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Grolsch Film Works: A Guide to Overbearing Mommas

Grolsch Film Works takes a look at the world's most pushy parents. Oh, and there's gonna be an Exorcist TV series.

Earlier this year, VICE Films and Grolsch Film Works teamed up to make a three-part film called The Fourth Dimension. A mindfuck brief was written by VICE’s creative director Eddy Moretti and delivered to three of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers; Harmony Korine, Alexey Fedorchenko and Jan Kwiecinski. The results were cinematic dynamite. Anyway, Grolsch Film Works have a new website where you can find out what they’ve been up to and read/ watch entertaining and interesting stuff about films (and stuff). Every week we'll be plucking the highlights. This is that.

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OVERBEARING MOTHERS

Jacqueline (Vanessa Paradis) in Jean-Marc Vallée’s recently released Café De Flore is proud and pushy, and belongs in a cinematic tradition of overbearing "Tiger Moms". The film follows this single mother in 60s Paris trying to bring up her young son (Marin Gerrier) who has Down's Syndrome and stopping at nothing, until their close relationship runs into trouble when he falls in love with a girl. With that in mind, we chart our top ten meddling mamas in film, from the pushy to the plain psychotic.

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ROAD MOVIES

Brmm brmm. Walter Salles’ eagerly awaited adaptation of Kerouac's On The Road parked up in Cannes this week. Far from the glitz and glamour of the Côte d'Azur, the novel depicts a free-spirited man and his adventures "on the road". So in the spirit of the road movie, we’ve come up with ten of the best. Beg to differ? …Hit the road.[ READ FULL STORY](http://grolschfilmworks.com/ca/features/road-movies)

EXORCIST TV SERIES

Following the success of his last film, Martha Marcy May Marlene, which featured a phenomenal performance from Elizabeth Olsen, director Sean Durkin is venturing into the world of that well-respected medium: Television.

The filmmaker (soon-to-be TV series-maker) is currently at work on a ten-episode version of The Exorcist, based on the 1971 novel that director William Friedkin famously adapted in the ‘70s.

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MOVIE CAMPS

Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom caused quite a stir when it debuted at Cannes last week. According to Variety, its tale of Sam (Jared Gilman), a young boy scout bullied at scout camp, “supplies a poignant metaphor for adolescence itself”. As the film opens in cinemas this week, we pitched a tent, doused ourselves in mosquito spray and began pondering our favourite movie camps over a tin of re-heated beans…

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Keep you’re peepers peeled for more Grolsch Film Works updates next week. Go to grolschfilmworks.com to see what’s happening right now.