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The history of the World War II battlefront is rarely told from the perspective of female combatants, yet there were female soldiers who fought as fiercely as their male counterparts. One such soldier is the subject of Sergey Mokritskiy's 2015 biographical war film Battle for Sevastopol. The soldier Lyudmila Pavlichenko has a story surely befitting of history books—literally. She was at university when she was forced to drop out because of the impending war, going on to defy expectations at the time. She went against advice from those close to her who held the notion that war was a man's affair, and together with like-minded females who were ready to spill their blood for their motherland, they enrolled. Lyudmila Pavlichenko's unique contribution to World War II saw her become the deadliest female sniper in history, with a confirmed body count of 309 enemy combatants.

On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the 2018 Russian sci-fi action movie A Rough Draft. You can watch the movie over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Directed by Sergey Mokritskiy, who also crafted the screenplay with Maksim Budarin, Denis Kuryshev, and Olga Sobenina (based on a novel by Night Watch author Sergey Lukyanenko), A Rough Draft has the following synopsis: A young resident of Moscow, Kirill is a talented designer of computer games. One day, he is completely erased from the memory of everyone he knew and loved. Kirill learns that he is chosen for an important and mysterious mission.

Row 19 will be Available on Digital, Blu-ray & DVD May 31 with Bonus Features Including an All-New English Dub. Here’s the trailer:

It’s terror in the air when several flight passengers suddenly suffer gruesome, unexplained deaths in the spine-tingling thriller Row 19,debuting on Digital, Blu-ray and DVD May 31 from Well Go USA Entertainment. A young doctor on board begins to suspect that the shadowy, terrifying force behind her own worst childhood nightmare may be back for blood. Row 19 stars Svetlana Ivanova (Cosmoball), Marta Timofeeva, Wolfgang Cerni (T-34), Ekaterina Vilkova, Anatoliy Kot and Victoria Korlyakova. The bonus features include an all-new English dub.

When several flight passengers suddenly suffer gruesome, unexplained deaths, a young doctor on board begins to suspect that the shadowy, terrifying force behind her own worst childhood nightmare may be back for blood.

Row 19 has a runtime of approximately 78 minutes and is not rated.

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Variety has been given exclusive access to the international trailer (below) for World War II drama “First Oscar,” which is inspired by the true story of the making of documentary “Moscow Strikes Back,” winner of an Oscar in 1943, the first year when documentaries had their own Academy Award.

“First Oscar” is in post-production, and will be released on March 24. Central Partnership is representing the film in foreign markets.

The film follows two student cinematographers, Ilya Kopalin and Leonid Varlamov, who, as the Nazis approach Moscow, refuse to be evacuated and instead volunteer to be front-line cameramen capturing the horrors of war and bravery of the Soviet soldiers.

The film follows a second storyline that unfolds in the U.S. After the film’s premiere, one of the members of the Academy Awards selection committee tries to persuade his colleagues to launch a new category for Best Documentary at the upcoming Oscars event.

Russia’s plan to film a movie in space this year is moving full speed ahead as actress Yulia Peresild and filmmaker Klim Shipenko have been selected to star in and helm the project, respectively (via BBC). Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has announced the two artists will travel to space October 5. The movie, which has the working title “Challenge,” tells “the story of a female surgeon’s mission to perform an operation on a cosmonaut too ill to return to Earth immediately.”

According to BBC: “Russia’s Roscosmos space agency says Peresild and Shipenko have undergone both a medical and a creative selection process. Their special space flight training is to begin no later than June 1 and will include centrifuge and vibration tests, flights on a zero-gravity plane, and parachute training.”

Peresild reportedly beat out 19 other actresses for the starring role in “Challenge.” The 36-year-old actress is an Honored...

Argentinian Oscar winner Juan José Campanella to present comedy The Weasels.

The 37th Miami Film Festival will open on March 6 with The Burnt Orange Heresy and close with Netflix’s recent Sundance world premiere Mucho Mucho Amor on March 15.

Besides the roster of more than 125 feature narratives, documentaries and short films from 30 countries, festival director Jaie Laplante and his team have selected Amy Ryan to receive the Precious Gem Awards on March 9 accompanied a screening of another Sundance selection, Liz Garbus’ Lost Girls.

Midsommar director Ari Aster, Stella Meghie (The Photograph starring Issa Rae) and The Farewell director Lulu Wang...

The upcoming release of The Clone Wars season seven looks to finally complete Dave Filoni's vision of his epic Star Wars animated series. After the show was canceled during the Disney acquisition, the fans and Filoni have clamored to give the series a proper finale.

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However, that finale needs to bring a lot of answers. The show is the glue that holds not only the prequels together, but now has roots extending to Star Wars: Rebels, The Mandalorian, Resistance, and even the Sequel Trilogy.

This year’s Resident Evil 3 might be a remake at heart, but Capcom is making sure to pack a bunch new features on the disc that were never available in the 1999 original.

One of these, of course, is Resident Evil: Resistance. Formerly known as Project Resistance prior to the revelation that it would be included with this year’s reimagined threequel, the multiplayer accompaniment is an asymmetrical affair that pits a team of four survivors against one all-powerful Mastermind. As is typical of the formula, the latter’s job is to impede and ultimately prevent the survivors’ escape from an Umbrella compound meant for testing a wide array of gruesome bioweapons.

By utilizing security systems, placing traps and even taking direct control of iconic monsters such as Mr X, several famous and lesser-known Resident Evil villains will be playable in the Mastermind role with one, Daniel Fabron, featuring in a recent closed beta test.

Saban Films has released a new trailer for Vivarium. The movie stars Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots, who previously worked with one another on last year's under-the-radar gem The Art of Self-Defense. This time around, they seem to be treading into bizarre waters once again as this looks to be a unique and odd little thriller, which looks like it would be right at home in the Black Mirror universe.

The trailer kicks off by showing us the picture of a happy (ish) couple looking at a possible new home in a seemingly picturesque housing development. Everything is very cookie-cutter, with little to no variation from home to home. Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots then find themselves unwittingly trapped in the neighborhood after they decide that the house they were showing wasn't for them. Whether they like it or not, they're forced to accept domesticated life, whether they like it or not.

The penultimate episode of Star Wars Resistance wants to inspire the need to fight, but doesn’t dig deep enough.

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Star Wars Resistance Season 2 Episode 17

There’s a point in “Rebuilding the Resistance” where Tierny calls Tam into her office. She praises Tam in that coy, sly, manipulative way that she’s been doing all season. She then mentions that she wasn’t born into the First Order. It’s an intriguing statement, made more intriguing when she then says she had to “scrape by” for years in the New Republic. “Scrape” does a lot of heavy lifting here. Was she harmed or disillusioned by the New Republic’s “shining beacon” ideology, its false sense of an “American Dream” that left her pinching pennies or worse?

But Tierny never gets into details about her life or upbringing. She just jumps...

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Resident Evil 3 will rise from the dead for one last scare in 2020. Here's everything we know about this remake...

After the success of Resident Evil 2, a remake of the next game in the series was a foregone conclusion. Indeed, Resident Evil 3 is the next remake on Capcom's list, featuring modern graphics and all the other bells and whistles unlocked by current-gen hardware. While this announcement shouldn't come as a surprise, the reveal was further spoiled by a leak of the cover art earlier in December. 

Resident Evil 3 was originally released in 1999, a continuation of the series that's often credited for truly kicking off the survival horror genre. The game stars Jill Valentine, who we first met in the 1996 original as a member of the Stars response team investigating the spooky Arklay Mansion, and an Umbrella operative named Carlos Oliveira. Together, they must...

New People Production were behind Sergey Mokritskiy’s 2015 hit Battle For Sevastopol.

Mila Rozanova’s Russian production outfit New People Production, the company behind Sergey Mokritskiy’s 2015 hit Battle For Sevastopol, is gearing up for another Second World War feature called The First Oscar.

The new project, again to be directed by Mokritsky, dramatises the story behind the making of the first ever documentary winner of the Academy Awards, Moscow Strikes Back in 1943.

The film was shot by many different filmmakers from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography and the film will tell the story of a love triangle between three of them.

Exclusive: Arrow Films swoops on Russian historical epic.

Showing its appetite for Russian fare, expanding UK outfit Arrow Films has swooped on UK rights to Central Partnership’s historical epic Viking, one of the biggest budget films in Russian history.

This is the fourth Russian title that Arrow has taken in the last 18 months, following on from war movie Battle For Moscow (aka Panfilov’s 28, which it will release later this summer), Battle For Sevastopol and Battalion.

Tom Stewart, acquisitions director of Arrow Films, told Screen that the company will be releasing Viking in its original Russian language version.

“There’s a strong appetite for this kind of genre,” Stewart said of Viking (which will look to piggy back on the success of TV drama Vikings).

Stewart has been tracking the project since it went into production and finally acquired it during last month’s Berlinale.

“This is very commercial for home entertainment and we know that...

Producer Mila Rozanova also updates on other future projects.

Russian producer Mila Rozanova of New People Film Company has revealed further details of Ivan Tverdovsky’s new project Jumpman (which has been selected both for CineMart and for the Berlinale Coproduction Market next month as part of the Rotterdam Berlinale Express).

Rozanova has already attached one coproduction partner to the project, French outfit Arizona (who also partnered on Tvardovsky’s previous project Zoology, about a middle-aged woman who grows a tail). Now, she is looking for a second coproducing partner as she seeks to replicate the funding model on Zoology.

Jumpman, due to start shooting this summer, is the story of a young man recently released from a psychiatric clinic who has a rare condition - he feels no pain. He goes to live with his mother but becomes caught up with crime and corruption. His main party trick is to jump in front of cars and...

To mark the release of Battle for Sevastopol on 16th May, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD. On 22 June 1941 the German war Axis launches ‘Operation Barbarossa’, with four million troops invading the Soviet Union. By the late autumn Sevastopol, a strategic port in the Crimea on the Black Sea, […]

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Roskino revealed the project, amongst others, at a Marche presentation today.

A host of new Russian projects in all kinds of different genres were announced in Cannes at a special presentation organised by Roskino.

Vera Glagoleva [pictured], director of Ralph Fiennes-starrer, Two Women, introduced her new project A Friend From Afar. Produced by Natalia Ivanova, this is the story of Russian writer Ivan Turgenev’s fatal affair with a French opera star seen through the eyes of his illegitimate daughter.

Audiences were also given their first look at The Other Cheek from producers Anastasia Perova, Vincent Cespedes, and Julia Lukashuk. The film focuses on a former figure-skater turned sports reporter plunged into the heavy-hitting world of boxing.

Producer Ilya Stewart presented Blood On The Dancefloor, a futuristic Hunger Games-style project set in a Europe recovering from a global war which has lapsed into a militant, misogynist Puritanism. Stewart confirmed the casting of three young Russian stars in leading...

Exclusive: Portmanteau film will feature segments from young Russian directors.

A portmanteau movie is being planned to mark the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, involving some of the most talented young directors in Russia.

The film, produced by the New People Film Company, is also set to include contributions from established international filmmakers. Four stories are initially being prepared.

The Fuel by Mikhail Arkhipov is the story of a self-taught blacksmith trying to save his village from starvation in 1918.

Arms and Palms Of October by Arseny Zanin will use the montage methods of legendary Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, the director of Strike and Battleship Potemkin.

The Georgian by Nika Barabash and Andreas Konstandakes will tell the story of a petty thief (who looks remarkably like a young Stalin) who prospers in the storm of revolution.

Lenin by Denish Shibaev is set in Donbass in the present day and follows some eccentrics whose passion is restoring old Soviet...