Dances With Films 2024 Review: ITCH! A Low-Budget Horror Banger From Bari Kang
A struggling widower and his daughter become trapped in his convenience store as a mysterious affliction ravages the world outside, but the danger turns out to be closer than he thinks in Bari Kang's debut feature, Itch! Still reeling from...
Y2K Review: A Whole Lot Of Exciting Build-Up With A So-So Follow Through. Sounds Familiar.
It’s New Year’s Eve 1999, and all of our worst millennial nightmares are about to come true in Kyle Mooney’s high energy sci-fi comedy Y2K. Eli (Jaeden Martell, Knives Out) and Danny (Julian Dennison, Hunt for the Wilderpeople) are a...
HEAVIER TRIP Review: Impaled Rektum's Sophomore Odyssey Is Worth The Trip
Impaled Rektum, the world’s foremost symphonic postapocalyptic reindeer-grinding Christ-abusing extreme war pagan Fennoscandian metal band is back with a headbang in Heavier Trip, Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren’s follow up to their 2018 underdog cult classic Heavy Trip. This time...
London Fantastic 2024 Review: THE KILLER GOLDFISH
This last week London International Fantastic Film Festival kicked off its inaugural edition with Tsutsumi Yukihiko genre mashup extravaganza, The Kiler Goldfish. The filmmaker, perhaps best known for his intense tale of neighborly discord 2LDK, has expanded his scope with...
RITA Review: Horrific Dark Fantasy That Inspires and Infuriates
Jayro Bustamante's ('La Llorona') magical-realist thriller is now streaming on Shudder.
HIPPO Review: Uncomfortable Laughs, Ludicrous Characters, and Much More
An unusual family lives an unusual life in Mark H. Rapaport’s Hippo, one of the stranger films that has played at the Fantasia Film Festival. Rapaport drops us into a suburban dystopic home where society’s rules don’t seem to apply,...
HERETIC Review: A Diabolical Hugh Grant Takes Two Mormon Missionaries On A Hell Of A Ride
A pair of Mormon missionary sisters find themselves in a dangerous battle of wills with a charming but sinister spiritual seeker in Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’s religious themed horror puzzle box, Heretic. Sisters Paxton (Chloe East) and Barnes (Sophie...
HAPPINESS 4K Review: Todd Solondz' Confrontational Black Comedy Gets a Gorgeous Upgrade
The Criterion Collection plays hero once again with their recent 4K UHD release of Todd Solondz’s 1998 sophomore feature, Happiness. The film had long languished on a pitiful non-anamorphic window-boxed DVD from Lionsgate and fans have been clamoring for an...
FRANKIE FREAKO Review: Gooey, Chaotic, Freaky Family Film With a Twist
A painfully bland office worker gets his world turned upside down by a trio of tiny cosmic weirdos in Steven Kostanski’s latest gonzo comedy, Frankie Freako. After he hit cult comedy gold with 2021’s Psycho Goreman, Kostanski and his usual...
THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT Review: Engaging and Confusing, In Equal Measure
A pair of siblings on the run after a robbery take refuge in a house with mysterious time-warping qualities, only to find that the law isn’t the only thing they have to fear. Things Will Be Different, the latest from...
Now Streaming: ODDITY. You're in Trouble Now.
Damian McCarthy directed. Carolyn Bracken, Gwilym Lee, and Tadhg Murphy star. Now streaming on Shudder.
AZRAEL Review: No Words Needed. Just Survive.
Samara Weaving stars and E.L. Katz directs the survival horror-thriller. Simon Barrett wrote the original screenplay.
Russ Meyer's VIXEN Trilogy To Find New Life In 4K Restoration From Severin Films
What once seemed like a pipe dream is on track to become a reality as Severin plans to release brand new 4K restorations of three of Meyer's seminal films, 1968's Vixen!, 1975's Supervixens, and the filmmaker's theatrical swan song, 1978's...
BOOGER Review: Teetering on the Edge of Sanity. Meow!
Directed by Mary Dauterman, the eerie and strange movie stars Grace Glowicki.
The Trailer For Vasan Bala's JIGRA Is Here, And It Looks Stunning. In Theaters October 11th
Over the weekend, one of our most anticipated films of the year dropped an absolutely incredible trailer. TIFF Midnight Madness award winner, Vasan Bala (Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota / The Man Who Feels No Pain) returns to the big...
THE FRONT ROOM Review: An Explosive Kathryn Hunter Nearly Saves Frustrating Hagsploitation, But Not Quite
A very pregnant woman battles an overbearing stepmother-in-law in The Front Room, the directorial debut of Sam and Max Eggers. Belinda (Brandy Norwood) is with child and about ready to pop when her husband’s father passes away. At the funeral,...
Toronto 2024 Curtain Raiser: Curating the Weirder Movies of Toronto's Mammoth Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival, now in its 49th year, was called the Festival of Festivals prior to just being shortened down to its four letter acronym, TIFF. The festival still is adhering to its original mandate of...
Fantasia 2024 Review: A SAMURAI IN TIME, A Time Traveling Swordsman Finds New Life As A Samurai TV Extra
Steeped in a combined sense of nostalgic whimsy and melancholy, Yasuda Jun'ichi’s A Samurai in Time serves up a comedic fish-out-of-water tale of an Edo-period warrior magically transplanted to the present day and the challenges he faces as he tries...
Suriya's KANGUVA Drops First Action-Packed Trailer And It's Incredible
One of India's most hotly anticipated action films of 2024 dropped its trailer today and it looks amazing. Kanguva, headlined by Suriya and directed by Siva, has been percolating for over a year with the production team dropping numerous tantalizing...
Fantasia 2024 Review: SHELBY OAKS, A Rock Solid Fright Film From First Time Director Chris Stuckmann
Twelve years ago, YouTuber Riley Brennan went missing. When, after a long dry spell, a seemingly related tragedy lands on the doorstep of her sister Mia, the rescue mission restarts in debutante director Chris Stuckmann’s Shelby Oaks. Chris Stuckmann is...
