Coming Home: Nakonechnyi Explores Collateral Damage in Prescient Drama
While the near decade long conflict between Russian and Ukraine has spilled into full-blown war, a handful of directors have explored the significantly intense ripple effects which defined the era and documented the events leading up to it. Whether it’s the prolific output of Sergei Loznitsa, or last year’s Reflection from Valentyn Vasyanovych and Loup Bureau’s documentary Trenches, the struggle in the Donbas region has been an omnipresent reality, revisited as a straightforward but utterly prescient melodrama from Maksym Nakonechnyi with his directorial debut, Butterfly Vision. A female drone soldier nabbed by Russian separatists at last returns home during one of the customary prisoner exchanges between sides, pregnant by rape and numbed by the additional trauma triggered by her return.…...
While the near decade long conflict between Russian and Ukraine has spilled into full-blown war, a handful of directors have explored the significantly intense ripple effects which defined the era and documented the events leading up to it. Whether it’s the prolific output of Sergei Loznitsa, or last year’s Reflection from Valentyn Vasyanovych and Loup Bureau’s documentary Trenches, the struggle in the Donbas region has been an omnipresent reality, revisited as a straightforward but utterly prescient melodrama from Maksym Nakonechnyi with his directorial debut, Butterfly Vision. A female drone soldier nabbed by Russian separatists at last returns home during one of the customary prisoner exchanges between sides, pregnant by rape and numbed by the additional trauma triggered by her return.…...
- 5/12/2023
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
If you were looking forward to Steelkrill Studio’s upcoming atmospheric horror game The Voidness, you’ll unfortunately have to wait a little while longer. Originally scheduled to be released on Steam later this week, Steelkrill has announced that The Voidness has been bumped to April 7.
Per the press release, Steelkrill stated they had some problems they needed to fix before the launch of The Voidness, hence the April delay.
The Voidness comes from the folks behind Trenches and The Backrooms 1998. You play as a space specialist named Francesca Lee, one of the eight astronauts sent into a void filled with darkness to study its existence. The only way to see in The Voidness when you’re out and about is by utilizing the gameplay mechanic of scanning the environment with your range finder device.
However, as you might expect, you’re not alone in the void. You’ll have to tread carefully,...
Per the press release, Steelkrill stated they had some problems they needed to fix before the launch of The Voidness, hence the April delay.
The Voidness comes from the folks behind Trenches and The Backrooms 1998. You play as a space specialist named Francesca Lee, one of the eight astronauts sent into a void filled with darkness to study its existence. The only way to see in The Voidness when you’re out and about is by utilizing the gameplay mechanic of scanning the environment with your range finder device.
However, as you might expect, you’re not alone in the void. You’ll have to tread carefully,...
- 3/14/2023
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
Long before the Avengers assembled together in the culmination of the greatest phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a multi-billion superhero franchise that has dominated pop culture discourse for decades, the Robert Downey Jr.-starring "Iron Man" kickstarted the studio's shared universe of films in 2008. Downey Jr. was initially perceived as a controversial choice for "Iron Man" — but the actor's past legal troubles didn't negatively influence director Jon Favreau, who fought tooth and nail to make it happen.
The film was released, Downey Jr.'s performance was commended, to say the least, and a franchise was born. The actor reprised his role in two sequels and has played Tony Stark/Iron Man in a total of 10 films while steadily being at the center of the MCU throughout. Downey Jr. has since been a part of many critically-acclaimed films, but the most loved films in his career spanning decades are the...
The film was released, Downey Jr.'s performance was commended, to say the least, and a franchise was born. The actor reprised his role in two sequels and has played Tony Stark/Iron Man in a total of 10 films while steadily being at the center of the MCU throughout. Downey Jr. has since been a part of many critically-acclaimed films, but the most loved films in his career spanning decades are the...
- 3/13/2023
- by Fatemeh Mirjalili
- Slash Film
Still nothing like the big screen when web series look this good. Seriously, at the risk of selling out my 640 pixel comrades, there is something that happens when you sit back and watch some of these web series we all get excited about in their full uncompressed HD glory. And The Bannen Way, the high octane thrill ride shot on the Red One camera, is well worthy of some cinematic screen time. That and sharing the experience with a few hundred fellow vicarious adrenaline junkies. This Friday evening Sony's Crackle is hosting a special La screening of the complete first season of The Bannen Way at the American Cinemateque's Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. It's the latest in a series of screenings at the Egyptian that show the internet some love, with previous screenings including Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, The Guild, Strike.TV and Funny or Die. On hand for a...
- 2/9/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
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