Festivals Features
Neuchatel 2026 Daily: From THE TIN DRUM to RITUAL to MI AMOR to SLEEP NO MORE to BLOOD ON SNOW
Plus: 'From Dusk Till Dawn.'
Neuchatel 2026 Daily: FISH, FISTS AND AMBERGRIS to EVIL DEAD BURN to IKATAN DARAH
Plus: 'My Daughter Is a Zombie,' 'Logan's Run,' and many more.
Neuchatel 2026 Daily: From BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS to HOKUM
The Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival, hereafter referred to as Neuchatel 2026, is "the only Swiss festival dedicated to genre films," per their official description. "The event is mainly devoted to a specific film genre: fantasy. This main theme is...
Tribeca 2026 Wrap: All Our Reviews, Good and Otherwise
This year's Tribeca Festival ran from June 3-14. Four of our writers focused on the film element: Dustin Chang, Olga Artemyeva, Daniel Eagan, and Martin Tsai. Here are links to all our reviews: Reviews by Dustin Chang Caity Summer War...
Friday One Sheet: NIGHT NURSE
Is the erotic thriller back? Sundance entry Night Nurse makes a solid case for the return of a genre that peaked (peeked? piqued?) in the 1990s and then quietly disappeared over the past two and a half decades. The key...
Friday One Sheet: THE FURIOUS
Today we have a rather abstract poster from Vietnam-based visual artist Khang Giate for the forthcoming mega-action picture The Furious. Given the 'dog-pile' martial arts style practically pioneered by this film (it is indeed something to behold) this poster does a bang-up...
Friday One Sheet: KINDERGARTEN
The poster for this Quebec observational documentary on early childhood, through the titular jardin d'enfants (kindergarden), has at its centre a whimsical, but dense, illustration from France's Jean Millard. His work in watercolor and gouache (a water-based, opaque paint known for its...
Calgary Underground 2026: Curtain Raiser
Growing considerably over the last five years, the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) has been continuing its mission as a fan-focused festival. Simultaneously, it has steadily increased the number of Canadian and International talents converging on the city for 11...
SXSW 2026 Wrap: All Our Reviews
The 33rd edition of the SXSW Film and Television Festival announced their Audience Award winners, led by Jorma Taccone's Over Your Dead Body in the Headliner section, Robb Boardman's Plantman & Blondie: A Dress Up Gang Film in the Narrative...
SXSW 2026 Doc Roundup: CEREMONY, FIRST THEY CAME FOR MY COLLEGE, ONE ANOTHER, YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE
From Canada to Florida, from friendship to data points, four highly-charged documentaries made a mark at SXSW.
SXSW 2026 Curtain Raiser: 21 Films To Get Excited About At This Year's Festival
Spring has nearly sprung, and in the film world that means that SXSW Film & TV Festival is finally upon us! 2026 marks the festival's 40th edition, and we've got a bumper crop of films to choose from. Screen Anarchy...
Berlinale 2026 Wrap: All Our Reviews, Interviews, News
The 76th edition of the Berlinale was held during the month of February 2026, featuring the latest films by a bevy of exciting directors, presented in a glamorous atmosphere (see above). As the indispensable David Hudson noted in his wonderfully...
Rotterdam 2026: What The Audiences Liked Best
One month ago, the 2026 edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam ended, or at least the cinema showings did. The online streaming service lasted for another few weeks, allowing access to subscribers and press alike (so if you're wondering...
Rotterdam 2026 Wrap: All Our Coverage
The 2026 International Film Festival Rotterdam has concluded, so here's our reviews, features, and interviews (so far).
Friday One Sheet: ROSE OF NEVADA
Featuring neither flowers nor the desert state of America, Rose of Nevada is a deeply authentic, and thoroughly strange time-travel fishing movie that is mainly drama, but, as the red typesetting suggests, with elements of dread and horror. The credits...
Rotterdam 2026: BAZAAR (MURDER IN THE BUILDING), On Lions in the Highlands, Or, The Eternal Life of Alfred Hitchcock
With Bazaar (Murder in the Building), Rémi Bezançon delivered the intended closing film of IFFR: a playful homage to filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. One of Hitchcock's finest films, Rear Window, is about watching, listening, and cinema itself. Photojournalist Jeff, accustomed to...
Friday One Sheet: Calgary Underground Film Festival 2026
Western Canada's ever-expanding genre extravaganza, the Calgary Underground Film Festival (or CUFF for short) has put out its key art in anticipation of its April 16th launch. In keeping with its maximalist underground comix design ethos, and always using a...
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...
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...
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...
