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Posted on Thursday, August 17th, 2017 by Jacob Hall Do you remember Skyline , the 2010 science fiction movie about people trapped in an apartment during an alien invasion? Of course you don’t. It was awful. Terrible. Probably one of the worst movies given a wide release in theaters that year. But it was also cheap, produced for a modest $10 million budget, allowing it to make enough money to justify a sequel. And now, seven years later, the trailer for that sequel has arrived. And it looks…not bad? Perhaps that’s because Beyond Skyline features a new cast, a new setting, a new director, and only a tenuous connection to the original movie . To be fair, the Beyond Skyline trailer (originally unveiled over at AICN) isn’t going to appeal to those who aren’t already okay with watching low- budget science fiction movies  that look like they’re one step removed from premiering on SyFy. But this looks like a very, very good low- budget science fiction movie , the kind of B- movie junk food...

In the year 2010, a little film named Skyline was released, which promised an action- packed alien invasion movie with stunning visuals the likes of which mankind had never seen. However, what we got was an hour and a half of unlikable characters hiding in an apartment building with the blinds closed. The original Skyline was panned by critics, with a stunning 16% on Rotten Tomatoes, and quickly made its rounds on every bad movie podcast in existence. Although the first film has proudly been inducted into the bad movie hall of fame, it appears that a sequel will be forthcoming, and the first trailer looks…. awesome? Beyond Skyline Drops Its First Trailer And Blows Our Minds While we may not know why Skyline is receiving a sequel, the first full trailer for the next film in the franchise, Beyond Skyline , looks amazing. Based on what we saw in the trailer, the sequel appears to be a vast improvement from the first film. Not only does the trailer show us emotional stakes and charac...

August 24, 2017 Just because a movie is good doesn’t mean it’s without issues. In fact, many of the greatest and most memorable movies of all time feature controversial scenes that shocked audiences or even got them banned. This list features heavy doses of sex and violence, but there are also plenty of other ways to cause controversy. Here are just 20 of the most controversial movie moments of all time. ")}; 20. Silence of the Lambs Buffalo Bill during his dance scene in Silence of the Lambs  | Orion Pictures There’s no denying that Silence of the Lambs is a great film. But it’s also impossible to ignore the sheer creepiness of it all — and no scene exemplifies that better than the one where Buffalo Bill dances . This iconic moment takes place most of the way through the movie, with scenes of the man in question getting dressed and applying makeup interspersed with those of the young woman Catherine Martinm who he captured and is keeping in a well. As she calls out to his...

Opening with immaculately composed shots of children leaping off an A-framed platform to the swimming pool below, Gastón Solnicki's rapturous experimental narrative "Kekszakallu" settles on a little girl who tries to will herself off the diving board. She peers over the edge, steels herself and retreats, eager to take the plunge but uncertain about what will happen once she does. For Solnicki, this is the prevailing metaphor of the entire feature, which follows a series of thinly connected girls and young women as they step tentatively into the wider world. And for viewers, it's a primer for Solnicki's abstract approach to their liminal state: a focus on faces and architecture, an emphasis on the cocoon of privilege, the occasional burst of music to suggest their turbulent inner lives. The title "Kekszakallu" comes from the Hungarian title of Bela Bartok's opera "Bluebeard's Castle," though it takes some squinting to find the themati...

Restaurant goers at Zinque, a food and wine bar at Lido Marina Village in Newport Beach, on Thursday, August 10, 2017. (Photo by Nick Agro, Orange County Register /SCNG)" src="src" /> Restaurant goers at Zinque, a food and wine bar at Lido Marina Village in Newport Beach, on Thursday, August 10, 2017. (Photo by Nick Agro, Orange County Register /SCNG) Shoppers gather to listen to a musician play at Lido Marina Village in Newport Beach, on Thursday, August 10, 2017. (Photo by Nick Agro, Orange County Register /SCNG)" src="src" /> Shoppers gather to listen to a musician play at Lido Marina Village in Newport Beach, on Thursday, August 10, 2017. (Photo by Nick Agro, Orange County Register /SCNG) street sign inside Lido Marina Books guides customers to the genre they are looking for in Newport Beach, on Thursday, August 10, 2017. (Photo by Nick Agro, Orange County Register /SCNG)" src="src" /> A street sign inside Lido Marina B...

NEW YORK, NY — It's one of the oldest rivalries in American migration: New York vs. Los Angeles. For the better part of a century, residents of the nation's two largest metro areas have been defending their chosen kingdom and dismissing the other on an endless loop of judginess between kitty-corner coasts. Ew, the traffic! But the sunshine! But the subway! But the garbage! But the skyline! But the coastline! But the bustle! But the chill! In this tireless war of words, a clear winner has yet to emerge. But it's harder to argue against the numbers. Thousands of working professionals have relocated to Los Angeles County from New York City in the past year and a half, according to a series of monthly "workforce reports" released this spring and summer by the job- networking site LinkedIn (and spotted by LA Weekly). And it's not exactly a two-way street. Since early 2016, according to LinkedIn, around seven or eight out of every 10, 000 site users in LA report...