Festivals Videos
Rotterdam 2026 Review: I SWEAR Is The Ultimate Crowd Favorite
This year's winner of the Audience Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam is I Swear, Kirk Jones' biopic about John Davidson. To say it is a crowdpleaser is an understatement: from hundreds of votes, the film got a mean...
Available Light 2026 Review: BEYOND THE LEFT HAND PATH, Or, A Temple of Set Guide in How to Live a Full Life
James C. Kirby was an intense man. He lived not one life, but several: A priest of the Temple of Set, a hotel chef, a social worker for traumatized men, a craft jeweller, and the former owner of Canada’s...
Rotterdam 2026 Review: FISH, FISTS AND AMBERGRIS Hits All Of Its Targets
The International Film Festival Rotterdam doesn't just do the no-budget debuts of beginning directors, it also allows glimpses of what is hot in other countries. This is the festival where we got introduced to the Korean classics of the past...
Rotterdam 2026 Review: BAZAAR (MURDER IN THE BUILDING), Funny Hitchcockian Shenanigans
Time flies when you're having fun, and that saying applies to the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Last Saturday there was the screening of the closing film already, the world première of Rémi Bezançon's Le Crime du 3e Étage, to be...
Sundance 2026 Review: EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET, Collective Presence Stalls the System
Director Felipe Bustos Sierra documents a spontaneous act of civic resistance in Glasgow, examining how collective presence can momentarily disrupt the mechanisms of state authority.
Sundance 2026 Review: BIRDS OF WAR, War Reporting and Love Collide
Directors Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak are also the film's protagonists, following a 13-year collaboration that unfolds from professional exchange into personal involvement amid the realities of reporting on the Syrian war.
Sundance 2026 Review: SOFT BOIL, Anxiety and Cringe Collide in an Acid Quarter-Life Crisis Rom-Com
In the pilot of Soft Boil, director Alec Goldberg and lead actress and co-writer Camille Wormser sketch a tightly observed portrait of early adulthood that channels contemporary American indie comedy through anxiety, volatility, and low-stakes personal collapse.
TONY ODYSSEY Teaser Exclusive: Surreal Brazilian Trip to Premiere at Slamdance
Thales Banzai's feature-length debut, TONY ODYSSEY, is an ode to the "more provocative Brazilian films of the '60s and '70s". Its world premiere is happening at Slamdance, and we have an exclusive look at the trailer.
Sundance 2026 Review: THE MOMENT, Surface-Deep Charlie XCX Mockumentary
Charli XCX’s meteoric rise as a mega-pop-star has been anything but meteoric. It’s been a slow, upward descent, from posting videos on a long-defunct social-media platform, MySpace, in 2008 at the age of sixteen, to signing with a record...
SXSW 2026: Another Programming Wave Brings More Than 50 Additions
"Five ballerinas, stranded in a remote forest ... must weaponize!" If that partial quote, borrowed from a film below, doesn't get you excited for SXSW 2026, I don't know what will, my friends. We've already covered the opening night film...
Rotterdam 2026 Review: TALKING TO A STRANGER Shows A Grief, Scarier Than Ghosts
We have been fans of director Adrián García Bogliano ever since his films Cold Sweat (reviewed here) and Here Comes the Devil (reviewed here), so we consider it good news when a new film by him comes out. Yesterday, the...
Rotterdam 2026 Review: THE NIGHT Holds Horrors And Wonders
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has started its 2026 edition. And even though the festival slants towards arthouse as always, there are plenty of genre films to enjoy as well. Case in point: Paul Urkijo Alijo's Gaua a.k.a. The Night,...
BOWELS OF HELL: Blue Finch Films Boards Sales On Rotterdam Selected Horror-Comedy
Ah, toilet humor. It exists both as a description of a type of humor, and currently it has served as a setting and location for a growing crop of movies within the horror genre (Scared Shitless, Holy Shit!, and Flush). ...
PSYCHONAUT Trailer: Fizz-e-Motion Boards Sci-fi Thriller For Sales at Berlinale/EFM
Fizz-e-Motion has come on board as the sales agent for science-fiction thriller Psychonaut, starring Fiona Dourif (Chucky, "The Pitt").
SICKO Official Trailer: Kazakh Thriller Heads to IFFR With a Sales Agent
A cash-strapped couple hatch a plan to solve their money troubles, but soon become embroiled in a toxic web of social media, violent criminality, and spiralling greed.
SXSW 2026: First Wave Led By MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES, OVER YOUR DEAD BODY, THEY WILL KILL YOU
Seven days with 58 feature films -- so far! March is gonna be busy.
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.
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.
