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What I wouldn't be surprised to read in future MSM headlines: AI Data Center CEO declares there's still no risks to human/environmental health.
His presser is in a studio, with AI natural background. They've killed off the natural backgrounds. He doesn't tell them how nervous he feels about the oxygen running out from his bunker backup plan. His ego prevents him from saving himself & his family.

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"a carnivalesque tale of a clan sticking – and stitching – together in Depression-Era America": the Adams family's latest outing WHERE THE DEVIL ROAMS (2023) in NYC, Austin and LA & other US indie theatres from today, for #YellowVeilPictures. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/where-the-devil-roams-review-at-fantasia-a-grotesque-carnivalesque-tale/

"a London comedy of meddling manners, full of boozy nights, poltergeist pranking, workspace satire, and personal development": Gabriel Foster Prior's THE BYSTANDERS at #RioCinema, Dalston + Q&A 6.45pm tonight via #ScreenboundPictures. Capsule for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-bystanders-review-sci-fi-satire-of-modern-life-at-sci-fi-london-film-festival/

“found-footage multiverse mystery sends documentarians on a quest to find a missing woman and a better world”: Graham Hughes’ HOSTILE DIMENSIONS (+ Q&A) screens 2.15pm today at #ImagineFantasticFilmFestival. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/hostile-dimensions-review-at-frightfest-scary-funny-sci-fi-on-a-budget/

Victor Danell’s good-natured retro adventure UFO SWEDEN "lets a disparate ensemble of dreamers look to the stars, leap through time and find each other." Screens 4.40pm today at #ImagineFantasticFilmFestival. Capsule for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/inner-and-outer-spaces-sci-fi-london-day-one/

In Junta Yamaguchi’s second looping SF feature RIVER, an inn’s staff and residents, frozen in a recurring two minutes, desperately seek a future. Screens 3pm today at #TriesteSciencPlusFictionFestival, 9.40pm at #ImagineFantasticFilmFestival. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/river-review-at-fantasia-2023-looping-sci-fi-adventure/

An old story: Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez's apocalyptic horror THE ELDERLY (VIEJOS, 2022) allegorises our anxieties about the aged and ever-encroaching mortality. On US Blu/VOD from today via #DarkStarPictures. Capsule for #SciFiNow
https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/freak-infestations-strange-elders-and-diseased-strays-in-day-four-of-sci-fi-london/

Cage and Kinnaman drive angry: in Yuval Adler’s noirish road movie SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL, "a father-to-be is taken for a wild night ride by a ghost from his past". On Blu-ray/DVD from today via #SignatureEntertainment. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/cinema/sympathy-for-the-devil-review-joel-kinnaman-and-nicolas-cage-star-in-stylish-backroads-noir/

Daniel is an anagram of denial: Quarxx’s “dark and grotesque (divine) comedy” PANDEMONIUM screens 10pm tonight at #TriesteSciencPlusFictionFestival. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/pandemonium-review-at-fantasia-a-dark-and-grotesque-divine-comedy/

“found-footage multiverse mystery sends documentarians on a quest to find a missing woman and a better world”: Graham Hughes' HOSTILE DIMENSIONS screes 9.30pm tonight at #TriesteSciencPlusFictionFestival. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/hostile-dimensions-review-at-frightfest-scary-funny-sci-fi-on-a-budget/

“found-footage multiverse mystery sends documentarians on a quest to find a missing woman and a better world”: Graham Hughes’ HOSTILE DIMENSIONS (+ Q&A) screens 7.10pm tonight at #ImagineFantasticFilmFestival. Review for #SciFiNow

https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/hostile-dimensions-review-at-frightfest-scary-funny-sci-fi-on-a-budget/

Victor Danell’s good-natured retro adventure UFO SWEDEN "lets a disparate ensemble of dreamers look to the stars, leap through time and find each other." Screens 1.20pm today at #ImagineFantasticFilmFestival. Capsule for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/inner-and-outer-spaces-sci-fi-london-day-one/

Victor Danell’s good-natured retro adventure UFO SWEDEN "lets a disparate ensemble of dreamers look to the stars, leap through time and find each other." Screens 8pm tonight at #TriesteSciencePlusFictionFestival. Capsule for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/inner-and-outer-spaces-sci-fi-london-day-one/

"lovingly batshit resurrection of Stuart Gordon’s Lovecraftian spirit": Joe Lynch's SUITABLE FLESH "finds sensational new forms to keep the old ones alive". Now in UK cinemas via #VertigoReleasing & US cinemas/VOD via #RLJEFilms. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/suitable-flesh-review-a-lovingly-batsht-resurrection-of-stuart-gordons-lovecraftian-spirit/

You can't step into the same river twice: in Junta Yamaguchi’s second looping SF feature RIVER, an inn’s staff and residents, frozen in a recurring two minutes, desperately seek a future. Screens 4.45pm today at #ImagineFantasticFilmFestival. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/river-review-at-fantasia-2023-looping-sci-fi-adventure/

Handheld horror: Danny & Michael Philippou's TALK TO ME (2022) "mediates adolescent angst and alienation through a terrifying rite of passage." Essential. Now on 2-disc 4k/Blu steelbook, 4K, Blu or DVD in UK via #Altitude Films. Full review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/cinema/talk-to-me-review-one-hell-of-a-strong-calling-card/

"a contemporary tale – with retrospective stylings – of American tourists entrapped in local ritual": Austin Jennings' 'heady love letter to 70s exploitation cinema' EIGHT EYES, 7.20pm tonight at #TheQuayTheatre for #DeadAndSudBuried. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/eight-eyes-review-at-fantasia-a-heady-love-letter-to-70s-exploitation-cinema/

Daniel is an anagram of denial: Quarxx’s “dark and grotesque (divine) comedy” PANDEMONIUM screens 10am this morning at #CelluloidScreams. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/pandemonium-review-at-fantasia-a-dark-and-grotesque-divine-comedy/

"both an allegorical story of a trans woman gaining self-confidence and learning to fight for who she is, and a B-movie... full of aliens and arse-kicking": Alice Maio Mackay's T BLOCKERS screens midnight tonight at #CelluloidScreams. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/t-blockers-review-at-fantasia-monstrous-metamovie-explores-trans-experience/

"a carnivalesque tale of a clan sticking – and stitching – together in Depression-Era America": the Poser/Adams family’s latest outing WHERE THE DEVIL ROAMS (2023) screens 3.30pm at #CelluloidScreams. A tremendous, transgressive trip. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/where-the-devil-roams-review-at-fantasia-a-grotesque-carnivalesque-tale/

"serves up a darkly comic allegory of the moral iniquities of global economics": Nicholas Tomnay's taut culinary thriller WHAT YOU WISH FOR screens 12.30pm today at #CelluloidScreams. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/what-you-wish-for-review-a-generous-serving-of-social-allegory-fantasia/

"an adolescent Indian-American risks losing her own soul to cultural conformity": Bishal Dutta's horror hybrid IT LIVES INSIDE in UK cinemas from today via #VertigoReleasing. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/it-lives-inside-review-at-fantasia-cross-cultural-identity-assimilation-and-absorption/

"Seventies-set school invasion horror lets Manson-esque cultists and abandoned pupils raise some hell together": Jenn Wexler's THE SACRIFICE GAME screened at #BrooklynHorrorFilmFestival. Full review at #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-sacrifice-game-review-at-fantasia-a-whole-world-of-diabolical-desire/

"a carnivalesque tale of a clan sticking – and stitching – together in Depression-Era America": the Adams/Poser family’s latest outing WHERE THE DEVIL ROAMS (2023) screened at #BrooklynHorrorFilmFestival. A transgressive trip. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/where-the-devil-roams-review-at-fantasia-a-grotesque-carnivalesque-tale/

"cross-cultural documentary traces the origins and influences of a Japanese horror genre": Sarah Appleton & Jasper Sharp's THE J-HORROR VIRUS (2023) screened at #BrooklynHorrorFilmFestival. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/the-j-horror-virus-review-delving-into-a-cultural-phenomenon/

"reconfigures Wings Of Desire or The Adjustment Bureau as a London comedy of meddling manners": Gabriel Foster Prior's bureacratic guardian-angel satire THE BYSTANDERS screens 8pm tonight at #DukeofYorksPicturehouse + Q&A. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-bystanders-review-sci-fi-satire-of-modern-life-at-sci-fi-london-film-festival/

"a London comedy of meddling manners, full of boozy nights, poltergeist pranking, workspace satire, and personal development": Gabriel Foster Prior's THE BYSTANDERS screens 6.15pm tonight at #EverymanCinema Manchester St Johns + Q&A. Capsule for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-bystanders-review-sci-fi-satire-of-modern-life-at-sci-fi-london-film-festival/

"a contemporary tale – with retrospective stylings – of American tourists entrapped in local ritual": Austin Jennings' "heady love letter to 70s exploitation cinema" EIGHT EYES, 9.30pm tonight at #Screamfest. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/eight-eyes-review-at-fantasia-a-heady-love-letter-to-70s-exploitation-cinema

Strangers in a trailer: Indianna Bell & Josiah Allen’s confident, claustrophobic YOU'LL NEVER FIND ME (one of my favourite genre films of 2023) screens 7.15pm tonight at #Screamfest. Pure creepy craft. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/youll-never-find-me-review-a-tour-de-force-of-minimalist-filmmaking/

You can't step into the same river twice: in Junta Yamaguchi’s second looping SF feature RIVER, an inn’s staff and residents, frozen in a recurring two minutes, desperately seek a future. Screens 12pm today at #MayhemFilmFestival. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/river-review-at-fantasia-2023-looping-sci-fi-adventure/