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New York 2026 Review: ARTIFICIAL Doesn't Make a Bigger Splash
The NYFF premiere of Luca Guadagnino ‘s Artificial, which is set for a theatrical release in December, comes one year after the NYFF premiere of the director’s previous live-action feature, After the Hunt. Unlike the previous film, which was highly...
MUSK Review: Must-See Doc That Sadly Will Go Mostly Unseen
At 12:01 p.m. on January 20th, 2029, the 48th president of the United States will be sworn into office. His name — because more likely than not, the next president will be a “he” — will not be Donald...
Echoes: Do Pakistani Films Need International Recognition to Prove Their Worth?
Iram Parveen Bilal's Wakhri (2024) won the Best Director Feature Film award at the 5th Yellowstone International Film Festival (YIFF) in New Delhi, India. Co-produced and directed by Iram Parveen, the drama film is inspired by the life of late...
CRYSTAL LAKE Review: Prequel Series is a Slow-Burn Crime Drama That Doesn't Skimp on Slasher Violence
One year after her young son's tragic drowning, a grieving single mother's dark past is unearthed by two strangers, triggering a disturbing chain of events that reveals the terrifying origins of a horror legend.
BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL Review: Riveting Reassessment of a Hysterically Hated Horror
David Kittredge's studious and fair cinematic essay on 'Exorcist II: The Heretic' is a witty raconteur of a documentary.
HALLOWIEBE OVERDRIVE: This Is NOT A Review...
I normally don't review Dutch movies aimed at children, but there is a first time for everything and last year that was what happened with Hallowiebe, a fun family film with a Halloween theme. I am a big fan of...
OTHER MOMMY Review: Horror Version of SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE No One Really Wanted
Seven-year-old Bela (Arabella Olivia Clark) lives with her mother, Ursula (Jessica Chastain), and her father, Russell (Jay Duplass), who love each other very much. At least, that’s what the girl is planning to say in her introduction speech at her...
London 2026 Review: MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE, The Godmother of the Making-Of Doc Bids a Moving Farewell
Eleanor Coppola's kind-hearted chronicle of her daughter Sofia's epic is a delightful swansong.
TENZING Review: Necessary, If Hagiographic, Corrective to Cultural History
When newspapers, radio stations, and television news programs reported the first successful summit of Mt. Everest on May 29th, 1953, Edmund “Ed” Hilary, a New Zealand member of a spring expedition organized by the British, received prime, sometimes sole credit...
V/H/S/MIXTAPE Review: The Kills Keep on Coming
Halloween is creeping up, which means a new V/H/S is landing on Shudder today, just in time for some post-trick-or-treat trauma. Since the series’ resurrection, V/H/S has largely traded its loose narrative throughline for an annual theme, and while the...
New York 2026 Review: THE DREAMED ADVENTURE, Once Upon a Time in Bulgaria
A middle-aged man, Said (Syuleyman Alilov Letifov), comes back to his small Bulgarian hometown, situated not far from the borders of both Turkey and Greece. He is here to conduct some shady deal involving diesel fuel, but when his car...
New York 2026 Review: BITTER CHRISTMAS, Weird Act of Artistic Self-Deprecation
Pedro Almodóvar's latest feature film.
Echoes: HANGING BY A WIRE, Pakistan's First Academy Award Documentary Entry, Was Shot Entirely on a Phone
On the morning of August 22, 2023, people in the Allai Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, looked up. No one could believe their eyes when they saw a cable car hanging hundreds of feet above, suspended by the last cable that was...
BUDDY: Digital And Home Video Release Dates Announced
Buddy will eventually wind down its theatrical run (Unless they find another version to release -- I'd vote for some kind of Gallagher splatter version but then who'd clean up afterwards?) and that means it is time to share with...
New York 2026 Review: BEHEMOTH!, Total Ungrip of the Heart
Pedro Pascal stars in director Tony Gilroy's new film.
MOUSE Review: Unassuming Crime Story Quietly Steals Your Heart
Kenny Riches writes, directs and stars in this pre-Recession tale of wanting a better life.
Vlissingen 2026 Review: ISABEL Shows Mid-Life And Hangovers
Ten years ago, filmmaker Gabe Klinger released his debut feature with Porto (reviewed here by Shelagh), and in that film he put some serious question marks at the popular cinematic trope of people being destined for each other after having...
THE HOLIDAY HITMAN Official Trailer: He's Making a List, A Hit List. Ho, Ho, H- ... I'll See Myself Out
Hitman Hank Carter is trying to save his marriage with the perfect family Christmas, unfortunately for him, a hit has been put on his head, and a gang of festive bounty hunters will stop at nothing to collect the payday.
The Asylum's STREET FIGHTERS, Out Today on Digital
The Asylum's Street Fighters is releasing today on digital! Just thought we would share that with you fans of the tongue-in-cheek low-fi mockbusters. The world’s best martial artists fight in a world championship put on by a mysterious organization....
THE LAST TEMPTATION OF BECKY: Check Out These Two New Teasers
Now working as a field agent for the CIA, Becky (Lulu Wilson) is sent undercover to Poland to infiltrate a family of innkeepers who are running a tourist venture at The Wolf’s Lair, Hitler’s WWII bunker. After learning that the...
