From The Editors

Diagonale 2026 Review: WAX & GOLD Probes Memory and Myth of Ethiopia's Beloved Autocrat

Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann uses the spatial and historical layers of the Hilton Addis Ababa to examine how the legacy of Haile Selassie is constructed, negotiated and contested through personal memory, archival material and competing narratives.

FACES OF DEATH Interview: Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei on IP, Censorship, and Horror History

Turning a maybe not quite beloved but certainly important cult object like 1978's faux-snuff/faux-documentary Faces of Death into a multiplex-friendly narrative film with aspirations of taking on major social media companies is no small endeavor, creatively or culturally. That's part...

YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS S2 Review: Lifestyles of the Rich and Criminal

Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, and Olivia Munn return in the ensemble dramatic series, with James Marsden joining as a mysterious new, ultra-wealthy neighbor.

Diagonale 2026 Review: ROSE, Sandra Hüller Excels in Period Drama Examining Pursuit of Freedom Through Cross-dressing

Austrian filmmaker Markus Schleinzer's third feature casts Sandra Hüller as a woman who adopts a male identity within a Protestant farming community during the Thirty Years' War in order to secure property, labour autonomy and social legitimacy otherwise inaccessible to her.

Friday One Sheet: BACKROOMS

One of a pair of character posters for Kane Parson's upcoming, creepy-pasta meets liminal terror horror film, Backrooms, that places Academy Award-nominated actors into some unorthodox and tight framing.   The original poster for the big-screen blow up of the YouTube...

Udine 2026: Far East Film Festival Continues to Celebrate Asian Cinema in its 28th Year

World-renowned stars Fan Bingbing and Yakusho Koji will be honoured with Lifetime Achievement Awards in Udine.

THE DRAMA Review: Viscerally Affecting Comedy?

Kristoffer Borgli's The Drama sits somewhere between much of Lars von Trier's output and Sean Price Williams's The Sweet East on the artful edgelord spectrum; albeit closer to the latter's live action South Park than the sometimes incisive work of...

OVER YOUR DEAD BODY: Watch The Red Band Trailer For Jorma Taccone's Black Action Comedy

Watch the red band trailer for the Audience Award Winner from the headliners at SXSW206

Home Video Roundup: DEATHSTALKER and More New Releases From Kino, The Criterion Collection, Warner and Made By Mutant

Dave Canfield aka The Creature Feature Preacher here to opine on all things physical media. I’ve got titles from The Criterion Collection, Warner Brothers and Kino and a very special vinyl release from Made By Mutant. It’s a rich mix...

Fantasia 2026: Poster Art Revealed For 30th Anniversary Edition

Fantasia is celebrating its 30th anniversary this Summer and have unvealed the poster art for this year's edition.

BEN-HUR 4K UHD Review: Battles Between Good and Evil Look More Spectacular Than Ever

William Wyler's 1959 classic stars Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd. Features on the new 4K edition showcase more details of vivid filmmaking and cinematography.

THE STRANGER Review: Senseless Actions, Racist History

François Ozon adapts Albert Camus' classic novel, giving a deeper context of understanding the protagonist's senseless actions, based on France's racist colonial history.

HUNTING MATTHEW NICHOLS: Canadian Supernatural Thriller Sets Wide North American Theatrical Release

Two decades after her brother mysteriously disappeared on Vancouver Island, a documentary filmmaker sets out to solve his missing person's case. When a disturbing piece of evidence is revealed, she comes to believe he might still be alive.

FACES OF DEATH: New Key Set Available

At this point we are fully committed to seeing this promotion blitz for Faces of Death through to the end. We are not in it to win it, but, if we do not see this all the way through we...

THE KILLER Review: John Woo's Achingly Romantic Bloodbath Returns to Cinemas

The power of the gun is terrible and beautiful in equal measure in the work of John Woo, the inarguable alpha dog of the Hong Kong heroic bloodshed genre, whose unrelentingly and entertainingly violent streak in the late 80s and...

DIRTY HANDS Exclusive: Trailer & Poster Premiere For Indie Crime Thriller

When a routine drug deal goes south for the Denton brothers, they must fight for their lives if they're going to survive the night.

LUNAR SWAY: Exclusive Clip & Poster Reveal For Canadian Queer Crime Drama

Cliff, a young man living in a desert town receives a surprise visit from his con-artist birth mother. Chaos ensues as he's led on a mysterious and wild trail of secrets.

ALPHA Review: Violent Grief and Desperate Love

Grief is not a straight line that slowly leads from deep sorrow to acceptance and remembrance; it comes in waves, and can reignite like a bonfire at the strangest moments, even decades on. Fear can likewise come like an tornado...

MOTHER MARY Official Trailer: Plus a Second Song From The Soundtrack Available Now

Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm on the eve of her comeback performance.

ICE CREAM MAN: Check Out New Teaser Poster For Eli Roth's Upcoming Horror Flick

Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man will hit 2000 theaters across the U.S. on August 7th. The teaser poster was released earlier today. Check it out below the announcement.    The Horror Section Presents Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man   IN...