Festivals News
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...
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.
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...
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...
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: How Theaters Are Eventizing the Moviegoing Experience
Before I watched anything at SXSW this year, I began Friday, March 7, by attending a panel entitled "How Theaters Are Eventizing the Moviegoing Experience." Much of the discussion centered around how individual theaters and local cinema chains have made...
SXSW 2025 Review: FUCKTOYS, A Filth-filled Odyssey Though A Punk Rock Wonderland
A sometime sex worker longs for love in director/writer/star Annapurna Sriram’s chaotic debut feature film, Fucktoys. We meet AP (Sriram) mid-tarot reading, sitting in the middle of a swamp, listening to the wisdom of a psychic played by iconic rapper,...
SXSW 2025: SLANTED, SHUFFLE, More Get Jury and Special Awards
Ripped from the pages of our email in-box: "The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals announced the 2025 Jury and Special Award winners of the 32nd SXSW Film & TV Festival. "Feature films receiving Jury Awards were selected from...
SXSW 2025 Review: HALLOW ROAD, A Folk Horror Two-Hander On A Deep, Dark Forest Lane
A tragic accident, a terrified teenage girl, a pair of panicked parents, and a long lonely road in the woods feature in Iranian-British director Babak Anvari’s latest chiller, Hallow Road, premiering as part of this year’s SXSW Film & TV...
THE UGLY STEPSISTER: IFC Films And Shudder Announce Theatrical Date For Dark Satire Fantasy Horror
IFC Films and Shudder have announced the theatrical date for Emilie Blichfeldt's feature directorial debut, The Ugly Stepsister. The dark satire and fairy tale horror flick from Norway will arrive in cinemas on April 18th. Elvira battles against her...
DEAD LOVER: Horror Comedy Acquired For Distro in North America
A newly minted distribution outfit, Cartuna x Dweck, has announced that they have acquired the North American rights for Grace Glowicki’s horror comedy, Dead Lover. The film had its Texas premiere at SXSW on Sunday. A lonely gravedigger who...
ASH Trailer: The New Sci-Fi Horror From Director Flying Lotus
A woman wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. Her investigation into what happened sets in motion a terrifying chain of events.
Berlinale 2025: Exclusive HYSTERIA Poster Premiere
Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay's 'Hysteria' is a gripping exploration of chaos, identity, and power, set against the backdrop of a film set unraveling in the aftermath of a provocative and divisive act.
Berlinale 2025: Exclusive HOW TO BE NORMAL AND THE ODDNESS OF THE OTHER WORLD Poster Premiere
Florian Pochlatko's debut feature is a genre-defying take on mental health, identity, and the disorienting realities of young adulthood, set to premiere in the new Perspectives competition at Berlinale.
Rotterdam 2025: Exclusive PERLA Poster Premiere
Alexandra Makarová's Perla, a drama exploring personal and political struggles in 1980s Europe, will debut at the 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam.
SXSW 2025 Announces Film & TV Festival Slate, Led By THE STUDIO
"You're gonna need a bigger boat." Roy Scheider's quiet words when he first sees the shark in Steven Spielberg's Jaws came back to me when I opened my email and saw the film and television slate announced by SXSW for...
Dutch Film Festival 2024 Overview: The Dutch Investigating Themselves In The Movies
The world is undergoing monumental changes in these decades. This can sometimes be unsettling and applies to practically every country. From Mongolia to Canada and from Chile to the Netherlands. Digital technology, media and artificial intelligence, quantum, the enormous increase...
Morbido 2024 Review: DEUS IRAE, Argentine Exorcism Horror Challenges With Structure And Content
Father Javier is a man with a mission, and an addiction. His mission is to visit families with family members who are under some kind of spell. Javier does not believe that these incidents are nothing more than psychological or...
Morbido 2024 Review: A FISHERMAN'S TALE, Social Perils And The Mythical Creature Who Made it Worse
Edgar Nito’s rural legend horror flick, A Fisherman’s Tale, opens at dusk with a shot of La Miringua. Her back is turned to us and we’re looking at her from a distance, peering at her through branches of a tree....
Morbido 2024 Review: PORTRAITS OF THE APOCALYPSE, Human Reactions in a Time of Crisis in Argentine Zombie Horror Anthology
A cop investigates a crime scene on the cusp of a zombie outbreak. Arguing with herself, she tries to cover up a mistake not knowing that something worse is about to happen. After a night out with the boys...
