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In 1999 “The Sixth Sense,” a spooky-ooky movie involving ghosts and a freaky little kid who sees them, opened theatrically and quickly became a cultural sensation and a box office juggernaut. It would end up earning $672 million at the global box office and garnering six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Its signature line of dialogue (“I see dead people”) would enter the lexicon, endlessly quoted, parodied and spoofed.

But there was another, very similar, equally wonderful movie that opened in 1999 that didn’t get nearly the attention that it deserved – or, indeed, the attention that was bestowed upon “The Sixth Sense.”

That movie was writer/director David Koepp’s “Stir of Echoes,” which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary and as such has a brand-new 4K Uhd Blu-ray disc out (available exclusively through Amazon). And, incredibly, one of the new special features details how Koepp was...

La Palma, directed by Kasper Barfoed, made us aware of the volcanic eruption that occurred in the northwestern part of the Canary Islands and caused widespread damage to life and property. The volcanic eruption shown in the series did happen in real life, though the story is entirely fictional. The makers have taken creative liberties and weaved an imaginary narrative around some real-life events. So, let’s find out how much of what is shown in the series happened in real life, if the authorities were at fault, and if climate change had any role to play.

As stated in each and every episode of La Palma, an eruption occurred in 1949 in a region called Cumbre Vieja. The series called the region a ticking time bomb, which, according to a few researchers and geologists, is not true. Yes, it was speculated by experts that there was a threat of a...

La Palma’s ending simplified (Photo Credit – Netflix)

A new disaster survival series called La Palma was dropped on Netflix, and it has four episodes of absolute chaos. La Palma is about a Norwegian family that is vacationing in La Palm, and they have to come face to face with a tragedy as a volcano goes off and causes a Tsunami. As the season ends, we see different characters finding their way to safety of sorts. Their only chance is to reach a place called the safe spot where they will be evacuated from.

The Tsunami wrecks the island and everything on it

As the Tsunami wrecks the island, we see the boats and planes that were the biggest chance for people to get out of there break into smithereens. The plane that Sara and Charlie had gets wrecked before they take off. Fredrick reaches the safety spot on his boat,...

Una lista de 10 películas imprescindibles de la 72ª edición del Festival. © Ssiff

Con la 72ª edición del Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián ya finalizada, desde mundoCine te traemos nuestro top 10 de películas (sin orden preferente) que no te puedes perder y que se estrenarán en cines en breve:

Anora (Sean Baker)

Sean Baker le da una vuelta de tuerca al clásico cuento de Cenicienta y a la Pretty Woman de Garry Marshall, y lo hace con Anora, y su explosiva fusión de romance, comedia, thriller y drama. Una ganadora más que merecida de la Palma de Oro en Cannes y que debería, por fin, catapultar a Baker a los Oscar. Y es que Anora es un nombre que se te quedará grabado mucho tiempo después de que acabe la película, y una historia como ésta solo podía ser obra de Sean Baker. [Sigue leyendo nuestra crítica…]

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El director de ‘The Florida Project’ se lleva la prestigiosa Palma de Oro.

La 77ª edición del prestigiosísimo festival de Cannes ha concluido. En esta edición, la Palma de Oro, el máximo galardón del festival al que aspira todo cineasta que pasa por la Croisette, ha sido para la película de Neon, “Anora”, dirigida por Sean Baker, más conocido por la película “The Florida Project”. Con este triunfo, la distribuidora Neon ha conseguido la prestigiosa Palma de Oro por quinta vez consecutiva, algo que se dice muy rápido: “Anora” en 2024, “Anatomía de una Caída” en 2023, “El Triángulo de la Tristeza” en 2022, “Titane” en 2021 y “Parásitos” en 2019. De esta forma, “Anora” se convierte en una muy fuerte candidata para la próxima temporada de premios. No solo la película, mucho ojo, porque la actuación de su protagonista, Mikey Madison, ha dado mucho que hablar.

La gala de clausura del festival ha estado...

Revenge director Coralie Fargeat’s new body horror satire, The Substance, screened at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend, and the reactions have been (mostly) very positive - although it sounds like the movie has its share of shocking moments.

The film focuses on an acclaimed actress turned celebrity host of a daytime exercise program (Demi Moore) who gets replaced by a younger star (Margaret Qualley), sparking a confrontation between the two women that ultimately turns violent.

The Substance reportedly features some pretty extreme gore, but the scene that's sparked the most discussion is a brutal fight between Moore and Qualley's characters - complete with graphic, full-frontal nudity.

“I had someone who was a great partner,” said Moore of her co-star. “We were obviously quite close at some moments… and naked. But there was also a levity [in shooting those scenes].”

Moore also noted that the film “pushed me out of the comfort zone,...

Quentin Tarantino does not view Kill Bill as two separate films. That should be acknowledged upfront as fair. After all, it is this detail which allows Tarantino the ability to claim Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood as his ninth instead of 10th film (thereby delaying any obligatory early retirements). And to be sure, Tarantino shot Kill Bill as one epic vision that was only encouraged to be broken up by, ahem, Harvey Weinstein while Tarantino was finishing up principal photography.

So while the story was released as Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2, they’re two sides of the same tale. Be that as it may, there’s no denying that they’re two incredibly different sides. Whether a creative choice made in post-production after realizing he had hours more of running time to play with, or because the filmmaker was already at his most indulgent...

In his films, director and screenwriter Amat Escalante (Mexico) is committed to portraying the violence of his country in a provocative, head-on way. His first three feature films premiered at the Cannes Film Festival: Sangre and Los bastardos screened in the Un Certain Regard section, and his 2013 film Heli premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or, for which Escalante won the Best Director Award. In 2016, he presented The Untamed (La región salvaje), a film with science-fiction elements, in competition at the Venice Festival, which again won him the Best Director Award. This year, he premiered his fifth feature film, Lost in the Night, in the Cannes Premieres section.In this episode, we talk about the relationship between filmmakers and their social context. In conversation with programmer and critic Pamela Biénzobas, Escalante speaks about his relationship with the city of Guanajuato as a source of inspiration and his interest in establishing...

Exclusive: Mars Media’s Ruben Dishdishyan and Amedia Production’s Len Blavatnik, two of the most significant figures in the Russian biz, have entered into a five-year agreement to co-produce and co-finance feature films.

The deal is a formalization of an existing partnership that to date has seen the companies team on projects including local box office hit A Dog Named Palma as well as its upcoming sequel, and the war drama T-34, which was a box office smash in China and was picked up for international territories by Netflix. In post-production are historical epic Woland, an adaptation of The Master and Margarita, and sci-fi action-adventure Mira.

The producers are aiming to make 10 features together over the next five years. Already in development are Alexander Pushkin’s epic fairytale Ruslan and Ludmila and an adaptation of Boris and Arkady Strugatsky’s famed sci-fi mystery novel The Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel.