Now Streaming: THE MANDALORIAN Kicks Off Another Disney STAR WARS Era
Pedro Pascal allegedly stars in Jon Favreau's new series; Dave Filoni directed the first episode.
Review: CHARLIE'S ANGELS, Refashioning What Action Means
Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska star in the action-adventure, directed by Elizabeth Banks.
Review: WHITE SNAKE Slithers Splendidly Between Myth and Legend
Amp Wong and Ji Zhao directed the Chinese animated adventure.
70s Rewind: SCOOB! and FANTASY ISLAND Trailers Threaten to Twist Nostalgia
This is not for you. Growing up in the 1970s, I watched the animated cartoon series Scooby-Doo at times, but even as a youngster, I felt I was too old for its juvenile antics. A few years later, I watched...
KNIVES AND SKIN: New Trailer Cuts to the Moody Bone
A teenager disappears and no one knows what happened, except that it must be a living nightmare. Jennifer Reeder's moody noir Knives and Skin might draw comparisons to other modern noirs, such as Blue Velvet or Brick, but it walks...
Now in Theaters: BETTER DAYS Ahead, Maybe, Even For Murder Suspects
Jackson Yee and Zhou Dongyu star in the dramatic love story / thriller. Derek Kwok-Cheung Tsang directed.
New AUTOMATION Trailer Suggests Machines Are Definitely Not Your Friends
"He's firing a laser! We don't need that for shipping and receiving!" A new trailer for Garo Setian's sci-fi thriller/comedy Automation begins on a familiar, if unhappy note, as a slick new robot arrives at a giant warehouse. The robot...
THE INVISIBLE MAN Gets Scary in First Trailer
Just because no one else can see your ex-boyfriend doesn't mean he's not there. Especially when he abused you horribly, causing you to flee for your life, and to keep running, even after he reportedly killed himself. This is the...
Exclusive Trailer Premiere: SKIN WALKER, Chilling Terror
What evil lurks in the heart of Europe? Recently emerging from the post-production process, Skin Walker is a psychological horror film from Luxembourg/Belgium that explores a very particular mystery. It's haunted a woman named Regine from her childhood onward. When...
Irish Sci-Fi Horror SEA FEVER Lands U.S. Theatrical Release
Our own Jaime Grijalba Gomez found that director Neasa Hardiman's feature debut, Sea Fever, "immediately puts us in a hostile place, at least psychologically." (Read his recent review here from the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival.) Now the rest of us...
Gorgeous, Psychedelic COLOR OUT OF SPACE Trailer: Everything Is Not Going To Be OK
I hate to disagree with Nicolas Cage, but everything is not going to be OK in Color Out of Space. Billed as the return of visionary director Richard Stanley -- though he never left filmmaking, he has been absent from...
International Thrillers ROJO and MIDDAY DEMONS Invading Digital
If you are living in despair, thinking that all the cinematic thrills for the year were swallowed up by the usual October glut of genre goodness, here, perhaps, is hope. Freshly available on digital, Rojo received good notices out of...
Exclusive RE:BORN Clip: Knife Fight in a Phone Booth
I think it was Jean-Luc Godard who said that all you need to make a movie is a girl, a guy, and a knife. In a phone booth.
Review: FRANKIE, Gentle Yet Piercing Drama
Isabelle Huppert leads the ensemble cast. Ira Sachs directed.
Norwegian Detective Show WISTING Heads to Sundance Now
What is it about Nordic crime shows that fascinates American viewers? Set in Norway, crime show Lilyhammer was the first series to be made available to binge on Netflix. The Killing was a hit in its original version, leading to...
Review: DANGER CLOSE, Australians Wage War in Vietnam
Travis Fimmel, Luke Bracey and Richard Roxborough star; Kriv Stenders directed.
Night Visions 2019: PARASITE, FIRST LOVE, KNIVES OUT Lead Finnish Fest Lineup
The northern climes of Finland warm up considerably this time of year, at least if you're visiting Helsinki and attending the Night Visions International Film Festival.
A BLUEBIRD IN MY HEART Trailer: Bruising Noir Seeks Redemption
Among the many reasons that I enjoy Shudder, the streaming service, is that they have expanded well beyond horror titles and feature a great variety of genre films. And here's an excellent example. From all appearances, A Bluebird in My...
Now Streaming: REVENGE OF THE PONTIANAK, Darkness Descends in Malaysia
Nur Fazura, Remy Ishak, Hisyam Hamid and Shenty Feliziana star in the horror thriller; Glen Goei and Gavin Yap directed.
Exclusive Key Art: Intense Thriller MINE 9 Heads to Blu-ray, DVD, VOD
"God will not protect us in Hell." Inspired by real-life events, Mine 9 "follows nine Appalachian coal miners trapped two miles underground after a methane explosion," per the official description. "With only an hour's supply of oxygen, the race is...
