Last week, Kara Coley, a bartender at Sipps Bar, received an unusual phone call that has now gone viral across the world after she posted to Facebook about a mother who had a question about her son.
Coley explains the unknown mother called asking first if Sipps was a gay bar to which she replied “it’s an everyone bar, but, yet most of our customers are gay.” The mother proceeds to ask Coley if she is gay and then asks “what is one thing you wanted to hear from your parents when you told them you were gay?”

LGBT group denied permit to have a parade in Starkviille .

Brothers with seemingly disparate careers, missing millions, drug mules; this is all part of Icelandic director Borkur Sigporsson's feature film debut Vultures.

Vultures centers on two bothers, one a small-time criminal, the other a banker, who find themselves working together to smuggle drugs into Iceland with the help of a young Polish girl as their mule. Things go wrong, bad people get angry and undoubtedly, some sort of showdown is in the cards.

The star studded dark comedy Arizona, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, has been aquired by RLJ Ent. The directorial debut of Jonathan Watson (HBO’s Vice Principals), the film was written by Luke Del Tredici (FOX’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”).

Arizona stars Danny McBride (Pineapple Express), Rosemarie DeWitt (Poltergeist), Luke Wilson (Idiocracy), Elizabeth Gillies and Kaitlin Olson (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”).

RLJE Films plans to release Arizona in theaters in summer 2018.

Terror Films is debuting the official trailer and poster for their first Spanish language horror film, FORWARD. FORWARD is set to be released Tuesday, May 1 (today!).

The western has seen a bit of a resurgence over the last decade ranging from the traditional to the revisionist and everything in between, one of last year's highlights was Scott Cooper's excellent Hostiles, but the latest entry into the genre comes from a surprising place: Indonesia.

Mouly Surya's sophomore feature is Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts, the story of a young widow living alone in the deserted hills of an Indonesian island when a gang of thieves comes upon her with the intention of raping her and taking her cattle.

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Terry Gilliam has been trying to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote for so many years the film has become cinema legend before it's even premiered. These kinds of passion projects come with a lot of baggage so I hope Gilliam is able to put what he always wanted on screen.

The second trailer for his film has premiered and it looks like everything a Gilliam fan might expect. It's lavish and carnivalesque and delirious and wonderful.

Long time Quiet Earth readers may remember me gushing over Mark H. Young's indie post-apocalyptic cannibal flick, Tooth and Nail some years ago (review). Well it appears the director is back with an entirely new kind of cannibal flick out soon from IFC Midnight! It's been a while, but it's good to see Young is back.

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Keys to the Kingdom is a haunting post-apocalyptic short created for the 48 Hour London Sci-Fi Film Festival. A tradition eahc year, entrants are given a creative brief, which includes a Title, a line of Dialogue and a Prop which every film must use in their work.

Gareth Edwards (Monsters, Rogue one) is not only on the Jury this year, but he was a winner of the contest back in 2008 (watch his short here).

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There are few decent releases this week for genre fans. First up is news that the The Maze Runner trilogy is now available together in one set as the series of films has come to a close.

Maze Runner is based James Dashner's YA book series which takes place in a dystopia/apocalyptic future.

Onwards.

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