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DC Comics is rebooting its superheroes into new "Absolute" incarnations. In the vein of Marvel's "Ultimate" comics, "Absolute DC" takes the company's biggest superheroes, twists them without compromising them, and puts them all in a new setting.

The initiative kicked off with "Absolute Batman" by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta. Two weeks later came "Absolute Wonder Woman" by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman, then two weeks after that was "Absolute Superman" by Jason Aaron and Rafa Sandoval. Flash, Green Lantern, and Martian Manhunter all have "Absolute" books on the docket, but for now, it's just the DC Trinity.

DC publishing the "Absolute" line as Marvel publishes the "Ultimate" universe makes this an exciting time for superhero comics. There's a rare feeling of possibility at the big two superhero publishers. Instead of simply starting over at the basics from day one,...

Acclaimed British actor, writer and director Samantha Morton who was awarded a Fellowship at the Ee BAFTA Awards on Sunday has called for more investment in British cinema.

The award is the highest recognition given by BAFTA to an individual for their exceptional contribution to the film, games or television industry.

Addressing a press conference after accepting her award, Morton said: “We need more investment in British cinema. I’ve been saying this for years because we can’t just be a service industry for the wonderful Americans. They are amazing and thank God they come here and make movies and put us in as well, thank you. Like in France, we need our own quotas and we need to be making those investments.” Inward investment in the U.K. film and high-end TV industry was $4.22 billion in 2023, with the bulk of it coming from the U.S.

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British actor, writer, and director Samantha Morton will be awarded the BAFTA Fellowship at next week’s Ee BAFTA Film Awards.

Born in Nottingham in 1977, Morton garnered international attention in 1997 with her performance in Carine Adler’s Under the Skin, earning her a BIFA nomination and the Boston Film Critics Award for Best Actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award first for Best Supporting Actress for Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown (1999), and later for Best Actress for Jim Sheridan’s In America (2003).

Other notable film credits include work with directors such as Lynne Ramsay on Morvern Callar (2002), for which she won Best Performance, Toronto Film Critics Award and a BIFA for Best Actress; Steven Spielberg on Minority Report (2002); Michael Winterbottom on Code 46 (2003); Shekhar Kapur on The Golden Age (2007); Harmony Korine on Mister Lonely (2007); Anton Corbijn on Control, (2007), earning her a Best Supporting Actress BAFTA Film Award nomination; Charlie Kaufman Synecdoche,...

Acclaimed British actor, writer and director Samantha Morton will be awarded a Fellowship at the upcoming Ee BAFTA Film Awards.

The award is the highest recognition given by BAFTA to an individual for their exceptional contribution to the film, games or television industry.

After earning plaudits in theater and television, Morton’s breakthrough film role was Carine Adler’s “Under the Skin (1997) that earned her a BIFA nomination and the Boston Film Critics Award for best actress. She has been Oscar nominated twice – for best supporting actress for Woody Allen’s “Sweet and Lowdown” (1999), and for best actress for Jim Sheridan’s “In America” (2003).

For her portrayal of child-murderer Myra Hindley in “Longford” (2006) Morton scored best actress nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and BAFTA Television Award, and won a Golden Globe. In 2009, she made her directorial debut with television film “The Unloved,” a semi-autobiographical film based in the British children’s care system,...

Once upon a time, there was the Swedish queen of crime Camilla Läckberg, steadily delivering international best-selling adult/children’s books, cook books and song lyrics.

Some of her books have turned into series –“The Fjällbacka Murders” – or soon will be – “The Golden Age,’ optioned by Legendary Entertainment.

One day she met Swedish star actor Alexander Karim while shooting the Swedish show “Stars in the Castle” (“Stjärnorna på slotet”).

“We started talking TV, movies, creative ideas and immediately hit it off!” Läckberg tells Variety, in a zoom interview ahead of Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market. There, her executive produced thriller “The Dog,” starring Alexander Karim and helmed by his brother Baker Karim (“Malcolm”), is having its market world premiere.

The Karim brothers and Läckberg are, moreover, now ‘partners in crime’ in Bad Flamingo Studios (Bfs), a Stockholm-based film and TV production outfit founded to “break the film industry’s norms and barriers.

The Costume Designers Guild (IATSE Local 892) has revealed the nominees for its 26th CDG Awards, which will be handed out Feb. 21 at Neuehouse Hollywood.

Nominations for features and TV include categories for contemporary, period and sci fi/fantasy costumes. Feature nominees across those categories include Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, The Little Mermaid, May December, Oppenheimer, Poor Things and Saltburn.

Among the television nominees are period dramas The Golden Age, The Crown, Daisy Jones & the Six and The Great and contemporary dramas including The Morning Show, The Bear, What We Do in the Shadows, The Mandalorian and Loki.

The complete list of nominees follows:

Excellence in Contemporary Film

American Fiction – Rudy Mance

May December – April Napier

Nyad – Kelli Jones

Renfield – Lisa Lovaas

Saltburn – Sophie Canale

Excellence in Period Film

Killers of the Flower Moon – Jacqueline West

Maestro – Mark Bridges

Napoleon – Janty Yates & Dave Crossman

Oppenheimer – Ellen Mirojnick

Poor Things...

Everyone knows GoPro, and most filmmakers own at least one. Furthermore, many of us know the struggling phase of the company, that wants to be the king of the action camera again. “The Extinction of GoPro” is a fascinating analysis made by Modern Mba that sheds light on that matter.

GoPro1 (2006) to GoPro12 (2023) Be a Hero by Go(ing)Pro

I remember back in 2006, I was walking into a surf shot in Redondo Beach L.A, and seeing a small camera sitting on a shelf. “This is the next big thing,” said the shop owner. I didn’t know how it performed, but I bought it on the spot. Yep- it was a love of first sight. I was among the first filmmakers who owned the HERO1 in my country. Unfortunately, during a shoot, the Mediterranean sea has taken my HERO1. So I bought (on the same day) another one,...

This article contains spoilers for "Gen V" episode 6.

Part of the reason Prime Video's "The Boys" has been acclaimed is the ways it has adapted its source material, a satirical superhero gore-fest by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The comic has its moments of pathos, but it's mostly just a vile splatterfest. There's so much bad taste abound in the 72 issues that it often makes you wish your brain could spit it out.

"The Boys" TV series (developed by Eric Kripke) keeps the violence and dark humor, but it sharpens the comic's genre critique while updating it for modern politics. The superheroes of "The Boys" are still stand-ins for the rot of corporate America and celebrity culture. However, the TV show explores its characters with more sincerity (take the musical scene in episode 5). Kripke's "The Boys" doesn't laugh at its characters (at least not the leads) in the same way that Ennis' does.

Luis Buñuel’s Mexican masterpiece embraces truly edgy content: morbid comedy, anti-social satire and a strong streak of anarchist surrealism. His ‘adventurer into the unknown’ this time is no ordinary pervert, but a privileged delinquent in pursuit of a childhood sex fantasy: killing a beautiful woman just for the thrill. Naughty Archibaldo’s rehearsals are an unending source of frustration — and eventual enlightenment. Buñuel can’t resist subverting the social framework — wicked digs at the status quo abound.

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

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1955 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 89 min. / Street Date September 13, 2022 / Ensayo de un crimen / Available from Vci / 29.99

Starring: Miroslava, Ernesto Alonso, Rita Macedo, Ariadne Welter, Andrea Palma, Rodolfo Landa, José María Linares-Rivas, Leonor Llausás, Carlos Riquelme, Chabela Durán.

Cinematography: Augustín Jiménez

Art Director: Jesús Bracho

Film Editors: Jorge Bustos, Pablo Gómez

Original Music: Jorge Pérez

Written by Luis Buñuel, Eduardo Ugarte from the novel...

Cinema St. Louis presents the 12th Annual Robert Classic French Film Festival which takes place April 10th – 26th 2020. The location this year are both Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 E Lockwood Ave) and Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium, Forsyth & Skinker boulevards.

The 12th Annual Robert Classic French Film Festival — presented by TV5MONDE and produced by Cinema St. Louis — celebrates St. Louis’ Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy. This year’s featured films span the decades from the 1920s through the 1980s, offering a revealing overview of French cinema.

The fest annually includes significant restorations, and this year features a quartet of such works: Diane Kurys’ “Entre Nous,” Joseph Losey’s “Mr. Klein,” Jacqueline Audry’s “Olivia,” and the extended director’s cut of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s “Betty Blue.”

The fest also provides one of the few opportunities available in St. Louis to see films projected the old-school, time-honored way,...

Dušan Makavejev was born on King Milutin Street in Belgrade on October 13, 1932. This was about nine years before the city was occupied by the Nazis, at which point the Chinese embassy across the street became the headquarters of the German Chief Command of the Southeast. As a child, he watched German officers go in and out of the building, one of whom, Kurt Waldheim, would later become the Secretary of the United Nations—though of course the young Makavejev didn’t know this at the time. Following the Second World War, it was under Tito's Communist, but anti-Stalinist Yugoslavia that Makavejev first emerged as a major Eastern European filmmaker, initially associated with the loosely defined Novi Film (new film) movement. His eclectic career, the subject of a major retrospective at New York's Anthology Archives, garnered praise from the likes of Amos Vogel, Robin Wood, Stanley Cavell, Jonas Mekas, and Roger Ebert,...

Gkids is hoping to continue their strength in the Best Animated Feature category at the Oscars this year. One of the films they’re hoping to do this with, “Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles,” actually chronicles the creative journey of one of cinemas great legends, Luis Buñuel. It’s directed by Salvador Simó.

In the aftermath of his first feature, “L’Age d’Or,” Buñuel is unable to get financing for any future projects. An anthropologist gives him a book about the destitute Las Hurdes village in Spain and is asked to make a documentary about it. Buñuel takes the concept to a friend of his, Ramón Acin, who promises that if he wins the local lottery, he will finance the project. Sure enough, Acin wins the lottery, Buñuel puts together a crew and they all head to the village to start filming what will become, “Land Without Bread.” The...