We should start seeing screenings in LA of The History of Concrete this weekend. From the HBO series How To with John Wilson we get a brand new movie from John that looks as ridiculous as his previous show.
One of our fav films is having it's World Premiere 4K Restoration. It's MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE courtesy of Severin Films. Here's more picks we're dying to see.
As of writing this, these films still have tickets.
September 26 • 07:00 PM MUBI Theatre at Los Feliz 3 West Coast Premiere
Q&A with filmmaker Ben Sottak
Pumpkin is the last person alive – and every day is Halloween as far as she is concerned in the post-apocalypse. Her home is decorated with all sorts of Halloween paraphernalia and there are jack-o’-lanterns everywhere. And yet the sadness she feels at being alone simply won’t go away. Until one day she discovers there are others alive – a group of scavengers led by Thalia who seems very friendly. But first impressions can be wrong and deadly and soon the scavengers are about to discover they have messed with the wrong girl.
September 27 • 10:00 PM MUBI Theatre at Los Feliz 3
West Coast Premiere
n Japanese with English subtitles
The vanishing of an editor of an occult magazine sets in motion an investigation by a freelance writer and a colleague – soon they will be mired in a mystery that engulfs the Kinki region: missing children, hysteria, hauntings and much, much more.
Director Koji Shiraishi defined what true fear was with his entry into the found-footage-documentary scene with NOROI and he comes back this year with this new entry that is designed with a single purpose in mind: to terrify the audience beyond belief and then some. Trust me when I say that once KINKI ends, darkness will seem like a much more terrifying place than it did before the screening – see it with a friend and make sure you don’t walk together.
No one brings more death-defying entertainment to the screen than fearless martial arts superstar Jackie Chan. In this awe-inspiring and highly amusing action-thriller, Chan outdoes himself with the most eye-popping stunts ever filmed, each more amazing than the last. Chan plays Keong, a Hong Kong cop who gets more than he bargained for when he visits relatives in a crime-ridden section of New York. Soon Keong is brawling with Mafia kingpins and unleashing his lethal skills on unsuspecting thugs. From the first astonishing action sequence to the last, in which Chan is matched against a giant hovercraft in a deadly show of brute strength.
Though it's just in early access, Trivia Murder Party 3 will be my game this Halloween season. Smart for Jackbox to release it early to test out bugs and other probs as people want to get their horror on. I believe the 1.0 release is for next year, missing the season would have been too scary.
This newest version is a stand-alone from Jackbox, meaning it ain't in a pack. The latest pack happens to becoming out in October just in time for the holiday get-togethers too. You might not get into the pack until November as your time will be devoted to this third entry in the series.
Set in a summer camp, the game already has a lot of polish to show the extra time devoted to it being on its own. An entirely new set up, forget the murder hotel from previous entries, with brand new visuals and deadly new party games set in a beautiful summer death trap. And, you're would be killer host is back ready to quip and make you solve all new trivia. *For long time players the host is never given a name other than "redacted", he's just your host...that wants to murder you if you get questions wrong.
For long time players of the series, you can see just quality life improvements everywhere. From mini-games to your new voodoo doll, pretty much everything is a better version or new.
A friend who isn't that much into horror movies immediately noticed the references from the zeitgeist of Friday the 13th/Jason movies the game is heavily inspired from. When you hear you dead Mom not approving of your actions, you might be a Jason Voorhees reference. And, the way that plays out in the game, even though subject matter seems so macabre, it just works. It's like having Elvira or a funny drag-show host doing skits or playing along as you're on your own game show episode.
What's funny as at this point and with such nods to the whole horror genre is not having an only horror trivia mode. Hell, make it DLC, I'm pretty sure fans of the series would love it if Jackbox could just do questions about horror movies; a horror movie mode would be perfect for this.
What's killer is the brand new look of your voodoo doll. You're given a random one as your avatar when you play, but this time around you can sign up/ login and unlock gear and clothes for playing; never seen in previous titles. If you don't want to do that, you have some basic customization this time, so your character can look a bit different.
It's great to grab this title early, because I assume the cost will go up upon its final release. Game was stable when I played online with friends. If there are hiccups with it, it'll be sorted by next year. As the perfect Halloween game for this year, you should have it ready to go for when you want a spooky fun night of trivia.
Fun fact: ‘Mexico’ in the indigenous language Nahuatl means “the moon’s belly.” ๐
This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen! This NEEDS to reach Takeuchi-sensei somehow!!! Very proud and happy to see this merge of cultures (one being my own!) ๐ https://t.co/zr4YpROnKL
