It's Wednesday, which means it's time for another batch of license announcements from Seven Seas Entertainment. This time the publisher came through with four new manga titles and a Webtoon manhwa series, with all five volume-one release windows landing in October 2024. Here's what you can look forward to later this year: The Barbarian’s Bride Aka The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King (K Manga) by Noriaki Kotoba Synopsis: Serafina de Lavillant, the strongest female knight in the West, was sent to subjugate the barbaric tribes of the East. But when her mission fails spectacularly, she’s captured alive and imprisoned. Humiliated and dreading what horrific torture she’ll endure, she asks to be put to death. To her surprise, rather than tearing her limb from limb, the tribe leader asks for her hand...in marriage! Will Serafina face a cruel and abusive arranged marriage? Or will she discover that...
- 5/16/2024
- by Joseph Luster
- Crunchyroll
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On- and offscreen BFFs Simona Tabasco and Beatrice Grannò aren’t the ones from White Lotus to partner with an underpinnings brand as of late. Season one star Sydney Sweeney has teamed with Frankies Bikinis on a collection of swimwear and ready-to-wear “inspired by the girl who follows her heart.”
The Reality actress’ Love Letters capsule ($70 to $220) is the Los Angeles-based label’s “sexiest collection yet,” per the brand. Available in sizes Xs to Xxl, the 26-piece range is the first of two drops (the next will lands in early April) and comprises bikini tops and bottoms, mini dresses and one-piece cutout swimsuits that call to mind the scene-stealing look worn by Sweeney’s Euphoria character, Cassie Howard. (The star wore the brand’s pink Gemma suit...
On- and offscreen BFFs Simona Tabasco and Beatrice Grannò aren’t the ones from White Lotus to partner with an underpinnings brand as of late. Season one star Sydney Sweeney has teamed with Frankies Bikinis on a collection of swimwear and ready-to-wear “inspired by the girl who follows her heart.”
The Reality actress’ Love Letters capsule ($70 to $220) is the Los Angeles-based label’s “sexiest collection yet,” per the brand. Available in sizes Xs to Xxl, the 26-piece range is the first of two drops (the next will lands in early April) and comprises bikini tops and bottoms, mini dresses and one-piece cutout swimsuits that call to mind the scene-stealing look worn by Sweeney’s Euphoria character, Cassie Howard. (The star wore the brand’s pink Gemma suit...
- 3/15/2023
- by Danielle Directo-Meston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There's a majestic "English pudding" at the centre of this Oscar-nominated short - but really this latest from Alice Rohrwacher is an enjoyable trifle. Her less than serious approach is signposted from the start as we're told it's "a film clumsily and freely based on a letter to the writer Elisa Morante sent to her friend".
Within the halls of a Catholic all-girls boarding school Christmas is approaching, not that you'd notice much from the attitude of the strict Mother Superior (played with an unyielding sternness by the director's sister Alba). The little girls under the nuns' care have just a hint of naughtiness about them, although Serafina (Melissa Falasconi) seems the odd one out. The other kids aren't really including her in their group chatter, perhaps because she's the quickest to obey the nuns' orders - but in a nice spot of ambiguity, there's no real sense that...
Within the halls of a Catholic all-girls boarding school Christmas is approaching, not that you'd notice much from the attitude of the strict Mother Superior (played with an unyielding sternness by the director's sister Alba). The little girls under the nuns' care have just a hint of naughtiness about them, although Serafina (Melissa Falasconi) seems the odd one out. The other kids aren't really including her in their group chatter, perhaps because she's the quickest to obey the nuns' orders - but in a nice spot of ambiguity, there's no real sense that...
- 3/12/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In the delightfully mischievous short film Le Pupille, which earned Italian writer-director Alice Rohrwacher her first Oscar nomination, a rebellion is brewing within the confines of a Catholic girls’ school in Italy on a chilly Christmas Eve in the midst of World War II.
Young Serafina (Melissa Falasconi) attracts the ire of Sister Fioralba (Alba Rohrwacher, the director’s sister), the stern mother superior who rules her boarding school with an iron fist and steely gaze. As the schoolgirls prepare for the evening’s festivities — stoically re-creating the Nativity — they listen to a radio report that offers somber news from the battlefield. But when Serafina accidentally changes the station, inadvertently filling the hall with the sounds of a love song with a lyric like “kiss me on my little mouth,” the girls erupt into song and dance and, as punishment for their jubilant misbehavior, are rewarded with mouthfuls of soap...
Young Serafina (Melissa Falasconi) attracts the ire of Sister Fioralba (Alba Rohrwacher, the director’s sister), the stern mother superior who rules her boarding school with an iron fist and steely gaze. As the schoolgirls prepare for the evening’s festivities — stoically re-creating the Nativity — they listen to a radio report that offers somber news from the battlefield. But when Serafina accidentally changes the station, inadvertently filling the hall with the sounds of a love song with a lyric like “kiss me on my little mouth,” the girls erupt into song and dance and, as punishment for their jubilant misbehavior, are rewarded with mouthfuls of soap...
- 2/25/2023
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
No one is safe, and nothing is sacred.
On His Dark Materials Season 3 Episode 5, the Big Bad finally shows up -- with a bang!
Major characters are dying left and right. Beloved dead characters are returning. And, of course, we finally see the world of the seedpod-skating, talking tapir-like creatures -- the mulefa.
The mulefa are not precisely as they appear in the book, but all things considered, they are close. Like a tapir-giraffe-elephant, these magical sentient creatures have been highly anticipated by fans of the books.
They are peaceful and welcoming of Mary, who studies them diligently. Atal, the first to befriend Mary, understands that their worlds are somehow connected, and Mary may be able to help them with the "sraf" -- their word for dust. Also, how cute were the babies?!
The mulefa way of communicating, with spoken language and trunk (or arm) signing, feels like a gently...
On His Dark Materials Season 3 Episode 5, the Big Bad finally shows up -- with a bang!
Major characters are dying left and right. Beloved dead characters are returning. And, of course, we finally see the world of the seedpod-skating, talking tapir-like creatures -- the mulefa.
The mulefa are not precisely as they appear in the book, but all things considered, they are close. Like a tapir-giraffe-elephant, these magical sentient creatures have been highly anticipated by fans of the books.
They are peaceful and welcoming of Mary, who studies them diligently. Atal, the first to befriend Mary, understands that their worlds are somehow connected, and Mary may be able to help them with the "sraf" -- their word for dust. Also, how cute were the babies?!
The mulefa way of communicating, with spoken language and trunk (or arm) signing, feels like a gently...
- 12/20/2022
- by Mary Littlejohn
- TVfanatic
Warning: contains spoilers for His Dark Materials episodes 3.5 and 3.6.
It’s unkind to revel in someone else’s failure, but what a gift that this is The Amber Spyglass adaptation we got. It’s hard to imagine New Line Cinema’s defunct film trilogy getting anywhere near so much so right.
The Mulefa, the Land of the Dead, Marisa Coulter’s transformation… all of Philip Pullman’s weirdest and most beautiful ideas have been cradled on their way to the screen by this extraordinary creative team and cast. His story’s been translated in a way that loses nothing and heralds its most vital message: the transformative and rebellious potential of love and storytelling.
If that last part sounds at all hokey to you, know that it’s rendered here with zero schmaltz. Episode five ‘No Way Out’ is a horror movie with a surrealist setting, and actual monsters. There...
It’s unkind to revel in someone else’s failure, but what a gift that this is The Amber Spyglass adaptation we got. It’s hard to imagine New Line Cinema’s defunct film trilogy getting anywhere near so much so right.
The Mulefa, the Land of the Dead, Marisa Coulter’s transformation… all of Philip Pullman’s weirdest and most beautiful ideas have been cradled on their way to the screen by this extraordinary creative team and cast. His story’s been translated in a way that loses nothing and heralds its most vital message: the transformative and rebellious potential of love and storytelling.
If that last part sounds at all hokey to you, know that it’s rendered here with zero schmaltz. Episode five ‘No Way Out’ is a horror movie with a surrealist setting, and actual monsters. There...
- 12/20/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
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