parachute into occupied Paris. A mysterious German plan called the Iron Fist threatens the D-Day invasion, and the Nazi in charge is the spy who betrayed Michael’s lover. The werewolf goes to France for king and country, hoping for a chance at bloody vengeance.
Shifting walls with malevolent intent? It's a haunted house:
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
About: First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
An eerie menace stalking you across the stars? It's an alien:
Sphere by Michael Crichton
About: A classic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton, Sphere is a bravura demonstration of what he does better than anyone: riveting storytelling that combines frighteningly plausible, cutting edge science and technology with pulse-pounding action and serious chills. The gripping story of a group of American scientists sent to the ocean floor to investigate an alien ship, only to confront a terrifying discovery that defies imagination, Sphere is Crichton prime—truly masterful fiction from the ingenious mind that brought us Prey, State of Fear, and Jurassic Park.
A tangle of guts and a decapitated head? It's a bloodthirsty maniac:
Off Season by Jack Ketchum
About: September. A beautiful New York editor retreats to a lonely cabin on a hill in the quiet Maine beach town of Dead River—off season—awaiting her sister and friends. Nearby, a savage human family with a taste for flesh lurks in the darkening woods, watching, waiting for the moon to rise and night to fall...
And before too many hours pass, five civilized, sophisticated people and one tired old country sheriff will learn just how primitive we all are beneath the surface...and that there are no limits at all to the will to survive.
A spooky apparition with unfinished business? It's a ghost:
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
About: West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter.
Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara's farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that has weighty consequences when Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished. In her search for clues, she is startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea's diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother's bedroom. As Ruthie gets sucked into the historical mystery, she discovers that she's not the only person looking for someone that they've lost. But she may be the only one who can stop history from repeating itself.
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Brad Paisley and His Wife Kimberly Williams-Paisley Are Opening a Free Grocery Store
Brad Paisley and His Wife Kimberly Williams-Paisley Are Opening a Free Grocery Store https://t.co/5dOzCW14OL
— Variety (@Variety) October 4, 2018
Brad Paisley and his wife Kimberly Williams-Paisley are opening a new, free grocery store in Nashville where community members in need can shop.
The supermarket will provide both fresh produce and nonperishables.
With the goal of helping people become self sufficient, customers will be able to shop at the store for free for one year.
The Store is expected to break ground in 2019.
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Veteran Journalist Connie Chung's heart breaking and courageous letter to Christine Blasey Ford
Connie Chung: "I, too, was sexually assaulted — not 36 years ago but about 50 years ago. I have kept my dirty little secret to myself. Silence for five decades" https://t.co/CrgCYZ7d2r
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 3, 2018
- Connie Chung wrote a letter about her own sexual assault in support of Dr. Christine Ford.
- She says she was sexually assaulted in college by the same doctor who delivered her.
- She is speaking about it for the first time in 50 years in a letter in The Washington Post.
Connie Chung has been a trailblazer. For many, she was the only familiar Asian face they knew. She inspired a generation of women to pursue journalism. I am in awe of her courage. Sadly we must rip our souls apart to demand the world care about us. #MeToohttps://t.co/DCpnaAeLSq
— Jenny Yang 👲🏼👲🏼👲🏼 (@jennyyangtv) October 3, 2018
Seeing comments like "Connie Chung? Maury's wife?" And while I get younger folks may not know who she is, still depresses me that the woman made history as the first Asian-American to anchor an evening news broadcast, the first woman at CBS, and some still call her someone's wife https://t.co/GOEwGFp8A6
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 3, 2018
"I don’t want to tell the truth. I must tell the truth." -Connie Chung
— TIME'S UP (@TIMESUPNOW) October 3, 2018
Thank you, Connie. Thank you, Christine. We speak out for ourselves and we speak out for each other. #BelieveSurvivorshttps://t.co/kELDT1H2cQ
In an open letter to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Connie Chung wrote: “Christine, I, too, am terrified as I reveal this publicly. I can’t sleep. I can’t eat. Can you? If you can’t, I understand... I don’t want to tell the truth. I must tell the truth."https://t.co/LjDVF9RHRA
— Jenna Amatulli (@ohheyjenna) October 3, 2018
Thank You, Connie Chung. https://t.co/a9D4iaxCbLpic.twitter.com/6kpSY5FeWM
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) October 3, 2018
I’m so proud of all the brave women coming forward with stories of sexual assault, many sharing them for the first time. It’s important to remember how many women suffer in silence for years with the trauma of assault. Very powerful letter from Connie Chung. https://t.co/p6pUm3Xsw8
— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) October 3, 2018
I love you Connie Chung
— Andy Cohen (@Andy) October 3, 2018
Dear #ConnieChung - thank you! So many of us are with you ❤️ https://t.co/LxncY7HHV1
— Mia Farrow (@MiaFarrow) October 3, 2018
Thank you Connie Chung for having the courage to speak about your painful experience. in solidarity.
— Rosanna Arquette (@RoArquette) October 3, 2018
Every person who doubts that the searing and gut wrenching clear memories of sexual assault persists and haunt survivors, even when surrounding unimportant details fade, read Connie Chung’s deeply personal letter to Christine Blasey Ford. https://t.co/ebgMaG5XXq
— Valerie Jarrett (@ValerieJarrett) October 3, 2018
I want to say thank you and I’m so sorry to #ConnieChung. You are another example of people who will influence 1,000’s of others too afraid 2 say what someone did 2 them- speak out. I know u feel scared right now - but you r surrounded by ❤️ & support. You r beautiful & brave.
— Carnie Wilson (@CarnieWilson) October 4, 2018
This is the piece by Connie Chung which I referred to on @ChrisCuomo’s show. It is poignant and heart-wrenching. I encourage you to read it. https://t.co/K86jct62Wv
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) October 4, 2018
"Will my legacy as a television journalist for 30-plus years be relegated to a footnote? Will “She Too” be etched on my tombstone instead? I don’t want to tell the truth. I must tell the truth."
— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) October 3, 2018
Connie Chung:https://t.co/yqlxlw7gOZ
Connie Chung was born in D.C. and over the course of her career, would win three Emmys and a Peabody. #WomensHistoryMonthpic.twitter.com/Gerz9DQyDq
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) March 13, 2017
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Erika Alexander Joins S2 of Black Lightning
#BlackLightning Casts #LivingSingle Vet @EAlexTheGreat as [Spoiler]'s Super-Powered Therapist https://t.co/ckqpHaWqQTpic.twitter.com/7wRa7iEqTC
— TVLine.com (@TVLine) October 4, 2018
-recurring role (3 episodes)
-Perenna, a telepathic therapist who helps Jennifer acclimate to having powers
-season 2 premieres next tuesday, oct. 9th after the season 5 premiere of the flash
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Dear Diary: My teen angst bullshit now has an airdate. Heathers reboot marathon announced!
Scrapped #Heathers Reboot to Air Over Five Nights on Paramount Network https://t.co/dLrc45UPnLpic.twitter.com/ciMvBKkhZI
— TVLine.com (@TVLine) October 4, 2018
-Heathers was canceled before it even hit the air....but it's rising from the grave!
-Paramount Network will marathon 9 out of the 10 episodes starting 10/25.
-2 episodes will air each night but the series finale will not air as it is still deemed "to controversial"
-Episode 9 will be followed by a Heathers themed Lip-Sync battle from series stars Melanie Field and Brendan Scannell.
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Syfy reveals first look of Lobo from Krypston series
Our first look at #Lobo in Season 2 of #Kryptonpic.twitter.com/Fb4eBsX6r6
— Rotten Tomatoes (@RottenTomatoes) October 4, 2018
-Emmett J. Scanlan has been cast as interstellar mercenary Lobo.
-He will be a big bad during S2 of Krypton.
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Lil Wayne To Debut Atop the BB200; Cher Hits Career High
* Lil Wayne is king of this week's Billboard 200. His album, the long awaited Tha Carter V is set to debut atop the BB200 with between 460-480k SPS. This will be either the third or fourth biggest first week sales of the year, behind Drake (732k), Travis Scott (537k), and Post Malone (461k).
* Cher is expected to debut at number 2 with Dancing Queen, an ABBA tribute album. This will be Cher's highest debut as an a solo artist, besting her last effort Closer to the Truth (2013) which debut at no. 3.
* Other debuts are Logic, Kevin Gates, and Tom Petty.
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Britney dances Chantaje (Salsa version) and Shakira sends her love
Yes, you go @britneyspears! Amazing salsa dancer too! Shak https://t.co/Nzlp7uWYEL
— Shakira 🤫 (@shakira) October 3, 2018
A couple of days ago, Britney Spears posted a video of herself and a choreographer dancing to Shakira's song Chantaje (salsa version). Shakira acknowledged the video on her social media and praised her dancing skills.
It should be noted that Shakira is very good at dancing salsa herself, as evidenced by this tweet she posted a couple of months ago:
Who said that only girls from Cali know how to salsa? Us Barranquilleras do too! Quién dijo que solo las caleñas sabían bailar salsa? Las Barranquilleras también! Shak pic.twitter.com/mKawESfnq2
— Shakira 🤫 (@shakira) August 9, 2018
The two 90s/00s icons have had successful tours this year.
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Britney is coming for that Premio Lo Nuestro.
ONTD Halloween Original™: 15 Horror & Suspense Movies About Fraternities & Sororities
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"College students have always shown a more or less marked tendency to form themselves into societies."
- William Raimond Baird, Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities
We are led to believe that once we get out of grade school, college will be a breeze. In some ways, that is true. The concept of cliques is a thing of the past as there are too many people on campus to bother with such a thing. Yet there are fraternities and sororities. Say what you will about them as the bad ones deserve all the criticism, but there is an instant sense of belonging once you're accepted into a house. But is that camaraderie enough to save you when the going gets tough? Even dangerous?
Here are fifteen horror and suspense movies set in or about fraternities and sororities.
BLACK CHRISTMAS As the Christmas college break begins, a group of stragglers at a sorority house are subjected to terrorizing phone calls from a madman. | |
This quintessential Canadian proto-slasher does not comment too much on sorority life. The house just happened to be the setting. There is talk of pregnancy and alcoholism, though. The original Black Chistmas is a suspenseful college slasher that moves at a pace uncommon in modern horror, but the finale is fantastic.
THE INITIATION OF SARAH 1978 Directed by Robert Day A college student unleashes her psychokinetic ability after joining a sorority. | |
This made-for-television movie can be compared to Carrie, but The Initiation of Sarah is more of a cheesy drama with some supernatural elements. It does have good acting, however, which isn't a quality associated with TV-movies nowadays. There is a 2006 remake that also stars Morgan Fairchild. Her wet T-shirt scene in the 1978 version caused quite a stir back in the day.
HELL NIGHT 1981 Directed by Tom De Simone Four pledges forced to stay in an abandoned mansion come to learn that the house isn't so empty after all. | |
If one can get past Linda Blair's questionable acting, this slasher has a great setting and some creepy atmosphere.
TERROR TRAIN 1980 Directed by Roger Spottiswoode A costumed killer sneaks aboard a party train on New Year's Eve and murders those responsible for a fraternity prank gone terribly wrong. | |
Jamie Lee Curtis was building up her "scream queen" cred with slashers like Terror Train. The pranksters in this movie did something terrible to someone else so it's a chore to feel sympathy for them. Terror Train suffers from some pacing problems, but the killer's decision to wear his victims' costumes was creative.
The middle act's pacing almost does this lesser known slasher in, but audiences that stick in there are bound to be rewarded.
KILLER PARTY 1986 Directed by William Fruet A sorority's house costume party is infiltrated by a killer. | |
At one point, this was going to be called "The April Fool," but there already was another teen horror flick by the name of April Fool's Day coming out the same year. Killer Party seems like a by-the-numbers slasher until the very strange ending.
The main poster for this movie makes The House of Sorority Row seem like an erotic thriller. Hardly. This taut mystery was a pioneer for the horror trope of people commiting murder and keeping it a secret.
RUSH WEEK 1988 Directed by Opie Cooper A plucky reporter investigates the disappearance of students during a college's rush week. | |
This obscure college slasher lacks gore and the kills are done off camera. If fraternity stereotypes from the '80s don't thrill you, the mystery -- once it finally gets going -- may keep you watching.
SORORITY HOUSE MASSACRE 1986 Directed by Justin Lee A young woman shares a psychic link with an escaped serial killer, who is headed straight for her sorority house. | |
The premise of this Roger Corman production is a combination of Halloween and Slumber Party Massacre with a paranormal spin. It isn't the most exciting slasher, but there are tense moments sprinkeled throughout the movie.
Pledge Night could almost be a screwball comedy of the '80s if not for the sparse slasher elements throughout and more so toward the end. If you really don't find cinematic frat antics hilarious, avoid this one.
NIGHT OF THE CREEPS 1986 Directed by Fred Dekker A college campus is plagued by alien parasites that use humans as hosts. | |
From the director of The Monster Squad comes Night of the Creeps, a comedy that combines zombies, aliens, and Greek life. The movie has deservingly earned a cult following, especially after the similarly plotted Slither came out in 2006.
The '90s was a tough time for the horror genre. The golden age of slashers was long gone until the advent of Scream and its copycats caused a resurgence. There were some stragglers that were recycling stories and tropes from films that filled seats in theaters. Frat Fright, better known as Happy Hell Night, was one of those pictures oh so late to the game. Jorga Fox (of CSI) and Sam Rockwell have small parts in this average yet amusing enough murder-by-numbers teen thriller.
SORORITY ROW 2009 Directed by Opie Cooper Years after a small group of sorority sisters cover up a murder, they are all stalked and picked off by an unseen killer. | |
Horror in the 2000s was basically either splatter films or remakes of cult favorites. Sorority Row doesn't entirely measure up to the 1983 movie it's based on (The House on Sorority Row, if you couldn't figure that out), but on its own, it is very entertaining. None of the characters have any sort of semblance of normal reactions or thoughts, but if you like one-liners and intricate, MTV-style death scenes, Sorority Row is one of the more tolerable, big-budget horror remakes.
BROTHERHOOD 2010 Directed by Will Canon As part of their initiation, a fraternity pledge and his peers are ordered to rob a convenience store. Things go very wrong, though. | |
This unheard of thriller lacks horror, but it is suspenseful. Mainly because everyone in Brotherhood makes poor decisions left and right.
THE SCAREHOUSE 2014 Directed by Gavin Michael Booth Two former sorority members take revenge on their ex-friends after taking the fall for a crime they all committed. | |
For a movie that cost about 200,00 CAD, The Scarehouse is a pleasing revenge thriller that keeps your attention with humor, revelations, and twists.
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Alexandra Shipp, Keegan-Michael Key Join Elle Fanning in 'All the Bright Places'
Exclusive: @AlexShipppp, @KeeganMKey join Elle Fanning in 'All the Bright Places' https://t.co/Bs9f7SXnOfpic.twitter.com/H5ezBBjSs1
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 4, 2018
Alexandra Shipp and Keegan-Michael Key have been cast in 'All the Bright Places' for Netflix with Elle Fanning. The movie is based off the book by Jennifer Niven and is about two high schoolers who struggle with mental illness.
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Normani talks to Rolling Stone about her role in Fifth harmony: "I was the performer"
Rolling Stone caught up with the 22-year-old singer-songwriter-dancer on her way to Rihanna’s Diamond Ball in New York City
Normani on "Love Lies" going Number One, her relationship style and writing for women https://t.co/boAYAvrg8l
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) September 22, 2018
Now that you’ve got some distance from it, how would you characterize your Fifth Harmony “persona?”
I was the performer. I wanted to be like Michael Jackson was, Beyoncé. Britney. I wanted — and want — to be like Janet Jackson. I feel like that was kind of my role in Fifth Harmony, to be the entertainer.
By the way, what was the deal with Nicki Minaj shouting you out at the Video Music Awards? Are you friends?
[Laughs] She has my back. Yes, we are. She’s just been a huge supporter. I think she just really sees something in me, and she’s very passionate, and I’m just as passionate about her.
So many of her great songs are about overcoming professional and romantic pain; do you write best in the heat of the moment or do you prefer to have some emotional distance?
I’m definitely more reactive. I like to write whenever I’m going through something. But it definitely varies; I’ll have my not-so-amazing moments, and I’ll have my confident moments, but the important thing for me throughout the album process was to make sure that I’m making a body of work that women are genuinely able to connect to. I want women to really hear [themselves] in my songs.
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Amy Schumer and Emily Ratajkowski Detained at Kavanaugh Protest in D.C.
Amy Schumer and Emily Ratajkowski were both detained while protesting against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh https://t.co/gFR66zeIbYpic.twitter.com/kiMc0YSxai
— Variety (@Variety) October 4, 2018
Today I was arrested protesting the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, a man who has been accused by multiple women of sexual assault. Men who hurt women can no longer be placed in positions of power. pic.twitter.com/nnwq1O4qk3
— Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) October 4, 2018
MY MOM AND AMY SCHUMER ARE GETTING ARRESTED TOGETHER AND AMY SAID HI TO ME pic.twitter.com/AqZUBUxUrd
— Z (@Theboldtype_z) October 4, 2018
- They were among almost 300 individuals to get arrested. All were charged with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding.
- A Twitter user posted a video of Schumer stating, "I think we’re going to get arrested."
- Fun Fact: Amy Schumer and Senator Chuck Schumer are first cousins once removed.
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First photos of Tyra Banks in Life-Size 2
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Entertainment Weekly has just released the first photos of Tyra Banks in the anticipated Life-Size 2! She returns as the iconic Eve doll, this time helping a young woman (Francia Raisa) who is in over her head as the new CEO of a toy company.
“There’s a little bit of a bait-and-switch where you think Eve is one thing and she turns out to be something else, so fans of the original will go, ‘Oh my gosh!’” Tyra said of the sequel.
It premieres this holiday season during Freeform's 25 days of Christmas.
Life size 2 pic.twitter.com/UeEcVabXjB
— Alejandro Díaz (@El_Alejandrin) October 4, 2018
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