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Now Streaming: iHOSTAGE, Unnerving Dutch Hostage Thriller
Also: 'Lazarus' and animated action, 'I, Jack Wright' and murderous money.
Friday One Sheet: THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME
Something that comes up in almost every entry of this column, lately, is the omission of the credit block in movie posters. As if to single-handedly compensate for this, the BLT Communications design for the latest Wes Anderson film, The Phoenician...
Friday One Sheet: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Your mother wears combat boots in this high-grain poster for the forthcoming Paul Thomas Anderson film, One Battle After Another. Here it is less about the framing, credit-filling negative space, or the blocky stencil-ish typography, or anything else. The central...
Calgary Underground 2025: Curtain Raiser
Part fan-festival, with quietly subversive programming, and a gateway to oddness and offbeat cinema for Canada’s mid-west, the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) showcases a sampler of the highlights of indie, documentary and genre cinema from the festival circuit that...
Sound And Vision: John Hillcoat
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: the works Nick Cave and John Hillcoat made together. John Hillcoat has made a lot of music videos, for artists as...
DELICATESSEN: Grimly Hilarious Post-Apocalypse Comes to Severin Films
Severin Films brings weirdness from France, Italy, and the US home to Blu-ray and 4K UHD, including Brandon Cronenberg's 'Antiviral' and Lamberto Bava's 'The Mask of Satan.'
Friday One Sheet: EDDINGTON
Disturbing imagery is carrying much of the load for Ari Aster's latest film, a neo-western called Eddington. This grey-ish design from LA outfit, grandson, is a festival teaser poster for its upcoming Cannes bow. The black buffalo charging off a cliff (the odd...
Sound And Vision: Leos Carax
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at New Order's Crystal (unused version), directed by Leos Carax. Context for this music video is mostly missing. Seemingly...
Friday One Sheet: SPARE MY BONES, COYOTE!
We have featured the work of Dylan Haley before in these pages for his fine work on Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie 4K reissue some years ago. (Also we are big fans of his key art for The Belladonna of Sadness). His work...
COMPANION: One of This Week's Best New Home Video Releases
Our home video roundup for the week of April 1 is no joke and also includes 'Dog Man,' 'Flight Risk,' and 'Love Hurts.'
Sound And Vision: Geremy Jasper
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at several videos by Geremy Jasper, co-directed with Georgie Greville. Geremy Jasper is an up-and-coming director, whose achingly sincere...
Friday One Sheet: DROP
Does a woman glancing at her phone on a blank field constitute a good piece of key art? This is debatable. However, give that blank field the most saturated red (colour coded for horror film) with no gradient, and put...
Sound And Vision: Wes Anderson
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Jarvis Cocker's Aline, directed by Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson's latest works all wear their influences on their sleeves....
Now Streaming: ANORA, THE OUTRUN, DEN OF THIEVES: PANTERA, SING SING
Award winners, nominees, FYC contenders, and even a commercial release beckon.
ORCA Leaps Onto 4K UHD from KL Studio Classics
Kino Lorber celebrates horror with new 4K Upgrades of 'Orca,' Stephen King's 'Graveyard Shift,' 'Body Parts,' and more.
SXSW 2025 Wrap: All Our Reviews, Interviews, and More
The sound of silence is deafening. SXSW 2025 has concluded this year's edition. Last week the jury and special awards were announced. Our coverage is not quite complete; we'll update this post as a few more articles roll in this...
Sound And Vision: Marc Webb
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week, five music videos that Marc Webb made that feel like precursors for his new adaptation of Snow White. As a music...
Friday One Sheet: OXANA
There is no point in subtlety in street protest. And the poster for French-Ukranian biopic of Oxana Chatchko aims to confront - in the movie poster context. Swearing, political slogans, and toplessness are all part of activist group FEMEN's modus operandi...
Preview: First Look at Museum of Moving Image 2025
A highlight of the MoMI’s annual film programs, the 14th edition of First Look returns, today through March 16, with a diverse lineup — 38 films including four world premieres and 23 U.S. or North American premieres, representing 21 countries...
Pretty Packaging: ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS VOL. 2 Haunts Harder
Back in 2021, writer-director Kier-La Janisse released Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, a great 3-hours-(and-14-minutes)-long documentary about witchcraft and mysticism around the world, especially as seen in films. That documentary didn't just get a special release on Blu-ray, it basically...
