“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.” ― that’s a direct quote from “Daisy Jones & The Six” by Taylor Jenkins Reid, a hugely popular novel that’s been turned into an all-star Amazon prime mini-series by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, who broke into the business with “500 Days of Summer,” and went on to have a lot of success with teen YA work like “The Spectacular Now,” “The Fault in Our Stars,” and “Paper Towns.”

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They’ve adapted “Daisy Jones and The Six,” which essentially looks at sex, drugs, and a Fleetwood Mac-esque fictional band rock band in the 1970s from their rise in the LA music scene.

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Cameron Crowe’s “Roadies” failed to strike a chord and create a TV series about 1970s rockers on the road and tales of sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll that audiences loved. But show creators Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (“The Spectacular Now”) are hoping their similar-sounding version, starring Riley Keough, will convince you otherwise with the new Prime Video series “Daisy Jones & The Six.”

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Produced by Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter for Hello Sunshine and Brad Mendelsohn for Circle of Confusion, the series stars Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, Camila Morrone, Will Harrison, Suki Waterhouse, Josh Whitehouse, Sebastian Chacon, Nabiyah Be, and Tom Wright, with a special guest appearance by Timothy Olyphant.

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Having already written many thrilling, contemporary indie horror hits, when inventive screenwriter Simon Barrett (“You’re Next,” “The Guest,” “V/H/S”) announced he was making his feature-length directorial debut with the all-girls prep school horror, “Séance”—about high school cliques, late-night rituals, pranks and calling dead spirits— one assumed the filmmaker could channel something exceptionally spooky. And or, in the process, create a chiller that could comment on the uncharitable nature of teenage girls, prestige school elitism, the exclusivity that runs through them, and the dog-eat-dog hierarchy of private coteries and fitting in.

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Look, in the wrong hands, a film about a group of students at a prestigious all-girls school summoning a demon could be pretty lame and uninspired. But when you look at “Seance,” and see the name Simon Barrett attached, suddenly a tried-and-true premise might actually have something unique to offer.

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As seen in the trailer for “Seance,” the film follows the aforementioned group of girls as they attempt to investigate the urban legend about a spirit that haunts their school.

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New Year’s Eve hasn’t received quite the holiday horror love that Halloween and Christmas have, but this feature-length episode of Hulu‘s “Into the Dark,” titled “New Year, New You,” reminds us that there’s something sinister lurking beneath the night’s promise of rebirth and fresh starts. Each outing of the anthology series from horror super-producer Jason Blum focuses on different holiday, including “Flesh & Blood,” Patrick Lussier‘s terrifying take on Thanksgiving and “Pooka,” Nacho Vigalondo‘s Christmas nightmare.

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A Freudian-fueled thriller with slow-burn sensibilities and diamond-sharp turns between each act, “Jonathan” is as engaging as it is unassuming. The story of a man who shares his body with a twin brother trapped inside his psyche, the movie might well have come off the tracks in about a dozen different places were it not so precisely assembled and paced. Tender, suspenseful, and effortlessly capable in its world-building, “Jonathan” accomplishes just about everything it sets out to do.

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Sibling rivalry is a real thing. Since the dawn of man, there has always been this innate drive to somehow do better than your sibling. But in the new film “Jonathan,” the question is presented — what do you do when your sibling is inside your own body?

As you can probably tell from that premise and the new trailer, “Jonathan,” starring Ansel Elgort as the titular character, is a bit of a complicated film.

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It’s hard to tell exactly what to expect from “Assassination Nation.” The first teaser for the film was a string of trigger warnings, leading the viewer to believe that something they’re about to watch is going to be so shocking and offensive, that they might not be ready for it. The new red band trailer for the film follows a similar theme of trying to shock and surprise you, but honestly, it’s hard to tell if this film is all style, with no substance, or if there’s a deeper meaning buried under the buckets of blood and mayhem.

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“Assassination Nation” starts off in deliciously horrific fashion, with a warning about the “sensory assault” that’s about to happen onscreen. “Fragile male egos” are told to brace themselves for murder, bullying, and torture, and a kinetic montage follows teasing all the mayhem that’s about to ensue. If only the film were that exciting.

Writer-director Sam Levinson’s film sold for $10 million, a record at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. 

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In a summer that will be filled with Big Branded Entertainment, you may want a reprieve. Well, few things will be arriving in the months ahead — or this year — as strikingly original as Ana Lily Amirpour‘s “The Bad Batch.” And a beautifully badass new trailer is here for the one-of-a-kind movie.

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Starring Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Giovanni Ribisi, and Keanu Reeves, the film takes you to a dusty, post-apocalyptic future where a young woman falls in with a group of totally ripped, bod-obsessed cannibals.

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After breaking out with “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,” writer/director Ana Lily Amirpour likely had a few open doors, and could’ve pivoted toward mainstream. Instead, she decided to double down on her unique storytelling voice and make “The Bad Batch,” and make no mistake, it couldn’t have come from any other filmmaker.

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Featuring an eclectic ensemble including Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Giovanni Ribisi, and Keanu Reeves, the film is set in an arid, dystopian future, and follows a young woman who is captured by a tribe of cannibals.

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Consider, for a moment, a lesser “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Now consider a greater “Southland Tales.” Now drive out, preferably on a clapped-out scooter or a souped-up golf cart, into the Saharan expanse of quality that still exists between those two things, find the exact midpoint and plant a flag for Ana Lily Amirpour‘s second feature “The Bad Batch,” a film that frustratingly contains a good, or at least a fun movie, without actually being a good, or a particularly fun, movie.

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Watch: The Dead Will Rise In New Trailer For 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'

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Watch: Jane Austen Meets The Undead In The First Trailer For ‘Pride And Prejudice And Zombies’

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