Festivals
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...
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...
Fantasia 2025: This Year's Poster Revealed, Submission Deadline Approaches
Yes, we suppose we do have to start thinking about Fantasia now. Truthfully, we have already begun talking amongst ourselves, vying for dates during the festival's run from July 17th to August 3rd. To get the ball rolling, the...
Frontières 2025: The Frontières Platform in Cannes Announces Program
Our friends at Frontières have announced this year's Frontières Platform in Cannes. Over two days thirteen genre projects will be presented to investors, buyers, sellers and distributors. The projects comes from right here in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Asia and Oceania. ...
Rotterdam 2025 Review: THREE DAYS OF FISH Proves You Can Never Go Home Again
Peter Hoogendoorn debuted very strongly almost ten years ago with Tussen 10 en 12 (Between 10 and 12), a rigidly structured movie set in a limited time-space. In it, a family one by one get told bad news by two...
Rotterdam 2025 Review: VIDEOHEAVEN, Alex Ross Perry's Juggernaut Essay About Video-stores
Alex Ross Perry's new film is a video-essay in the style of Thom Andersen's seminal Los Angeles Plays Itself, in that it focuses on a place and location, and explores this place solely through deep analysis of footage from films...
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...
ABRAHAM'S BOYS: RLJE Films And Shudder Acquire Natasha Kermani's Gothic Horror
RLJE Films and Shudder announced today that they have acquired Natasha Kermani’s horror flick, Abraham's Boys, ahead of its world premiere at the Overlook Film Festival this Saturday, April 5th. Based on a short story by the same name, by...
Panic Fest 2025 Review: THE HEDONIST Confirms a Distinct New Voice
Writer, director, and actor Nick Funess' new film also stars Amrita Newton and Izzi Rojas.
Panic Fest 2025 Review: DOOBA DOOBA, A Cult Classic in the Making
Amna Vegha, Betsy Sligh, Erin O'Meara, and Winston Haynes star in writer/director Ehrland Hollingsworth's adventures in babysitting, found-footage style.
Calgary Underground Film Festival Announces 22nd Edition Lineup and Events!
Like Calgary in April, you never quite know what you are going to get at the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF). It could be sunny T-shirt weather one day, and a punishing snow storm the next, the Northern Lights peeking...
Panic Fest 2025 Review: THE LOST EPISODE, Found Footage COPS
It's always funny when a movie has a clear reference point but can't afford the rights to directly reference it. The Lost Episode opens with on screen text informing us that what we're about to watch was originally recorded on...
CPH:DOX 2025: Exclusive GIRLS & GODS Poster Premiere
Feminist activist Inna Shevchenko trades protest for conversation in a documentary that confronts the uneasy intersection of religion and women's rights on a global scale.
Berlinale 2025 Review BLUE MOON: Lyricist Lorenz Hart at a Crossroads
Richard Linklater's new film follows lyricist Lorenz Hart as he tries to salvage his career. Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew Scott star.
CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD Official Trailer: Opens Nationwide on May 9th.
If you were at the local movieplex this past weekend to catch the opening of Flying Lotus' cosmic horror Ash, you were among the first to see the official trailer for Eli Craig's Clown in a Cornfield. Premiering exclusively in...
Cinequest 2025 Review: I'M NOT AN ACTOR, A Long Distance Drama Unfolds
A man and a woman audition for a film; he from Frankfurt, Germany, her from Mumbai, India. He is a banker, she is a serious actor, but the only way they get the job is by working together over a...
Fantaspoa 2025: Brazilian Festival Announces Mammoth Lineup
Our friends at Fantaspoa have revealed the whopping, one hundred feature film lineup for this year's festival, taking place in Porto Alegre, Brazil from April 9th through 27th. Quite frankly, trying to pick highlights out of one hundered titles...
Cinequest 2025 Review: VOICES CARRY, Grim Generational Trauma Thriller
If countless genre films have taught us anything, returning to a lake house where you spent your childhood and where some troubling events may have occurred is never a good idea. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what Sam (Gia Crovatin) and her...
Chattanooga 2025: First Wave of Titles Announced
Doing a bit of catch up as our friends at Chattanooga Film Festival announced the first wave of titles for this year's festival last week. Whoopsie. I'll recover from the shock of the claim in the second paragraph in...
SXSW 2025 Review: BROTHER VERSES BROTHER, A Live Cinema Musical With A Huge Heart
Twin brothers roam the streets of San Francisco in search of their AWOL father in Ari Gold’s blissfully introspective live cinema musical, Brother Verses Brother. The fact that Brother Verses Brother recently added Francis Ford Coppola to its credit block...
