Festivals
REDUX REDUX: Check Out The Official Trailer & Poster For Sci-Fi Thriller, in Theaters Next Month
The sci-fi thriller, Redux Redux, from filmmaking brothers Kevin and Matthew McManus (The Block Island Sound), releases in theaters on February 20th from Saban Films. The official trailer and poster have gone out today. Check out the very kinetic...
100 NIGHTS OF HERO Review: Storytelling as a Spell of Resistance
Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine, and Maika Monroe star in Julia Jackman's romantic, queer fantasy film.
Rotterdam 2025 Interview: Toshiaki Toyoda
At the beginning of the year, at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, I interviewed Toshiaki Toyoda about his film Transcending Dimensions, which premiered at the festival. But life got in the way, because as they say, life is what happens...
Friday One Sheet: SOUND OF FALLING
As an amateur photographer (who focuses mainly on candid and street photography) my favourite content trope when capturing photos is the shot where everyone is going about their business, but one person is looking directly into the camera. This is...
Tallinn 2025 Review: LIFELIKE Moves Beyond Coming-of-Age
Turkish director Ali Vatansever examines how a family shifts its dynamics as a terminal diagnosis intersects with caregiving, belief, and the virtual spaces that offer temporary escape.
Tallinn 2025 Review: SUNDAY NINTH Probes Memory, Estrangement, Blurred Line Between Fiction and Documentary
Kat Steppe's feature fiction debut examines the disintegration of memory and identity through a hybrid fiction-documentary lens, using the fractured relationship between two estranged brothers as its narrative anchor.
Tallinn 2025 Review: THINK OF ENGLAND Dramatizes Britain's Attempt to Boost Morale with State-Mandated Porn Films
Richard Hawkins' film moves from period workplace comedy, rooted in the absurdities of producing a pornographic film for the war effort, toward a psychological drama shaped by mounting instability.
Tallinn 2025 Review: BLINDSIGHT Retools the Amnesia Narrative Through Immersive Experience and Storytelling Rug Pulling
Adrian Sitaru's latest work employs first person immersion to build a narrative puzzle that shifts into the register of a 'Black Mirror' episode, revealing a film with far more layers than its early realism and family drama implied.
Tallinn 2025 Review: FATHER, Immersive and Visceral Psychological Study of Guilt and Grief
Selected as Slovakia's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, the film is an incisive study of psychological rupture and its social reverberations.
Tallinn 2025 Review: NO COMMENT Finds Marital Comedy in a Political Crisis
Norwegian director Petter Næss turns to political satire to explore how a marital crisis intersects with the machinery of contemporary governance.
SXSW 2026 Opening Night: I LOVE BOOSTERS, Boots Riley 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 Riley'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...
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