Black Mandala is proud to present SHED, a gripping survival horror film from director Steven J. Mihaljevich. Set almost entirely through the perspective of a trapped young girl, SHED delivers a uniquely intimate and nerve-shredding horror experience. With remarkable restraint and precision, Mihaljevich crafts an intense, immersive and unique outstanding horror thriller that draws its
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Independent filmmakers are thrilled to announce the official crowdfunding launch for Red, White & Bloody, a provocative new sci-fi horror feature now live on Indiegogo. Set on a distant, Earth-like planet in a post-apocalyptic future, the film delivers a chilling exploration of authoritarianism, survival, and resistance. In a nation mirroring modern-day America, a fragile peace
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The Clownjuring Movie Review by Matt Boiselle The Clownjuring – directed by Jody S. Dean, and starring Anthony Dean, Jesse Leppert and Jayce Dean Synopsis: When a young couple decide to play a game known as The Clownjuring, they awaken the vicious souls of three sadistic serial killer clowns from the depths of Hell. The
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OnlyFangs Movie Review by Matt Boiselle OnlyFangs – directed by Angelica De Alba and Paul Ragsdale (also wrote) and starring Kansas Bowling, Drew Marvick and Nina Lanee Kent Synopsis: A budding monster hunter assists a bloodthirsty group of female vampires by creating an app that turns their victims into customers. Taking a big ol’ bite
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The year 1991 was one of astonishing riches in the best hip-hop, landing (depending somewhat on your definition) somewhere in the middle of the genre’s “golden age”. Building on the innovations of Marley Marl, Ced Gee, and others, the producers of the early 1990s, among them Pete Rock, Diamond D, Large Professor, and DJ Premier,
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Jazz composer and trombonist Javier Nero might be thought of as a modern traditionalist in the music. His new album with his big band, the Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra, Alkebulan, was just released and features music rooted in the large-ensemble tradition. It also incorporates a variety of more modern elements: rhythmic groove that traces back
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Paul Verhoeven’s 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinctis saturated with sexual tension and psychological gamesmanship, but nowhere is this more concentrated than in the iconic interrogation scene. Sharon Stone’s character, Catherine Tramell, turns a police interrogation into a calculated display of control and seduction, using her legs—and specifically the climactic moment of crossing and uncrossing them—as
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Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live Talking Heads Rhino 6 March 2026 A new Talking Heads compilation acts like a scrapbook, looking at the nascent band’s early years as a trio before they exploded onto the New York scene and around the world. This three-CD collection is compiled from several sources recorded when the group consisted
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Australian country songwriter Morgan Evans sets out to explore his childhood memories with this one. “Forgiving You For Me” maps out his internal souvenirs set to a pedal steel riff. The candour set the tone for the rest of the record: polished hooks, splendid serenity and sincerity over metaphor. Evans is a master at creating
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Listening to Fallows, the latest release from acclaimed jazz saxophonist Caroline Davis, is like entering a portal into another dimension. That sounds like a cliché, but it’s accurate. The sounds she conjures on her alto saxophone, aided by a processing mechanism called an organelle, form a unique and often mesmerizing combination. When accompanied by odd
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Filming underway now; planned release October 2027 Silver Compass Studios has officially begun production on a new feature-lengthdocumentary titled What Are You Afraid Of?, an ambitious film exploring humanity’senduring fascination with fear through psychology, history, storytelling, and communityritual. Principal photography is now underway, with filming expected to continue throughthe 2026 Halloween season and wrap in
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A film by Kane Parsons, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell. BACKROOMS – In Theaters May 29 RELEASE DATE: May 29DIRECTOR: Kane ParsonsCAST: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell After a therapist’s patient goes missing into a dimension beyond reality, she has to enter
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“This should have been an album of mourning,” Jorge Drexler said of his new album, Taracá, noting that his father died last year. Drexler said that though his father was a child of the Holocaust, “he was a very celebratory person. And so this is a celebratory record. I think it’s a way of mourning.”
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Dark Horse Comics’ graphic novel The Midnight: Shadows knows that nostalgia has many reputations: as bait, faulty lenses, and a hell of a drug. Nostalgia is the tarnished memories we reinterpret as golden or irretrievable innocence ossified in time. “Back then”, kids were known to scuff their knees on sun-drenched sidewalks, undomesticated by algorithms and
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It’s spring equinox Saturday night here in the People’s Republic of Berkeley on 21 March, and the people are fired up for Jesse Welles’ triumphant return to the Bay Area. The truth-telling troubadour from Arkansas has been winning hearts and minds across the nation with his wry, sharp-edged musical critiques of America’s decline. Welles is
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Sunbeam of No Illusion Ben Seretan and John Thayer AKP Recordings 27 March 2026 The title Sunbeam of No Illusion, the first recorded collaboration between musicians Ben Seretan and John Thayer, is derived from actual correspondence between Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, as Emerson praised Whitman’s writing. This quote serves as an acknowledgement of
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My introduction to Shawn Colvin wasn’t through her smash hit single “Sunny Came Home”, which reached number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and received the Grammy Awards for Record and Song of the Year in 1998. It wasn’t through her equally successful debut studio album Steady On, either, which won the Grammy for
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Following shows in Toronto and Montreal, Irish dream-pop singer-songwriter Maria Somerville recently performed in Vermont for the first time. With opening support from solo act Colle, Somerville’s Burlington performance marked the first stop on a North American tour bookended with dates in Canada after the release ofLuster (Remixes)EP in January 2026. I arrived at Higher
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Warning: SPOILERS for the NCIS: Origins episode “Homeward Bound” are ahead! Last October, Adam Campbell reprised the young Donald “Ducky” Mallard on NCIS: Origins following his handful of appearances on the main NCIS series (which now also includes the shocking 500th episode). In “The Edge,” we learned the reason why Ducky started talking to bodies,
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