Indie Features
San Francisco's Original Movie Palace, The Castro Theatre, Reopens With Harry Melling's PILLION
The second movie palace to bear the name, the Castro Theatre in San Francisco opened more than a century ago (1922). Originally serving the working-class inhabitants of the area, the Art Deco-inspired Castro Theatre ran new and old theatrical...
Now Streaming: HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM BELFAST, MILLION-FOLLOWER DETECTIVE, More Netflix Murders
Plus: 'Honey Bunch' arrives on Shudder.
Now Playing: BY DESIGN, CRIME 101, GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN DON'T DIE
Also in theaters: 'Wuthering Heights,' 'Cold Storage,' 'The Mortuary Assistant.' Plus, on VOD: 'Broken Bird' and 'Sweetness.'
Opening This Week: Indies Dominate, While Luck and Fun Battle Love
'Crime 101,' 'Sweetness,' 'Broken Bird,' 'Cold Storage,' 'By Design,' and 'The Mortuary Assistant' compete with two wide releases.
Now Playing: THE INFINITE HUSK, PILLION, JIMPA, More
Plus: Luc Besson's 'Dracula' and Renny Harlin's 'The Strangers: Chapter 3.'
Opening This Week: Luc Besson's DRACULA, Renny Harlin's THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 3
Plus: Aaron Silverstein's 'The Infinite Husk,' Alexander Skarsgard in 'Pillion,' Olivia Colman and John Lithgow in 'Jimpa.'
Sundance 2026 Wrap: We Came, We Saw, We Reviewed
Updated as of February 13, 2026. As our own Ryland Aldrich noted in his wonderful essay, Ryland's Musings From Two Decades of Sundance, the Sundance Film Festival celebrated its final edition in Park City, Utah, with a bang -- and...
Now Playing: SEND HELP, ARCO, SHELTER, BACK TO THE PAST
Plus: 'July Rhapsody,' 'The Love That Remains,' 'Islands,' 'Bitter Rice,' 'The Moment,' 'A Poet.'
Playback: Sam Raimi, Seesaw Inclinations, from THE EVIL DEAD to SEND HELP
We track the director's entire career, starting in horror and quickly embracing all other genres.
Opening This Week: Sam Raimi's SEND HELP, Ann Hui's JULY RHAPSODY, Much More
Plus: 'The Love That Remains,' 'Islands,' 'Shelter,' 'Bitter Rice,' 'The Moment,' 'Arco,' 'Back to the Past,' 'A Poet.'
Now Playing: DOOBA DOOBA, THE WELL, HARD BOILED
Let's start with spoilers: two new, wide-release genre films proved to be disappointments, as the reviews linked below reveal. Bummer! So, let's first focus on two new releases of festival films that we truly enjoyed, as well as a Hong...
Opening This Week: MERCY, RETURN TO SILENT HILL, DOOBA DOOBA, IN COLD LIGHT, THE WELL
Plus: John Woo's classic 'Hard Boiled,' in special limited engagements.
Now Playing: 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE Rules in Blood
Plus: 'Night Patrol,' 'Space/Time,' 'Killer Whale,' 'All You Need Is Kill,' 'A Private Life,' 'Sound of Falling,' 'Maldoror.'
Opening This Week: 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE, NIGHT PATROL, SPACE/TIME, KILLER WHALE
Plus: 'All You Need Is Kill,' 'A Useful Ghost,' 'A Private Life,' 'Sound of Falling,' 'Maldoror.'
Now Playing: OBEX Delights, ALL THAT'S LEFT OF YOU Makes Choices
Also opening: 'Primate,' 'Greenland 2: Migration,' and 'Young Mothers' from the Dardennes Brothers.
Friday One Sheet: REMNANTS
This is the third time we have featured design house The Robot Eye in this column. Here, for Michael Catenacci's 23-minute short film around ranchers and environmental devastation, Remnants, we have the incongruent image of the noble cowboy in the foggy...
European Film Awards 2026 Preview: SIRĀT Holds the Strongest Position in This Year's Race
This year's European Film Awards field crystallises around a European cinema defined by emotional precision and formal confidence.
Opening This Week: PRIMATE Monkey Terror, OBEX Lo-Fi Charms, GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION Gerard Butler Action
Plus: 'All That's Left Is You.'
FYC 2025: Daddy Issues in HAMNET, TRAIN DREAMS, JAY KELLY
For your consideration: Of absent fathers, grief, shame, and forgiveness in three notable films.
Now Streaming Weekly Roundup: MADE IN KOREA Thrills, STRANGE HARVEST Intrigues
Plus: 'The Life of Chuck' and 'Cover Up.'
