From The Editors
SXSW 2025 Review: GOOD BOY, A Furry Ghost Hunter Leads This Haunted House Chiller
We have this aluminum shed in our backyard. It’s leftover from the previous tenants. It is filled with potting soil, various broken garden tools, and at least a decade’s worth of random detritus that we’ve just been too lazy to...
SXSW 2025 Review: MY UNCLE JENS, Torn By Tension, Comic and Otherwise
Brwa Vahabpour's surprising feature debut stars Peiman Azizpour, Hamza Agoshi, and Sarah Francesca Brænne.
SXSW 2025 Review: DROP, A Terrifically Taut Techno-Thriller From Christopher Landon
Young widow Violet (Meghann Hahy) is finally ready to get back into the dating game, but while out with hunky photographer Henry (Brandon Sklenar), she is targeted with a series of increasingly frightening anonymous drops to her phone. When the...
ANDOR: Watch The First Three Episodes of Season One on YouTube Now
In a shrewd move to get more folks subscribed to Disney+ in time for the second season premiere on April 22nd, the first three episodes from season one of Andor are now streaming on their YouTube channel. They will give...
SXSW 2025 Review: DEATH OF A UNICORN, A Killer Cast Fights Unconvincing FX In This Disappointing Fantasy
Elliott (Paul Rudd) really needs a win. Still struggling to get his life together after his wife has died of cancer, he’s bringing his teenage standoffish daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortega) on a work retreat at the wildlife preserve sponsored by...
Sound And Vision: The Big Joseph Kahn Interview, Part One
Joseph Kahn is one of the big music video directors of the nineties and early two thousands. He was present with his new monster movie Ick at the Film Festival of Rotterdam. ScreenAnarchists Ard Vijn and Theodoor Steen had the...
SXSW 2025 Review: MIX TAPE, Love, Music, and the Gulf Between Them
Jim Sturgess and Teresa Palmer star in the music-themed romantic-drama series.
SXSW 2025 Review: GOVERNMENT CHEESE, Nothing Cheesy About It
David Oyelowo stars in the surreal comedy series, debuting globally on Apple TV+.
SXSW 2025 Review: SPREADSHEET CHAMPIONS, The Thrill and the Agony of Numbers
Director Kristina Kaskov's engaging documentary follows six young competitors from around the world.
SXSW 2025 Review: TAKE NO PRISONERS, Get Our Son Out of There!
Directors Adam Ciralsky and Subrata De peer beyond ace hostage negotiator Roger Carstens as he aims to help the family of Eyvin Hernandez, held in Venezuela.
SXSW 2025 Review: SURVIVING EARTH, Joyful, Loving, Complex
Slavko Sobin stars in Thea Gajić's empathetic tale of a musician with a troubled past.
Berlinale 2025 Review: REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND Dissects the Eurospy Genre
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani continue their deconstruction of genre cinema in a visual rollercoaster, consisting of formal pyrotechnics and a disorienting narrative.
Pretty Packaging: ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS VOL. 2 Haunts Harder
Back in 2021, writer-director Kier-La Janisse released Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, a great 3-hours-(and-14-minutes)-long documentary about witchcraft and mysticism around the world, especially as seen in films. That documentary didn't just get a special release on Blu-ray, it basically...
SXSW 2025 Review: CORINA, Style Corrector of Her Own Life
Naian González Norvind and Cristo Fernández star in Urzula Barba Hopfner's directorial debut from Mexico, a gentle and affecting story.
SXSW 2025 Review: NEW JACK FURY, A Hilarious Lo-Fi Blaxploitation Side Scroller
Times are tough in New Jack City. The nefarious Styles Syndicate has a grip on the city, and by-the-book cop Dylan Gamble (Andre Hall) is determined to take down its leader, Silkwaan Styles (Page Kennedy). However, before he can, he...
SXSW 2025 Review: IT ENDS, Angst and Fear on the Endless Road to Adulthood
A quartet of twenty-something friends out for a drive find themselves on a road to nowhere in first time feature director Alexander Ullom’s meditative sci-fi thriller, It Ends, premiering this week at the SXSW Film & TV Festival. Headstrong James...
SXSW 2025 Review: THE TRUE BEAUTY OF BEING BITTEN BY A TICK, Sinister Chill Vibes All Around
Yvonne (Zoë Chao) needs to get out of the city and she needs to do it fast. A tragic accident has brought down on her the kind of crushing trauma response that can only be resolved by removing herself from...
SXSW 2025 Review: THE ASTRONAUT, Kate Mara Returns From Space, But Perhaps Not Alone
An astronaut returns from her maiden voyage into space only to discover that something seems to have followed her back, and its intentions are unclear in writer/director Jess Varley’s The Astronaut. Captain Sam Walker (Kate Mara) has dreamed of being...
Berlinale 2025 Review: WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU, Subtle Shifts and Social Barriers in Hong Sangsoo's Latest
Hong Sangsoo's latest film continues his exploration of fleeting social encounters, using his signature minimalism to dissect class, artistic ambition, and underlying tensions within intimate spaces.
SXSW 2025 Review: SATISFACTION, Sunny Skies Belie a Gathering Storm
Emma Laird stars in Alex Burunova's deeply-affecting drama.
