Darkness

Ben Mullinkosson is a film-maker and skateboarder from Chicago who brings an effortless, freewheeling intimacy to this immersive and sensual study of the underground club scene in Chengdu in central China. The title is enigmatic, but it seems to refer to the imminent closure of a club called Funky Town where his subjects have been hanging out; the darkness is the club’s darkness, which is enfolding and welcoming and reassuring, a neon-detailed night in which nothing matters but youth, beauty and the pleasure of the…

Posted in: Comics, Top Cow | Tagged: kickstarter, marc silvestri, The Complete Darkness, The Darkness, Top Cow ComicsTop Cow has launched a Kickstarter for the 90s antihero series The Darkness Complete Collection Vol. 3.Article Summary Top Cow launches Kickstarter for The Complete Darkness Vol. 3. The volume includes The Darkness #41-64 and more stories. Volume 3 to feature exclusive Kickstarter jacket and bookplate. New The Darkness series slated for 2025, with a sourcebook…

What are our most primal fears? And how do they relate to real-world threats? These are intriguing questions for the horror genre, so it’s surprising that the stone age has more often been a setting for comedy (Year One, The Flintstones) or fantasy adventure (One Million Years BC). There are no grunting, club-wielding cavemen in British director Andrew Cumming’s first-time feature about a band of Palaeolithic humans venturing into strange lands in search of a new home. Instead, it establishes a plausible and immersive…

‘Forty-five thousand years ago …” So begins this ambitious, confident feature debut from Scottish director Andrew Cumming. It’s a horror movie set in the stone age where a poor old early human is yomping about the Highlands in winter; no Gore-Tex or warm pub, just a tough bit of elk meat to chew on and the odd run-in with a hairy Neanderthal. What a god-awfully grim time to be alive – even before things go bump in the night.The premise is simple: this movie is “Alien in the stone age”. It begins with six intrepid early…

A short film that chronicles the lives of the forgotten, deprived and marginalised children who live in Europe’s largest shantytown, just outside Madrid, is in the running for Spain’s equivalent of an Oscar at the Goya awards on Saturday.Aunque es de noche (Even Though it’s Night), which was shot on location in the Cañada Real informal settlement, using a cast of residents, follows 13-year-old Toni as he prepares to say goodbye to his best friend, Nasser, who is moving to France, and to his own childhood.The film takes…

Posted in: Comics, Current News | Tagged: cex, seven years in darknessCEX is launching a second series of Joseph Schmalke's Seven Years In Darkness, starting the second year of the Academy Of Black Magic.The Academy of Black Magic has reopened its doors for the first time in 200 years! Seventy-two children will walk through the Academy doors for freshmen year. But only seven will graduate and walk out alive by the seventh year. CEX Publishing is launching a second series of Joseph Schmalke's Seven Years In Darkness,…

Singer, a longtime fan of the pop-metal act, also served as surprise opening act for the band Saturday Ed Sheeran was a surprise guest at the Darkness’ Saturday night show in London, serving as both an unannounced opening act before joining the pop-metal band onstage to perform their “Love Is Only a Feeling.” The British singer-songwriter has long been a fan of the Darkness, even recruiting them to be his opening act during his Divide Tour in 2019. On Saturday, during his unannounced six-song…

The fourth season premieres on HBO Max Jan. 14. In the latest True Detective: Night Country trailer, viewers get one important message about a particularly dark period in Ennis, Alaska: “the night country takes us one by one.” In the fourth season of HBO’s anthology series True Detective: Night Country, Academy-award winning Jodie Foster and Kali Reis star as detectives investigating the disappearance of eight scientists who work at the Tsalal Arctic Research Station. The detectives, who…

Wes Ball teases Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. La Brea is coming to an end with an abbreviated season. Invincible sets the stage for Mark to come face to face with Omni-Man again. Plus, what’s coming on SurrealEstate. Spoilers, away!How Walking Dead Helped Improve InvincibleThe Blackening, Part 2Variety reports a sequel to The Blackening from original writers Dewayne Perkins and Tracy Oliver is now in development at Lionsgate.Superman: LegacyIn response to a fan on Instagram (via Comic Book), James Gunn denied the…

‘Herald Of Darkness’, a now-iconic rock ballad from survival horror Alan Wake 2, will be coming to Spotify and other streaming platforms later this week. Following the launch of Alan Wake 2 on October 27, fans were surprised by the level ‘We Sing’ –  a 20-minute rock opera set to the original track ‘Herald Of Darkness’. The song is performed by Finnish rock band Poets Of The Fall, who play fictional rock band Old Gods Of Asgard. It also features vocals from actors David Harewood (Mr Door) and Matthew Porretta (Alan…