Festivals
SXSW 2026 Opening Night: I LOVE BOOSTERS, Boots Randolph to Kick It Off
Exciting news out of Austin, Texas, today, as SXSW 2026 announced its opening night film for its 40th year: the world premiere of Boots Randolph's I Love Boosters. Here's the official verbiage: "South by Southwest® (SXSW®) announced today that NEON's...
Camerimage 2025 Interview: SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE Director Scott Cooper and DP Masanobu Takayanagi Talk Defying Expectations
A biopic about one of the most famous musicians in rock, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere avoids the standard life story formula to focus on the trauma of creating the album Nebraska. With Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen, and...
Tokyo 2025 Interview: THE CHATTERBOXES Director Ken Kawai Discusses Crafting Humor From Language Barriers
A rising CODA director discusses his charming dramedy of communication errors.
Golden Horse 2025 Interview: DEAR STRANGER Director Tetsuya Mariko Talks Transnational Filmmaking, New York, and Puppet Theater
The director of Toei's first English-language feature talks puppets, New York, and transnational dialogues.
Friday One Sheet: MAGELLAN
The majestic ode to the age of exploration and sail show in today's key art belies the revisionist historical film from slow cinema maestro Lav Diaz. With its hazy sunrise and high grain, and jaunty tilt (note the waterline, and...
Jihlava 2025 Interview: SUPERHUMANS, Inna Shevchenko Talks Documenting the Body as a Battlefield, Shooting During an Ongoing War
Inna Shevchenko outlines the development of her feature documentary Superhumans, offering insight into filming inside a Ukrainian prosthetics center during an active war and the creative, ethical, and production challenges that shape the project.
Creature Feature Preacher Interview: THE CREEP TAPES, Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice Talk Friendship and a Sociopath
Video: The filmmakers talk about their friendship and how that developed into a funny but scary show.
Beyond Fest Chicago 2026: L.A. Genre Fest Announces First Geographical Expansion
The folks at Beyond Fest have announced their first geographical expansion, heading to the Windy City in April, 2026. The festival will bring their eclectic programming style to the Music Box Theatre, no stranger to weird, wonderful and wacked-out...
GRIMMFEST 2025 - THE ONLINE EDITION: BAD HAIRCUT, DEATH CYCLE Among Online Offerings in December
The annual Grimmfest film festival wrapped up on Sunday, but the festival has more in store for horror fans in the UK. With an abundance of film titles to choose from this year, tough choices had to be made, and...
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2025 Review: HOW DARE YOU?
The Netherlands have their very own Japanese Film Festival. It's called Camera Japan and is held every year in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. This year, the festival opened with a treat: Korean-Japanese director O Mipo's Futsū no Kodomo, which translates literally...
Morelia 2025 Interview: IT WOULD BE NIGHT IN CARACAS Directors Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugas on Shooting Their Political Thriller in Secret
Set in 2017, It Would Be Night in Caracas depicts political upheaval through the eyes of a Venezuelan writer desperate to flee the country. As the city collapses around her, she is threatened by revolutionaries, the police, and paramilitary operatives....
Morelia 2025 Review: LA GLORIA, Texas Rancher Swept Up in Immigration Crisis
David Morse, Jaklyn Bejarano and Bill Heck star in J.T. Walker's film.
Toronto After Dark 2025 Review: SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE Really Really Really Loves Blowing Up Commies
After the epic Western-Thunderdome Nazi-killing smorgasbord that was Sisu, Finnish director Jalmari Helander returns to his large northern Europe canvas for another round of battle with Finland’s enemies. This time, it's in the key of Mad Max: Fury Road, against an...
Toronto After Dark 2025 Short Film Short Review: CLOWN SONG Is A Banger
The sinister clown is a timeless trope of cinema and pulp horror and real life - from David Lynch to Rob Zombie, Álex de la Iglesia to Bobcat Goldthwait, and Stephen King to John Wayne Gacy. Taking the ever-loving piss...
Brooklyn Horror 2025 Review: CAMP, Avalon Fast's Dreamy, Spellbound-by-Grief Sophomore Feature
Grief clings to us like smoke; no matter how far we walk, its scent lingers. Emily (Zola Grimmer) knows this too well. At 16, she struck and killed a young girl who ran in front of her car. Years later,...
Toronto After Dark 2025 Review: THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM, Chills and Melancholy in The Swiss Alps
Seen wandering through the grim fog and pale moonlit wilderness of the Swiss Alps as a tiny speck among the trees and rocks, a man (Don McKellar) reaches his isolated hotel destination only to find there are no rooms available...
Toronto After Dark 2025 Review: PRIMATE, A Lean and Mean Creature Feature
“Who keeps a chimpanzee as a pet?” muses an unsuspecting, blandly attractive 20-something party-boy, right before he has his face ripped off, quite graphically, for daring to ask such a question about the movie he has found himself in. First...
San Sebastian 2025 Review: REDOUBT, Measured, Poetic Study of Obsession, Isolation in Rural Sweden
Swedish filmmaker John Skoog reconstructs the true story of Karl-Göran Persson, a Cold War-era farm laborer who turned his home into a private fortress.
Serial Killer Brno 2025 Review: QUEEN OF FUCKING EVERYTHING, Finnish Darker Comedy Series, Taps into BREAKING BAD Territory with a Twist
Writer-director Tiina Lymi delivers a darker Finnish crime dramedy that examines the collapse of middle-class identity through the story of a real estate agent whose gradual descent into criminality exposes the moral fragility beneath social respectability.
New York 2025 Review: THE SECRET AGENT, Stylish, Inventive Political Thriller on the Intricacies of Historical Memory
Kleber Mendonça Filho's epic stars Wagner Moura.
