The Beijing International Film Festival, originally scheduled to run in mid-April before the coronavirus pandemic forced its indefinite postponement, will host a mini film event online with the help of leading Chinese streaming service iQiyi. The program, dubbed the "Spring Online Film Festival," will run for five days beginning on China's May 1 Labor Day holiday, usually one of the biggest box office windows of the year in the country.
‘Why Don’t You Just Die!’: Film Review
09.04.2020 - 02:01 / variety.com
The body count nearly matches the cast list in this bloody but inventive festival favorite from first-time Russian director Kirill Sokolov.
By Peter Debruge
Chief Film Critic
The coronavirus has made everyone a bit sensitive, with good reason, inspiring memes around such now-sensitive movie titles as delayed 007 entry “No Time to Die” and Emily Ting’s culture-shock indie “Go Back to China.” To this list of inappropriately named movies we might add “Why Don’t You Just Die!” — except that
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28.04.2020 / 17:37
Beijing International Film Festival Moves Online With Streamer iQIYI
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26.04.2020 / 21:19
PPE flown from China to Scotland arrives with 'no labels' in unmarked packages
Tons of vital PPE was left at Prestwick Airport after boxes which arrived from China had no labels.
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22.04.2020 / 04:43
‘Why Don’t You Just Die!’ Blu-Ray Review
Russian cinema is known for its dark and moody cinema, but upcoming film maker Kirill Sokolov is here to shake things up with his feature debut, Why Don’t You Just Die!. With Why Don’t You Just Die! writer and director Sokolov demonstrates the visual style and flair of early Tarantino.
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21.04.2020 / 18:07
In Second Deal For Finished Film This Week, Netflix Lands Millie Bobby Brown-Starrer ‘Enola Holmes’
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Netflix Lands Rights to Millie Bobby Brown’s ‘Enola Holmes’ Film
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The Just Eat double deal that gets you a free takeaway
Just Eat is cutting prices to thousands of takeaways by 20% today and a double discounts means anybody can get a free takeaway.
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21.04.2020 / 04:19
‘Why Don’t You Just Die!’
Why Don’t You Just Die! is set to become the next foreign language sensation. Taking influence from early Tarantino, Russian physicist-turned-director Kirill Sokolov has made an off-kilter crime-thriller / Western / comedy that makes for a fun-filled watch. It had its first UK screening back in August at Arrow Video FrightFest and it took the audience by storm.
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20.04.2020 / 20:15
'Asia': Film Review | Tribeca 2020
[Note: In the wake ofthe Tribeca Film Festival's postponement this year,The Hollywood Reporteris reviewing select entries that elected to premiere digitally.] An alumna of the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence program who has earned attention with her short films, Israeli writer-director Ruthy Pribar makes an assured feature debut, balancing sobriety with emotional intensity in Asia.
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16.04.2020 / 19:53
L.A. Latino International Film Festival to Hold Virtual Edition
Last summer's version of theLos Angeles Latino International Film Festival took place at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, this year — rather than scrap the event — organizers are forging ahead with an online edition amid a pandemic. "We are living in unprecedented times and we must find unprecedented solutions to continue to support our Latino filmmakers and provide them with a platform to showcase their work," stated actor Edward James Olmos, who co-founded the festival in 1997.
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16.04.2020 / 13:57
‘Knockout’ Film Heads For Streaming Release at China’s iQIYI
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16.04.2020 / 09:37
Coronavirus Puts 5,000 Chinese Film and TV Firms Out of Business
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12.04.2020 / 06:55
'Killing Eve' Season 3: TV Review
Can an hour-long TV drama skate by on scampish wit alone? That seems to be the gamble that Killing Eve's new showrunner Suzanne Heathcote, taking over from Emerald Fennell, is taking for the BBC America series' third season.
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11.04.2020 / 00:39
Flamin Wok takeaway is giving 100 free meals to frontline heroes every Wednesday
A Chinese restaurant in Hamilton is providing free meals to NHS staff and other frontline workers.
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07.04.2020 / 17:03
China’s Starlight Media & David Steward II’s U.S. Animation Firm Lion Forge Ink Multi-Picture Film Deal Including COVID-19 Project
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thehollywoodnews.com
07.04.2020 / 09:21
‘The Iron Mask’ digital review: Dir. Oleg Stepchenko (2020)
Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger share the screen for the first time in the utterly bonkers The Iron Mask.
