Indie Features
Now Playing: THE BRIDE Provokes, DOLLY Drags, HEEL Clicks, HOPPERS Delights
Plus: 'Andre Is an Idiot' and 'I Live Here Now.'
Friday One Sheet: PHENOMENA
"A psychedelic odyssey into the fabric of the universe." The poster for Josef Gatti's visual science documentary, Phenomena (not to be confused with the Dario Argento's insect telekinesis movie) is busy and strange. Just like the universe, which if you expand your...
Opening This Week: THE BRIDE! Goes Bold, DOLLY Fights Back, HEEL Rebels
Plus: 'Andre Is an Idiot' and 'Hoppers.'
Now Playing: SCREAM 7 Not So Scary, GHOST ELEPHANTS Not a Myth
Plus: 'Dreams,' 'Micro Budget,' 'Bring the Law,' 'The Napa Boys,' 'EPiC,' 'A Better Tomorrow.'
Opening This Week: SCREAM 7, DREAMS, A BETTER TOMORROW
Plus: 'Ghost Elephants,' 'Microbudget,' 'Bring the Law,' 'The Napa Boys,' 'EPic.'
Now Playing: BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS and Some Other Movies
Spoiler: 'Psycho Killer' is quite awful, and 'How to Make a Killing' is not much better. Plus: 'This Is Not a Test,' 'Redux Redux,' 'The Dreadful' and two 'One Mile' films.
Opening This Week: PSYCHO KILLER vs. HOW TO MAKE A KILLING
Plus: 'This Is Not a Test,' 'Redux Redux,' 'The Dreadful,' 'One Mile' (both chapters), 'Kokuho.'
Sundance 2026 Wrap: We Came, We Saw, We Reviewed
Updated as of February 16, 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...
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.'
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.'
