You can exclusively watch the trailer for Darkness Rising at Entertainment Weekly.

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The goodies keep on rolling out of the European Film Market and on tap right now we have the sales art for Raven Banner’s newest flick, Darkness Rising. Dig it!

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Raven Banner, has boarded Austin Reading’s genre bending horror sci-fi, Darkness Rising, for International sales and will introduce the film at this week’s European Film Market in Berlin.

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Michael Tully’s third feature is a sweetly amusing ode to underdog sports movies like ‘The Karate Kid’ and the decade that spawned them.

Justin Chang Chief Film Critic

Mixing one part good-natured mockery to two parts affectionate ’80s nostalgia, with a dash of Pixy Stix powder for good measure, “Ping Pong Summer” is a sweetly amusing ode to the underdog sports movies that proliferated during that widely derided decade. But writer-director Michael Tully largely steers clear of derision in this table-tennis-themed homage to “The Karate Kid,” achieving a winning innocence of spirit in which performances and production design are all perfectly synched to his low-key comic vision. A bit woozy and repetitive over its 91-minute running time, the Gravitas Ventures pickup will be a modest B.O. performer but should mark commercial progress for Tully after his microbudget features “Cocaine Angel” and “Septien.”

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Ebiri: Ping Pong Summer Is All Surface, But It’s Beautiful

By Bilge Ebiri

Even when they’re good, many coming-of-age movies these days seem to be of the noxiously self-congratulatory kind. They’re not that interested in offering insights into lives other than the audience’s own. Instead, they offer reassuring nostalgia trips, usually into the ’80s, reassuring all us 30- and 40-something viewers that the lives we once led were, in fact, the most interesting ones. But it’s useless to resist; collective memory is now the genre’s currency.

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