An incisive look into the mafia’s presence in Corsica, Julien Colonna’s “The Kingdom” is an even-handed debut, filtering a war between rival gangs through the prism of a coming-of-age narrative. While well aware of the tropes associated with mafia films, Colonna’s decision to place his point of view alongside Lesia (Ghjuvanna Benedetti in her first role) creates a fascinating window into connections between real and created families.

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For the first time in twenty-five years, Lars Von Trier returns to Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet and his cult TV series “The Kingdom.” And while “The Kingdom Exodus” may be Von Trier’s final edition of the show, MUBI will give its streaming premiere a prestige rollout.  

READ MORE: ‘The Kingdom Exodus’ Review: Lars Von Trier Is Down With The Sickness In Revived Hospital Comedy Series [Venice]

Starting on November 13, MUBI will release remastered director’s cuts of the previous two seasons of “The Kingdom.” All five episodes of “The Kingdom I” hit the streamer this Sunday, while “The Kingdom II” debuts next Sunday, November 20.

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Late last month, Lars Von Trier fans got their first peek at the third and final season of his TV series “The Kingdom Exodus.” It’s Von Trier’s first project since 2018’s divisive serial killer film “The House That Jack Built,” and the first season of “The Kingdom” since 1997. And now, after its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, it will stream exclusively on the global streamer MUBI.

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Almost 30 years after its first release, Lars Von Trier returns to his cult series “The Kingdom” for its third and final installment. And now audiences get their first look at “The Kingdom Exodus,” out from Von Trier and TrustNordick later this year.

READ MORE: ‘The Kingdom’: Lar Von Trier Returns To His Cult ‘90s Series With Third Season

The new clip doesn’t give away much, but it shows series protagonist Karen (Bodil Jørgensen) sleepwalking into the Kingdom’s main gate.

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If you thought revivals of ’80s and ’90s properties only applied to big-budget Hollywood productions, think again. Almost like he was taking a cue from “Twin Peaks: The Return,” Lars von Trier will be returning to an earlier period in his career and make a third and final season to his hospital drama “The Kingdom.”

READ MORE: Lars von Trier’s Anti-Semitic Joke Caused ‘Melancholia’ To Lose The Palme D’Or In 2011 To ‘The Tree of Life’

Since he shocked Cannes audiences with his serial killer drama “The House That Jack Built” in 2018, the director had not announced a new project, until now.

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Let’s recap: South Korean cinema is terrific because these forward-thinking filmmakers— directors like Park Chan-Wook (“The Handmaiden”), Kim Ki-Duk (“Pietà”), Lee Chang-dong (“Burning”), Bong Joon Ho (“The Host”), Kim Ji-woon (“I Saw the Devil”) to name just a few — are masters of tone deftly flying through moods of hilarious dark humor, tragic pathos and back again while riding horseback and doing backflips through myriad genres; their deftness is a thing of beauty to behold.

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You may have forgotten, but three years ago, Lars von Trier‘s production company Zentropa announced that a handful of early works by the director were getting digitally restored. Not much has been heard about the project since, but it looks like starting next year, we’re going to start seeing the results.

READ MORE: Lars von Trier Teases Return To Cannes In 2018 With ‘The House That Jack Built’

Zentropa has quietly released a five-minute preview from the upcoming restoration of “The Kingdom.” Von Trier’s brilliant comedy/horror series delivered two seasons in 1995 and 1997, and riffed on medical drama procedurals, balancing soap opera plotlines and creepy paranormal elements, with each episode capped off by von Trier himself appearing in an Alfred Hitchcock style coda.

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Halloween is now less than a week away, but Hollywood has mostly failed to deliver on the scary movie front this year. “Ouija: Origin Of Evil” is better than you might imagine, and “Boo! A Madea Halloween” is… a movie with Halloween in the title. But otherwise, from arthouses to multiplexes, there are slim pickings, unfortunately (Tom Hanks has a movie out, but sadly he plays boring old professor Robert Langdon, rather than David S.

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Halloween has arrived once again at the Playlist, and aside from assembling our trick-and-treating costumes, it means an appropriately spooky feature. And this year, we’ve delivered more than one —we picked out the scariest movie moments of all time yesterday. Today, we’ve gone for something a little different.

This time last year, we picked our favorite horrors of the 21st century so far, so it seemed natural to run down our favorites from the 1990s.

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