Known for her biting directness and no-holds-barred authenticity, rising pop-punk star LØLØ continues to deliver with an emotionally-charged new track ‘poser’, as she declares, “Why would you kiss me and pull me closer / just to leave me hanging of of the edge?”
LØLØ plays with juxtaposition on the vulnerable track, contrasting caustic lyricism against a solemn sonic backdrop where grungy, understated guitars meet chilly cymbals to mirror LØLØ’s feelings of loneliness, confusion, and distress. LØLØ uses “poser” to sift through memories of her relationship for answers.
The depth of her emotion on the track is vast, with a patina of understanding captured in the song’s layered outro with LØLØ announcing her ex-lover is “full of it.” LØLØ says of the track, “‘poser’ is about someone who really got me good, who really truly made me believe they loved me, when it later became clear to me, they simply couldn’t have.
LØLØ plays with juxtaposition on the vulnerable track, contrasting caustic lyricism against a solemn sonic backdrop where grungy, understated guitars meet chilly cymbals to mirror LØLØ’s feelings of loneliness, confusion, and distress. LØLØ uses “poser” to sift through memories of her relationship for answers.
The depth of her emotion on the track is vast, with a patina of understanding captured in the song’s layered outro with LØLØ announcing her ex-lover is “full of it.” LØLØ says of the track, “‘poser’ is about someone who really got me good, who really truly made me believe they loved me, when it later became clear to me, they simply couldn’t have.
- 2/26/2024
- by Editorial Desk
- GlamSham
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Elvis (Baz Luhrmann)
Few filmmakers embrace artistic dichotomy like Baz Luhrmann. The Australian writer-director known for epic, ornate, long-gestating projects has become synonymous with both extravagant innovation and chaotic fluff. He is a walking, talking, directing state of creative contrast. “Six films into his career” might make it seem like he’s a relative newcomer, but Luhrmann’s been helming giant features since his 1996 tropical Ed Hardy rendition of Romeo + Juliet, which pales in scintillation to Elvis. – Luke H. (full review)
Where to Stream: VOD
I Love My Dad (James Morosini)
Inspired by actual events, I Love My Dad contains a cringe-worthy premise that should easily fall apart, as Franklin (James Morosini), a young-ish man, should have grown up with an awareness of the term “catfishing.
Elvis (Baz Luhrmann)
Few filmmakers embrace artistic dichotomy like Baz Luhrmann. The Australian writer-director known for epic, ornate, long-gestating projects has become synonymous with both extravagant innovation and chaotic fluff. He is a walking, talking, directing state of creative contrast. “Six films into his career” might make it seem like he’s a relative newcomer, but Luhrmann’s been helming giant features since his 1996 tropical Ed Hardy rendition of Romeo + Juliet, which pales in scintillation to Elvis. – Luke H. (full review)
Where to Stream: VOD
I Love My Dad (James Morosini)
Inspired by actual events, I Love My Dad contains a cringe-worthy premise that should easily fall apart, as Franklin (James Morosini), a young-ish man, should have grown up with an awareness of the term “catfishing.
- 8/12/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
It’s astounding: “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount), then everything else.
Most box-office reporting this weekend focuses on the unquestionably stunning results for Tom Cruise’s sequel. Through 10 days of domestic play, it’s grossed 190 million (357 million worldwide). A second-weekend drop of only 32 percent portends that it will go much, much higher and has the potential to become the highest-grossing 2022 release.
Its performance deserves all the accolades — but without the misleading reporting. “Maverick” will likely be Cruise’s biggest hit, and among Paramount’s 10 top performers. But unless one thinks ticket prices remained unchanged for the last 40 years — or ever — it’s getting undue credit for box-office records.
Its second-weekend fall is indeed very small, but not the smallest; “Avatar” (which would have grossed 100 million adjusted in its second weekend) fell less than two percent.
“Maverick” has an advantage that made this more likely. Most films that open over 100 million are sequels,...
Most box-office reporting this weekend focuses on the unquestionably stunning results for Tom Cruise’s sequel. Through 10 days of domestic play, it’s grossed 190 million (357 million worldwide). A second-weekend drop of only 32 percent portends that it will go much, much higher and has the potential to become the highest-grossing 2022 release.
Its performance deserves all the accolades — but without the misleading reporting. “Maverick” will likely be Cruise’s biggest hit, and among Paramount’s 10 top performers. But unless one thinks ticket prices remained unchanged for the last 40 years — or ever — it’s getting undue credit for box-office records.
Its second-weekend fall is indeed very small, but not the smallest; “Avatar” (which would have grossed 100 million adjusted in its second weekend) fell less than two percent.
“Maverick” has an advantage that made this more likely. Most films that open over 100 million are sequels,...
- 6/5/2022
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
There can never be too many films about music and how it is made. From each new genre and each new artist, there is always something new to offer in the mix of music and musicians. Distributed by Oscilloscope, shot on-location in Columbus, Ohio with local talent, written by Noah Dixon, and directed by Dixon and Ori Segev, “Poser” is an upcoming dramatic thriller about obsession and underground music.
Continue reading ‘Poser’ Trailer: An Obsessive Infiltrates The Underground Music Scene at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Poser’ Trailer: An Obsessive Infiltrates The Underground Music Scene at The Playlist.
- 6/3/2022
- by Noah Thompson
- The Playlist
Poser Trailer — Noah Dixon and Ori Segev‘s Poser (2021) movie trailer has been released by Oscilloscope Labs. The Poser trailer stars Sylvie Mix, Bobbi Kitten, Rachel Keefe, and Jeff Grennell. Crew Noah Dixon wrote the screenplay for Poser. Adam Robl and Shawn Sutta created the music for the film. Logan Floyd crafted the cinematography for [...]
Continue reading: Poser (2021) Movie Trailer: Sylvie Mix’s Underground Music Podcast leads Her Down a Path of Dark Obsession...
Continue reading: Poser (2021) Movie Trailer: Sylvie Mix’s Underground Music Podcast leads Her Down a Path of Dark Obsession...
- 4/20/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Ah, summer at the movies. While the movie-going experience has shifted dramatically over the past couple of years — the days of big-bucket-of-popcorn multiplex-going still exist, but they are no longer the primary option for enjoying massive blockbusters or high-brow hits and everything in between — the thrill of a season spent soaking up a wide variety of new films has not abated. The coming months feature the kind of fare long associated with the summer season, from a brand-new Marvel joint to a long-awaited “Top Gun” sequel, the latest entry into the “Jurassic World” franchise and even a new Pixar outing, but there’s even more to find among the bombastic and just plain big titles.
We’re talking about new films from Jordan Peele, Baz Luhrmann, Claire Denis, Alex Garland, Jeremiah Zagar, Peter Strickland, and Quinn Shephard, and that’s just the start. There are festival hits in the mix,...
We’re talking about new films from Jordan Peele, Baz Luhrmann, Claire Denis, Alex Garland, Jeremiah Zagar, Peter Strickland, and Quinn Shephard, and that’s just the start. There are festival hits in the mix,...
- 4/20/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
A highlight of last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Ori Segev and Noah Dixon’s Poser was picked up by Oscilloscope Laboratories and will now be arriving this June. Led by Sylvie Mix, Bobbi Kitten, Abdul Seidu, Rachel Keefe, and Z-Wolf, the follows a young woman who hopes to get involved in the underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio. When she creates a podcast to interview the local artists she adores, she discovers her own musical ambitions and a fabricated identity, leading down a darker path. Ahead of the release (as well as a special Columbus event Poserfest), the new trailer has arrived.
Erik Nielsen said in his review, “If one wants their voice heard in the year 2021, start a podcast. So it goes for Lennon (Sylvie Mix), aposer with some delusional behaviors who lies to cultivate her personality to fit into the local art scene. A somewhat familiar story...
Erik Nielsen said in his review, “If one wants their voice heard in the year 2021, start a podcast. So it goes for Lennon (Sylvie Mix), aposer with some delusional behaviors who lies to cultivate her personality to fit into the local art scene. A somewhat familiar story...
- 4/11/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"I see these artists on stage and they have something that I don't" Oscilloscope Labs has revealed an official US trailer for Poser, an indie film about a podcaster discovering herself and losing herself in a local music scene. This first premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival last year, and it also stopped by the Hamburg & Thessaloniki Film Festivals. As Lennon Gates fuels her desire for entree into a podcast featuring live music and conversations with the artists she so fervently admires, Lennon finds inspiration for her own musical ambitions... and a growing sense of misdirected identity. The stylish film is set around the underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio and follows Lennon as she is lead "down a path of dark obsession." Sylvie Mix stars as Lennon, along with a small cast: Bobbi Kitten, Rachel Keefe, and Jeff Grennell. They're also hosting a "Poserfest" concert in Columbus, Oh a week after it opens.
- 4/8/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
One of the most exciting films to come out of 2021’s Tribeca Film Festival was “Poser,” a prickly thriller set in Columbus, Ohio’s underground music scene. The film, which follows a girl who launches a music podcast in an attempt to befriend her punk idols and is quickly sucked down a dark path, earned praise for its bold voice and strong performance from first-time leading actress Sylvie Mix. The film quickly drew comparisons to similarly driven thrillers like “Single White Female,” and its theatrical release has been highly anticipated by many indie film lovers. If you’re one of them, the wait is almost over, as the film has dropped a new trailer and poster ahead of a June theatrical run from Oscilloscope Laboratories.
The official synopsis for “Poser” reads: “Wallflower Lennon Gates (Mix) yearns for access to the inner sanctum of the underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio.
The official synopsis for “Poser” reads: “Wallflower Lennon Gates (Mix) yearns for access to the inner sanctum of the underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio.
- 4/8/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Oscilloscope Laboratories has snagged North American rights to Helmut Dosantos’ documentary “Gods of Mexico,” an exploration of the rich diversity of indigenous and Afro-descendant communities across Mexico.
The film had its world premiere at this year’s True/False Film Festival.
Hailed as “a tribute to those who fight to preserve their cultural identity amidst the shadows of modernization,” Dosantos transports audiences “through salt pans, deserts, highlands, jungle, and underground mines, in both richly saturated color and black-and-white melodic interludes.”
The “ethnographic portrait offers a critical consideration of values and challenges structures that breed displacement,” the synopsis reads.
Commented O-Scope’s Dan Berger: “’Gods of Mexico’ is inarguably one of the most astonishing filmic experiences I’ve had.” “The imagery is beyond stunning and the dialogue-free (but far from silent) soundtrack is utterly immersive,” he said, adding: “And this says nothing about the access that Helmut was able to...
The film had its world premiere at this year’s True/False Film Festival.
Hailed as “a tribute to those who fight to preserve their cultural identity amidst the shadows of modernization,” Dosantos transports audiences “through salt pans, deserts, highlands, jungle, and underground mines, in both richly saturated color and black-and-white melodic interludes.”
The “ethnographic portrait offers a critical consideration of values and challenges structures that breed displacement,” the synopsis reads.
Commented O-Scope’s Dan Berger: “’Gods of Mexico’ is inarguably one of the most astonishing filmic experiences I’ve had.” “The imagery is beyond stunning and the dialogue-free (but far from silent) soundtrack is utterly immersive,” he said, adding: “And this says nothing about the access that Helmut was able to...
- 4/6/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Sylvie Mix, Justin Rose, Quinn Armstrong, Jacob Rice, Maika Carter, Joseph Moreland, Darryl A Wright, Layla Pritt, Ralph Scott | Written by Sylvie Mix, Colin West | Directed by Colin West
Colin West, producer of the superb Survival Skills, teams with Sylvie Mix, star of the well-received indie film Poser, for Double Walker – which tells the story of a young Ghost (Sylvie Mix), who haunts her cold Midwestern hometown trying to piece together the horrific flashes of memories from her past. One by one she kills the men she believes were responsible for her death, though her plan is derailed when she meets Jack (Jacob Rice), a kind cinema usher who inadvertently intercepts as she’s stalking her next victim. While Jack takes her in and offers her a glimpse at a normal life, her desire to avenge her own murder lingers on.
Double Walker is less of a story and more a mood,...
Colin West, producer of the superb Survival Skills, teams with Sylvie Mix, star of the well-received indie film Poser, for Double Walker – which tells the story of a young Ghost (Sylvie Mix), who haunts her cold Midwestern hometown trying to piece together the horrific flashes of memories from her past. One by one she kills the men she believes were responsible for her death, though her plan is derailed when she meets Jack (Jacob Rice), a kind cinema usher who inadvertently intercepts as she’s stalking her next victim. While Jack takes her in and offers her a glimpse at a normal life, her desire to avenge her own murder lingers on.
Double Walker is less of a story and more a mood,...
- 12/9/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
If you were given the choice to live one last day as a human or forever as a ghost, which would you choose? In Double Walker, the film’s main character chooses the latter. Simply credited as Ghost, she speaks of meeting two dark figures who present her with these two choices as though it were a dream. Played by the up-and-comer Sylvie Mix—who co-wrote the film with director Colin West—Ghost suddenly awakens and finds herself back home. Angry and confused over her death, she finds comfort sitting next to her mother on the couch, despite being unseen. The bond between this mother and her child is stitched throughout and presented strongly, and it helps that the mother is played by Mix’s own (Maika Carter). In attempting to learn the truth of what happened to her, the theme of domestic violence and the lingering effect it has...
- 11/12/2021
- by Sara Clements
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Ori Segev and Noah Dixon’s debut feature Poser, which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, is getting a U.S. theatrical release, after Oscilloscope said Tuesday that it acquired North American rights.
Set in the real-life underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio, the pic centers on Lennon Gates (Sylvie Mix), who yearns for access to the scene. When she creates a podcast to interview the local artists she adores, Lennon discovers her own musical ambitions, developing a fast friendship with the striking, confident performer Bobbi Kitten (playing herself), and in the process creates an identity not wholly her own. Soon, Lennon’s aspirations, with some constructive coaxing from Bobbi to find her voice, lead her down a path of dark obsession.
Drew Johnson, Juli Sasaki, Brett Reiter and Josh Nowak are producers.
“We are absolutely geeked to be working with Oscilloscope,” Segev and Dixon said. “Poser...
Set in the real-life underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio, the pic centers on Lennon Gates (Sylvie Mix), who yearns for access to the scene. When she creates a podcast to interview the local artists she adores, Lennon discovers her own musical ambitions, developing a fast friendship with the striking, confident performer Bobbi Kitten (playing herself), and in the process creates an identity not wholly her own. Soon, Lennon’s aspirations, with some constructive coaxing from Bobbi to find her voice, lead her down a path of dark obsession.
Drew Johnson, Juli Sasaki, Brett Reiter and Josh Nowak are producers.
“We are absolutely geeked to be working with Oscilloscope,” Segev and Dixon said. “Poser...
- 9/14/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
by Jason Adams
It is said that our 20s are spent trying to figure out who we are, accumulating likes and dislikes, testing out identities like stage costumes for some great reveal, to be determined. You fake it until you make it, the "it" being some semblance of a self. It's a precarious and unsettling time for a lot of people, and Ori Segev and Noah Dixon's film Poser, screening at Tribeca, does a fine job actualizing on-screen that amorphous state of flirting with emptiness, giving us a slow-burn Single White Female for the 21st century in the process...
It is said that our 20s are spent trying to figure out who we are, accumulating likes and dislikes, testing out identities like stage costumes for some great reveal, to be determined. You fake it until you make it, the "it" being some semblance of a self. It's a precarious and unsettling time for a lot of people, and Ori Segev and Noah Dixon's film Poser, screening at Tribeca, does a fine job actualizing on-screen that amorphous state of flirting with emptiness, giving us a slow-burn Single White Female for the 21st century in the process...
- 6/13/2021
- by JA
- FilmExperience
Poser Review — Poser (2021) Film Review from the 20th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Ori Segev and Noah Dixon, starring Sylvie Mix, Bobbi Kitten, Abdul Seidu, Drew Johnson, Rachel Keefe, and Nick Samson. Jealous dynamics can exist anywhere, regardless the size of the microcosm. Sometimes it’s within an [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Poser: Grungy Portrayal of the Columbus Underground Scene is an Ecstatic Jam Sesh With a Few Rough Notes [Tribeca 2021]...
Continue reading: Film Review: Poser: Grungy Portrayal of the Columbus Underground Scene is an Ecstatic Jam Sesh With a Few Rough Notes [Tribeca 2021]...
- 6/13/2021
- by Jacob Mouradian
- Film-Book
Stylish and insidery, “Poser” is enthralled by Columbus, Ohio, particularly its burgeoning independent arts and music scene. It’s a sophisticated, if not cold-to-the-touch psychodrama of elegant visuals and innovative tunes, which debuting co-directors Ori Segev and Noah Dixon (who also scripted) beguilingly steer as a cheeky yet gradually darkening ode to their adoptive city.
So it’s all dimly lit underground clubs, highbrow art gallery corners, gritty warehouses and edgy concert venues here, with an array of impossibly unruffled, coolly clad artists and musicians doing their hip thing with ease. Frankly, their company feels a bit intimidating at first, especially if you are the more mainstream sort not actively pursuing a sampling of alternative music. But thanks to Segev and Dixon’s joint confidence, you feel just comfortable enough within the bowels of the town’s unique indie scene next to ombre-haired Billie Eilish types, even if the film...
So it’s all dimly lit underground clubs, highbrow art gallery corners, gritty warehouses and edgy concert venues here, with an array of impossibly unruffled, coolly clad artists and musicians doing their hip thing with ease. Frankly, their company feels a bit intimidating at first, especially if you are the more mainstream sort not actively pursuing a sampling of alternative music. But thanks to Segev and Dixon’s joint confidence, you feel just comfortable enough within the bowels of the town’s unique indie scene next to ombre-haired Billie Eilish types, even if the film...
- 6/12/2021
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
Lennon looks the part: teal-tinted hair, cool tattoos, a punky sartorial sense, big headphones. As she sulks around the edges of a gallery opening on the arty side of Columbus, Ohio, she seems to fit in, until you notice… Why isn’t Lennon talking to anyone else? How come no one has said hello to her? And why is she recording the incredibly basic party chatter around her instead of actually partaking in it?
Cut to a title card that, amusingly and painfully, lets us in on the surface truth of Lennon’s existence: The film is called “Poser,” and that is exactly what Lennon is. While the elevator pitch of Ori Segev and Noah Dixon’s prickly feature directorial debut is simple enough — it’s “Single White Female” set in the vibrant Columbus indie scene, with a generous dash of podcast humor — Spiky, funny, feverish, and more than a little nail-biting,...
Cut to a title card that, amusingly and painfully, lets us in on the surface truth of Lennon’s existence: The film is called “Poser,” and that is exactly what Lennon is. While the elevator pitch of Ori Segev and Noah Dixon’s prickly feature directorial debut is simple enough — it’s “Single White Female” set in the vibrant Columbus indie scene, with a generous dash of podcast humor — Spiky, funny, feverish, and more than a little nail-biting,...
- 6/11/2021
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
If one wants their voice heard in the year 2021, start a podcast. So it goes for Lennon (Sylvie Mix), a poser with some delusional behaviors who lies to cultivate her personality to fit into the local art scene. A somewhat familiar story about obsession set adjacent to the unique world of the underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio, Poser is a charming and dark debut from directors Ori Segev and Noah Dixon.
The opening scene finds two people talking about a painting at an art show. The pair comment about the painter’s brush strokes and how it’s about instinct. We then see a quiet, blue-haired Lennon emerge to grab her phone that she planted next to the painting to record what people are saying. With a classical score in the background, the opening scene feels tragicomic in its suggestion, reminiscent of the recent work of Yorgos Lanthimos. It...
The opening scene finds two people talking about a painting at an art show. The pair comment about the painter’s brush strokes and how it’s about instinct. We then see a quiet, blue-haired Lennon emerge to grab her phone that she planted next to the painting to record what people are saying. With a classical score in the background, the opening scene feels tragicomic in its suggestion, reminiscent of the recent work of Yorgos Lanthimos. It...
- 6/11/2021
- by Erik Nielsen
- The Film Stage
Taking place across outdoor venues in all five boroughs of New York City, the Tribeca Film Festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary June 9-20, screening a bevy of features, shorts, TV series, podcasts and games in what is being billed as the first major in-person film festival to take place in North America since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Managing all the logistics to mount a proper in-person festival despite such circumstances would be a tall enough order, but the task of assembling a credible festival lineup across multiple disciplines, despite a near-total shutdown of film production for months, could have been quite a challenge on its own. It was something that Tribeca’s festival director Cara Cusumano was apprehensive about as the festival prepared to open for submissions last summer, but it turned out she needn’t have worried.
“We didn’t know what to expect, submissions-wise,” she says.
Managing all the logistics to mount a proper in-person festival despite such circumstances would be a tall enough order, but the task of assembling a credible festival lineup across multiple disciplines, despite a near-total shutdown of film production for months, could have been quite a challenge on its own. It was something that Tribeca’s festival director Cara Cusumano was apprehensive about as the festival prepared to open for submissions last summer, but it turned out she needn’t have worried.
“We didn’t know what to expect, submissions-wise,” she says.
- 6/8/2021
- by Andrew Barker
- Variety Film + TV
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