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With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman)

Burgeoning sexuality is the basis for nearly all coming-of-age films, but with her specific eye, Eliza Hittman makes it feel like we’re watching this genre unfold for the first time. With only two features to her name, she’s captured the experience with a sensuality and intimacy nearly unprecedented in American independent filmmaking. Following 2013’s It Felt Like Love, the writer-director follows it with...

There’s more to Chris Sullivan than meets the eye. On the surface, the This Is Us star -- who plays the easygoing and lovable Toby, Kate’s fiance -- is carefree, playful and often the life of the party. But spend some time with him and the layers start to be peeled back, revealing a more nuanced, introspective man underneath.

“The word of our modern times is vulnerability and the show speaks a language of vulnerability -- whether that means putting yourself out there, whether that means being honest, whether that means telling someone the truth that they might not want to hear,” Sullivan tells Et. “In the past, I have assumed the word ‘vulnerability’ equates with the word ‘weakness’ and This Is Us shows us that it is in fact the opposite.”

As Toby, who, like Kate, deals with issues of weight and learned he had a hole in his heart in the first season...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

20th Century Women (Mike Mills)

That emotional profundity most directors try to build to across an entire film? Mike Mills achieves it in every scene of 20th Century Women. There’s such a debilitating warmness to both the vibrant aesthetic and construction of its dynamic characters as Mills quickly soothes one into his story that you’re all the more caught off-guard as the flurry of emotional wallops are presented.

All caught up with our top 50 films of 2016? It’s now time to look to the new year, and, ahead of our 100 most-anticipated films, we’re highlighting 50 titles we’ve enjoyed on the festival circuit this last year (and beyond) that will likely see a release in 2016. While the first batch have confirmed dates all the way through the summer, we’ve also included a handful that are awaiting a date and some we’re hopeful will get a release by year’s end pending acquisition. U.S. distributors: take note!

Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie; Jan. 20)

Those only familiar with Alain Guiraudie’s sublime Stranger By the Lake, which finally brought the gifted French director to a (relatively) wider audience following a laureled Un Certain Regard premiere in 2013, will likely find themselves confounded by its follow-up, Staying Vertical. With his first entry in Cannes’ main competition, Guiraudie returns to the...

Salt and FireDear Danny,Funny you mention genre, as A Quiet Passion would seem to belong to my least favorite one: the biopic. Or not really, for directors create their own genres, great ones do, and Terence Davies is among the greatest now at work. His Emily Dickinson, splendidly embodied by Cynthia Nixon, is no genteel figurine reciting favorite verses but a sharp and unyielding intelligence twisting in a severe body and a severe era. Right from the start, refusing to move to one side or another when her seminary is divided according to faith, she will not give an inch. (“You are alone in your rebellion,” snaps the headmistress, crucifix looming in the background.) At her Massachusetts family home, words—not just the budding poetess’ stanzas, but bon mots, barbs, any curlicues of witty verbiage—are cherished cracks in staid domesticity, like the songs in Meet Me in St. Louis.

"You are alone in your rebellion, Ms. Dickinson." Get ready to be enthralled by the words and emotions of Emily Dickinson. A festival trailer has debuted for the film A Quiet Passion, from director Terence Davis (whose other film Sunset Song was just released in theaters this year). Cynthia Nixon stars as the legendary poet Emily Dickinson in this "luminous biopic". Also starring Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine, Duncan Duff, Jodhi May, Joanna Bacon and Catherine Bailey. These kind of intense period pieces aren't usually my thing, and I'm not that curious about this. However, the music they used for this trailer definitely got my attention. It's the track "Stars Wait For Us" by Plu-Ton and it seems odd, but totally works. Here's the first official trailer for Terence Davis' A Quiet Passion, direct from YouTube (via Tfs): Emily Dickinson wrote over a thousand poems in her lifetime but witnessed...

Gather 'round the fire, kids. We've got a doozy of a horror story for you. It's the middle of the night. You are alone in your bedroom, all tucked away under the blankets in your bed. You feel safe. Secure. And you have your trusty smart phone with you so you can do some late night Facebook stalking. You're on the Facebook page of your best friend's sworn enemy, who is a casual acquaintance of yours from college. You really love her fashion choices, so you have a habit of scrolling through her Ootd album. And you happen upon a photo of her wearing some killer shoes. You like the shoes. You like the photo. So you click like. No one will know, right? Wrong. Your best friend can find out...

With the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival wrapping up this week, we’ve highlighted our five favorite films from the slate. Make sure to stay tuned in the coming months as we learn about distribution news for the titles. Check out our favorites below, followed by our complete coverage, and one can see the winners here.

Creepy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

One has to appreciate Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s winking self-awareness in calling his new feature Creepy. It’s as if the Coen brothers released a film entitled Snarky, or Eli Roth named his next stomach-churner Gory. Kurosawa, who’s still best known for Cure (1997) and Pulse (2001), two rare outstanding examples of the highly variable J-Horror genre, instills a sense of creepiness into virtually anything he does, regardless of subject matter. His latest, which sees him return to the realm of horror after excursions into more arthouse territory, certainly lives up to its name...

“You are alone you your revolution, Ms. Dickinson,” spouts a stoic headmistress in the opening sequence of A Quiet Passion, a biopic of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson and the latest work from proud Liverpudlian auteur Terence Davies. In the scene, young Emily has apparently rejected both a life in the seminary and the option to be a practicing catholic, a decision the famously atheistic director clearly vibes with. That sense of empathy and understanding with his subject is rife throughout this quietly cleansing and exquisitely considered film, which shows the writer from her late teens (portrayed by Emma Bell) through to adulthood (Cynthia Nixon) and old age.

This frank introductory scene is one of a few exceptions — it occurs outside the grounds of Dickinson’s family home, where the majority of this film takes place. Here, Davies imagines and reenacts delicately detailed social exchanges between the family members and their various bourgeois guests.

The Witness pinged the press and public’s radar the instant it was unveiled. Seven years of secrecy comes to an end on January 26, 2016, but until we see the full genius of Jonathan Blow and his team, blog posts should hold the admirers at bay. Did you know, for example, that The Witness contains “(almost) no music”?

Jonathan states:

The Witness is a game about being perceptive: noticing subtleties in the puzzles you find, noticing details in the world around you. If we slather on a layer of music that is just arbitrarily playing, and not really coming from the world, then we’re adding a layer of stuff that works against the game.

A lack of orchestral scores seems sensible on a deserted isle. Omitting nature’s innate melodies, however, will take time to wrap one’s head around. “You are alone on this island, and there are not even any other animals.

We're a month into Peter Capaldi's reign on "Doctor Who." Donna Dickens has been doing a fine job covering the show for us weekly — here's her take on "Listen" — but the latest episode was both excellent and a good opportunity for me to check in on the state of the Doctor, Clara and everything else Tardis-related, coming up just as soon as I admire the way I look from behind... First, the bigger picture stuff. Because his Doctor is a bit more scattered than the last few, Capaldi didn't own the role from the opening moments the way Smith and Tennant and Eccleston did. But he and Moffat have quickly shaped Twelve into a distinctive, entertaining character, with as much of Malcolm Tucker as I imagine is allowable in the hero of a show aimed at kids. The Doctor is always a bastard on some level, but those qualities...

I can’t tell where the journey will end, but I know where to start. Right here, with our favorite tube songs in this latest edition of TVLine Mixtape.

We’ve pulled together a collection of tunes from the hottest shows, complete with artist and album information in case you want to add them to your permanent collection. Spoilers abound, and we chose songs we liked – but we always want to hear your thoughts and suggestions.

So peruse our playlist, and then hit the comments with your favorite TV jams! And remember: You can always submit questions or suggestions about TV music on Twitter @mishasolomontv.

That last play session was bad: I mean, I was pretty much cowering in the virtual corner the whole time. But today, I’m feeling confident. I’m feeling brave. So I go onto Steam and I click the logo. And the title screen comes up and the music kicks in…

Okay, maybe I am not feeling confident at all.

That is usually my thought process every time I boot up the latest game in the Amnesia franchise. It is a really rather brutal video game, that taps into a psychological unease inside all of us. No, not that all string music is really scary, the unease that being alone in the dark, being forced to go ahead into unimaginable things is a nightmare.

In A Machine For Pigs, you are Oswald Mandus, a man suffering from amnesia who wakes up in his mansion to find that his children are gone.

Wow. 2011 ran up and hit and left a big mark on the face of the world. I’m still stinging a little, but I’m also analyzing the pain. It’s quite bad. It’s sore, it stings, and I think I’m bruised (though it didn’t break the skin). I think about why I have this pain, and I think…wow. Was I dumb enough to do that?

But then again, it’s not that bad. In some ways, it was a literal love tap. Actually, in a lot of ways it was a literal love tap. I feel the love, more than I feel the pain. And I can smile, pretty easy, and I think: wow. I really did all that.

I loved and hated a lot of what I watched this year. I’m going to share my greatest foes and my biggest crushes of the year with you.

Little by little more and more about Yam Laranas' The Road slips online, and today we have the second teaser one-sheet for the flick for you to dig on! Check it out!

The Road stars Carmina Villarroel, Rhian Ramos, Tj Trinidad, and Wendell Ramos. Johan Söderqvist, who scored Let the Right One In, will score.

“You drive. You get lost. You are alone. It’s all about excitement and nervousness. Yah, from the page to the screen that’s what they say. I will try to relax because I feel that my head is spinning due to the non-stop bombardment of imagery that I want to see through my lens,” says the director on the official Yam Laranas blog. Look for more soon.

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Not much is known about director Yam Laranas’ The Road as of late, but the director has sent over the first teaser poster as a Killer Film exclusive as well as confirming to us that Johan Söderqvist, who scored Let the Right One In, will score The Road. The Philippine director impressed the genre crowd with his The Echo, and now he’s back with the mysterious The Road.

Carmina Villarroel, Rhian Ramos, Tj Trinidad, and Wendell Ramos star. On Laranas’ blog, he’s offered a few cryptic words on the project: “You drive. You get lost. You are alone. It’s all about excitement and nervousness. Yah, from the page to the screen that’s what they say. I will try to relax because I feel that my head is spinning due to the non-stop bombardment of imagery that I want to see through my lens.”

Hmm. More soon.

Vanessa Lemor (Savanah Wiltfong) is your typical not-so-typical teenager, going through life overly focused on a boy, Philip. In a relationship (of some sort), Vanessa is surprised when Philip suddenly breaks things off, and it quickly becomes difficult to decide which of them has a bigger Philip infatuation.

In her effort to reconnect with (stalk) Philip, Vanessa decides to transfer to his private school, and because of her half-Eskimo heritage, she manages a scholarship. Of course, things do not work out quite according to plan, and Vanessa finds herself instantly on the bottom of the social ladder. She has to find a way to claw her way up if she wants Philip to pay attention to her, but she soon begins to wonder if she wants Philip, or wants out of her popularity exile.

That's the short version of Dear Lemon Lima, a spin on the classic coming-of-age formula that...

Britain's Prince Charles admits it's a risky business tackling anti-social behaviour. The Prince of Wales - who was on a trip to the Regional Environmental Centre at Szentendre in Budapest yesterday (18.03.10) - was taking part in a 'deforestation workshop' with students when he was asked by a tutor to give his opinion on a particular situation which many people might face today over whether to make a stand against rising criminality. Tutor Kliment Mindjou said: "You are alone in a forest and you see a person that leaves waste. Do you question their behaviour or try to avoid scandal trouble?" Charles replied: "The difficult thing is to ask them to pick it up without getting stabbed." Criminologist Dr David...

1987’s Psychos In Love is a cheesefest so bloody and so funny that no horror fan should miss it. The American DVD debut of this 1987 feature (from Media Blasters on its Shriek Show label) is a must-buy for the movie alone, but the abundance of extras certainly provides the extra motivation one might need to fork over the bucks.

On one of the disc’s two commentary tracks, writer/director/producer/editor Gorman Bechard makes it a point to state that Gorman is in fact his real first name. One critic of Psychos In Love, he explains, was so disgusted by the film that he accused Bechard of changing his name to hide his embarrassment. Bechard, however, is not afraid to offend anyone’s sensibilities. As a result, he spins the unapologetic story of Joe (Carmine Capobianco, who also co-scripted), a grape-hating serial killer who just can’t find the right girl.