From The Editors
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.
BiFan 2025 Review: I KILL U, Yoo Ha's Action Melee High on Punchy Set Pieces, Low on Narrative Beats
In I KILL U, from director Yoo Ha, taekwondo athlete Kang Sun-woo (Kang Ji-young) reluctantly agrees to pose as the double for an heiress (also Kang) implicated in a hit-and-run scandal. The money is good and the task seems simple...
Now Streaming: Ari Aster's HEREDITARY, MIDSOMMAR, BEAU IS AFRAID
Where to watch the director's first three, increasingly divisive feature films (which we all love).
ICONIC Exclusive Clip: Psychological Horror Thriller Out July 15th
An offbeat beauty industry "celebrity" struggles to maintain her lifestyle and sanity after an internet scandal, new love interest and obsessive and violent new fan base turn her life upside down.
HOLI WOMB: Mongrel Media Boards Anouk Whissell's Psychological Horror Project
News today from Variety is that Mongrel Media have boarded Anouk Whissell's psychological horror, Holi Womb, for Canadian distribution. The news comes ahead of the project’s bow at the opening pitch session at Frontières on July 23rd. Holi Womb...
PACIFICO: Our First Look at Practical Effects in LatAm Creature Feature
A bit of catching up this morning. If you have not seen this news on other channels then take a look at the practical effects used in the upcoming creature feaure, Pacifico. In the film, a group of young...
BiFan 2025 Review: MANOK, Yang Mal-bok Shines in Charming Queer Indie Drama
Yang Mal-bok, who delivered one of the most powerful Korean indie film performances of recent memory in The Apartment with Two Women, is back in the indie realm with the rural-set queer drama Manok, the Korean Fantastic Audience Award winner...
BiFan 2025 Review: SUN WUKONG, Dynamic Early Korean Animated Take on the Monkey King
Sun Wukong (aka 'The Monkey King'), the mischievous protagonist of the celebrated 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, has been a familiar figure in Far East media for decades. While most of the cinematic adaptations of his exploits have...
HOT SPRING SHARK ATTACK Interview: Director Morihito Inoue Talks Jaws, Bureaucracy, and Omnipotent Screen Sharks
We discuss a killer shark satire that's fun to soak in,
Neuchâtel 2025: THE ICE TOWER Wins Best Feature Film, THE UGLY STEPSISTER Wins The Silver Méliès
The fine folks the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival wrapped up the twenty-fourth edition of their festival this weekend. With the conclusion of the festival comes the awards Lucile Hadžihalilović's dark fantasy, The Ice Queen, won the jury prize for...
Now Streaming: BALLARD S1, FOUNDATION S3, THE SHROUDS, David Cronenberg in the Criterion Closet
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