Review – Midsommar (2019)

By Kevin Muller

What made Ari Astar’s 2018 film, Hereditary, so chilling was the skilled build up to each scene. Most horror films have no subtlety whatsoever that rely on constant jump scares and the sudden heightening of audio effects. Astar’s movies may move at a snail’s pace, but once the scares kick in, he let’s you sit in the fear, paranoia, and any other negative feeling that conjures up in any given scene. Where his first feature lured in darkness, his new film basks in the sunlight. Does he give us a worthy follow up or fall into a Sophomore slump?

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**Official Trailer** GWEN starring Maxine Peake and Eleanor Worthington-Cox – In Theaters August 16th!

“Gwen is a young girl desperately trying to hold her home together – struggling with her mother’s mysterious illness, her father’s absence and a ruthless mining company encroaching on their land. As a growing darkness begins to take grip of her home, the local community grows suspicious and turns on Gwen and her family.”

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Vertical Entertainment Acquires “MISS VIRGINIA” starring Uzo Aduba

Vertical Entertainment has acquired the North America distribution rights to Miss Virginiaa drama inspired by a true story of a struggling inner-city mother who sacrifices everything to give her son a good education. Unwilling to allow her son to stay in a dangerous school, she launches a movement that could save his future — and that of thousands like him. Starring Uzo Aduba (Orange Is the New Black), Matthew Modine (Stranger Things), Aunjanue Ellis (The Help), and Vanessa Williams (Ugly Betty). Vertical Entertainment will be releasing the film in select theaters and on VOD October 18th!

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Cinephellas Podcast – Episode 35 (Interview with Aaron Harvey)

Frank Grillo and Luke Grimes star in the upcoming action-drama-thriller, Into the Ashes. A movie focused on an ex-con seeking revenge. In this interview for The Cinephellas Podcast , Nile Fortner chats with Into the Ashes director Aaron Harvey. Aaron Harvey discusses with us if film school is necessary, his inspiration for the film, and his possible next film with Frank Grillo possibly returning.

RLJE Films will release the action / thriller Into The Ashes in Theaters, On Demand, and Digital on July 19th!

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