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“Evil spirits, leave at once.” Well Go USA has debuted a creepy teaser trailer for a Korean horror film titled Dark Nuns, opening in theaters worldwide within the next few weeks. It opens first in Korea at the end of January, then opens in the US in the start of February. A young boy Hee-Joon is possessed by an evil spirit. Nun Yunia tries to save him, assisted by Nun Mikaela. Priest Paul attempts medical treatment, while Priest Andrew performs an exorcism to rid of the spirit. After learning that…

The Max hospital drama draws from the same creative team as the longtime NBC juggernaut — including star Noah Wyle — and winningly revives a TV formula on life support

“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” Heading into the year 2025, this marks the 19th year of FirstShowing.net – we originally launched this website way back in 2006. It’s a miracle that it’s still running all these years later – almost two decades. There’ve been so many times when I’ve wanted to throw in the towel, shut things down, and move on. But I still love movies. I still love cinema. I’m still happy (for the most part) being able to participate in…

“What d’you mean you don’t care about my dream?” Here’s another extra trailer for the sweet little indie film called Bird, the latest feature written and directed by the award-winning filmmaker Andrea Arnold (of Red Road, Fish Tank, American Honey, Cow). Mubi already released this in the fall last year (here’s the first trailer) and this second trailer is a reminder that it’s also streaming on the Mubi app to watch anytime. It first premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father…

“The boy is out of the box.” 📦 You’ve never seen anything like this film before! A hilarious new short film is finally online after playing at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival last year. Meat Puppet is a hilarious comedy short film created by a British-Greek filmmaker named Eros V. The film won the Audience Award at SXSW and played at a bunch of other festivals and is now online to watch. It’s a knock out! On the day he promised his girlfriend he’d grow up, a man-child inadvertently traps…

“We can’t choose when to be great. We can only hope to be great when it counts.” Prime Video has debuted one more official trailer for the sports movie Unstoppable, telling the inspiring true story of one-legged wrestler Anthony Robles. This premiered at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival last fall, and it’ll be ready for streaming on Prime Video in a more few weeks this January. Starring Jharrel Jerome (seen in Moonlight, “When They See Us”, “I’m a Virgo”) as Anthony Robles in another outstanding performance – one of my…

“Does this stuff even work? Is it just a trick? Where – even – are you?!” 🍄 Adult Swim has debuted a funky second trailer for the psychedelic & crazy new animated series called Common Side Effects, arriving for streaming in February 2025 in just one month. The series first premiered at the Annecy Film Festival and was also unveiled at SDCC last year – available to watch soon. It’s sort of a follow-up to incredible animated sci-fi series Scavengers Reign (on Netflix now) as one of the makers of…

“See the movie that’s so intense you don’t watch it, you experience it.” Lionsgate has unveiled the second trailer for Flight Risk, a survival thriller set on a small airplane flying over Alaska. This was supposed to open in theaters in October last year, but they delayed it – now it arrives in theaters nationwide at the end of January. In this high-stakes suspense thriller, a private pilot transports an Air Marshal taking a fugitive to a trial. As they fly across the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is…

“What does it feel like to be alive?” 🛰 “Have you ever considered how impossible it is that we found each other? Bleecker Street has revealed an official trailer for the indie sci-fi romance creation titled Love Me. This initially premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival last year to mixed reactions – I’m a big fan of the film, or at least what it’s trying to say and teach us about identity. Long after humanity’s extinction, a buoy and a satellite inherit the Earth, and with only the internet…

“Sometimes I dream…” Time for one more stunning look back at the past year in movies. Are your favorites included? As 2024 winds down and we get ready to jump right into 2025, cinema lovers have been making their own video recaps and trailer mashups. One of them that debuted just days before the New Year arrives is this one created by a filmmaker / editor known as Clementine Narcisse who often just goes by simply “Clementine”. Her 2024 in Film video is a ravishing, refreshing, amusing roundup of some…