Randall King
@freepking.bsky.social
Freelance arts writer, longtime fan of the word "freelance."
Paris theatre was nightmare fuel for decades. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Chilling thriller fuel for nightmares
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December 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Portage Place of old an oasis for music-loving rez girl
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Opinion: Portage Place of old an oasis for music-loving rez girl
As the structure surrounding the iconic clocktower at Portage Place came down on Wednesday as part of True North’s plans to redevelop the property, I saw a flurry of social media posts from Indigenous...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Portage Place of old an oasis for music-loving rez girl
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Anton Diffring / Anton Agreeing
July 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Anton Diffring / Anton Agreeing
Shooting green scenes
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Love Hurts, shot in Manitoba, named most sustainable film production
Cynthia Burke is a sustainability trailblazer in Manitoba’s film scene. She’s the industry’s first certified environmental manager and last year worked as the eco-specialist on Love Hurts, the first l...
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May 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Shooting green scenes
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May 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What are the odds? Winnipeg hosts a second reboot in 15 years to a controversial '80s slasher.
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Controversial '80s holiday horror gets (another) Winnipeg reboot | CBC News
The remake of Silent Night, Deadly Night — Quentin Tarantino's favourite holiday horror — is in preproduction, with Manitoba scouting locations including Selkirk, Carman, Stonewall and Steinbach.
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February 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
What are the odds? Winnipeg hosts a second reboot in 15 years to a controversial '80s slasher.
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HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN MYSTERY GAME!!!
Illustrated by Jessica Seamans with additional packaging by Hauntlove - available as a perk in the LOVE GONE MAD and LOVES OF THE DAMNED bundles at severinfilms.com - which include the HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN Vol 2 box set + IN MY SKIN. Very limited supply!!
Illustrated by Jessica Seamans with additional packaging by Hauntlove - available as a perk in the LOVE GONE MAD and LOVES OF THE DAMNED bundles at severinfilms.com - which include the HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN Vol 2 box set + IN MY SKIN. Very limited supply!!
February 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN MYSTERY GAME!!!
Illustrated by Jessica Seamans with additional packaging by Hauntlove - available as a perk in the LOVE GONE MAD and LOVES OF THE DAMNED bundles at severinfilms.com - which include the HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN Vol 2 box set + IN MY SKIN. Very limited supply!!
Illustrated by Jessica Seamans with additional packaging by Hauntlove - available as a perk in the LOVE GONE MAD and LOVES OF THE DAMNED bundles at severinfilms.com - which include the HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN Vol 2 box set + IN MY SKIN. Very limited supply!!
JFK assassination film brings murderers’ row of actors to town
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JFK assassination film brings murderers’ row of actors to Winnipeg
A film purporting to tell the inside story of the assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy is likely heading to Winnipeg in May with an impressive cast that includes John Travolta (Pulp Fiction...
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February 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
JFK assassination film brings murderers’ row of actors to town
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The Artspace building has had a broken water pipe issue, so the Winnipeg premiere of Universal Language will take place Thursday at the Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre. CBC story is updated.
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Surreal Oscar-shortlisted movie Universal Language full of 'little jokes' for Winnipeggers | CBC News
When it comes to art films, Winnipeg is usually one of the last Canadian cities to see a theatrical release. But the city will see the Canadian theatrical premiere of the locally shot Universal Langua...
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January 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The Artspace building has had a broken water pipe issue, so the Winnipeg premiere of Universal Language will take place Thursday at the Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre. CBC story is updated.
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Universal Language is Matthew Rankin's homage to Iranian cinema. But under the surface, it's a very personal story.
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Surreal Oscar-shortlisted movie Universal Language full of 'little jokes' for Winnipeggers | CBC News
When it comes to art films, Winnipeg is usually one of the last Canadian cities to see a theatrical release. But the city will see the Canadian theatrical premiere of the locally shot Universal Langua...
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January 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Universal Language is Matthew Rankin's homage to Iranian cinema. But under the surface, it's a very personal story.
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‘Everything to me’ David Lynch remembered by Winnipeggers touched by his art
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For Guy Maddin and other Winnipeggers in the film industry, director David Lynch’s vision was truly life-changing
On Thursday, it was announced filmmaker and artist David Lynch had died. And like the cosmic cataclysm he created in Twin Peaks: The Return, his death, just prior to his 79th birthday, sent a pulse wa...
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January 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
‘Everything to me’ David Lynch remembered by Winnipeggers touched by his art
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@kierlajanisse.bsky.social presents a nightmare before Xmas. Buried lede: She plans to come to Winnipeg this spring to make her narrative directing debut!
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Former Winnipegger offers up nightmare for Christmas with new horror anthology series | CBC News
To look at the premiere episode of the anthology series The Haunted Season on the horror streamer Shudder, you would hardly guess that it originated with a former Winnipegger.
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January 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Series examines harms of now-illegal conversion therapy
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Series examines harms of now-illegal conversion therapy
Conversion therapy — the practice of trying to forcibly change a person’s sexual orientation — was made illegal in Canada almost three years ago. But the topic is hardly resolved for Winnipeg filmmake...
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December 23, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Series examines harms of now-illegal conversion therapy
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Chatted with Billy Merasty about his Winnipeg work in #ActingGood and Aberdeen www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'He sparkles': How Billy Merasty brings lightness to Winnipeg-shot drama Aberdeen | CBC News
These days, if you see Billy Merasty on a Winnipeg street, you’re most likely to recognize him as Roger Laughingstick, the low-key zany deejay spinning platters that matter for the Grouse Lake reserva...
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December 15, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Chatted with Billy Merasty about his Winnipeg work in #ActingGood and Aberdeen www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@kierlajanisse.bsky.social presents a nightmare before Xmas. Buried lede: She plans to come to Winnipeg this spring to make her narrative directing debut!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Former Winnipegger offers up nightmare for Christmas with new horror anthology series | CBC News
To look at the premiere episode of the anthology series The Haunted Season on the horror streamer Shudder, you would hardly guess that it originated with a former Winnipegger.
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December 14, 2024 at 3:48 PM
@kierlajanisse.bsky.social presents a nightmare before Xmas. Buried lede: She plans to come to Winnipeg this spring to make her narrative directing debut!
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Ryan Cooper and Eva Thomas's film Aberdeen is getting a very low-key opening at Cinema City Northgate this week. For Winnipeggers especially, it's worth checking out. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Projecting trauma with empathy and compassion
By any metric, the Winnipeg-lensed feature Aberdeen is a tough watch. Set on the city’s mean streets, it depicts the title character Aberdeen (a formidable performance by Métis actress Gail Maurice fr...
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December 13, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Ryan Cooper and Eva Thomas's film Aberdeen is getting a very low-key opening at Cinema City Northgate this week. For Winnipeggers especially, it's worth checking out. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Have yourself a manic little Christmas: Self-funded yuletide yarn gives local talent valued screen time www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Self-funded yuletide yarn gives local talent valued screen time
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December 7, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Have yourself a manic little Christmas: Self-funded yuletide yarn gives local talent valued screen time www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
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NEW trailer for this year's HAUNTED SEASON ghost story, Sean Hogan's TO FIRE YOU COME AT LAST
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Now available to watch on Shudder
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Now available to watch on Shudder
December 4, 2024 at 10:25 PM
NEW trailer for this year's HAUNTED SEASON ghost story, Sean Hogan's TO FIRE YOU COME AT LAST
From @severinfilms.bsky.social
Now available to watch on Shudder
From @severinfilms.bsky.social
Now available to watch on Shudder
Looks like teen spirit www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Local actress returns to the horror genre that started her career.
Local actress returns to the horror genre that started her career.
Manitoba actress returns to horror genre in coming-of-age thriller
Manitoba actress Summer Howell was embraced early in her career by the horror genre, starring opposite a certain homicidal doll in Don Mancini’s Winnipeg-lensed Curse of Chucky (2013) at the tender ag...
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November 18, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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Local actress returns to the horror genre that started her career.
Local actress returns to the horror genre that started her career.