Joanna Hogg’s 2019 film “The Souvenir” made a big splash at its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival that year. The film went on to win the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the festival that year and was a critic’s favorite, ending up on several Top 10 lists at year’s end. Now, Hogg’s follow-up “The Souvenir Part II” gets its New York premiere with a screening at the New York Film Festival this week, after its world premiere earlier this year in Cannes.

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Netflix‘s big event this weekend, TUDUM, has kicked off and has given us new looks at upcoming projects from the streaming giant. The kids from Hawkins, Indiana, have not commanded the spotlight in a while. Season Three of “Stranger Things” came and went as successfully as ever, but the Duffer Brothers left the gang in different spots. Hopper appeared to have died, and Eleven and the Byers’ family moved out of Hawkins.

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Midway through Joanna Hogg’s seismic “The Souvenir: Part II,” a continuation to her 2019 feature begotten from personal remembrances, her fictional alter ego, Julie (Honor Swinton-Byrne), sits in a van surrounded by the team of student filmmakers helping with her thesis project. The director of photography berates them for the inconsistency of the production attributed to Julie’s scattered-brained process.

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She remains silent, but anger punctures her.

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What if you could take a simple test and skip the drama-filled rollercoaster that is dubbed “dating?” Would you embrace the test that tells you, without a doubt, who your soulmate is? And how would that change the entirety of humanity? Judging by the trailer for the new AMC anthology series, “Soulmates,” it’s not an entirely good thing at all.

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The short trailer for “Soulmates” shows brief glimpses at the lives of a variety of people that have chosen to take the test to find out who they are destined to be with.

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Based on her own recollections as a shy film student growing up in the 1980s of Margaret Thatcher’s U.K., Joanna Hogg’s coming-of-age drama “The Souvenir” starring Honor Swinton Byrne and her mother Tilda Swinton, quickly became one of our favorite films of 2019 so far, when it was released earlier this year. The filmmaker’s stunning and intimate drama lived up to the immense buzz coming out of Sundance and struck a chord with all cineastes.

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It happened. Disney now owns and controls the vast library of 20th Century Fox. And as has been beaten into our heads from the millions of articles over the last year, this deal means that the Mouse House controls the ‘X-Men’ films, and thus, can decide the fate of the upcoming films “Dark Phoenix” and “The New Mutants.” While it appears that “Dark Phoenix” is going full steam ahead with its June release, the big question is what is going on with ‘New Mutants.’ And if anyone out there knows, star Maisie Williams would love to find out.

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Screenwriter Sergio G. Sánchez is ready to step into the spotlight. The pen behind acclaimed films “The Orphanage” and “The Impossible” has rounded up a cast of rising stars for his directorial debut “Marrowbone,” a ghost story that has more a few tricks up its sleeve.

Starring George MacKay (“Pride,” “Captain Fantastic“), Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Witch, “Split“), Charlie Heaton (“Stranger Things“), Mia Goth (“Nymphomaniac,” “A Cure For Wellness“) and Matthew Stagg, the story follows four English children who land in America with their mother, escaping a terrifying past….only to find more terror ahead when they move into a house that holds plenty of secrets.

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We’ve lived through a couple generations now of movies with various iterations of Magneto, Charles Xavier, Mystique….you get the idea. Now, a fresh superhero torch is being lit with “The New Mutants,” and now we have our first look at the new school.

A cast of rising stars including Maisie Williams (“Game Of Thrones“), Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Witch, “Split“), and Charlie Heaton (“Stranger Things“) lead the cast in this story that will follow a group of teenagers who are learning to grapple with their strange powers while being held in a secret facility.

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It’s only a matter of time before the young cast of “Stranger Things” start finding their careers expanding into the world of blockbuster pictures. As we learned yesterday, Millie Bobby Brown auditioned for the role of X-23 in “Logan,” but she didn’t land it. However, it looks like Charlie Heaton will be the first of the young ensemble to make the major league leap.

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You may recognize Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers, the sensitive older brother of Will Byers from the Netflix hit show, “Stranger Things.” And while you wait for season two, you can check out the 23-year-old British actor in writer-director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s breakout film, “As You Are.”

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In this new trailer (via Harper’s Bazaar), fans can catch a glimpse of what captivated critics last year at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Award for Drama.

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