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The Colours Within | Official Trailer

From Naoko Yamada, the director of A Silent Voice, with music from Anime composer Kensuke Ushio (A Silent Voice, Dandadan) comes The Colours Within - a stunning animated film about friendship, music and find where you belong.

A DIFFERENT MAN takes Best Feature at The Gothams

Aaron Schimberg's latest feature has taken home Best Feature at the Gotham Awards 2024. With mind-bending performances from Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson, A DIFFERENT MAN is one of the must-see films of 2024. Stan plays aspiring actor Edward, who undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.

Liked reviews

A Different Man

2024

★★★★★ Liked 18

The Seb Stan-ce.

One of my favorites of the year. Unbelievably funny and smart, really fun and clever script, unravels in a brilliant way. The camerawork and editing are so peculiar that you feel like they were done for a different movie until a few key moments clue you in to what's going on and then I really sunk into it. Not the first to say it's Charlie Kaufman-esque but I also felt like I was watching The Curse at


A Different Man

2024

★★★★ Liked 2

A DIFFERENT MAN is a dark comedy that delves into man’s obsession with self-image. Sebastian Stan delivers his best work to date as a socially awkward & insecure man who undergoes a new kind of surgery to restructure his disfigured face, but it's Adam Pearson who steals the show (and Sebastian Stan’s character’s life) with a brilliant, charismatic performance, fully embracing his own face. Painfully funny & perceptive about the masks we wear & those we can't shed.

A Different Man

2024

★★★★

A caustically funny cosmic joke of a film about an insecure actor who finds a miracle cure for his facial disfigurement, only to be upstaged by a stranger who oozes self-confidence despite (still) having the exact same condition the main character had once allowed to hold him back, Aaron Schimberg’s ruthless and Escher-like “A Different Man” might have felt cruel if not for how cleverly it complicates its punchline.

Are we supposed to be laughing at someone — someone who’s