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Now Streaming: iHOSTAGE, Unnerving Dutch Hostage Thriller
Also: 'Lazarus' and animated action, 'I, Jack Wright' and murderous money.
Friday One Sheet: THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME
Something that comes up in almost every entry of this column, lately, is the omission of the credit block in movie posters. As if to single-handedly compensate for this, the BLT Communications design for the latest Wes Anderson film, The Phoenician...
Calgary Underground 2025 Review: BROKEN BIRD, A Beautiful And Muddled Provocation
We meet Sybil confidently applying for a new job as undertaker’s assistant with the sharpest of black bangs, and a fashion sense that is both vintage and arthouse-modern. She is a seasoned pro with several references, and a balm for...
UNTIL DAWN Review: Far Better As a Standalone Horror Flick Than a Videogame Adaptation
Adapting videogames into other media, specifically film or television, has often proven to be a challenge many accept willingly, but few actually succeed in translating the gameplay mechanics, design, or conception into an equally immersive experience. It’s made all...
HAVOC Review: Gareth Edwards' Take on Heroic Bloodshed Reaps Bloody Rewards
Tom Hardy is Walker, a bent detective in a nondescript American city, fighting his way through the criminal underworld. Walker is turning his city inside out, searching for the son of a corrupt politician with whom he has had past...
Brussels 2025: Highlights and Award Winners from the 9th BIF Market Industry Showcase
In the shadow of Brussels’ iconic Atomium, the BIF Market, running in conjunction with the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, celebrated its ninth edition last week, hosting no fewer than 50 projects in various stages of development across a five-day...
Calgary Underground 2025 Review: TWO WOMEN, A Modern Remake of Quebec Sex Comedy
A tiny camera move during a scene at a Montreal Canadiens hockey game demonstrates what good direction can do: the storytelling happens via the camera itself, revealing the gag (which I will not) and surprising the audience with something possible...
YADANG: THE SNITCH Review: Informant Turns Against Corrupt Cop
Kang Ha-neu, Yoo Hae-jin, Park Hae-joon, Ryu Kyung-soo, and Chae Won-bin star in director Hwang Byeong-gug's so-so drug thriller.
OXY MORONS: Release Date Announced For Dark Comedy That Takes Shots at Big Pharma
Our friends at Entertainment Squad have announced that Sarah Cayce dark comedy, Oxy Morons, will have an on-demand and digital release on June 10th. Considering the state of things in privatized healthcare in some countries it is terribly relative at...
PREDATOR: BADLANDS Teaser Trailer
The first trailer and poster for Predator: Badlands came out earlier today. We don't know why you would be waiting for us to share it with you this late in the day but if you did, bless your heart. ...
WILLIAM TELL Exclusive Clip: Arrows a Plenty in Historical Action Flick
We have an exclusive clip from Nich Hamm's historical action flick, William Tell. The flick is releasing on digital this Friday, April 25th, following last month’s theatrical. It has been a while since we have shared a clip from an...
Calgary Underground 2025 Review: EEPHUS, Where Baseball Contains Multitudes
Eephus, Carson Lund’s wonderful ode to small stakes baseball and gruff Americana, needs its odd title explained: The Eephus pitch is a throw that is so unnaturally slow that it confuses the batter. It makes him swing too early, or...
Calgary Underground 2025 Review: REVERIES: THE MIND PRISON, One Story Ends, Another Story Must Begin
You know that dream where you are running, to nowhere in particular, for no reason, and you trip, fall, and wake up? Reveries: The Mind Prison is the movie version of that dream. Only here, you are walking, and thus...
Shudder Acquires Historical Horror ORANG IKAN (MONSTER ISLAND)
Deadline has the scoop this acquisition by Shudder this morning. They have acquired Mike Wiluan’s historical horror film Orang Ikan (also known as Monster Island) for North America, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand release. A co-production between Singapore,...
BABY IT'S YOU Blu-ray Review: Tangy Coming of Age Tale
Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano star in John Sayles' sterling coming of age tale, inspired by producer Amy Robinson's experiences.
ANDOR: Season Two Review
So, are you a 'bad news first' kind of person or a 'good news first' kind of person?
Friday One Sheet: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Your mother wears combat boots in this high-grain poster for the forthcoming Paul Thomas Anderson film, One Battle After Another. Here it is less about the framing, credit-filling negative space, or the blocky stencil-ish typography, or anything else. The central...
STAR WARS: STARFIGHTER: Sean Levy to Direct Ryan Gosling in New Film
The first day of Star Wars Celebration in Japan started off hot. Sigourney Weaver talked about her role in the upcoming The Mandalorin & Grogu movie and Sam Witwer will reprise his role as the voice of Darth Maul in...
SINNERS Review: Ryan Coogler Doesn't Miss, Part V
When pop-culture historians write the final chapter on the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) in the not-so-distant future, filmmaker Ryan Coogler’s (Creed, Fruitvale Station) contribution, Black Panther, to said universe will stand head-and-shoulders above the rest. Black Panther both confirmed...
Calgary Underground 2025: Curtain Raiser
Part fan-festival, with quietly subversive programming, and a gateway to oddness and offbeat cinema for Canada’s mid-west, the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) showcases a sampler of the highlights of indie, documentary and genre cinema from the festival circuit that...
