‘Flux Gourmet’ Exclusive Poster: Peter Strickland’s Wild New Film Gets Some Beautiful Art To Accompany Its Berlin Debut

Let’s go back. Back to the beginning when Hilary Duff was a teen star who was featured on the infamous 2003 cover of Vanity Fair’s Young Hollywood issue.

An iconic image. Hilary Duff looked back at her 2003 Vanity Fair magazine cover, and it wasn’t exactly a fun memory.

Is there another post-pod romance brewing, this time between Love Is Blind cast members Natalie Lee and Salvador Perez?!

J. Kim Murphy Actress Jurnee Smollett has voiced support for her brother, Jussie Smollett, after the former “Empire” actor was sentenced to five months in jail for orchestrating a false hate crime narrative, in which he told law enforcement he was attacked by two men who yelled racist and homophobic slurs.Jurnee Smollett, Jussie’s younger sister, asserted that she believes in her brother’s innocence in an Instagram post that shared on Saturday afternoon.

SIR ROD Stewart shows some guys have all the muck — as he fills in potholes. The legendary singer, 77, got stuck in himself as he claims it has become impossible to drive his Ferrari on his local road.

THE Spice Girls have held fresh talks as they plan a world tour for next year – ending with a swan song show at Glastonbury with Victoria Beckham. Sources close to Mel C, Mel B, Emma Bunton and Geri Horner, who had a meeting this week in London, told how they feel their last performance should be on Glasto’s ­Pyramid Stage.

In 2011, former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords survived an assassination attempt that left her partially paralyzed and unable to walk. Tracing her recovery and activism, the title of Julie Cohen and Betsy West‘s documentary “Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down” pretty much says it all.

Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto cut stylish figures on Saturday as they attended the premiere of their new limited series WeCrashed at South by Southwest.The 39-year-old actress and the 50-year-old actor walked the red carpet at the film and music festival in Austin, Texas.The Oscar winners playreal-life married couple Rebekah and Adam Neumann in the Apple TV+ show, which will debut worldwide on March 18. On the red carpet:Anne Hathaway, 39, and Jared Leto, 50, attended the premiere of their new limited series WeCrashed at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, on SaturdayAnne dazzled in a long sleeveless silver mesh dress that featured a low V-cut neckline and cut-outs at the star's trim waist.

Hilary Duff stepped out in an alluring ensemble when she grabbed dinner with a friend on Friday.The actress, 34, donned a long, black leather trench coat that she draped over her shoulders over a short shirt that hugged her torso.She rocked a pair of ripped blue jeans and finished off the look in nude open-toed shoes. Looking good:Hilary Duff stepped out in an alluring ensemble when she grabbed dinner with a friend on Friday at LAVO Ristorante in West HollywoodThe How I Met Your Father star wore her blonde hair down just past her collar bone, and she accessorized with a pair of huge hoop earrings and two sparkling silver necklaces.

Selome Hailu Premiering his new Apple TV Plus docuseries “They Call Me Magic” at the South by Southwest Film Festival, Magic Johnson shared that Michael Jordan’s Netflix docuseries “The Last Dance” helped him decide it was finally time to tell his own life story.“The reason we did it is because when Michael did ‘The Last Dance,’ my phone just started ringing,” the former L.A. Laker said in a post-screening discussion.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThat homemade cherry pie you see Emily carrying in the opening scene of “Soft & Quiet”? It’s not what you think. But then, neither is Emily, a tall blond kindergarten teacher who cuts through the woods behind school to attend a gathering of like-minded women.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaWhen Christopher Nolan was shopping for a studio for “Oppenheimer,” his look at the creation of the atomic bomb, Donna Langley sprang into action. The Universal Filmed Entertainment Group chairman believes that Nolan, along with Steven Spielberg and Jordan Peele, is one of the few filmmakers whose name above the title demands that audience will pay attention.

Liverpool have revealed the severity of Mohamed Salah’s injury is still unknown after the Egyptian was forced off against Brighton. Salah scored a penalty in the 2-0 win that took Liverpool to within three points of Manchester City at the top of the table, but shortly after scoring he went down and was replaced by Diogo Jota. With the Reds still fighting in three competitions, any injury to their star man would be a huge concern and the club will be hoping that the news proves to be positive.

Jamie Lang After a banner 2021 for high-end genre films, industry vets are hopeful that the fantastic can resurrect the corpse of pre-COVID theatrical distribution.As bolts of lightning reanimated the body of Frankenstein’s monster, Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” which turned heads when it took the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and Sundance Grand Jury prize-winner “Nanny,” a supernatural tale from director Nikyatu Jusu, have revitalized the festival scene.While “Nanny” may have been the jewel in the genre crown at Sundance, the influence that genre cinema held over 2022’s first major festival was wide-ranging and undeniable. Chloe Okuno’s psychological thriller “Watcher” impressed — segueing into several sales deals — as did Hanna Bergholm’s psycho-horror feature “Hatching,” sold by Wild Bunch and Charades-sold Spanish standout “Piggy,” the follow-up to Carlota Pereda’s 2019 Spanish Academy Award-winner “Cerdita.” Among genre titles at Berlin this year are Dario Argento’s serial killer thriller “Dark Glasses” in the Berlinale Special section, while Bertrand Bonello’s subconscious voyage “Coma” and Peter Strickland’s gory “Flux Gourmet” (pictured above) feature in Encounters.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticEvery so often, a movie comes along that sends culinarily inclined audiences into rapture — “Babette’s Feast,” “Big Night” or “Like Water for Chocolate” spring to mind — getting eyes glistening and mouths watering in anticipation of a meal that only the characters will ever taste. “Flux Gourmet” is not that foodie movie.

The adage “write what you know” works well for writer-director Peter Strickland with his Berlin Film Festival Encounters feature Flux Gourmet. The former member of The Sonic Catering Band makes rich work of a fictional culinary performance collective, while also tackling taboos in the depiction of stomach problems on screen.

Just as the Tiktok-ers and Instagrammites of the world had completed the mainstreaming of ASMR, master of the tactile Peter Strickland has returned to restore the unsettling, alien quality to sensation. In “Flux Gourmet,” his latest and most bizarre film — a hotly contested title he earns with this feverish stew of murdered turtles, torrid orgies, and heartrending fart-tending — texture is everything.

Outré horror maestro Peter Strickland is back. The filmmaker behind such Eurotica, vintage, throwback classics such as “Berberian Sound Studio” (2012), “The Duke of Burgundy” (2014), and “In Fabric” (2018), returns to the Berlin Film Festival this week (today, in fact), with his latest deliciously bizarro offering, “Flux Gourmet.” The premise? Something like beef within the culinary/sonic art collective world and a whole set of egos and intestinal issues.

Naman Ramachandran British auteur Peter Strickland is back with his fifth feature, “Flux Gourmet,” and it is as striking and uncompromising as his previous body of work, which includes “In Fabric” (2018), “The Duke of Burgundy” (2014), “Berberian Sound Studio” (2012) and “Katalin Varga” (2009). “Flux Gourmet” world premieres at the Berlin Film Festival’s Encounters strand on Feb. 11.The film follows a sonic collective trio with rocky interpersonal dynamics, who take up residency at an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance and have to answer to the institute’s head, who has her own opinions about their work.

SEX Education star Asa Butterfield looks unrecognisable in a first look at the new film Flux Gourmet. The actor - who plays Otis Milburn in the popular Netflix series - has landed a new role in the upcoming feature film directed by Peter Strickland.

British outré filmmaker Peter Strickland is stuck in the past in the very best sense of the phrase. Whether he’s making eerie, giallo throwback pictures (“Berberian Sound Studio”), psychedelic softcore fetish control movies (“The Duke Of Burgundy”), or strange, bizarre horrors that are a mix of English kitchen-sink realism and ghoulish creepiness (“In Fabric”), Strickland is always creating some kind of vintage, throwback picture with heavy nods to the ‘60s and ‘70s of erotic, kink, strange, and left-of-center cinema.