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...
BORDERLANDS Review: Even Cate Blanchett Can't Save Eli Roth's Risible Video Game Adaptation
An intergalactic bounty hunter on a mission to rescue a preteen explosives specialist faces off with an arms dealer’s army on a hostile desert planet in Eli Roth’s abysmal video game adaptation, Borderlands. With over one billion dollars in sales...
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Fantasia 2024 Review: THE DEAD THING, Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
It's tough out there for a single gal. Alex (Blu Hunt) is a woman caught in the throes of malaise, accompanied by a desperate wish to find something worth caring about. Her daily grind is uninspiring, her home life with...
Fantasia 2024: BLACK EYED SUSAN Red Band Trailer, Scooter McCrae Returns After 25 Years
CW: Domestic abuse, realistic violence Exploitation icon Scooter McCrae is back behind the camera with Black Eyed Susan, his first feature film since 1999's Sixteen Tongues. After having directed a few shorts and doing a bit of acting in the...
Fantasia 2024 Review: BRUSH OF THE GOD, A Charming Elegiac Ode To Kaiju Films Of The Past
A teenage girl and her geeky friend must use a magic paintbrush to save the world from killer kaiju in eighty-eight-year-old Murase Keizô’s debut feature, Brush of the God. Akari’s (Suzuki Rio) grandfather has just passed away and she doesn’t...
Fantasia 2024 Review: RATS! A Blast Of Hilarious Punk Energy From Small Town Texas
Raphael (Luke Wilcox) is a a typical 2007 teenage dirtbag who gets wrangles into working as an informant for a local lunatic cop in directors Carl Fry and Maxwell Nalevansky’s uproariously funny cringe comedy, Rats! When Rafi is picked up for...
