NEW WAVE Review: Vietnamese-American Music Ripples Close to Home

Like waves that come crashing on the seashore, except they keep crashing. New Wave The film enjoyed its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival. The film opens Friday, October 4, at DCTV in New York, and October 25 at Laemmle...

EASTERN CONDORS and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN Lead Criterion in December 2024

From Sammo Hung's Far East to the Coen Brothers' West (Texas), plus on 4K: Wim Wenders' 'Paris, Texas' and Fellini's '8 1/2.'

Hawaii 2024 Announces First Wave

Notable as "the only statewide film festival in the U.S. across an archipelago" (?!), the 44th Hawai'I International Film Festival presented by Halekulani (HIFF44), is scheduled for October 2-November 10 in the State of Hawai'i. They are announcing their full...

Popcorn Frights' Wicked Weekend 2024: APARTMENT 7A, IT'S WHAT'S INSIDE, HOUSE OF SPOILS, and More Spooky Delights

We've safely crossed into September! That means it's Halloween season at the movies. To celebrate, Popcorn Frights' Wicked Weekend 2024 will thrill horror-movie lovers with its "annual celebration of all the eerie, weird, wild, and strange things that go bump...

SLOW HORSES S4 Review: Grungy Spies, Dynamic Suspense

Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, and Kristin Scott Thomas star in the spy series; its latest season debuts Wednesday, September 4, exclusively on Apple TV+.

Now Streaming: John Woo's THE KILLER (No, Not That One)

Natalie Emmanuel, Omar Sy, and Sam Worthington star in John Woo's remake (in name only). Now streaming on Peacock TV.

Popcorn Frights 2024: STRANGE DARLING, BIRTHRITE Win Awards From Jury and Audience

The 2024 edition of the Popcorn Frights Film Festival has concluded, but on a closing note, the Audience and Jury award winners have been announced. The 10th annual fest, held in South Florida, broke their records for attendance. As a...

PACHINKO S2 Review: Chained to Memories

Youn Yuh-jung, Kim Min-ha, Jin Ha, and Lee Min-ho star in the series, debuting worldwide on Apple TV+.

Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2024 Preview: The Dark Heart of Cinema Gets Even More Frightening

Ever since it was first staged in 2000, FrightFest has enlivened -- or perhaps I should say endarkened -- central London over the Bank Holiday weekend. Now known as Pigeon Shrine FrightFest, the 2024 edition kicks off tomorrow, Thursday, August...

REAL LIFE 4K Review: Birth of a Comic Legend

Albert Brooks made his directorial debut with a sharp-eyed, witty satire starring Charles Grodin and Frances Lee McCain, now on 4K and Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.

CORALINE Review: Eternally Yours, Dreamy and Sometimes Surreal

Some 15 years ago, Coraline graced our movie screens. Last weekend, it returned in a new, remastered 3D edition, via LAIKA and Fathom Events, and surprise! The animated film made $9.6 million at the box office in the U.S., good...

VERONIKA Review: Troubling Visions, Perverse Murders, Cold Cases

Alexandra Rapaport and Tobias Santelmann star in the psychological thriller series from Sweden, making its U.S. premiere on Viaplay.

GODZILLA (GOJIRA), SEVEN SAMURAI, THE SHAPE OF WATER, PAPER MOON, Original SCARFACE, All in 4K: Criterion in November 2024

Look, I'm not advocating selling the farm -- wait, do any of you own a farm?! -- or mortgaging the kids -- please don't do that -- but I am suggesting that if you don't have a 4K player and...

Fantastic Fest 2024: THE RULE OF JENNY PEN, NEVER LET GO, TERRIFIER 3 to Kick Off

Every fall, soon after the Toronto International Film Festival and just before the New York Film Festival and the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantastic de Catalunya, Fantastic Fest arrives to take our blues away with eight days of cinematic...

Fantasia 2024 Wrap: What We Saw, Liked, and Loved

From July 18 through August 4, 2024, the centre of our genre-film loving world moved to Montreal, Canada, where the Fantasia International Film Festival unveiled a broad and diverse selection of films from around the world, as they have done,...

BAD MONKEY Review: Under Balmy Skies, Sly Comedy and Murderous Crimes

Vince Vaughn stars in a role he was born to play, alongside Natalie Martinez, Meredith Hagner, Rob Delaney, John Ortiz, Michele Monaghan, Ronald Peet, L. Scott Caldwell, and Jodie Turner-Smith.

SUCCUBUS Trailer: Hey Single Fathers! Don't Kiss the Screen

R.J. Daniel Hanna's tense thriller stars Brendan Bradley, Rachel Cook, Rosanna Arquette, and Ron Perlman.

Hey UK and Ireland! Go See MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO in Cinemas Now!

Here in the States, we are very much enjoying your raucous Northern Irish film Kneecap, which our own Olga Artemyeva described as "bold, entertaining and boisterous - both as a cinematic piece and as a statement. It is also genuinely...

Popcorn Frights 2024 Kicks Off Thursday: Macabre Delights Abound

Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Popcorn Frights Film Festival kicks off Thursday night with the world premiere of Beezel and the Florida premiere of Strange Darling. The festival will be a hybrid experience, presenting both in-theater and virtual film offerings, running...

THE INSTIGATORS Review: Bungling Criminals in Supposed Comedy

Matt Damon and Casey Affleck star in Doug Liman's knockabout action comedy about a bungled robbery, featuring an all-star supporting cast and a lot of smashed vehicles.