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Stars: Hayley Erin, Sonya Walger, Tony Amendola, Jeb Berrier, Blaine Palmer, Betty Moyer, Ayanna Berkshire | Written and Directed by John Rosman

Since making its debut at last year’s Fantasia Film Festival, New Life has garnered a lot of attention for its first-time writer/director John Rosman and his potentially apocalyptic chase film. I missed it during its festival run, but on the eve of its American release, I got my chance to rectify that and see if it lived up to its hype.

It starts like a conventional thriller, with a bloodied woman slipping through the streets of what looks like a typical American suburb, trying to avoid being seen. She lets herself into her house and cleans herself up. She barely managed to wash and change before she sees armed men in her kitchen. She lets herself out a window and, since they apparently never learned about guarding a perimeter,...

This article contains spoilers for "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3"At the beginning of James Gunn's "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3," out in theaters on May 5, Rocket (voice of Bradley Cooper) is attacked by a mysterious gold alien named Adam Warlock. Rocket, a hyper-intelligent raccoon, is grievously injured, and his humanoid friends are unable to heal him using the high-tech medical devices at their disposal and Rocket falls into a coma. Rocket's friends, the Guardians of the Galaxy, scan his body and find that he has been encoded with cybernetic parts that prevent medicine from working on him. They will have to trek all over the galaxy to find the appropriate devices and information to undo the cybernetic coding and save their friend.

While the Guardians are on their mission, Rocket, comatose, begins dreaming about his past. Rocket remembers that as a baby raccoon, he was genetically...

The July lineup at The Criterion Channel has been revealed, most notably featuring the new Wong Kar Wai restorations from the recent box set release, including As Tears Go By, Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love, 2046, and his shorts Hua yang de nian hua and The Hand.

Also among the lineup is a series on neo-noir with Body Double, Manhunter, Thief, The Last Seduction, Cutter’s Way, Brick, Night Moves, The Long Goodbye, Chinatown, and more. The channel will also feature a spotlight on art-house animation with work by Marcell Jankovics, Satoshi Kon, Ari Folman, Don Hertzfeldt, Karel Zeman, and more.

With Jodie Mack’s delightful The Grand Bizarre, the landmark doc Hoop Dreams, Orson Welles’ take on Othello, the recent Oscar entries Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time and You Will Die at Twenty, and much more,...

Wes Anderson selected Suzie Templeton’s Oscar-winning Peter & The Wolf to screen in the Animation First Festival in New York

Suzie Templeton’s 2008 Oscar-winning Animated Short Peter & The Wolf is a timeless masterpiece. Selected by Wes Anderson, the first American Special Guest at the French Institute Alliance Française fourth annual Animation First Festival in New York it screens along with three other animated films that inspired him: David Hand’s Bambi, and two shorts, Martin Rosen’s The Plague Dogs (1982) and Garry Trudeau’s A Doonesbury Special (1977), co-directed by Faith Hubley and John Hubley. Templeton’s short Dog won Best New British Animation at the Edinburgh...

Wes Anderson selects David Hand’s Bambi

Wes Anderson has selected four films that inspired him: David Hand’s Bambi, Martin Rosen’s The Plague Dogs (1982), and two shorts, Garry Trudeau’s A Doonesbury Special (1977), and Suzie Templeton’s Peter & The Wolf (2006) to screen during the French Institute Alliance Française Animation First Festival in New York, co-curated by Delphine Selles-Alvarez and Catherine Lamairesse.

Mathieu Amalric: Renaissance Man poster featuring Fantastic Mr. Fox and Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell And The Butterfly Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Michaël Dudok de Wit (The Red Turtle) was the honoured guest of the inaugural Animation First Festival in 2018, Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress) and Jean-François Laguionie were the guests of honour in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

Fi:af President Marie-Monique Steckel: “This year's Animation First promises to be the richest in the Festival's history. We are delighted to have so many exciting new films, cult classics,...

Right now, in this galaxy… featuring Lloyd Kaufman, Brad Simpson, Gilbert Hernandez, Grant Moninger and Blaire Bercy.

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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Mondo Keazunt (1955)

The Human Tornado (1976)

Gigot (1962)

The Hustler (1961)

How to Commit Marriage (1969)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Touch of Evil (1958)

The Last Man On Earth (1963)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

The Omega Man (1971)

I Am Legend (2007)

Panic In Year Zero! (1962)

Dogtooth (2009)

The Entity (1983)

Shelf Life (1993)

The Killers (1964)

The Next Voice You Hear… (1950)

Donovan’s Brain (1953)

Talk About A Stranger (1952)

Julius Caesar (1950)

They Saved Hitler’s Brain (1968)

The Exterminating Angel (1962)

The Jerk (1979)

Kings Row (1942)

Santa Fe Trail (1940

Bedtime For Bonzo (1951)

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (19468)

Point Blank (1967)

House of Wax (1953)

Black Shampoo (1976)

A History Of Violence (2005)

Return To Oz (1985)

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)

The Anderson Tapes (1971)

Psycho (1960)

Two Evil Eyes (1990)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three...

Wes Anderson is finally ready to talk about “Isle of Dogs.” The director returned to the Berlin Film Festival, where his latest feature is the first animated film to open the ceremony, and he joined his screenwriters Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Kunichi Nomura, plus many members of his star-studded voice cast, for the official “Isle of Dogs” press conference. Prior to Berlin, Anderson had been incredibly tight-lipped about his first stop-motion film since “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” but now we know a little more about what drove him to make the project.

“Jason, Roman, and I started this project with wanting to do a movie about some dogs abandoned on a garbage dump, a pack of dogs who live on garbage,” Anderson said, admitting that it wasn’t the boldest idea they ever had. “But we had also been talking about wanting to do something in Japan, about Japan, something...

Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies that have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Richard Adams (1920-2016) - British Author. His novels Watership Down and The Plague Dogs were turned into animated features, and his novel The Girl in a Swing was also turned into a movie. He died on December 24. (BBC) Pierre Barough (1934-2016) - French Actor, Singer, Songwriter. He co-starred in Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman and received a Golden Globe nomination for the film's title song. He also appears in many more Lelouch films...

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“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.” So wrote Richard Adams, who has died at 96, in “Watership Down.” The news, which comes from the English novelist’s family, places Adams on a long list of writers, musicians, actors and other artists who have passed away this year; though he lived a longer life than many of those figures, Adams’ passing marks another loss for the creative community.

Read More: ‘Watership Down’: Wes Anderson, Guillermo del Toro & More Describe Story’s Impact Ahead Of New Miniseries

“Richard’s much-loved family announce with sadness that their dear father, grandfather, and great-grandfather passed away peacefully at 10pm on Christmas Eve,” reads a statement posted to a website devoted to “Watership Down.” About a group of talking rabbits who flee their warren when man’s encroachment threatens their survival, the 1972 novel has long been noted as an especially dark,...

Wil Jones Oct 25, 2016

The Walking Dead has nothing on The Animals Of Farthing Wood when it comes to traumatic deaths. Revisit if you dare...

Looking back at the media you loved as a kid and realising that there was loads flying over your head is a milestone of becoming an adult. Maybe it was the barely-concealed sexual innuendo of the pop songs you used to sing along to on the radio. Maybe it was the references to Alfred Hitchcock movies in The Simpsons. For me, it happened recently, when I suddenly realised how violent and generally depressing The Animals Of Farthing Wood was.

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The Animals Of Farthing Wood started out as a series of children’s novels written by English author Colin Dann,...

That’s right. Hulu.

I’m here to tell you that there’s a cinematic streaming goldmine available on Hulu that includes recent hits, older classics, domestic releases, and foreign imports. It’s even home to hundreds of Criterion titles. Sure there’s plenty of filler and seemingly thousands of titles that can’t possibly be real, but I’m here to recommend some good movies to watch this month on Hulu.

Pick of the Month — Hwayi: A Monster Boy (2013)

South Korean cinema features no shortage of brilliant and brutal action thrillers, but while everyone knows about the likes of I Saw the Devil and Memories of Murder there are more than a few gems that have slipped through the cracks. Jang Joon-hwan’s long overdue follow-up to Save the Green Planet is a fast-moving, creatively violent mix of dark deeds and beautifully choreographed fights and stunts. There’s a wicked sense of humor running through it...

The great Charlie Kaufman has made his first foray into the world of animation with the critically praised Anomalisa, which we named one of the best films of 2015. Finally expanding over the next few weeks, to celebrate, we’ve decided to look back at some of the finest animated films that one might not want to show the entire family.

Who said cartoons were just for kids? As this week’s list will demonstrate, some of the finest weren’t necessarily designed with undiscerning young audiences in mind. Crossing genres and styles, these fifteen amazing features should probably be watched after this kids have been put to bed. Of course, there are many great examples beyond these, so please suggest your own favorites in the comments.

Watership Down / The Plague Dogs (Martin Rosen)

Martin Rosen‘s dark adaptations of Richard Adams‘s classic novels, Watership Down and The Plague Dogs,...

Born from a conversation between Austin Film Society programmer Lars Nilsen and local actor/filmmaker Jonny Mars, a new Afs recurring series starts in July: "That's Genius." In the words of Nilsen, the film series will serve as "a way for film professionals to share works that they [think represent] 'genius' in the world of some film discipline."

Austin filmmakers David and Nathan Zellner -- who directed the features Kid-Thing and Goliath -- have selected the inaugural movie in this series: the 1982 animated movie The Plague Dogs [tickets], which screens on Thursday, July 25 at the Marchesa. The Zellners will host the event, and filmmaker Martin Rosen will attend for a post-screening Q&A.

The Plague Dogs, which Rosen adapted from the novel by Richard Adams, follows two dogs who escape from a lab that has been performing tests on them. As a result of the experiments the lab has been running on animals,...

Oh, Revolution.

You came out the gate impressively... but as time dragged on you became less and less watchable. Sure, you had some good ideas and some halfway decent episodes, but you’re mostly residing in mediocrity, as noted and detailed in the following TV Fanatic Report Card.

Best Episode: The series premiere. It’s where all of Revolution held so much promise. The lights were out, and Charlie’s world was beginning to fall apart as her family was taken away from her. Charlie was determined to bring whatever semblance of family she had left back together and then rescue Danny. She was one girl going on one small adventure in a world with far greater problems. The pilot did its job exceptionally well in introducing the potential of the show; sadly that momentum died quickly.

Worst Episode: When “The Plague Dogs” killed off Maggie – one of the stronger...

With Revolution on hiatus until March, viewers have plenty of time to evaluate where this NBC drama stands.

What has gone right so far with the freshman hit? Where is there room to improve?

In our holiday tradition of grading shows at their midseason breaks (follow these links for our Supernatural Report Card and The Mentalist Report Card), TV Fanatic now turns its attention to Revolution...

Best Character: Miles, hands down. He's a three-dimensional character with hopes, flaws, mistakes and humor. We’ve watched him find his place in a family and willingly go against his former best friend for the good of his family. Miles thinks rationally and is cunning when he needs to be in this guerilla war against the Militia, but we also witness a sentimental side when he wonders if he will be able to go up against his best friend, Monroe, to save Danny; or...

*here be spoilers. Creator: Eric Kripke. Director: Felix Alcala. Writers: Eric Kripke and Anne Cofell Saunders. Producers: Jon Favereau and J. J. Abrams. Cast: Daniella Alonso, Tim Guinee, Maria Howell, David Lyons, Graham Rogers, Tracy Spiridakos, Zak Orth, Billy Burke, and Giancarlo Esposito. It is surprising to come off the action packed Epis. 3 of "Revolution" and to transition into such a sombre tone in Epis. 4, "The Plague Dogs." However, viewers should note that both directors, writers and producers are changing with each episode. This change might give a clue as to why this series' tone is so different across episodes. "The Plague Dogs'" melancholy tone was brought about by the death of character Maggie (Anna Lise Phillips) and through a series of flashbacks involving Rachel (Elizabeth Mitchell). There was this recurring theme of loss or abandonment in this showing, which seemed to be the antithesis of the previous episode.

Revolution, Season 1, Episode 4: “The Plague Dogs”

Written by Anne Cofell Saunders

Directed by Felix Alcala

Airs Mondays at 10 pm (Et) on NBC

Lawless anarchy in the world that Revolution has established is to be expected, and the show hasn’t hesitated on that front, as every episode has seen at least one death. Most of the violence, however, has been perpetrated either by the militia or by the resistance fighters, and while that is understandable, with all semblance of a society gone, the idea that there’d be fringe groups or individuals operating under their own rules isn’t difficult to believe. Nor is it difficult to imagine that the sudden loss of power and the associated anarchy would drive some people mad. While the last episode provided some glimpses of the anarchy as an indication of how Monroe’s militia began, this episode takes a look at the...

Miss last night’s episode? Here’s what you need to know about Revolution’S “The Plague Dogs”

Airdate: 08/10/12 Writer: Anne Cofell Saunders Director: Felix Alcala Synopsis: The search to rescue Danny Matheson comes to a screeching halt when Miles, Charlie, Nora, Maggie, Zak and Nate encounter a ravenous pack of dogs and one equally ravenous owner. Meanwhile, after a storm traps Captain Tom Neville under a roof, Danny must decide whether or not to save him, while Monroe’s interrogation of Rachel continues. Introduced: Maggie’s backstory, which involves her heartbreaking, not to mention unsuccessful attempt to reunite with her children in England after the lights went out fifteen years prior and features her first meeting with what would become her surrogate family in the Mathesons. Historic Moment: Revolution’s first “major” character death. And while we aren’t going to pretend we didn’t see it coming from...

"The Plague Dogs" was a disappointing episode - and I really hate saying that because all of the ingredients for a good installment were included here.

But, when everything is mixed together and you taste the end result, things just end up turning out bland and overdone.

Maggie’s death is supposed to bring dramatic weight and spark a change in the characters she’s surrounded herself with, and while that change might have come to fruition in Miles... did anyone of us actually think he would pack up and leave Charlie?

That kind of emotional plot threat doesn’t ever work because viewers know that isn’t going to happen unless he gets skewered by an arrow, and only Charlie’s head nearly intercepted an arrow’s flight path tonight.

Getting back to Maggie: it’s sickening that the only decent character that sparks any resonance in the post-apocalypse-pack...

We're only four episodes into "Revolution," and now we know not everyone will survive to participate in the show's full season order.

Unless you count the death of Ben Matheson (Tim Guinee) in the pilot, Monday night's episode "The Plague Dogs" featured the show's first major demise of a central character. And the victim was the group's doctor, Maggie (Anna Lise Phillips).

Since NBC got to promote that someone would expire in the episode, the powers that be seemed to have more fun than usual placing characters in harm's way throughout the hour: Charlie (Tracy Spiridakos) faced down an arrow pointed straight at her head and Tom Neville (Giancarlo Esposito) was trapped under the debris of a building damaged by a tornado (he was rescued by poor stupid Danny, who promptly went back to being Tom's prisoner).

We also discovered a little more about why Rachel (Elizabeth Mitchell) was "presumed...

Revolution episode 4,season 1 new intense spoilers & clips hit the net. Last night,NBC dropped the new spoilers and sneak peek,clip (below) for their upcoming "Revolution" episode 4 of the first season. The episode is called, "The Plague Dogs," and it looks majorly intense as Charlie gets captured,someone important gets killed off,and more. In the new "The Plague Dogs" episode, Charlie and Nora are going to rescue Miles from the Militia,and then set off to meet Aaron and Maggie. That pesky Nate character will continue tracking Miles and Charlie at every turn. The gang will also reunite and continue on their journey. However, unforeseeable challenges will pop up. At one point,Miles realizes they're being followed and hell breaks loose. Charlie is spotted all tied up and screaming for help. It looks pretty wild. Episode 4 airs Monday,October 8th at 9pm central time on NBC.

Revolution Episode 4,Season...

Editor’s Note: This review appeared as part of our coverage of the 11th Annual New York Asian Film Festival, and we’re bringing it back to be part of our Fantastic Fest coverage. Animated films are traditionally the home of kiddie fare and pure entertainment, but on rare occasions filmmakers use the format to tell decidedly adult stories. Heavy Metal is probably the most notorious example, but even rarer are the animated films that attempt to tell truly dramatic tales about more than big boobed space warriors and horny robots. The Plague Dogs and When the Wind Blows are two fantastic examples of serious films with serious themes being told by way of animation. And now one more bleak, occasionally stunning and depressing as hell cartoon can be added to that short list. Kyung-min stands naked in the shower as his recently deceased wife sits dead at the kitchen table. Jong-suk...

Blade Runner, First Blood, Wrath Of Khan … 1982 was a high water mark for genre movies, but we won't see its like again

Everyone has their favourite period of cinema. For some, it never gets better than the snappy dialogue of the 1940s; plenty espouse the more freeform cinema of the 1970s; who knows, maybe in some far-flung future there may even be people who claim that the 2010s were where it's at. But if you want to get more specific, then you must turn to the obsessives. The geeks. Because for those argumentative science fiction, horror and fantasy fans, those finickity lovers of genre ephemera, cinema achieved true perfection in a single year: 1982.

In 1982 there was an unprecedented investment in the fantastic. Subjects that would previously have been confined to B-movies, to exploitation flicks, to drive-in fodder became the stock-in-trade of the mainstream. It was a year that changed Hollywood,...

And How Young Sherlock Holmes Unexpectedly Paved The Way For Pixar

The story of how Pixar began is a fascinating one when you consider the creative risks that a young John Lasseter took that ultimately cost him his job at a company he would later (practically) run! This, somewhat Shakespearean tale, can be punctuated quite well by a series of films that all, in some way, lend themselves to the development of the Pixar we know and love…

1. The Fox and the Hound (1981)

In 1975 the California Institute of the Arts set up a new programme for animation, taught by three members of Disney’s ‘Nine Old Men’, whilst that is impressive in itself the students they taught in that inaugural year included John Lasseter, Brad Bird, John Musker, Henry Selick and Tim Burton with artists like Joe Ranft, Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter.

After graduating Musker, Bird, Selick and Burton...

Don’t waste your time asking director Jason Eisener how many people die in his shlock-tastic bloodbath Hobo With a Shotgun. “I don’t know,” laughs the Canadian filmmaker. “I haven’t done a kill count!”

Interested parties can do their own murder-math from today as the Rutger Hauer-starring Hobo begins its theatrical run in New York and Austin. To get you in the mood for the mayhem, we asked Mr. Eisener to give us his favorite (and often very Nsfw) movie murders, which you can watch after the jump.

The Fury (1978)

Telekinetic body explosion

Jason Eisener: The bird’s-eye view is mind-blowing.

Looking for a mood enhancer? A way to unleash your tears? Need help falling asleep? Or just a cure for a really bad day? Here's what Dr Birch has been prescribing...

It's a rough life, isnt it? Even with all the technology and aids to daily living (and in some cases, because of them), the majority of us lead quite stressful, rushed lives, with tons of responsibilities heaped on shoulders that haven't evolved fast enough to handle the load.

We may not have to pursue our own meals any more, but chasing trains, hunting for jobs and battling bills and budgets are just as taxing on the wellbeing of the modern man and woman, and takes its toll on minds and bodies.

The medical profession and proper care has its place, but what about the more now age (not to be confused with new age) resources we have available to...

Plastic Paper is a festival of animation and puppet films that will run at the Park Theatre in Winnipeg, Canada on May 5-8 and is presented by the Big Smash! Film Collective. The program, listed below, includes short films, features, documentaries, installations and special events.

The feature films include Rocaterrania, Brett Ingram’s documentary on scientific illustrator and secret fantasy artist Renaldo Kuhler; 2010 Oscar nominated film The Secret of Kells; the little seen 1982 environmental and animal activist film The Plague Dogs; a new surreal work by underground animator Bruce Bickford; and more.

For special events, there will be a continuously-running video installation by Winnipeg animator Leslie Supnet called How to Care for Introverts; a one-day Master Class taught by the legendary Bill Plympton; a Saturday morning cartoon feast; a T-shirt making class; and more.

Below is the full lineup of all the films screening at Plastic Paper, but for more info on them,...