Indie Features
Opening This Week: Ben Wheatley's NORMAL, David Lowery's MOTHER MARY, and LEE CRONIN'S THE MUMMY Lead the Genre Pack
Plus: 'Erupjca,' 'Ballistic,' 'Mile End Kicks,' 'Amrun,' 'Mad Bills to Pay,' and more.
Now Playing: FACES OF DEATH, EXIT 8, CHAO, and More
Also: 'The Christophers,' ''The Travel Companion,' 'Mermaid,' 'Hamlet,' 'The Yeti,' 'Infiltrate.'
Director in Focus: Steven Soderbergh's Silky Smooth Charms, From BUBBLE to THE CHRISTOPHERS
The director continues to assert his stylish independence with deceptively mainstream films and television series.
Opening This Week: FACES OF DEATH Goes Digital, THE CHRISTOPHERS Confronts Art, CHAO Gets Romantic
Plus: 'Mermaid,' 'Hamlet,' 'The Yeti,' 'Infiltrate.'
Friday One Sheet: BACKROOMS
One of a pair of character posters for Kane Parson's upcoming, creepy-pasta meets liminal terror horror film, Backrooms, that places Academy Award-nominated actors into some unorthodox and tight framing. The original poster for the big-screen blow up of the YouTube...
Now Playing: THEY WILL KILL YOU, YES, A MAGNIFICENT LIFE
Our guide to genre fare opening this week in movie theaters includes a straight ahead horror thriller, a comic horror movie, a different type of thriller, and four strong indies. Read on for more information about each film. They Will...
Now Streaming: DETECTIVE HOLE Nordic Noir, SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN Slow Horror, THE RED LINE Scams
Plus: 'The Mortuary Assistant,' 'Pretty Lethal,' and much more.
Opening This Week: THEY WILL KILL YOU Threatens, FORBIDDEN FRUITS Beckons, OUR HERO, BALTHAZAR Promises
Plus: 'Yes,' 'A Magnificent Life,' 'John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office,' 'Kontinental '25,' 'The A.I. Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist.'
SXSW 2026 Wrap: All Our Reviews
The 33rd edition of the SXSW Film and Television Festival announced their Audience Award winners, led by Jorma Taccone's Over Your Dead Body in the Headliner section, Robb Boardman's Plantman & Blondie: A Dress Up Gang Film in the Narrative...
Now Playing: READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME, PROJECT HAIL MARY, More Genre Movies
Plus: 'Do Not Enter,' 'Miroirs No. 3,' 'Tow,' 'Two Prosecutors,' 'Late Shift,' and more.
SXSW 2026 Doc Roundup: CEREMONY, FIRST THEY CAME FOR MY COLLEGE, ONE ANOTHER, YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE
From Canada to Florida, from friendship to data points, four highly-charged documentaries made a mark at SXSW.
Now Playing: SLANTED Disrupts, UNDERTONE Unnerves, THE GATES Do Not Open
Plus: 'Bodycam' and 'The Ugly.'
Friday One Sheet: OBSESSION
We posted the trailer and poster for Curry Barker's darkly whimsical horror comedy, Obsession, earlier this week. However, the key art, from design house grandson, bears a bit more discussion in today's column. Sometimes, simply an iconic still from the...
SXSW 2026 Curtain Raiser: 21 Films To Get Excited About At This Year's Festival
Spring has nearly sprung, and in the film world that means that SXSW Film & TV Festival is finally upon us! 2026 marks the festival's 40th edition, and we've got a bumper crop of films to choose from. Screen Anarchy...
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.
