Ian Hultquist, best known for being a founding member of Passion Pit, has moved onto film composition, working on three features over the last couple of years that have played at South By Southwest and Sundance. You may know his work from Animals or The Ivory Tower, but his latest project, the horror film The Diabolical played at SXSW 2015. After the film's premiere we had a chance to sit down with Ian and discuss the project.
It seems that the older you get, the harder it is to make friends. In your youngest years, friends would be made for you through playdates. As you hit middle school and high school, everyone is always looking for a friend. The same is true with all the new people that are met in a college or first job setting. After that, as a grown adult, it's slim pickings. But, for the characters in The Overnight, all it takes is a chance encounter in a park for a wonderful friendship to emerge (or so it would seem).
You only need to watch one haunted house movie to know that one of the main issues for the homeowner is finding someone who believes them. In Alistair Legrand's The Diabolical, the family is far past the initial panic of needing someone to come save them. They've given up on outside help. No one is coming. The only thing left to do is find a way to survive the invasions that come over and over and over again.
Early in The Automatic Hate, one of the characters poses a question about nature vs. nurture. It’s an age-old question, but his answer is simple: Essentially, both of them are bullshit. What follows shows that regardless of which actually matters more, if the influence is anything other than pristine, the result is going to be the same: A lot of bullshit.
One of the films of SXSW 2015 that's getting praised by nearly everyone who's seen it is Charles Hood's Night Owls. Telling the story of a drunken one night stand that takes a turn for the darker when one character takes a bottle of pills, Night Owls finds a way to be one of the most hilarious films of the festival. Much of that humor is thanks to the excellent chemistry between the two leads as they beat each other up and banter back and forth.
With the announcement that Marvel is going a new, younger direction for Spider-Man, we take a look at seven actors who could take over as Peter Parker.
Though there's yet to be any footage shown from Netflix's Daredevil, the studio continues to give us little glimpses in bites just big enough to make sure that we don't forget about the Man Without Fear coming to our instant queue in April. A week ago, we got a motion poster and an image of an early version of the character. The latest in promotion isn't nearly as exciting, though it's still a nice viral tease.
It's been rumored, it's been shot down, it's been hoped for, and some unnamed fans may have even said a prayer or two for it to happen, but the days of waiting and wondering are now over. Matt Damon has confirmed a return to Bourne.
The fanboy world exploded this past week when the long-anticipated Deadpool movie finally got a release date. However, if this latest rumor is true, some of those fans may not be quite as excited as they initially were.
