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Dennis Harvey Film Critic There is a quease factor to the popular fascination with serial killers that goes well beyond morbid curiosity about the crimes themselves — specifically, those who can’t get enough of such subject matter. How many dramatic depictions do we need of, say, Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy? Surely no new insights can truly be gleaned. After a point, it becomes a sheer, ghoulish fixation on real-life torture, rape and murder.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic Most people probably can’t remember “global warming” or whatever you want to call it being a significant issue — let alone a political football — before the last decade or two. But as “The White House Effect” underlines, about 35 years ago it was both prominent in the public eye and not yet politically divisive.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic Though it was hardly the first thriller to portray domesticity imperiled by an artificially intelligent “helper” (you may recall trapped Julie Christie in 1977’s “Demon Seed,” for starters), the runaway success of 2022’s “M3GAN” certainly lent that concept new commercial appeal. Unsurprisingly, Blumhouse isn’t waiting for next summer’s “M3GAN 2.0” to capitalize on its own success.

EXCLUSIVE: Objectively Good Media is in early development on Seventy-Two, an authorized biopic on actor, comedian and TV presenter Steve Harvey, Deadline has learned.

Baby Reindeer’s Richard Gadd isn’t yet a millionaire despite the success of his show… while the woman at the centre of it takes legal action for £130million.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic Since Jack Finney’s “The Body Snatchers” was first published 70 years ago, screen adaptations — official and unofficial alike — have taken place in small-town USA, Me Decade San Francisco, a military base, high school and so forth. All had a gist in common: humanity being infiltrated and co-opted by a shape-shifting invasive force from outer space. Loosely playing on that theme, Zach Clark’s “The Becomers” adds a new wrinkle, in that this time the body-hopping entities don’t necessarily intend conquest.

Frankie Bridge had a bit of a slip-up on Loose Women, making an unintentional cheeky comment about Sir Rod Stewart that left everyone in stitches.The Saturdays star was chatting with fellow panellists Brenda Edwards, Kaye Adams and Penny Lancaster - who happens to be Rod's wife - when she made the hilarious gaffe. Frankie confessed she was having some trouble with her knees, just as Penny was discussing how Rod was focusing on his fitness and health. When asked about her own exercise regime, Frankie joked that she "wished she had more of Rod in me", causing the audience and panel to burst into laughter.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic Those who think the days of the truly independent sleeper are long gone should take note of the “Terrifier” films which, with their direct, rather insular appeal to hardcore horror devotees, have racked up a very tidy sum in profits from relatively tiny budgetary layouts. A third feature will be released this fall, but meanwhile there’s “Stream,” a stand-alone effort from much of the crew of “Terrifier 2” (save writer-director Damien Leone, a co-producer here), which capitalized on the original’s cult status to gross nearly $16 million two years ago. “Stream,” too, is launching as a limited theatrical event, booked between Aug.

Katie Price has sparked rumours of wedding bells once again after being spotted dress shopping with her boyfriend JJ Slater. During her getaway to Turkey at the beginning of August, where she underwent a facelift costing £10k, Katie also went window shopping for wedding dresses. Whilst on holiday, the star was seen admiring a huge white ball gown dress with diamante sparkles, puffy sleeves and a huge skirt in one of the local shops.

Alex Ritman Harvey Keitel and Britt Robertson have teamed for comedy-drama “The Letter,” now in its final week of filming in Buenos Aires, with Rodrigo H. Vila directing. Written by Vila and Sebastián Meschengieser with script collaboration from Andy Weiss, the film follows Finn (Keitel), an old war veteran, who wants to write a goodbye letter to his only daughter.

HBO and BBC’s investment bank drama Industry is here – but how can fans in the UK watch the new episodes?Industry follows the lives of a group of bankers working in the London office of the fictional company Pierpoint & Co, focusing on a group of recent graduates as well as their mentors.The third season of the drama series was officially commissioned in October 2022, just weeks after the premiere of season two.A statement from HBO vice president of programming Kathleen McCaffrey said: “Industry reached new heights in season two, cementing its status as a buzzy hit with addictive storytelling, layered characters, a breakneck pace, and keen observations about contemporary workplace dynamics.”In a review of the first season of the show, NME said of Industry: ”It makes the world of banking look deeply unappealing, but makes it very fun to watch others suffer through it.”The show has proved to be a launching pad for a number of its stars, with Marisa Abela, who plays the wealthy graduate Yasmin, having recently portrayed Amy Winehouse in the biopic Back To Black.Myha’la Herrold has gone on to star in films Bodies Bodies Bodies and Leave The World Behind since first appearing on the show, and Harry Lawtey is set to play Harvey Dent in the upcoming Joker: Folie à Deux.It was also recently confirmed that joining the cast for this third season will be Game Of Thrones’ Kit Harrington, who will play the British aristocrat Lord Henry Much, described as “the embodiment of ‘old money’ privilege”.Industry is a co-production between HBO in the US and the BBC in the UK, with the previous two seasons airing on the respective platforms.The first episode of season three of the show aired in the US on HBO on Sunday (August 11), with the

Dennis Harvey Film Critic The only confusing thing about “The Last Front” is its title. Set at the outbreak of World War I, this fictive tale of invading German forces wreaking havoc in the Belgian countryside depicts just one arena for violence in a conflict that would drag on for another four years.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic Japanese director Nobuhiro Yamashita (“Linda Linda Linda”) was represented by no less than three features at Montreal’s Fantasia Fest this year, including anime “Ghost Cat Anzu” and high school seriocomedy “Swimming in a Sand Pool.” The shortest, most outwardly simple yet also possibly best of the lot might well be “Confession,” a manga adaptation in which two mountaineering refugees from a blizzard spend a long, discomfiting night in a cabin. The fact that one of them has just admitted to murder means that that particular type of crime could well recur before dawn arrives.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic Once every year or two a movie comes along that brings fresh energy to the found-footage horror movie, a terrain that’s been mercilessly, repetitiously over-tilled since “The Blair Witch Project” broke out a quarter-century ago. Unfortunately, “In Our Blood” does not capture that prize for 2024.

Baby Reindeer‘s Richard Gadd has finally responded to a lawsuit from the woman who the Netflix show is reportedly based on.Fiona Harvey, the woman believed to be the inspiration behind Martha in Baby Reindeer, recently filed a $170million (£133m) lawsuit against Netflix.In a lawsuit filed earlier this month (July 6) in the US district court for the central district of California, Harvey accused the streaming giant of defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, gross negligence and violations of her right of publicity (via The Guardian).It follows the huge success of the drama series, which was created and written by comedian Gadd. He also portrays a fictional version of himself, Donny, in the show.The seven-part programme depicts Gadd’s real experience of being relentlessly stalked by an older woman called Martha.

A young man from Wales was tragically found lifeless in his hotel room by his friends during a holiday in Spain.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic Beauty makes more of an impression than the titular creature in “The Beast Within.” Documentarian Alexander J. Farrell’s first narrative feature is a handsomely crafted, modestly scaled affair that benefits from being shot largely around the historic Harewood Woods and Castle in West Yorkshire.

UPDATED, 2:15 PM: A Manhattan judge today set a tentative start date of the rape retrial of convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein. With the disgraced former movie mogul in the courtroom briefly, Judge Curtis Farber penciled in November 12 but said he was open to earlier trial date depending on how quickly prosecutors move through the grand jury.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic Even Mario Bava’s succinctly titled horror “Hatchet for the Honeymoon” 54 years ago did not imagine a more vividly unpleasant entrée to wedlock than “Crumb Catcher,” Chris Skotchdopole’s feature directorial bow. In this mix of home-invasion thriller and grotesque comedy, a just-hitched young couple already on each other’s last nerves are surprised by uninvited visitors, causing the night to go from bad to very much worse. If you can withstand spending nearly two hours in the company of these grating, argumentative characters, there are rewards to be had in a skillfully wrought, twisty suspense tale that releases to limited U.S.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic Mysterious are the ways of the Lord, but devious those of His opposite number in “Thine Ears Shall Bleed.” This enterprising first feature from Ben Bigelow recalls “The Witch” in placing another pious pioneer family at the mercy of the elements — and apparent occult forces — during an early chapter of American history. The command of atmospheric tension Robert Eggers demonstrated in his own debut is not much evidenced here, making for a middling supernatural drama that’s never terribly convincing, or scary. Nonetheless, it’s an indie sufficiently polished to attract viewers looking for offbeat genre fare that’s relatively restrained in graphic horror content.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic You might expect a film that begins with Mel Gibson announcing, “The Bible says we should rejoice in our suffering,” to be a little more high-minded than “Boneyard.” But this trashy trawl through a fictionalized version of the “West Mesa Murders” — a still-unsolved southwestern crime spree in our century’s early years — is the kind of dubiously moralizing exploitation exercise that makes “Sound of Freedom” look like a noble class act by comparison. Likewise “inspired by true events,” Asif Akbar’s movie alternates between lurid serial-killer suspense not far removed from the retro grindhouse ogling of concurrent “MaXXXine” and a convoluted procedural involving variably corrupt, conflicting investigators.