There is just so much we don’t know about space. What’s out there? What happens when we start to explore it more? There are just a ton of questions, and that makes for great stories, such as in the new Apple TV+ sci-fi drama, “Constellation.”

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As seen in the trailer, “Constellation” tells the story of an astronaut who experiences an accident while in space.

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With a title as bland as “Assassin Club”, one that seems to present the idea that screenwriter Thomas Dunn seemingly forgot to conjure up a better moniker for this Henry Golding thriller, it serves the dual purpose of describing a by-the-numbers globetrotting suspense-fest that could either drive the viewer into fits of boredom with the familiar beats it hits over and over again or act as a gateway drug for those new to the genre.  

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Before Quentin Tarantino filched the name for “Django Unchained,” another “Django” ruled the Western genre: the 1966 spaghetti western with Franco Nero. The film was so popular it spawned over 30 unofficial “sequels” before Nero reprised the role in 1987’s “Django Strikes Again.” Now, the original film gets a series treatment, courtesy of Sky Original.

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After what was rumored to be a long search, Thierry Fremaux has found his president for the 2022 Cannes Film Festival Jury. Legendary French actor Vincent Lindon, who starred in last year’s Palme d’Or winner, “Titane,” will take the mantle following Spike Lee‘s reign last year. Lindon also won the Best Actor prize at the festival in 2015 for “The Measure of a Man.”

READ MORE: David Cronenberg, James Gray & Park Chan-wook Top Cannes Film Festival 2022 Slate

Joining Lindon will be a slew of well-known international film figures who also happen to be members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (for those paying attention).

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What’s one way to spice up a dystopian thriller from its usual bleak tone, bleaker landscapes, and, bleaker still, a tired gray-on-gray color palate? An unconventional mode of transportation should do the trick. That’s the best thing about “Black Crab,” Netflix‘s latest entry in its long line of dystopia-adjacent projects. But hasn’t this been done before, one may ask, and at a high level? Certainly, but director/co-writer Adam Berg has no plans to swipe from the likes of Bong Joon-ho‘s 2013 extravaganza “Snowpiercer” and its globe-spanning locomotive for his feature debut.

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The term “elevated horror” is a bit contentious. Often, for film fans, this can mean a film is trying too hard to be something more than just a typical gorefest. But sometimes, the term is earned with projects such as “Hereditary” or “The Witch.” Judging by the early reviews for “You Won’t Be Alone,” Goran Stolevski’s feature definitely earns the title.

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Netflix is behind a bunch of various genre-focused films and that trend continues with “Black Crab.” The post-thriller will focus on a woman looking to end an apocalyptic war and save her daughter, a reluctant soldier embarks on a desperate mission to cross a frozen sea carrying a top-secret cargo.

The streaming giant has released a new trailer of the film directed by Adam Berg with a cast that consists of Noomi Rapace, Jakob Oftebro, Erik Enge, Dar Salim, Ardalan Esmaili, Aliette Opheim, and David Dencik.

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In Macedonia, there’s a legend about a bitter, lonely crone named “Old Maid Maria.” She wanders the woods in search of vulnerable newborn babies ripe with blood to feed on, allowing her to remain alive. In the opening of Goran Stolevski’s gruesome fairytale horror story, “You Won’t Be Alone,” Old Maid Maria (Anamaria Marinca), a menacing body of scar tissue and wispy gray hair, comes upon baby Nevena. To spare the child’s life, her anguished mother makes a vow to Maria: If she allows Nevena to live, when the girl turns 16, she can have her as a surrogate daughter.

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Every once in a while, a trailer for a horror thriller film drops and you can tell it’s likely going to be something special. And it’s safe to say that “You Won’t Be Alone” is shaping up to be one of those films.

READ MORE: 22 Most Anticipated Sundance 2022 Films: ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth,’ ‘Fire of Love,’ ‘FRESH’

Again, judging just based on the trailer, “You Won’t Be Alone” looks to be a beautiful, stylish period thriller that feels very much in the realm as something like Robert Eggers’ “The Witch.” Except in this film, the witch in question isn’t being seduced by evil but instead is dreaming of being more human.

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A delicious mix of Christian, pagan, and Icelandic mythology topped with a familiar A24 glaze of unsettling stillness and visual vibrancy, “Lamb” offers challenges in equal proportion to its rewards. A layered text that unpacks itself like a Russian nesting doll of human folly, the film showcases minimalist subtlety that deploys its pieces with exacting precision. Intriguing, suspenseful, occasionally hilarious, and perpetually engaging, “Lamb” exists in a space unencumbered by genre and unconcerned with expectation.

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A24 is back at it again doing peak-A24 stuff with the release of “Lamb” this week, a suspense drama chock-full of quiet desperation, rich imagery, and unsettling body horror. Early reviews and the trailer have been coy about how much they reveal of the plot, and for good reason: the journey of discovery is half the fun of the picture. It follows a middle-aged Icelandic couple who discover a lamb-human hybrid on their farm, using this as a platform to extend the narrative’s tendrils around concepts of grief, salvation, and humanity’s place in the natural world.

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The Cannes Film Festival is only about two weeks old now, and one of the highlights, it seems, was “Lamb,” a dark, atmospheric, eerie-looking folktale from first-time Iceland director Valdimar Jóhannsson. Starring Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, depending on who you ask and “Lamb” is a supernatural drama, a biblical film, a low-key horror or something else. One thing’s for sure; it looks cold and chilly based on previous teasers.

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Those looking to enjoy “Lamb” from Icelandic director Valdimar Jóhannsson would do well not to learn anything about it beyond its admittedly intriguing premise before watching it — to enter the screening room like lambs to the slaughter, if you will. Playing in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Festival de Cannes, the film centers on a couple living on a remote sheep farm, where they one day discover an unusual newborn that they immediately decide to raise as their own.

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One of this year’s most buzzed-about films coming to Cannes is the debut from filmmaker Valdimar Jóhannsson, titled “Lamb.” And if you need additional reasons to be excited about the new drama, take a gander at the new teaser trailer released for the film.

READ MORE: Cannes Film Festival 2021 Preview: 25 Films To Watch

As seen in the teaser, “Lamb” follows the story of a couple that lives on a rural farm in Iceland.

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On its surface, “The Secrets We Keep,” a story about a European refugee who lives in a remote part of New Orleans, Louisiana, and realizes her abuser from 15 years ago is now in town, could easily sound like another variation on “Death of the Maiden.” Dig a little deeper, however, and you’ll find a 1960’s thriller that shines a light on some very contemporary issues.

READ MORE: ‘The Secrets We Keep’ First Look: Noomi Rapace Kidnaps Joel Kinnaman In Post-WWII Revenge Thriller

Directed by Yuval Adler from a script by Robert Covington, the film portrays small town U.S.A as church picnics, American flags, grassy front lawns, and then shovels under those manicured lawns to find buried, war-time secrets.

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Blut und Ehre. It’s German for “Blood and Honor.” Not only that, but the phrase was also utilized as a reprehensible rallying cry for Nazi Germany during World War II and the years before. It was their baseless justification for committal of appalling crimes against humanity. Cinema has—however—provided some microscopic but—nonetheless—cathartic examples of such individuals getting their due comeuppance. Take “The Debt,” “The Odessa File,” “This Must Be The Place,” some scenes in “X-Men: First Class” or all of Amazon’s Nazi-hunting show, “Hunters.” A new movie entitled “The Secrets We Keep” sees another Holocaust survivor granted the opportunity to make the red stuff flow out of the person who tortured her years ago.

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Now that “Tenet” has a definite release date and movie theaters are re-opening, we’re finally hearing about all the movies whose release dates got delayed due to the pandemic. One of them is the revenge thriller “The Secrets We Keep” which stars Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman and Chris Messina, and we just got our first look at the film.

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If you’re a film fan, you may wonder why it’s taking so damn long for John Krasinski to release his highly-anticipated sequel to “A Quiet Place,” the breakout horror hit from 2018. Normally, low-budget horror sequels are on an annual release schedule. However, before the director could get back to work on that film, he had to finish up starring in the upcoming Season 2 of his Amazon spy series, “Jack Ryan.”

And as seen in the new trailer for the upcoming episodes of “Jack Ryan,” Krasinski surely has had his plate full over the last year.

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A parent’s biggest nightmare has to be the idea that a stranger could kidnap their child. Most of the time, when you imagine such a scenario, it’s some weirdo in an unmarked van that preys on children, offering candy and whatnot. But in the case of the film “Angel of Mine,” the predator in question is a mentally ill woman going through an extreme case of PTSD.

READ MORE: Noomi Rapace’s ‘Close’ Is A Largely Forgettable Action Film Destined To Get Lost In The Netflix Abyss [Review]

As seen in the trailer, the person that is threatening to kidnap a little girl isn’t some creepy guy in a van, but instead, a grieving mother that is utterly convinced that her neighbor’s daughter is, in fact, her own.

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“Do you know what they call it?” A woman’s voice, delicate and faint, rings out from the darkness. Then, a man murmurs a noise, husky and low, that indicates he doesn’t know.

“Stockholm syndrome,” the woman replies, as the face of Bianca Lind (Noomi Rapace) fades into view. Red-tinted, 70s-era glasses hang on the bridge of her nose as a pensive smile hangs on her lips.

Off-screen, the man asks, “What do you gotta do to get that?

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You’ve, no doubt, heard the term “Stockholm Syndrome” before. In fact, people know the term so well and can probably give you the definition, but actually, don’t know exactly where the phrase originated from. Well, Ethan Hawke and Noomi Rapace attempt to educate film fans about the issue in the upcoming bonkers, but true, crime story, “Stockholm.”

READ MORE: Paul Schrader Says His Next Film Will Be A Western Starring Ethan Hawke & Willem Dafoe

In the first trailer for the film, we see that “Stockholm” is based on the true story of a 1973 bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden that would lead to a psychological expert to coin the phrase “Stockholm Syndrome” as the hostages began to show sympathy for their captors.

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The adrenaline-pumping Netflix original film “Close” puts the stress of the bodyguard world center stage. Helmed by writer/director Vicky Jewson (“Lady Godiva,” “Born of War“) and starring Noomi Rapace the film is inspired by real-life events involving the world leading female bodyguard Jackie Davis.

READ MORE: The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2019 

Sam Carlson (Noomi Rapace) is a counterterrorism expert at the top of her field.

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If this bodyguard thriller were direct-to-VOD, rather than Netflix, it’s the kind of film that we’d expect Steven Seagal to lead, playing the gruff security expert who softens in the presence of his young charge. But this is Netflix – which is pretty legit most of the time – and instead of Seagal and his ponytail, we get Noomi Rapace and her bun. “Close” is better than late-period Seagal from every angle, but it’s still a largely forgettable action movie that will likely get lost in the sea of original titles added to Netflix each month and will fade from memory if you do stumble upon it and press play.

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Sometimes you want to watch a film that’s bound to win a dozen awards and be called the best of the year. And sometimes you just want to watch a film that features lots of things blowing up and bullets flying around. If you’re interested in that second scenario, Netflix is starting 2019 off with a bang thanks to its upcoming original film “Close.”

As seen in the first trailer for the film, Noomi Rapace stars as the best damn bodyguard in the world, who is assigned a brand-new client – a rich heiress that is definitely someone you’d probably seen hocking herbal, diet teas on Instagram.

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In only a relatively short amount of time, Lisbeth Salander has become one of the most iconic heroes in modern fiction. She’s a genius. She’s a badass. And in “The Girl in the Spider’s Web,” she’s basically a superhero, as she protects women who have been brutalized by powerful men. But even though it appears the character has morphed quite a bit from her first live-action appearance in 2009, actress Claire Foy says Lisbeth has stayed true to herself no matter who dons the all-black attire.

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