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Ji.hlava 2024 Interview: Tsai Ming-liang on Hand-Sculpted Cinema, Breaking the Industry Norms and New Films

The Taiwanese master of slow cinema discuses VR works, the intersection of theatre, performance art and cinema, and upcoming works.

Sound And Vision: Rupert Sanders

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: How To Destroy Angels' The Space In Between, directed by Rupert Sanders. Rupert Sanders likes his liquids thick and his...

RED ONE Review: Short on Christmas Cheer, Long on Holiday Schmear

If there was a Guinness World Record for the most jacked-up Santa in a big-budget, Hollywood-financed, holiday-themed action-comedy, Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) would win hands down and biceps curled for his committed portrayal of Father Christmas (aka, St. Nick,...

Now Streaming: THE DAY OF THE JACKAL Feels Like a Week

Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch, and Ursula Corbero star in a series inspired by Frederick Forsyth's suspense novel.

DAFT STATE Exclusive Clip: Open Your Eyes

Easton’s mysterious psychological destruction drives him to the edge of sanity and possible self-harm by those who love him most... his wife and daughter. Will Easton succumb to their increasingly traumatizing pressure, or will he conquer the dark forces at...

DOC NYC 2024 Review: UNION, A Film That Won't Be Streaming on Amazon

In a world of plutocracy, the working-class struggle is not a left or right issue.

GHOST CAT ANZU Review: Jaws Will Drop

To the sounds of cicadas during a Tokyo summer, 11-year-old Karin and her father Tetsuya leave the city by train to visit a countryside temple where the caretaker is the grandfather she has never met. It is a grand old...

ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT Review: A Major Work of Contemporary Indian Cinema

Payal Kapadia's soul-stirring docudrama, A Night of Knowing Nothing, delicately weaved together India's national politics, student protest movement, cinema, and its nostalgia in 2021. Her follow-up narrative film, All We Imagine as Light, proves that she is one of the...

HIPPO Review: Uncomfortable Laughs, Ludicrous Characters, and Much More

An unusual family lives an unusual life in Mark H. Rapaport’s Hippo, one of the stranger films that has played at the Fantasia Film Festival. Rapaport drops us into a suburban dystopic home where society’s rules don’t seem to apply,...

DREAM TEAM Review: Analogue Aesthetics and Conspiring Coral

Imagine it's the 90s, in the early days of wide home computer use, with dial-up models, compact discs as the main mode of music listening, and you've fallen asleep in front of your television. You wake up in a dark...

OVERLORD: THE SACRED KINGDOM Review: High Fantasy, Invasion and War

Directed by Naoyuki Itō and animated by Madhouse, Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom is a continuation of season four of Overlord, the anime. The actual plot of the film has almost nothing to do with the series. You can watch it...

ELEVATION Review: Nothing Is Elevated in This Unexciting Sci-Fi Action

Director George Nolfi's film stars Anthony Mackie and Morena Baccarin.

Sound And Vision: Encyclopedia Pictura

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: the music videos of Encyclopedia Pictura. Recently the trailer for A24's The Legend of Ochi dropped online, and the filmmaker...

WHITE OUT Exclusive Clip: Cause There's Nothing Like a Good Ol' Fashioned, Violent Prison Break

After escaping a brutal Russian labor camp, three men must overcome the treacherous wilderness and each other, as their journey home turns into a brutal fight for survival.   Saban Films is putting Derek Barnes' action flick, White Out, out...

STOCKHOLM BLOODBATH Exclusive Clip: It WAS a Nice Day For a White Wedding

A ruthless political struggle between Sweden and Denmark turns bloody under the tyranny of the mad King Christian II. Caught up in this deadly war, two sisters seek revenge on the men who brutally murdered their family.   Mikael Håfström's...

THE TROPHY BRIDE Review: Crazy Rich and Poor Asians

Uyen An stars in a broad comedy, directed by Vu Ngoc Dang, a box office hit in its native Vietnam.

100 YARDS Review: Martial Arts Masterpiece

Jacky Heung and Andy On star, Xu Haofeng directs.

MEANWHILE ON EARTH Review: How Far Would You Go

Megan Northam stars in a science fiction drama by writer/director Jérémy Clapin ('I Lost My Body').

DO NOT OPEN Trailer: But, Yes, do Open This Article And Watch The Trailer

Thank you for reading the title of the article all the way through. Scroll down below to check out the trailer for Brian Babarik's psychological thriller, Do Not Open. It's going out next week on in-demand and digital platforms, on...

GHOSTS OF RED RIDGE Exclusive: First Look at Trailer For Indie Western, From Well GO USA

After foiling a good ol’ fashioned stickup in the gold bust town of Red Ridge, Texas, the town sheriff jails a mysterious stranger suspected of ties to the gang of outlaws terrorizing residents. But as the sheriff draws closer to...