A music festival in the UK has begun offering on site drug testing to revelers, where they can check if their dose of cocaine or ecstasy is safe without fear of arrest. An on-site lab is being run by the charity The Loop at the Kendal Calling music festival, which takes place this weekend (27-30 […]
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'Music is languages of angels,' says Russian director who awed Salzburg Festival (VIDEO)
Published time: 29 Jul, 2017 09:56 Russian musicians left the Salzburg Festival audience in awe, becoming the third non-Austrian musicians ever to open the event. RT spoke with world-famous conductor Teodor Currentzis, who led the orchestra. Following the concert, the audience gave the musicians a 15-minute standing ovation. Over the two weeks that the Perm […]
Frank Ocean, Tame Impala and more — here’s who to see perform at the New York latest big summer music festival
Theo Wargo/Getty Images This weekend marks the second year of Panorama Festival, New York’s newest three-day music festival put together by Goldenvoice, the big name promoters behind Coachella. The first year of the festival went off with a bang, featuring the reunion of indie rock hall-of-famers LCD Soundsystem — to say nothing of Kendrick Lamar. Goldenvoice […]
‘Lowlife’ Review: A Dirty, Bloody Crime Saga Starring a Luchador [Fantasia Film Festival]
Rarely does a film live up to its title as well as Lowlife. Equal parts absurd comedy and surrealist bloodbath, it’s a shocking and often-hilarious story of a bunch of derelicts told over a few days in Los Angeles. You know you’re in for a rough time when the film starts with an apparent ICE agent […]
‘Mohawk’ Review: A Low Budget History Lesson of Violence [Fantasia Film Festival]
Fresh from his ghostly triumph We Are Still Here, writer/director Ted Geoghegan finds himself combing the woods for a different kind of horror with Mohawk. One part revenge thriller, one part historical drama, one part home invasion where the United States is the home being invaded, this ambitious indie project delivers a spark of real-world tragedy yet […]
‘Killing Ground’ Review: Never Go Camping, Especially in a Horror Movie [Fantasia Film Festival]
Why do people even bother to go camping anymore? To quote Jim Gaffigan, “The only happy camper is the one leaving the camp ground.” When you head into the woods for a getaway, you have to contend with the heat, bugs, uncomfortable sleeping situations, and, if movies are to be believed, psycho killers. It seems […]
Win tickets to the Adventure Travel Film Festival
The festival returns to Mill Hill School in 200 acres of wooded parkland on the outskirts of London, where attendees can pitch their tents or park their caravans or campervans. Outdoor workshops, photography courses, walks, foraging, bushcraft and building a zip wire all take place on-site with ‘starlight screenings’ on the Friday and Saturday night […]
The 2018 Independent Games Festival submissions are now open!
Submissions are now officially open for the 2018 Independent Games Festival, the signature competition for indie games, to be held for its 20th year during GDC 2018 in San Francisco next March. The deadline for all submissions to the IGF this year will be October 2nd, with finalists announced in early January 2018. Finalists’ games […]
‘Replace’ Review: Icky Body Horror and a Great Lead Performance [Fantasia Film Festival]
What’s intriguing about Norbert Keil’s Replace isn’t just the Richard Stanley co-writing credit. It’s more than the “Barbara Crampton Effect.” Sinful style hypnotizes like a tractor beam that entraps voyeuristic eyes, like someone spliced the cinematic DNA of Nicolas Winding Refn and Vincenzo Natali. Vanity becomes an obsession that leads to sci-fi experimentation, not to […]
’78/52′ Review: The Shower Scene From ‘Psycho’ Gets Explored in Fascinating Detail [Fantasia Film Festival]
The running water. The figure behind the shower curtain. The flash of the knife. The sudden screech of strings to accompany the slaughter. Everyone knows the shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho – even people who have somehow managed to never see the film. It is, perhaps, the most famous scene in film history, and it’s […]
