“Choices, choices…,” says the narrator, a young seamstress, in this strange and striking debut from Freddy Macdonald. A neo-noir in the early Coens tradition, Sew Torn also features a bold tri-part structure in which the heroine, Barbara (Eve Connolly) — like Lola before her in Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run — gets three standalone chances to pursue a different destiny after stumbling on the bloody aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong on a quiet country road.
It begins with image of a reel of red cotton, a briefcase and a dead body. This is Barbara, who wonders what we’ll make of her story. Macdonald’s film then loops back to explain who Barbara got here, a tale of chance and coincidence that reshuffles its characters in a way that always surprises,...
It begins with image of a reel of red cotton, a briefcase and a dead body. This is Barbara, who wonders what we’ll make of her story. Macdonald’s film then loops back to explain who Barbara got here, a tale of chance and coincidence that reshuffles its characters in a way that always surprises,...
- 3/13/2024
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
A struggling seamstress plays a dangerous real life choose-your-own-adventure game in Freddy Macdonald’s debut feature, the whimsical comedic thriller Sew Torn. Barbara Duggen’s (Eve Connolly) sewing shop in an idyllic hamlet in the picturesque Swiss Alps is on the rocks. Having recently lost her mother, the business is on it’s way out with Barbara struggling to make ends meet by operating mostly as an emergency mobile seamstress. When the high maintenance client at her latest gig pops a button, Barbara must rush back to her shop to replace it, but what she encounters on the way could potentially change her life, but only if she plays it just right. While rushing back through mostly empty mountain roads, she comes across a drug deal gone bad....
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- 3/13/2024
- Screen Anarchy
Freddy Macdonald’s Sew Torn is a high-stakes crime thriller for everyone that grew up obsessed with choose-your-own-adventure novels. Working through three wildly different timelines, the story follows a mobile seamstress presented with a (truly) life-changing opportunity. After stumbling across a drug deal gone wrong, Barbara (Eve Connolly) is faced with a choice: commit the perfect crime, call the police, or simply drive away. Which would you choose?
Luckily, you’re not left with any lingering questions about what would have happened in either of the three scenarios, because you’re gifted the chance to witness them all! Following the threads of each decision, Sew Torn is divided into nice clean chapters that make for a series of very unfortunate events. In fact, the film opens on the aftermath of each possible timeline, and none look especially promising. It seems each choice leads to ruin but it isn’t the destination that counts,...
Luckily, you’re not left with any lingering questions about what would have happened in either of the three scenarios, because you’re gifted the chance to witness them all! Following the threads of each decision, Sew Torn is divided into nice clean chapters that make for a series of very unfortunate events. In fact, the film opens on the aftermath of each possible timeline, and none look especially promising. It seems each choice leads to ruin but it isn’t the destination that counts,...
- 3/11/2024
- by Jonathan Dehaan
"Don't look back - just run!" Surprise - another remake coming our way! Universal Home Entertainment has revealed an official trailer for a remake of the fun 90s river thriller The River Wild, this new one directed by Ben Ketai. It may not come as a surprise they're dumping this one direct-to-video in just a few weeks, without much buzz at all. The original film from 1994, starring Meryl Streep & David Strathairn, is a cheesy but actually a pretty solid adventure thriller with some good twists in it (I remember seeing it in theaters and also renting it on VHS after). 2023's The River Wild follows a pair of siblings who love but distrust each other as they embark on a white-water rafting trip with a small group. One of their old friends from growing up, who also joins them, turns out to be more dangerous than he appears. Stuck in the rapids,...
- 7/13/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Vikings Season 6B Trailer — History and Amazon Prime Video‘s Vikings: Season 6B TV show trailer has been released. Available to view here is the Vikings: Season 6B TV show clip. Cast and crew Vikings: Season 6 stars Oran Glynn O’Donovan, John Kavanagh, Eric Johnson, Eve Connolly, Danila Kozlovsky, [...]
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Continue reading: Vikings: Season 6B TV Show Trailer: The Final Battle Between the Lothbrok Brothers Begins [Amazon, History]...
- 12/3/2020
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"They're more like mutant ravers." Capital Motion Picture Group has released a new official US trailer for Ravers, a horror comedy from the UK set at an illegal rave. This initially premiered a few years ago in 2018 at the FrightFest London Film Festival, and finally opens in US theaters this month. Murder on the dance floor in a witty, bloody horror about madness, mayhem and mutants... When a contaminated energy drink turns an illegal rave into a nightmare, a germaphobic journalist has to overcome her deepest fears to get her friends out alive. Starring Georgia Hirst as the journalist, Becky, joined by Natasha Henstridge, Eve Connolly, Dave Johns, and Orson Chaplin. This looks as wild and as crazy as promised, but probably not very good, though who cares! It's a crazy party movie and horror comedy all packed into one. Have fun. Here's the new official trailer (+ poster) for Bernhard Pucher's Ravers,...
- 9/14/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Buchwald has signed filmmaker Jaclyn Bethany, who recently made her feature directorial debut with Indigo Valley, a suspenseful drama she also wrote and stars in alongside Rosie Day (Outlander) and Brandon Sklenar (Vice).
Based on Bethany’s short film of the same name, the pic is about a newlywed couple who, while on a hiking trip in the wilderness, unexpectedly joined by the woman’s estranged actress sister who is fresh out of rehab. Giant Pictures will release the indie nationwide on September 8.
Bethany is currently in post-production for her sophomore feature Highway One, inspired by Anton Chekhov’s pay, Ivanov, and is working on her third drama, the pandemic-inspired Before the World Set on Fire which stars Brooke Bloom, Joe Adler, Alex Breaux, David Call, and Eve Connolly.
On the big screen, Bethany will next be seen in David Fincher’s Mank and the British indie Venice at Dawn from director Jamie Adams.
Based on Bethany’s short film of the same name, the pic is about a newlywed couple who, while on a hiking trip in the wilderness, unexpectedly joined by the woman’s estranged actress sister who is fresh out of rehab. Giant Pictures will release the indie nationwide on September 8.
Bethany is currently in post-production for her sophomore feature Highway One, inspired by Anton Chekhov’s pay, Ivanov, and is working on her third drama, the pandemic-inspired Before the World Set on Fire which stars Brooke Bloom, Joe Adler, Alex Breaux, David Call, and Eve Connolly.
On the big screen, Bethany will next be seen in David Fincher’s Mank and the British indie Venice at Dawn from director Jamie Adams.
- 9/10/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
A young woman realizes that her life in a secluded cult could be more of a restricted hell than a freeing existence in Malgorzata Szumowska's The Other Lamb. With the film coming out this April from IFC Films, we've been provided with a new clip in which cult leader Shepherd (Michiel Huisman) speaks of sacrifice to his many wives before leading them in a bloody prayer.
Directed by Malgorzata Szumowska from a screenplay by C.S. McMullen, The Other Lamb stars Michiel Huisman, Raffey Cassidy, Denise Gough, Kelly Campbell, Eve Connolly, and Isabelle Connolly.
You can watch the new clip below (which originally premiered on Bloody Disgusting), and keep an eye out for The Other Lamb when it's released in select cinemas (this could be subject to change due to the coronavirus), VOD, and digital platforms on April 3rd via IFC Films.
Synopsis: "For her entire life, the cult she...
Directed by Malgorzata Szumowska from a screenplay by C.S. McMullen, The Other Lamb stars Michiel Huisman, Raffey Cassidy, Denise Gough, Kelly Campbell, Eve Connolly, and Isabelle Connolly.
You can watch the new clip below (which originally premiered on Bloody Disgusting), and keep an eye out for The Other Lamb when it's released in select cinemas (this could be subject to change due to the coronavirus), VOD, and digital platforms on April 3rd via IFC Films.
Synopsis: "For her entire life, the cult she...
- 3/25/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Georgia Hirst, Olivier Richters, Eve Connolly, Manpreet Bambra, Maria Volk, Dave Johns, Danny Kirrane, Kamal Angelo Bolden, Orson Chaplin | Written by Luke Foster | Directed by Bernhard Pucher
Directed by Bernhard Pucher and written by Luke Foster (Betsy and Leonard), Ravers follows an illegal night-time rave, in a factory where contaminated energy drinks caused a worker to go fatally berserk, that turns into a nightmare. As a forgotten batch of the drink is found and consumed by drunken ravers, a truly terrifying physical transformation takes over and those unaffected try to escape in panic. Becky, a germophobic journalist, reluctantly there to cover the event on the behest of her boss (a cameoing Natasha Henstridge), is trapped among the increasingly hostile crowd of dancers, and to save herself and her friends, she has to overcome her deepest phobias to help them get out alive.
First screened at Frightfest in...
Directed by Bernhard Pucher and written by Luke Foster (Betsy and Leonard), Ravers follows an illegal night-time rave, in a factory where contaminated energy drinks caused a worker to go fatally berserk, that turns into a nightmare. As a forgotten batch of the drink is found and consumed by drunken ravers, a truly terrifying physical transformation takes over and those unaffected try to escape in panic. Becky, a germophobic journalist, reluctantly there to cover the event on the behest of her boss (a cameoing Natasha Henstridge), is trapped among the increasingly hostile crowd of dancers, and to save herself and her friends, she has to overcome her deepest phobias to help them get out alive.
First screened at Frightfest in...
- 3/16/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
A young woman begins to realize that her life in a secluded cult is more of a living hell than an idyllic existence in the official trailer for The Other Lamb, coming to theaters and VOD this April from IFC Films.
Directed by Malgorzata Szumowska from a screenplay by C.S. McMullen, The Other Lamb stars Michiel Huisman, Raffey Cassidy, Denise Gough, Kelly Campbell, Eve Connolly, and Isabelle Connolly.
You can watch the official trailer below, and keep an eye out for The Other Lamb when it's released in theaters and on VOD beginning April 3rd.
Synopsis: "For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah (Raffey Cassidy) has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd (Michiel Huisman), a controlling,...
Directed by Malgorzata Szumowska from a screenplay by C.S. McMullen, The Other Lamb stars Michiel Huisman, Raffey Cassidy, Denise Gough, Kelly Campbell, Eve Connolly, and Isabelle Connolly.
You can watch the official trailer below, and keep an eye out for The Other Lamb when it's released in theaters and on VOD beginning April 3rd.
Synopsis: "For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah (Raffey Cassidy) has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd (Michiel Huisman), a controlling,...
- 3/3/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
"Selah, what happened?" "It's worse than punishment." IFC Midnight has released an official trailer for the indie thriller The Other Lamb, another fascinating and freaky new cult film. This originally premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year, and also stopped by Fantastic Fest and the San Sebastian Film Festival (here's my full review). Raffey Cassidy plays a girl named Selah born into an all-women cult led by a man in their compound, who begins to question his teachings and her own reality. The small group lives out in the woods, secluded from everyone else, minding only themselves. There's an obvious connection to Charles Manson here, but it's also about how people are so insanely obedient. The cast includes Michiel Huisman as the Shepherd, with Denise Gough, Kelly Campbell, Eve Connolly, and Isabelle Connolly. This is an intriguing little film that offers plenty in terms of both style and substance...
- 3/2/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Judith proves her worth as a mother, and Hvitserk seeks enlightenment in an unusual place on Vikings.
This Vikings review contains spoilers.
Vikings Season 5 Episode 16
“Perhaps she’d come to the end of reason.”
With Bishop Heahmund dead, Lagertha presumably alive but missing, and King Alfred suffering a debilitating illness, Vikings moves away from the battlefield and explores the notion of second chances in Wessex, Kattegat, and Iceland. “The Buddha” goes behind the scenes for a more introspective examination of the aftermath of the evolving political landscape, and the strategic machinations of those who retain power and those who desire it.
Much like the island on which they’ve settled, the story of Floki and the other pilgrims has become utterly detached from the rest of the Vikings narrative. That said, Helgi’s arduous trek through blinding ice and snow in the hope that Floki will reconsider the banishment of Eyvind’s family,...
This Vikings review contains spoilers.
Vikings Season 5 Episode 16
“Perhaps she’d come to the end of reason.”
With Bishop Heahmund dead, Lagertha presumably alive but missing, and King Alfred suffering a debilitating illness, Vikings moves away from the battlefield and explores the notion of second chances in Wessex, Kattegat, and Iceland. “The Buddha” goes behind the scenes for a more introspective examination of the aftermath of the evolving political landscape, and the strategic machinations of those who retain power and those who desire it.
Much like the island on which they’ve settled, the story of Floki and the other pilgrims has become utterly detached from the rest of the Vikings narrative. That said, Helgi’s arduous trek through blinding ice and snow in the hope that Floki will reconsider the banishment of Eyvind’s family,...
- 1/2/2019
- Den of Geek
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