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HOPE: Watch The Teaser Trailer For Na Hong-jin's Sci-fi Creature Feature

Potty-mouthed police officers and hill people try to cope with a mysterious creature that's ripped their home to shreds.

New York Asian 2026: COLONY Set to Open

We respect the Cannes Film Festival, which kicked off earlier this week with Pierre Salvadori's The Electric Kiss. As good (or bad) as that film may be, we must point out that it doesn't have any zombies. Score one for...

TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA: Canadian Premiere to Happen at Fantasia International Film Festival

The event chosen for the Canadian Premiere of Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma has been announced.

San Francisco 2026 Review: EVERY CONTACT LEAVES A TRACE, Poignant, Thoughtful Cine-Essay

The latest project by filmmaker Lynne Sachs (Drift and Bough, The Washing Society, Film About a Father Who) opens with a quote from the French-born father of 20th-century forensic science, Dr. Edmond Locard: “Every contact leaves a trace.”   The...

COLONY (군체): Yeon Sang-ho's New Zombie Thriller Lands Worldwide Distribution Deals

Yeon Sang-ho's new film Colony sees the Korean director return to the zombie genre, after their international smash hit Train to Busan and follow-up Peninsula. It will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this Friday.    Gianna...

Fantaspoa 2026: Brazilian Genre Fest Announces Award Winners And Attendance Numbers

With the end of this year's edition of Fantaspoa comes news of the award winners and attendance numbers.   Throughout nineteen days the festival hosted 24 world premieres, continuing its dominance in Latin America as one of the best places...

PANDA Review: Beautiful Poetry for Marginalised People in Suburban China

Directed by Zhang Xinyang, the film combines the suffering of people with the charm they display while enduring it.

Beyond Fest Chicago Video Interview: Meiko Kaji, The Legendary Lady Snowblood Herself

Beyond Fest’s first year here in Chicago went off without a hitch.     Sold out screenings brought huge crowds and created instant community amongst Music Box Theater regulars, industry professionals and excited out-of-towners. I experienced this first-hand as I...

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...

TRAUMA OR, MONSTERS ALL Exclusive Clip: Kicking a Hornet's Nest

A new film by horror indie auteur Larry Fessenden is always cause for celebration, and for those lucky enough to be attending the Overlook Film Festival, they have the chance to attend the world premiere of his new film Trauma or,...

Diagonale 2026 Review: WHITE SNAIL Subverts Girl-Meets-Boy Into Anti-Romance

Austrian-German filmmakers Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter's fiction debut reworks social drama conventions into a psychologically driven, docu-fiction hybrid centred on an unstable relationship shaped by loneliness, death and an implied autocratic backdrop.

THE INVITE Trailer: Invite The Neighbors Over For Dinner, They Said. It'll be Fun, They Said.

Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?

THE BEARDED GIRL: Watch The Trailer Premiere For Jody Wilson's Drama Fantasy

The story of a bearded girl who is tired of being a freak.

A MAGNIFICENT LIFE Review: It Shows One, Animated

Biopics aren't my favorite kind of film. The things a person has done are often more interesting than the person himself, and it is not often that you need to know the background story of the person, what motivated him....

SXSW 2026 Review: MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES, You Think You Got Problems? Think Again.

Elle Fanning, Nick Offerman, Thaddea Graham, and Michelle Pfeiffer star in the Apple TV series.

EDIE ARNOLD IS A LOSER Official Trailer: Starring Adi Madden Cabrera, McKenna Tuckett, and Cherish Rodriguez - World Premiere at SXSW

Timid dork Edie makes waves when she starts a punk band with her fellow "turds," becoming an icon to the rest of the losers at her Catholic school while pissing off the hot girls, the nuns, and the horniest altar boy you've ever seen.

IMPOSTERS Teaser: Caleb Phillips' Sci-fi Thriller Premieres at SXSW This Weekend

After a couple's baby boy is taken, the desperate mother learns of a way to bring him back. However, her husband begins to suspect that what she returned with isn't their son

Berlinale 2026 Review: TRACES Follows Survivor Networks Documenting Wartime Sexual Violence

Ukrainian filmmaker Alisa Kovalenko, working with co-director Marysia Nikitiuk, examines the documentation of conflict-related sexual violence during Russia's war against Ukraine through the work of survivor and activist Iryna Dovhan.

Berlinale 2026 Review: LUST Constructs a Minimalist Chamber Study of Authority and Desire

Bulgarian director Ralitza Petrova's sophomore feature continues her examination of individuals shaped by institutional structures, shifting the focus toward a more contained study of psychological control and personal disintegration.

Berlinale 2026 Review: Porn and Gen Z Intimacy Clashes in Sweet Coming-of-Age TRULY NAKED

Muriel d'Ansembourg's feature debut Truly Naked examines adolescence and sexual education through the unlikely setting of a small family-run pornography business, framing a Gen Z coming-of-age story around competing ideas of intimacy, masculinity, and agency.