Festivals
Chattanooga 2026: Film Festival Announces Fun Sized First Wave
Almost a full half year before the start of the festival on June 18, the Chattanooga Film Festival has announced a "fun-sized first wave of films and events." Now in its 13th year, the festival will celebrate that anniversary with...
Sundance 2026 Review: THE LAST FIRST: WINTER K2 Documents an Avoidable Tragedy
Amir Bar-Lev directed.
Sundance 2026 Review: THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK, An Ode to Times and Peoples' Past
John Turturro, Jamie Lee Curtis, Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Esposito, Tatiana Maslany and Will Price star in writer/director Noah Segan's character study / crime drama.
Sundance 2026 Review: THE WEIGHT, Ethan Hawke Leads Period Crime-Drama
Russell Crowe also stars in director Padraic McKinley's crime drama.
Sundance 2026 Review: CHASING SUMMER, A Cut Above the Usual Coming Home Comedy-Drama
Directed by Josephine Decker, Iliza Shlesinger wrote and stars in the comedy-drama, alongside Garrett Wareing, Lola Tung, Cassidy Freeman, Tom Welling, and Megan Mullally.
Sundance 2026 Review: THE INCOMER, Welcome Weirdness Dominates This Island Set Comedy
Gayle Rankin, Grant O'Rourke, and Domhnall Gleeson star in director Louis Paxton's feature debut.
Sundance 2026 Review: FING!, Roald Dahl-Inspired Fantasy for the Whole Family
Mia Wasikowska, Blake Harrison, and Taika Waititi star in director Jeffrey Walker's film.
BOWELS OF HELL: Blue Finch Films Boards Sales On Rotterdam Selected Horror-Comedy
Ah, toilet humor. It exists both as a description of a type of humor, and currently it has served as a setting and location for a growing crop of movies within the horror genre (Scared Shitless, Holy Shit!, and Flush). ...
Sundance 2026 Review: FRANK & LOUIS, Poignant, Sensitive Exploration of Redemption Through Caregiving
Kingsley Ben-Adir and Rob Morgan star in Petra Volpe's prison drama.
Sundance 2026 Review: BUDDY Brings Childhood Horrors to Unreal Life
Casper Kelly directs Cristin Milioti, Delaney Quinn, Keegan-Michael Key, Jamie King, Michael Shannon and Topher Grace in a horror comedy.
Sundance 2026 Review: LEVITICUS, Standout Queer Horror From Down Under
Joe Bird, Stacy Clausen, and Mia Wasikowska star in Adrian Chiarella's coming-of-age queer horror picture.
Sundance 2026 Review: ALL ABOUT THE MONEY, The Downside of Unlimited Wealth
Sinéad O'Shea directed the documentary.
Sundance 2026 Review: THE MUSICAL Brings the Comedy and the Cringe in Equal Measure
Move over, Tim Robinson. You too, Nathan Fielder. Tim Heidecker, consider yourself on notice. There’s a new contender for the cringe-comedy throne. Said contender isn’t a writer-director-actor, but writer Alexander Heller, director Giselle Bonilla, actor Will Brill, and The...
Sundance 2026: JOSEPHINE, Deeply Moving, Powerful Character Study
When a police investigator asks eight-year-old Josephine (newcomer Mason Reeves), the title character in Beth de Araújo’s (Soft & Quiet) devastating crime drama/character study, if she’s seen the perpetrator of a violent crime in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park before,...
PSYCHONAUT Trailer: Fizz-e-Motion Boards Sci-fi Thriller For Sales at Berlinale/EFM
Fizz-e-Motion has come on board as the sales agent for science-fiction thriller Psychonaut, starring Fiona Dourif (Chucky, "The Pitt").
Ryland's Musings From Two Decades of Sundance
It's hard for me to overstate the importance of Sundance on my career, and even my personal life in adulthood. At the height of my fest-going career, I was going to nearly two dozen festivals a year. Those trickled down...
SICKO Official Trailer: Kazakh Thriller Heads to IFFR With a Sales Agent
A cash-strapped couple hatch a plan to solve their money troubles, but soon become embroiled in a toxic web of social media, violent criminality, and spiralling greed.
SACCHARINE: Independent Film Company And Shudder Acquire Sundance-Bound Body Horror
Hana, a lovelorn medical student, becomes terrorized by a sinister force after taking part in an obscure weight loss craze: eating human ashes.
Canadian Territories' Available Light Film Festival Announces 2026 Line Up
The 24th edition of north western Canada's Available Light Film Festival has announced its full line up. Running over 10 days during February, in Whitehorse, Yukon, one of the coldest parts of Canada (and in the running world-wide). The festival...
SXSW 2026: First Wave Led By MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES, OVER YOUR DEAD BODY, THEY WILL KILL YOU
Seven days with 58 feature films -- so far! March is gonna be busy.
