Plenty of films over the years have taught us that kids are pretty damn creepy. But when you add in a dash of superpowers, suddenly you have children that are perhaps the stuff of nightmares, such as in “The Innocents.” 

As seen in the new trailer for “The Innocents,” the film follows the story of a group of young children who find out that they might have psychic powers.

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What do we really know about children? Until the Renaissance, artists were still painting them as freakish shriveled adults. Only in the last century-ish did American society decide they probably should go to school instead of laboring all day in sweatshops. And though modernity affords parents all the luxuries of developmental psychology and helicopter parenting, perhaps children still remain more of a mystery than we may think. In “The Innocents,” which debuted in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival, Norwegian filmmaker Eskil Vogt (Joachim Trier‘s longtime screenwriter, who also directs) posits that we don’t know much about children at all. 

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It’s Halloween, and film fans may be trying to figure out what movies to watch to celebrate the occasion. Well, lucky for us, some of the best filmmakers in the world have revealed their favorite horror film moments and it provides a pretty great list of what films to enjoy.

Edgar Wright, Alice Lowe, Karyn Kusama, Anna Biller, and Panos Cosmatos spoke to the Guardian recently and explain why the five moments they’ve chosen are the five scariest ever put to film.

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Who would have thought that shape-shifting would be such a bummer? In the new Netflix series “The Innocents,” two teens run away to be together, but when one of the teens finds out she has the ability to shape-shift and become other people, all hell breaks loose.

Seriously, being able to shape-shift really must be the worst. The trailer for the series shows that June, the shape-shifting teen, is struggling to keep control of her abilities.

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We have now reached the dogs days of summer, bringing with them a truly torturous heat.  No one needs that in their life! Thank goodness, the TV gods have bestowed upon us a plethora of quality binge-worthy content. Here’s the crop of new series August brings that you can watch indoors while cranking the air conditioning to the max and eating ice cream by the gallon to cool down.

Check out August’s top television premieres below:

“The Sinner”
Synopsis: Detective Harry Ambrose realizes there is nothing ordinary about the case of a young boy who is accused of murdering his parents.

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As evident in the first trailer for the upcoming series “The Innocents” from Netflix, the British sci-fi drama looks like yet another must-binge for the streaming service.

“The Innocents” is an eight-episode series that follows two teens who runaway from their homes. Everything is going about as good as can be expected until one of the teens realizes she has the power to shape-shift.

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Before 1960, horror movies were, shall we say, a little more prudent and followed, more or less, conventional narrative structures and genre tropes that never crossed the line into the full-on taboo. The ’60s was the decade when ratings boards were put into precarious positions by rebel filmmakers and were pressured to condemn or even ban films that were being deemed by advocate groups as “morally wrong.” The decade in cinema might have not been as groundbreaking and envelope-pushing had it not started with a bang.

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This weekend, eclectic indie filmmaker David Lowery‘s quirky “A Ghost Story” will start heading into cinemas. Starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck, “A Ghost Story,” shouldn’t work. A moving and existential movie about longing, love, sadness and the immensity of time, it’s about a man that dies, but lingers as an apparition as his wife eventually moves on with her life. But it’s a movie where the ghost is simply a white sheet over Casey Affleck’s head, but nonetheless, the experience is still deeply emotional and profound, creating a spellbinding picture about loss told from the point of view of silent, motionless ghost.

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You might have a bit of nomination fatigue following yesterday’s Oscar nominations, but another sweep of sorts is happening overseas following the 14-nod domination of “La La Land” stateside.

READ MORE: The 2017 Oscar Nominations By The Numbers

Paul Verhoeven‘s “Elle” led France’s César awards with 11 nominations, including nods in major categories Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

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While the BBQs are being heated up and fireworks are being prepared, the holiday weekend isn’t keeping audiences away from the multiplex this weekend. There were plenty of new movies on hand, but one that has been in cinemas for a few weeks continued to dominate, while another from the pioneer of the modern blockbuster failed to connect.

Disney/Pixar‘s “Finding Dory” spent July 4th at the top of the box office for its third straight week.

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War can sometimes be seen as series of tests —involving patriotism or morals— for those involved as combatants, as well as those caught in the crossfire. But the particular perplex in which the devout must reconcile their faith with the horror of conflict is not often cinematically depicted with the kind of central focus demonstrated in “The Innocents.” Director Anne Fontaine’s film is based on actual events and grapples with thorny questions that plague even the most zealous during times of crisis.

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