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Little People Big World fans have been curious about the fate of the long-running TLC show ever since Season 25 wrapped. Based on the latest tea making the rounds, Amy Roloff finally confirmed the show’s fate. So, what did she say about the future of the TLC show?

Little People Big World: Season 25 Felt Like A Finale For Many

As Little People Big World fans remember, Zach Roloff and Tori Roloff dropped the bombshell news that they were quitting the TLC show after season 25. This instantly put the future of the program in jeopardy. The show has been on since 2006, establishing a loyal fanbase over the years.

By the time the Little People Big World Season 25 finale came around, many viewers commented on how nicely TLC wrapped it up, tying up all the loose ends in the event that this would be the last season of the show. The network covered their bases,...

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Storm Reid is celebrating a major milestone: the 19-year-old "Euphoria" actor just closed on a house with her mom, Robyn Reid. "Had visions of my mom sayin', 'Wait, this house mine?' Yep. Sho isssssssssss," Storm wrote on Instagram on Aug. 31. "We closed on our house today!!! I can't quite process or express how I'm feeling but I'm so grateful. Days like today remind me that what is meant for you won't miss you. Hard work pays off. My efforts will not be in vain. I love you forever and ever, mommy. We done built a house, lmao. Crazy. Thank you, @milliondollarliving, for helping us through this process and being there every step of the way. God Did It!"

Storm has spoken previously about how close she and her mom are and her excitement about building their home together.

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 the interwebs. 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 Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

Ant-Man (Peyton Reed)

Having continually proven that they can repackage the same general structure and archetypes into their cinematic universe for increasing box-office returns, Marvel’s impetus to think completely outside the box is not strong. With varying creative results, Guardians of the Galaxy proved that the right ingredients in the formula can result in an entertaining ride, while the over-stuffed Age of Ultron did little more then exhaust.

In the midst of a national theatrical tour, the bold, feminist thriller Felt is now also available on iTunes. This second narrative feature from Toad Road‘s Jason Banker is a challenging, incredible film about artist Amy Everson and her ongoing struggle as the result of past trauma. I was blown away by Felt and am excited to offer Shock…

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Newcomer Amy Everson conveys a woman emotionally maimed and tortured in director Jason Banker's arty, claustrophobic, sort-of rape revenge thriller "Felt" (now on VOD from Amplify Releasing). We never know the source of her sexual trauma because "Felt" dwells only in the messy gulf of "after," which is a provocative stance for an American indie film to take in a time when questions of abuse and sexual barriers are so embedded in our discourse. Amy (played by Everson) putters through her days in a stew of despair, and suffers recurring nightmares that replay whatever it is that happened to her. A San Francisco artist, Amy wears a chicken suit and stands outside a fast food restaurant waving her arms around to pay the bills. She has a support system of friends that is foundering. In public, her speech melts into a puddle of sexual baby talk and scatological streams-of-consciousness.

The feature narrative debut of Jorge Torres-Torres, editor of Toad Road and Felt (as well as responsible for additional cinematography on both films), Sisters of the Plague seems a dream(y) collaboration of vivid, haunting contemporary horror. Torres-Torres reunites with Toad Road director Jason Banker on the screenplay, while the film stars Josephine Decker, artist and…

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Our patriarchal society has been the subject of heated critique for a long time, but especially so with the culture’s most recent story revolving around Bill Cosby admitting in a 2005 deposition about drugging women. This is coupled with the allegations of 40 women who have said Cosby raped them after drugging them. Many have called the unwillingness to believe these 40 women until the release of the documents as a part of our rape culture, which also includes collective instances of “slut-shaming” and victim-blaming. “Felt” is a movie that aims to take apart the rape culture and criticize society for silencing victims. “Felt,” starring Amy Everson (who also co-wrote [ Read More ]

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This review was originally posted during Fantastic Fest 2014

An uncomfortable feeling hit me almost immediately while watching Jason Banker’s new film. It was a mix of guilt and shame that lasted up until the brutal and heartbreaking ending. This guilt and shame isn’t attributed to anything I felt guilty for in particular, but more as a man living in a world where I acknowledge that there are deep rooted problems regarding gender, sex and violence, and as 2013’s popular song illustrates, the “Blurred Lines” that are often trivialized by society. Felt brings to light the effects of “rape culture” in our society and how normal it has become to dismiss actions by saying “that’s just boys being boys.” Banker’s gorgeous looking film highlights some of the not so pretty situations that we as a society have become accustomed to viewing without thinking about its effects on the victim.

For July 2015, we’ve got another jam-packed month of genre-related titles arriving on VOD (and a few other digital platforms too) to help fans beat the summer heat by staying inside and catching up on tons of great new movies.

IFC Midnight’s got a zany new creature feature called Stung that’s kicking off the month and for those of you who may have missed it in theaters earlier this year, the acclaimed breakout indie film It Follows is finally making its way to homes on VOD beginning July 2nd. Some other notable July VOD releases include 3-Headed Shark Attack, Felt, Alleluia, The Stanford Prison Experiment, Dark Was the Night, and Extinction.

Also, Dude Bro Party Massacre III - which premiered earlier this month at the Los Angeles Film Festival - is gearing up for its release as well in July; it won’t be arriving on traditional VOD platforms,...

With The Princess of France beginning its theatrical run, Matias Piñeiro discusses five of his favorite cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare's work at Indiewire. Naturally, one of them is Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight. Also in today's roundup of news and views: Jana Prikryl and Jonathan Rosenbaum on Jaromil Jireš’s Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, interviews with Piotr Szulkin and John Waters, J. Hoberman on Crystal Moselle's The Wolfpack and Miroslav Slaboshpitsky's The Tribe, David Cairns on Fritz Lang, Bruce Labruce on Jason Banker’s Felt—and more. » - David Hudson...

With The Princess of France beginning its theatrical run, Matias Piñeiro discusses five of his favorite cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare's work at Indiewire. Naturally, one of them is Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight. Also in today's roundup of news and views: Jana Prikryl and Jonathan Rosenbaum on Jaromil Jireš’s Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, interviews with Piotr Szulkin and John Waters, J. Hoberman on Crystal Moselle's The Wolfpack and Miroslav Slaboshpitsky's The Tribe, David Cairns on Fritz Lang, Bruce Labruce on Jason Banker’s Felt—and more. » - David Hudson...

There comes a moment early on in Toad Road director Jason Banker's Felt which beautifully sets the tone for what is to unfold over the next 70 or so minutes of his second narrative feature. After partying with a few young men in their hotel room, best pals Amy (Amy Everson) and Allana (Allana Reynolds) retreat to the hallway, as Amy's unclear on why she even came. She's sick. She can't sleep. Her dreams and reality are one and the same. As she says it: she is a ghost. She's tried everything. Nothing helps. The two young women hold each other, laughing over the ways in which they could kill men, for a killing spree is perhaps the only thing Amy hasn't tried to relieve her pain....

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This Friday, June’s must-see Felt arrives in select theaters, including New York City’s IFC Center. There, director Jason Banker and stars Amy Everson, Kentucker Audley and Roxanne Lauren Knouse will be on hand for a Q&A following the 9:30 p.m. show. Shock’s Samuel Zimmerman will moderate the discussion, as sure to be provocative and insightful…

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Sexual abuse is not only a sickening crime of undignified dominance and perverse cowardice, but traumatizing scars are usually left in the form of crippling mental anguish. Someone, at their most vulnerable, is robbed of their innocence by an act that echoes the most primal, animalistic desires of man. Walls of civility are broken down, and victims are left to go about their lives after being submerged in the darkest, seediest, most vile reaches of mankind’s take-what-i-want greed.

That horrible scenario is the very core of Felt, a Jason Banker film that summarizes a sexual victim’s lament through alter-egos and one woman’s struggle to overcome the male stranglehold on society. And my, what a brave, unflinching, and bizarre ride it is.

The provocative nature of Banker’s “feminist superhero” stems wholly from actress/artist Amy Everson, who plays a fictionalized version of herself. After traumatizing sexual experiences steal Amy’s life away,...

Felt (2014) Film Review, a movie directed by Jason Banker, and starring Amy Everson, Kentucker Audley, Ryan Creighton, Elisabet Ferrara, Roxanne Lauren Knouse, Merkley, Brendan Miller, Allana Reynolds, Tony Ruiz, Mark Skubala and Brandileigha Stracner

Coming out of Fantastic Fest, there was an Austin Texas sized buzz surrounding Jason Banker’s latest film, Felt. After the film’s premiere, Felt’s incisive look at rape culture sparked numerous reviews and think pieces. Felt is an unquestionably unique film; it openly defies the utilization of a traditional narrative structure and allows a first time actor’s (Amy Everson) performance to anchor the entire movie. Felt is an art house flick through and through. Banker leans heavily on the enthralling performance of Everson to keep his narratively diffuse film afloat.

The film introduces us to Amy as a woman recovering from a trauma, one that haunts her in her dreams and causes a...

Visceral and raw, Felt is a special film. From Toad Road director Jason Banker, the picture blends his doc observational aesthetic with the real life of artist Amy Everson and a boiling narrative about surviving sexual assault. It leads dark, bare places that are frank about the world we live in and its monstrous effects.…

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Amy Everson and Jason Banker deliver what’s sure to be an intense and gut-twisting experience in their new docu-narrative, “Felt.” Inspired by Everson’s own life — though to what degree is unclear — “Felt” takes direct aim at modern rape culture. Co-written by the duo, and directed by Banker, the film follows Amy, a woman struggling with the lasting pain of past sexual trauma, which is compounded by the male-dominated world in which she lives. As a coping method, she fabricates male-inspired alter egos, made complete by morbid costumes that endow her with a sense of power she has lost since her assault. However, the personas she invents become increasingly unpredictable and violent. A new red band trailer for the film recently went online — you can check it out below. Everson is a relatively unknown talent. With only one other credit — voice work on Hernando Bansuelo’s “A Reunion” — audiences...

"Everything is qualified by the fact that you don’t have a dick." Amplify Releasing has debuted a red band trailer for Jason Banker's Felt, a controversial and provocative indie film that premiered at Fantastic Fest last year. Felt broaches the topics of feminism and consent and sexuality, but dives in to the deep end with these topics, in what is described as a "feminist psychological thriller". Based on the real life experiences of Amy Everson, in the film a woman creates an alter ego in hopes of overcoming the trauma inflicted by men in her life. The cast in this includes Everson, Kentucker Audley, Ryan Creighton, Elisabeth Ferrara and Roxanne Lauren Knouse. If you're intrigued, give this a watch. Too experimental and wacky for my tastes. Here's the red band (green band here) trailer (+ poster) for Jason Banker's Felt, found on YouTube: Amy is hanging on by a thread.

While Jason Banker is known mostly for his work as a cinematographer, primarily on documentaries, he has also garnered acclaim for his work in the director’s chair, in both documentaries and feature films. His upcoming feature Felt, however, indicates a new level of ambition on the part of both Banker and the film’s co-writer and star Amy Everson. The film’s summary is below.

Amy is hanging on by a thread…

Struggling to cope with past sexual trauma and the daily aggressions of a male-dominated society, she creates grotesquely costumed alter egos that re-appropriate the male form. While giving her the sense of power she craves, acting as these characters pushes her further into a world of her own making. When she begins a new relationship with a seemingly good guy, she opens herself up to him – but that vulnerability comes at a dangerous cost, and her alter...

Sexual assault is a tricky subject to tackle, as the outcry over that Game of Thrones rape scene reminded us so very recently. Too often it’s treated like just another crazy twist, rather than a grim reality that millions of people have to live with every day. Thankfully, that’s not the case in Felt, Jason Banker‘s character […]

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"Based on the real experiences and art of co-writer/star Amy Everson, Felt doesn't just point a finger at rape culture; it takes a full on swing at it, creating a feminist psychological thriller that audiences will be hard-pressed to shake off."In a film that looks to pull few punches, and yet retain a quite striking style, director Jason Banker's sophomore effort (following his raw, effective debut, Toad Road) looks to be a major leap forward. The trailer suggests aggressive provocateur nature of ealy Bruno Dumont or Gaspar Noe.Struggling to cope with past sexual trauma and the daily aggression of a male-dominated society, Amy creates grotesquely-costumed alter egos that re-appropriate the male form. While giving her the sense of power she craves, acting as these...

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In his Fantastic Fest review, Wamg’s Michael Haffner called Felt “impressive” and “compelling.”

A young artist loses herself in an unpredictable alter ego while attempting to cope with past trauma in this gripping sophomore effort from Jason Banker (Toad Road).

Felt celebrated its world premiere at Fantastic Fest 2014 where Amy Everson took home the “Next Wave” Spotlight Competition award for Best Actress.

Here’s a first look at the poster and trailer for the film.

Watch the red-band trailer Here.

Amy is hanging on by a thread. Struggling to cope with past sexual trauma and the daily aggressions of a male-dominated society, she creates grotesquely-costumed alter egos that reappropriate the male form.

While giving her the sense of power she craves, acting as these characters pushes her further into a world of her own making. When she begins a new relationship with a seemingly good guy, she opens herself...

Here’s a film that might come out of nowhere and cause a real stir. I’d somehow slept on any notice of Felt, writer-director Jason Banker‘s exploration of one abuse victim’s unique and disturbing methods for dealing with trauma, despite the good word that’s been building since a fall premiere. But the first two previews (red […]...

Co-written, starring and based on the experiences of artist Amy Everson, this could be one of the most important movies made right now.

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The official trailer for June’s confrontational, must-see Felt is here. From the director of the raw, spellbinding Toad Road, Jason Banker, Felt is an unsettling, frank, feminist portrait of dealing with trauma. Banker continues his doc-like approach to craft a narrative around real, incredible visual artist Amy Everson. The filmmaker’s observational aesthetic chronicles her life of inner anguish…

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Read More: Amplify Acquires Docu-Narrative 'Felt' To Help Shed Light On Rape Culture  The new Red Band trailer for Jason Banker's film "Felt" gives us a visceral look at the haunting true story inspired by artist Amy Everson. From what we can gather from the trailer, it looks like Banker's cinematography roots will definitely shine in the film, and contribute immensely to the visually-driven narrative.  The official synopsis reads: "Amy is hanging on by a thread. Struggling to cope with past sexual trauma and the daily aggression of a male-dominated society, she creates grotesquely costumed alter egos that re-appropriate the male form. While giving her the sense of power she craves, acting as these characters pushes her further into a world of her own making. When she begins a new relationship with a seemingly good guy, she opens herself up to him - but that vulnerability comes at a dangerous cost,...

From the director of the spellbinding, raw Toad Road comes this summer’s must-see Felt, a confrontational, naked film about surviving. Felt an unsettling, frank, feminist portrait of dealing with trauma. Banker continues his doc-like approach to craft a narrative around real visual artist Amy Everson. The filmmaker’s observational aesthetic chronicles her life of inner anguish…

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Felt

Written by Jason Banker and Amy Everson

Directed by Jason Banker

USA, 2014

How do you make felt? There are two general ways: the first is by drowning wool and then shocking it dry and the second requires poking and prodding with a needle until the wool becomes a wholly new material. Amy, whose world Felt allows us to dive into, is an artist who has crafted an arsenal of felt penises and body suits, through which she explores and escapes into alter-egos.

Much like felt, Amy has been through rough times, which have begun to unravel her:

“My life is a fucking nightmare”, Amy’s voice, tentative and cracking opens the film, “every waking moment, every time I close my eyes, I just relive the trauma. I’m never safe and I can’t even tell what’s real anymore, everything… just blurs. I don’t sleep, I don’t eat,...

Felt

Directed by Jason Banker

Written by Jason Banker & Amy Everson

U.S., 2014

It’s a rare discovery when a film can materialize the internal terror that women experience on a daily basis so disturbingly close to reality. Blurring the lines of documentary and narrative storytelling, Felt truly is a film that demands to be felt. It accomplishes its goal by penetrating the deepest, most harrowing aspects of trauma to tell one of the most powerful and jarring stories about the female experience and rape culture ever put on screen.

Director and cinematographer Jason Banker follows his 2012 debut film, Toad Road with Felt, co-written by Amy Everson who stars in the film as Amy, a San Franciscan artist recently plagued by a trauma (not explained but certainly sexual) inflicted by the men in her life. As her ordeal unravels emotionally and psychologically, she plunges herself in the world of art as a coping mechanism.

Amplify has acquired North American distribution rights to Jason Banker's “Felt,” the company announced Tuesday. Amy Everson co-wrote and stars in the film, which is a genre-bending narrative/documentary mix based on her own real life experiences. Also read: Party Report at AFI Fest: Jessica Chastain, Katharine McPhee, and Woody Allen Karma (Photos) In the film, Everson plays a young woman trying, and almost succeeding, to overcome both a past trauma and the subtle aggressions she experiences daily from the men in her world by immersing herself in her art. By re-appropriating the male form into an unpredictable alter ego,...

Fantastic Fest best actress winner Amy Everson plays a traumatized artist who slips into elaborate fantasies to escape her troubles with men, making mischief in the wilds of her imagination under the guise of a bluntly Freudian yet ingeniously crafted alter-ego. "Felt" sends even a rape revenge movie like "I Spit On Your Grave" running with its tail between its legs as Amy's psychosexual paranoia produces acts of malice not easily shaken. The film is currently stirring audiences at AFI Fest in Los Angeles and will be released by Amplify ("Kumiko the Treasure Hunter") in April 2015, with a digital/home video release to follow. Cinematographer turned director Jason Banker first raised eyebrows in 2012 with "Toad Road," a psychedelic portrait of teenage burnouts whose drug-taking fuels their pursuit of some mythological version of hell in Pennsylvania.

Challenging and revelatory, Jason Banker’s second feature Felt is set to leave you silent and stunned this spring. Having world premiered to great acclaim this past September at Austin’s Fantastic Fest, Felt is the next step in Banker’s exciting voice (following the unsettling Toad Road), one that smashes doc and fiction together as he builds narrative around […]...

The distributor has taken North American rights to Jason Banker’s AFI Fest selection and genre-bending film based on the life experiences of co-writer and star Amy Everson.

Felt premiered at Fantastic Fest and will open in April both theatrically and across ancillary platforms.

The story centres on an artist who uses a particular form of her work to help herself recover from a rape.

Banker produced the film and directed from a story he devised with Everson.

Amplify’s Dylan Marchetti brokered the deal with Nate Bolotin and Mette-Marie Katz of Xyz Films on behalf of the filmmakers.

Video Services Corp has acquired Canadian rights to Patch Town. Craig Goodwill directed the comedy adventure based on his short of the same name about an orphan, a mother and a child-catcher.

Though it saddens to me say, Fantastic Fest 2014 has come to a close. Another year of movies and mayhem has ended and somehow the newly renovated Alamo Drafthouse is still standing – even if the crowds partied hard enough every night to make me expect the worse. Fantastic Fest has always shown the best genre films from around the world and this year was certainly no different. In fact, this year’s lineup featured an extraordinary array of bloody slashers, dark comedies, bizarre love stories, and crazy documentaries. Here’s my Top 10 Favorites From Fantastic Fest 2014!

Honorable Mentions:

The Tribe

The idea of a film without any dialogue or even a film score can be a tough sell for even a seasoned filmgoer like myself. So it really says something (no pun intended) that The Tribe soars as a unique storytelling experience that showcases pure and raw emotions. The film follows...

Güeros, 10,000 Km and Happy Valley will screen at the festival as top brass announced programming in three sections.

The New Auteurs and shorts sections showcase filmmakers from around the world. Both strands are juried and selections are eligible for grand jury awards.

New Auteurs selections include Alonso Ruizpalacios’ Güeros (Mexico, pictured) and the North American premiere of Bas Devos’ Violet (Netherlands-Belgium).

There are Us premieres for Park Jungbum’s Alive (Sanda, South Korea) and Nguyen Hoang Diep’s Flapping In The Middle Of Nowhere (Ðap Cánh Giua Không Trung, Vietnam-France-Norway-Germany.)

Screen International critic Tim Grierson is on the jury alongside Alonso Duralde, Tim Grierson, Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson.

Shorts include 130919 • A Portrait Of Marina Abramović by Matthu Placek and Scott Cummings’ Buffalo Juggalos.

The shorts jurors are Kahlil Joseph, Sara Murphy, Mike Ott, Matthew Takata and Brian Udovich.

The American Independents section features the programmers’ picks of the best of the year’s independent films, including...

An uncomfortable feeling hit me almost immediately while watching Jason Banker’s new film. It was a mix of guilt and shame that lasted up until the brutal and heartbreaking ending. This guilt and shame isn’t attributed to anything I felt guilty for in particular, but more as a man living in a world where I acknowledge that there are deep rooted problems regarding gender, sex and violence, and as last year’s popular song illustrates, the “Blurred Lines” that are often trivialized by society. Felt brings to light the effects of “rape culture” in our society and how normal it has become to dismiss actions by saying “that’s just boys being boys.” Banker’s gorgeous looking film highlights some of the not so pretty situations that we as a society have become accustomed to viewing without thinking about its effects on the victim. He turns what would...

Fantastic Fest 2014 saw the debut of Felt, the new film from Toad Road director Jason Banker. Felt was one of the festival’s most striking films, with a power that has stuck with me for days after the premiere. The story follows a young woman named Amy as she embarks upon a journey of personal redefinition following […]

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The festival has announced its winners and The Tale Of Princess Kaguya, Alleluia and The Babadook are among the more popular choices.

Alamo Drafthouse and Fantastic Fest co-founder Tim League and Louis Black presented critic Leonard Maltin with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

The festival runs in Austin, Texas, from September 18-25. For further details about all the winners click here.

Audience Award presented by Maxwell Locke & Ritter:

The Tale Of Princess Kaguya, Isao Takahata.

Next Wave Spotlight Competition presented by Dell Precision:

Best Picture: It Follows, David Robert Mitchell 

Best Director: Miroslav Slaboshpitsky, The Tribe

Best Screenplay: David Robert Mitchell, It Follows

Best Actor: Lou Taylor Pucci, Spring

Best Actress: Amy Everson, Felt.

Fantastic Features:

Best Picture: Alleluia, Fabrice Du Welz

Best Director: Fabrice Du Welz, Alleluia

Best Screenplay: Tetsuya Nakashima, Maiko Tedano and Nobuhiro Monma, The World Of Kanako

Best Actor: Laurent Lucas, Alleluia

Best Actress: Lola Dueñas, Alleluia.

Horror Features:...

There comes a moment early in Toad Road director Jason Banker's Felt which beautifully sets the tone for what is to unfold over the next 70 or so minutes of his second narrative feature: After partying with a few young men in their hotel room, best pals Amy (Amy Everson) and Allana (Allana Reynolds) retreat to the hallway as Amy's unclear on why she even came. She's sick. She can't sleep. Her dreams and reality are one and the same. As she says it: she is a ghost. She's tried everything. Nothing helps. The two young women hold each other, laughing over the ways in which they could kill men, for a killing spree is perhaps the only thing Amy hasn't tried to relieve her...

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Exclusive: Director and cinematographer Jason Banker follows his 2012 debut Toad Road with Felt, a thriller about a young woman plagued by nightmares who loses herself in an increasingly outrageous artistic project and alter egos to deal with traumas inflicted by the men in her life. Banker’s 2012 debut feature Toad Road was snapped up by Elijah Wood’s SpectreVision label after winning Best Director and Best Actor at the Fantasia Film Festival. Felt is world premiering tonight in Austin at Fantastic Fest with genre buyers in attendance. Amy Everson, Kentucker Audley, and Roxanne Knouse star in the story developed by Everson and Banker. Xyz Films is selling North American rights. Here’s the exclusive trailer:...

We are three weeks away until Fantastic Fest. Kind of amazing to think about. This year, I am blessed to bring Mike Hassler with me. We will be seeing as many films as our eyeballs will see and writing as many reviews as our fingers will allow us. Take a look at the second wave announcement below and don’t forget to look at the first wave and my predictions of what might play at the fest (I didn’t fare well with the Second Wave). As before, I have included the trailers for all the films, if available, announced in this wave.

From the Press Release

Austin, TX – Wednesday, August 27, 2014 – Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of events, special guests and film programming. Fantastic Fest 2014 takes place September 18-25th in Austin, Texas at the newly reopened Alamo South Lamar and Highball.

As I will be attending my very first Fantastic Fest in but a few weeks, I now feel, more than ever, that it is my duty to present news on the fest (not that I wasn't willing to before). So, today we have for you their second wave of films, which includes Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler as the closing night offering. But since that one is getting a general release very, very soon, more importantly there's the North American premiere of Taxidermia director György Pálfi's much acclaimed absurdest parable Free Fall (reviewed here), new work from Toad Road director Jason Banker in Felt, the world premiere of Chilean actioner Redeemer, as well as the Us premieres of Sono Sion's Tokyo Tribe, Justin Benson & Aaron Moorehead's...

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Fantastic Fest 2014 kicks off September 18, and the second wave of films has been announced. Purgatory, Redeemer, Whispers Behind the Wall, Necrophobia 3D, Over Your Dead Body, and more are on the menu!

From the Press Release:

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of events, special guests, and film programming. Fantastic Fest 2014 takes place September 18-25th in Austin, Texas, at the newly reopened Alamo South Lamar and Highball.

Get ready to be blown away by Lionsgate's latest action-packed thriller, John Wick starring Keanu Reeves, with a red carpet gala screening with Reeves and directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski in attendance. John Wick is the story of a former ex-hitman who comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is a fresh and stylized take on the "assassin genre.

Be sure to check out MovieBS.com for reviews and commentary from the best film festival known to man. Here is the news release of the second wave of films and events.

Austin, TX – Wednesday, August 27, 2014 – Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of events, special guests and film programming. Fantastic Fest 2014 takes place September 18-25th in Austin, Texas at the newly reopened Alamo South Lamar and Highball.

Get ready to be blown away by Lionsgate’s latest action-packed thriller, John Wick starring Keanu Reeves, with a red carpet gala screening with Reeves and directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski in attendance. John Wick is the story of a former ex-hitman who comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is a fresh and stylized take on the “assassin genre.

The lineup for the second wave of films at 2014′s 10th Annual Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas has arrived, and with it a potential Oscar contender, Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler. The film, a pulpy crime film about an embedded journalist (Jake Gyllenhaal), will make its U.S. premiere at the festival with Director and Writer Gilroy in attendance.

Fantastic Fest has also released a lineup that includes John Wick, an action/thriller starring Keanu Reeves (Reeves will be in attendance), Takashi Miike’s latest Over Your Dead Body and the Studio Ghibli film The Tale of Princess Kaguya. This announcement comes on the heels of the first wave of films, including Sundance horror film The Babadook.

Fantastic Fest takes place September 18-25 in Austin. View the first lineup of films here. And view the full lineup of films and descriptions from this second wave below via a press release.

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Open Road’s Jake Gyllenhaal starrer Nightcrawler will close the 10th annual Fantastic Fest in its U.S. premiere and Keanu Reeves will drop by for a gala screening of Lionsgate’s John Wick, organizers announced today. The rising genre film fest held September 18-25 in Austin, TX will open with the previously announced Tusk from Kevin Smith.

Also unveiled today along with a second wave of programming is a centerpiece bout in the Fantastic Debates, in which filmmakers, critics, and celebs engage in discourse at a podium before taking it to the boxing ring to determine the ultimate winner. This year, BitTorrent’s Chief Content Officer Matt Mason will take on a challenger to duke it out over whether the file sharing platform is a valuable tool or an enabler of piracy.

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