From The Editors

Shudder in March: RULE OF JENNY PEN, BLOODY AXE WOUND, And STARVE ACRE

Once we have all survived the most lovey dovey of days on the yearly calendar we may turn our attention to what our friends at Shudder have planned for us during the month of March.    Highlight films are the...

Sundance 2025 Review: RAINS OVER BABEL, Singularly Enthralling Retro-Futuristic Queer Fantasy

In the retro-futuristic, pop-punk imagination of Spanish Columbian writer-director Gala del Sol (Natalia Hermida) and her unmissable, queer-coded feature-length debut, Rains Over Babel (Llueve Sobre Babel), Cali, Colombia exists in a sublime liminal space, at the crossroads between the real...

A KNIGHT'S WAR Official Trailer: Black Fawn Picks up Canadian Sword & Sorcery Flick For Distro on Home Soil

A lone medieval knight follows a mysterious woman to a forbidden realm to help her battle an army of demons and steal the power of the gods.

Sundance 2025 Review: 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA, Brutal Realities of Modern Warfare

Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov offers an unvarnished and unflinching look at the frontlines of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Criterion: KILLER OF SHEEP Headlines May 2025 Releases

Plus: 'Withnail and I,' 'How to Get Ahead in Advertising,' 'The Wind Will Carry Us,' 'The Three Musketeers/The Four Musketeers,' and in 4K: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,' 'In the Heat of the Night.'

Sundance 2025 Review: THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR Looks at Stand Your Ground Laws

Elections have consequences, as pundits keep reminding us. One of those is Florida's "stand your ground" legislation, which allows the use of deadly force if people feel they are in imminent danger. Composed almost entirely of bodycam and surveillance video,...

Friday One Sheet: Calgary Underground 2025

"Lowbrow maximalist illustrations brimming with thoughtful puns, juicy buns, and innuendo." This is how illustrator Hamburger Hands (aka Kyle Schneider) describes his work, here for the 22nd Calgary Underground Film Festival, and its key art. It is an ode to Underground Comix...

SOMETHING IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN Review: It Lives Up to Its Title

A character study, a dark comedy, a social satire, with a sly revenge thriller snuck in for good measure, Antonio Méndez Esparza’s portentously titled Something Is About To Happen has a lot going on in its two-hour runtime. One might...

Sundance 2025 Review: OH, HI!, Anti-Rom-Com Promises Much, Delivers Less

The title of writer-director Sophie Brooks’s feature-length debut, Oh, Hi!, an anti-rom-com, appears almost immediately in an exchange between longtime best friends, Iris (Molly Gordon) and Max (Geraldine Viswanathan).   Usually saved for a moment combining surprise and levity, here...

Sundance 2025 Review: DIDN'T DIE, Post-Apocalyptic Zom-Com, Short on Zombies, Short on Comedy

In co-writer/director Meera Menon’s (Equity, Farah Goes Bang) post-apocalyptic zombie tale, Didn’t Die, a zombie-filled life is barely worth living.   As always, staying alive means not just dodging the walking dead and their appetites for human flesh, but also...

THE GORGE Review: A Big Swing With a Big Heart

Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller star in Scott Derrickson's multi-genre thriller, premiering worldwide on Apple TV+.

THE QUIET ONES Exclusive Clip: Stay Inside The Van

In 2008, a group of men from Denmark and across Europe pull off the biggest heist of all time on Danish soil. Kasper, a boxer with few chances left in life, is offered the opportunity to plan the robbery by its foreign initiators.

Sundance 2025 Review: BUNNYLOVR, Gen Z Cam-Girl Faces Existential Crisis

Pace everyone’s favorite Greek philosopher, Socrates, if the unexamined life isn’t worth living, then the unexamined cam life — as in cam-girl life — is probably a close second or even a distant third.   That lack of self-exploration, of...

Berlinale 2025 Preview: Richard Linklater, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Radu Jude, Hong Sangsoo, Gabriel Mascaro

The 2025 Berlinale Film Festival marks a new chapter in its storied history, debuting under the artistic leadership of Tricia Tuttle with a line-up that seeks to embrace audience friendly world cinema.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD Review: Pacifying Propaganda Engages, Disturbs

Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford star; Julius Onah directed.

GUNS UP: Vertical Acquires U.S. And UK/Ireland Rights to Action Comedy Led by Kevin James And Christina Ricci

When a job goes horribly wrong, an ex-cop and family man who moonlights as a mob henchman has one night to get his family out of the city.

THE DEAD THING Review: Sexy, Sad, Spooky, Unnerving

Blu Hunt and Ben Smith-Petersen star in Elric Kane's erotic thriller, making its streaming debut on Shudder.

UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE Review: Beautiful, Funny Paean to Canada

Immigration is a hot-button issue in several Western countries as they reconcile the ways in which it is transforming their national identity. Even in the United States, it remains an active tug-of-war. But in Canada, it is a fait accompli,...

TIMESTALKER Review: Tremendously Funny Obsession

Alice Lowe's wildly hilarious film stars Jacob Anderson, Aneurin Barnard, Tanya Reynolds, and Nick Frost.

Rotterdam 2025 Review: ACTS OF LOVE Attempts to Unearth the Repressed Past

Jeppe Rønde's family drama tackles memory, trauma, and transgression in a small New Age Christian community.