The last time we saw Maxine Minx (Mia Goth), she had barely survived a porn shoot massacre in the middle of Texas. One of her last lines in that particular movie, 2022’s “X,” saw her parroting her father, a television preacher with the mantra, “I will not accept a life I do not deserve.” Now, after an impressive prequel centered on Maxine’s initial adversary, “Pearl,” our heroine returns in the third chapter of Ti West’s gore thriller trilogy, “MaXXXine.” And, you could say Hollywood would never be the same if the movie wasn’t such an obvious and intentional homage to seedy, LA kitsch.

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There’s a lot of hype surrounding the release of “MaXXXine.” This is because the first two films in the trilogy, “X” and “Pearl,” were massive hits, both financially and critically. And honestly, it’s pretty rare for a horror film to delight both genre fans and critics. Needless to say, there are a lot of folks who are wondering if “MaXXXine” can end the trilogy on a high note.

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It’s wild to see a jumping-around-in-time horror franchise come together at A24 and one that’s not even built on a title brand at the same time. Written and directed by horror filmmaker Ti West, “MaXXXine” is the third and final (?) installment in his slasher trilogy that began with “X” and “Pearl.” “X” was basically a kind of sexploitation horror/cautionary tale about fame set in the late 1970s about a cast and crew who gather to make a pornographic film on an elderly couple’s rural Texas property, but things go horribly awry.

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Recently, it was announced that an all-star supporting cast is joining Mia Goth in the trilogy-ending film, “MaXXXine.” And now, with production underway, we get our first look at the leading lady with one of her new castmates. 

READ MORE: ‘MaXXXine’: Mia Goth Describes Upcoming Horror Sequel As “A Superhero Movie”

For those unfamiliar with the “X” trilogy, “MaXXXine” takes place after the events of “X” and finds Mia Goth returning as the title character, the lone survivor from the previous slasher.

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After the surprising success of both “X” and “Pearl” last year, film fans are dying to see what Ti West and his star, Mia Goth, have up their sleeves for the final part of the trilogy, “MaXXXine.” Well, according to a new interview with Total Film, it sounds as if the third film is going to be just as surprising in its tone as the other two. 

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In a world where studios are desperate to create the next big franchise, it’s always interesting to see these sorts of things pop up in a truly organic way. “John Wick” is a good example of this. You can also lump in Ti West’s “X” trilogy, which began as a cheap slasher but in very short order, has turned into one of the most interesting horror franchises of the past decade.

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Not yet thirty years old, Mia Goth has already collaborated with several world-renowned filmmakers for her willingness to follow their most demented muses. Her girlish appearance strikes a shocking contrast with the atrocity exhibitions that she gravitates toward: eagerly taking to sexual grooming in Lars Von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac;” undergoing forcible insemination and grisly spaghettification with Claire Denis in “High Life;” becoming an insane asylum’s incestuous princess for Gore Verbinski in “A Cure for Wellness;” witnessing her own disembowelment as part of the orgiastic blood ritual Luca Guadagnino that’s the grand finale to “Suspiria;” manifesting a century of madness for Ti West’s in-progress trio of period pieces of “X,” “Pearl,” and the upcoming “Maxxxine.” And so it’s no surprise that Goth’s latest outing is another twisted affair: Brandon Cronenberg‘s “Infinity Pool,” which takes place at a Mediterranean beach resort that hides a violent and depraved sub-culture.

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There’s crazy, there’s batshit crazy, and then there’s Brandon Cronenberg’s definition of crazy. It’s a crazy that’s impossible to contain and even more impossible to label: a mind-bending neon-lit nightmare bursting at the seams with perverse imagery, an abrasive embrace of the grotesque, and a ravishing explosion of seduction and power. “Infinity Pool,” Cronenberg’s widely-anticipated third feature, is all these things and more — consistently defying expectations while relaying a complex panoply of sex, satire, sadism, and class warfare that is at once unnerving and undiluted.

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With 2020’s “Possessor,” Brandon Cronenberg made a film to make his father, the body-horror master David Cronenberg, proud. The film quickly won over critics at the Sundance Film Festival for its trippy, grotesque take on sci-fi horror, with winning performances from Christopher Abbot and Andrea Riseborough. Now, Brandon returns with his latest effort, “Infinity Pool,” which may not just make his Dad proud but cement the up-and-coming filmmaker as a master in his own right.

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Like father, like son?  Brandon Cronenberg‘s work as a director already had a similar tone to his Dad, David Cronenberg. But now he’s following in his father’s footsteps in another way: his upcoming film “Infinity Pool” has received an NC-17 rating, just like his father’s 1996 film “Crash.”

READ MORE: ‘Infinity Pool’: Alexander Skarsgård & Director Brandon Cronenberg Team For NEON’s New Sci-Fi Thriller

Bloody-Disgusting reports that the movie received an NC-17 rating from the MPA this week for “some graphic violence and sexual content,” but producer NEON intends to appeal to the C.A.R.A Appeals Board for a less extreme rating.

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About a decade ago, Ti West was a director to watch in the horror genre thanks to 2009’s “The House Of The Devil” and 2011’s “The Innkeepers.” West hasn’t been up to much since the commercial failure of 2016’s “In A Valley Of Violence,” though. Since that film, West has stuck to directing episodes of various TV series like “Scream,” “The Exorcist,” and “Them.”

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Now, West returns to the big screen with an all-new horror film under the illustrious A24 banner.

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Female trauma’s been given a serious workout in cinema, liberally exercised in the fantasy genre of late. The celebrated “Promising Young Woman,” while dark satire, uses hot pink revenge fantasy to acerbically explore unresolved trauma (its we live in a society bias nicely unpacked here), and fellow Sundance film, “The Blazing World,” attempts to fall down the rabbit hole of make-believe and similar flight-or-flight responses to emotional scars, only to grotesquely exploit it with its awkward tumble.  

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S.O.S distress calls, fantasy escape from trauma, and forever wars that need to be fought all swirl together in “Mayday,” a dreamy and surreal new feminist fairy tale and revenge film that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival this week. The feature-length filmmaking debut of writer/director Karen Cinorre, “Mayday” centers on Ana, a young woman who is mysteriously transported to an otherworldly and dangerous island. Upon her rescue, she is recruited into a murderous army of girls engaged in an endless conflict that lies between a treacherous ocean and a jagged coastline.

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It’s been four years since filmmaker Ti West has released a film, with 2016’s “In a Valley of Violence,” being his last feature. Since then, the genre filmmaker has worked extensively in TV, on series such as “The Exorcist,” “Wayward Pines,” “Chambers,” and most recently, “Tales from the Loop.” But it appears he’s ready to hop back to feature filmmaking, with the upcoming film “X.”

READ MORE: ‘In A Valley Of Violence’ Is An Enjoyably Splattery, Throwback Western [Review]

According to Deadline, Ti West is set to write and direct “X” for A24 and BRON Studios.

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“Emma,” the first straightforward film adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic text since Douglas McGrath’s 1995 take, is arduously faithful to the text in all respects but one: The most romantic scene is interrupted by a nosebleed. This is the perfect distillment of Autumn de Wilde’s prim and winking “Emma,” a film as technicolor-lush as Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” and as subversively fanatic about its source material as Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women.” With winsome performances, eye-popping art direction, and witty repartee, de Wilde’s adaptation is, like its protagonist, “handsome, clever, and rich.”

Twenty-five years after Gwenyth Paltrow played Emma Woodhouse, Anya Taylor-Joy has taken on the famous meddler’s bonnet.

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Jane Austen left an indelible impact on not just feminist literature but on the movement itself. One example is Elizabeth Bennet’s disregard for decorum as she traipses through the muck to check on her sister Jane in “Pride and Prejudice.” Living in the era of #MeToo and Time’s Up lends a great deal of gravitas to a seemingly simple act written about more than 200 years ago. Keira Knightley portrayed the headstrong Austen character in 2005, and Anya Taylor-Joy stars as another in the coming year’s “Emma.”

Autumn de Wilde—most well-known for photographing such musical acts as The Raconteurs, The White Stripes, and Beck—makes her feature film directorial debut with the project.

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Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Luca Guadagnino hasn’t fully announced his next feature-length project, following 2018’s “Suspiria” remake, but we do know what project he’s tackling next. According to Variety, the filmmaker is teaming with an all-star cast for a new short film in collaboration with Pierpaolo Piccioli, creative director of the Valentino fashion house.

READ MORE: Dario Argento Says Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Suspiria’ Remake “Betrayed The Spirit Of The Original Film”

Now, when you hear that a director is teaming with a company for a short film, you might immediately think that this is going to be a little commercial.

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Spanning four decades, the inimitable Claire Denis’ filmmaking career has long centered on the sensual, the cerebral, the mysterious and the inscrutable. All these elements and their enigmatic mixture are poured into her latest work, the rare genre film and unknowable sci-fi mindbender, “High Life” a kind of “2001: Space Odyssey” meets David Cronenberg and many a troubling moral implication.

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Starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth, André Benjamin (Andre 3000 from Outcast), “High Life” is a gnarly head trip; a thought-provoking film, that is sensuous, kinky, terrifying and brainy, but also a deep meditation on what it means to be human.

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Reaping the benefits of a big name lead and her biggest budget to date, Claire Denis is about to expose herself to a wider audience than her career’s ever seen before with her English-language sci-fi “High Life.” But if her recent take on the rom-com genre, “Let the Sunshine In,” is anything to go by, the filmgoing public be would be ill-advised to approach this space drama expecting thrills in a “Gravity” or “Interstellar” vein.

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There’s good news and bad news. Good: Claire Denis‘ upcoming sci-fi film “High Life” with Robert Pattinson that recently screened at the New York Film Festival is phenomenal. Bad: It’s not coming out until TBD 2019 in North America. Good: It is coming out in France on November 7 and so the long wait for footage from the film is over. The first teaser from the film has been revealed and the full international trailer should be here soon.

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The filmography of Claire Denis is so admirably esoteric, running the gamut from psychological drama to war adventure to sex comedy, that the idea of her taking on science fiction has been met, in most quarters, with a collective, “Sure, why not?” And the result, “High Life,” is a notable entry in the rather grand tradition of bugfuck space movies, merging the conventions of that particular genre subset with her ongoing preoccupations.

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Patricia Arquette And Mia Goth Join Robert Pattinson In Claire Denis' Sci-Fi 'High Life,' Plot Details Revealed

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