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In Álvaro López Alba’s “Three Summer Days” (“Tres días de verano”), a vacationing family’s dissimilar takes on an event threatens to drive them apart. It follows a father and his two kids on a beach holiday, the young girl, Cris, has fallen for a boy, causing a rift in her friendship with pal Miri. Her brother Dani, feeling isolated, spends the summer confined to his room, fixated on Miri.

Meanwhile, their father is engaged in a secret affair he desperately tries to conceal from them. Over these three days at the beach, the family will struggle to reconnect as insecurities, jealousy and hidden truths unravel their close-knit world.

“I’ve based the story on personal experiences and that of my family and people around me,” López Alba told Variety, who only started making short films some six years ago, and in earnest over the past three.

Given his experience as a psychologist,...

"Don't finish it, leave it as a dream..." Bohemia Media is finally releasing this filmmaking documentary in the US on VOD starting in August. 20 years after the doc Lost in La Mancha (2002), Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe come back to follow Terry Gilliam’s final and successful attempt at filming The Man Who Killed Don Quixote - which debuted in 2018. From the same team behind La Mancha, He Dreams of Giants is the culmination of a trilogy of documentaries following director Terry Gilliam over a 25 year period. Charting his final, beleaguered quest to adapt Don Quixote, this film is a potent study of creative obsession. Using verité footage of Gilliam's production with intimate interviews + archival footage from the director's entire career, He Dreams of Giants is a revealing character study of a late-career artist, and a meditation on the value of unabashed creativity in the face of mortality. Considering both...

Completing our trio of exclusive interviews with the stars and director of Spiders 3D, comes an interview with Patrick Muldoon, a man known to many as Zander Barcalow from Starship Troopers. We start at the beginning, from his days loving Star Wars, Rocky and Brando, to what role he gets recognized for most (he also starred on Melrose Place, Days Of Our Lives, and other hit shows), to upcoming projects, his love of arachnids (he’s also been in Ice Spiders), and his working relationship with director Tibor Takacs (who directed Ice Spiders). Here we go! Stay tuned to the end of the interview for three all new, spiffy stills from the film that is out on VOD Right Now.

FM: What movies and TV did you grow up watching and loving? What made you want to be an actor?

Patrick Muldoon: I didn’t watch a lot of movies growing up.