From The Editors
SXSW 2026: Another Programming Wave Brings More Than 50 Additions
"Five ballerinas, stranded in a remote forest ... must weaponize!" If that partial quote, borrowed from a film below, doesn't get you excited for SXSW 2026, I don't know what will, my friends. We've already covered the opening night film...
Now Streaming: THE 'BURBS, Where Tom Hanks Never Belonged, Becomes a Nightmare
Joe Dante's dark comedy also stars Bruce Dern and Carrie Fisher.
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: SENTIMENTAL VALUE Filmmakers Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt on Intergenerational Cinema, Creative Control, Why European Films Are Winning Again
Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt reflect on how long-term collaboration, actor-centered process, and a resolutely European production ethos shaped a film built around time, absence, and the quiet mechanics of family power.
SOON YOU WILL BE GONE AND POSSIBLY EATEN: TALK TO ME's Sophie Wilde Set to Star in Sci-fi Thriller
TALK TO ME's Sophie Wilde is attached to star in an upcoming alien sci-fi thriller from SPUTNIK's director, Egor Abramenko.
JIMPA Review: Universal Experiences That Every Family Must Face Together
Olivia Colman, Aud Mason-Hyde, and John Lithgow star in writer-director Sophie Hyde's queer-centered generational drama.
Berlinale 2026: Exclusive THE RIVER TRAIN Poster Premiere
An austere yet intuitive debut, the film observes childhood not as innocence lost but as a state of restless transit, where movement, solitude, and imagination quietly collide.
WHISTLE Review: An Unlikely Group Of Teens Fight Their Own Mortality
Two things are inevitable in this world: death, and horror films that really want you to know that they’ve seen other horror films. Director Corin Hardy’s Whistle is a little bit of both, a throwback to a horror of a...
RULE OF THREE: New Horror Trilogy From SMILE Outfit Begins Production
Are Amy and her family plagued by a deadly curse? Every three years, death strikes under mysterious circumstances, horrifically killing family members. It's almost three years to the day since Amy's parents' death, and Amy realises the curse must strike her next.
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: SIRAT Director Oliver Laxe on Shock Therapy Cinema and Why Films Must Risk the Abyss
Oliver Laxe talks about fear, faith, and the physical limits he believes cinema must still be willing to cross.
Rotterdam 2026 Review: TALKING TO A STRANGER Shows A Grief, Scarier Than Ghosts
We have been fans of director Adrián García Bogliano ever since his films Cold Sweat (reviewed here) and Here Comes the Devil (reviewed here), so we consider it good news when a new film by him comes out. Yesterday, the...
Sundance 2026 Review: RUN AMOK, Must-See Hard-Hitting, Heart-Shredding Comedy-Drama
Writer-director NB Mager's debut feature stars Alyssa Marvin, Patrick Wilson, Margaret Cho, Sophia Torres, Elizabeth Marvel, and Molly Ringwald.
BLAZING FISTS Official Trailer: Miike's Boxing Drama on Digital, Blu-ray And DVD in March
Ikuto and Ryoma meet in juvenile detention and become best friends. They pursue their dream of participating in the martial arts event Breaking Down. However, rivalries soon turn their dreams into unexpected conflicts.
LAST RIDE Official Trailer: Cinqué Lee's Survival Thriller Arriving Soon on Digital And On Demand
In the winter of 1982, three American boys find themselves stranded in a cable car with a dead body, suspended midair in the mountains of Norway during a rare celestial event.
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: SOUND OF FALLING Director Mascha Schilinski on Transgenerational Trauma, Radical Subjectivity, Quiet Violence of Memory
Mascha Schilinski's film moves fluidly across time, perspective, and inner states, positioning itself as a rigorously authored work.
EXIT 8: NEON Announces Theatrical Release Date For Japanese Thriller
NEON is releasing Genki Kawarmura's thriller, the live-action adaptation of the popular video game, this April.
Echoes: How Young and Veteran Filmmakers in Pakistan Differ in Style and Storytelling
Pakistani cinema has been shaped by both veteran and emerging filmmakers, whose contrasting approaches to style and storytelling define the industry today. While pioneers worked within technical and structural constraints to establish cinematic traditions, the new generation is pushing boundaries...
THE INFINITE HUSK Review: The Human Body Is a Prison and a Wonder
While many films (and art in general) grapple with the question of what it means to be human, science fiction offers the tropes and syntax to make that question more palpable, or give means to approach it from an atypical...
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: RIEFENSTAHL Filmmaker Andres Veiel on Myth, Guilt, Fascist Aesthetics
Drawing on unprecedented access to Leni Riefenstahl's estate, Andres Veiel reflects on the long ethical labour of archival authorship, the filmmaker's complicity with power, and why confronting fascist imagery requires intellectual proximity rather than historical distance.
Sundance 2026 Review: TAKE ME HOME, Deeply Personal Drama of Family in Peril
Liz Sargent's film won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic. Anna Sargent, Victor Slezak, Ali Ahn, Shane Harper, and Marceline Hugot star.
Rotterdam 2026 Review: THE NIGHT Holds Horrors And Wonders
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has started its 2026 edition. And even though the festival slants towards arthouse as always, there are plenty of genre films to enjoy as well. Case in point: Paul Urkijo Alijo's Gaua a.k.a. The Night,...
