From The Editors
NO SLEEP TILL Review: The Acute Pleasures of a Tone Poem
Opening with the most tranquil of public swimming pools, a few swimmers go about their routine under the blazing hot sun in stark contrast to the attention-grabbing, but mechanically disjointed, text-to-speech of the National Weather Service warning broadcast blaring from...
Shudder in August: Clowns, Urban Legends, And a Little Bit More
It is part way through the Summer and we are taking a moment to turn our attention to next month's ineup on Shudder. Clown in a Cornfield will finally settle down into its streaming home after a long and very...
New York Asian 2025 Review: MA - CRY OF SILENCE, Brutal, Yet Inspiring View of Myanmar Labor Resistance
The Maw Naing's powerful drama follows a young woman working in a Myanmar garment factory, who hesitates when her colleagues strike.
TRON: ARES: Official Trailer Arrives With First NIN Single From The Soundtrack
The official trailer for Tron: Ares has arrived. Along with it are a batch of new images and more importantly the first single from the soundtrack from Nine Inch Nails, Alive As You Need Me To Be. As expected,...
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: THE LOVE THAT REMAINS Hlynur Pálmason and Julius Krebs Damsbo on Crafting Cinema from Intuition, Image, and Instinct
Director Hlynur Pálmason and editor Julius Krebs Damsbo unpack the intuitive, image-driven process behind 'The Love That Remains.'
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER Review: Legacy Slasher Delivers Old-School Kills in New-School Skin(s)
In the final moments of writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson's (Do Revenge, Thor: Love & Thunder, Unpregnant) latest film, I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025), the decades-in-the-making legacy sequel to the cult ‘90s slasher series, two characters exchange an envelope containing a handwritten...
MOTHER OF FLIES: Shudder Acquires Latest From Adams Family Ahead of Fantasia Bow
We read somewhere yesterday, in one of the trades, that the Adams Family have set some kind of record at Fantasia - the first filmmakers to have the most consecutive world premieres at the festival with five! Consistancy is...
TERRESTRIAL Official Teaser: Jermaine Fowler Stars in Sci-fi Thriller, Premieres at Fantasia This Weekend
Variety was the first to deliver the official teaser for Steven Pink's upcoming thriller, Terrestrial. Jermaine Fowler leads the dark comedy sci-fi thriller, portraying a writer, Allen, who is about to make it big with a big book and movie...
Now FASTing: Sergio Leone's A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS Made Clint Eastwood a Star
Where to watch: on physical media or a FAST service or a streaming service? And why bother?
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: THE VISITOR Director Vytautas Katkus on Visual Memory, Emotional Landscapes, Making Fiction Feel Real
Vytautas Katkus reflects on his transition from cinematographer to director, the collaborative roots of his filmmaking process, and how improvisation became a core method long before the camera ever rolled.
Sitges 2025: First Wave Announced, Julia Ducournau's ALPHA to Open Fest
The fine folks at Sitges have announced the first wave of titles for this year's 58th edition. Julia Ducournau's Alpha will open the festival this year. Other big titles from the festival circuit this year include The Ugly Stepsister,...
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: DON'T CALL ME MAMA Director Nina Knag Talks Power, Privilege, Ethics of Desire
Norwegian filmmaker Nina Knag unpacks how her morally complex debut feature interrogates power, privilege, and female desire, blending psychological realism, social critique, and quiet provocation into an unflinching character study shaped by empathy and ethical tension.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: 2000 METRES TO ANDRIIVKA Director Mstyslav Chernov Talks Embedding with Soldiers, Cinematic Ethics, Memory of War
Director Mstyslav Chernov reflects on the ethical, storytelling, and aesthetic challenges of documenting war from within a Ukrainian platoon, offering insight into the filmmaking choices behind his visceral new documentary.
ETERNAL Clip: It's The End of The World (as they know it...)
Young climate change scientist, Elias falls in love with an aspiring singer, Anita. But when an opportunity arises for him to join a mission researching a dangerous climate change phenomenon—a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor—he chooses career over love....
Criterion in October 2025: Cronenberg, del Toro, Lynch, EYES WITHOUT A FACE, ALTERED STATES
To call the Criterion Collection's October 2025 lineup anything less than masterful would be doing the films and the label a disservice. It's more like: wow! The official announcement is bookended by David Cronenberg: first, a 4K of A History...
RIVER OF BLOOD Exclusive Trailer & Poster: Horror Thriller From Howard J. Ford Available Next Month
A jungle kayak adventure descends into terror when a group of friends becomes the target of a merciless, bloodthirsty tribe.
Popcorn Frights 2025: Tina Romero, Dee Wallace, 25 More In-Person Films Ride Second Wave
Our friends at the Popcorn Frights Film Festival just announced the second wave of programming for their 11th edition, which will be held in South Florida, U.S., from August 7-17. Some 25 film premieres have been added, along with special...
EDDINGTON Review: Men Would Rather Destroy Themselves Than Go to Therapy
Eddington, the fourth feature from Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau is Afraid), moves away somewhat from horror and the uncanny we've come to expect in his films, into a combination of a western and crime thriller that focuses in a very fraught...
Fantasia 2025: 25 Films To Watch in '25 - Raising the Bloody Curtain on Genre Film Paradise
Fantasia is nearly upon us, and with almost two hundred feature films spread out over three weeks of cinematic bliss, we thought you could use a bit of a roadmap to success in what to look forward to at this...
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: FUCKTOYS Director Annapurna Sriram Talks Feminist Smut, Grindhouse Mythology
Annapurna Sriram discusses how her hallucinatory, sex-positive debut 'Fucktoys' reclaims grindhouse cinema through the female gaze, fusing occult symbolism, Southern grit, and unapologetic DIY energy into a radical vision of liberation.
