Indie Reviews
Fantaspoa 2026 Review: REMANENTE: VOLTAGEM Delivers Scrappy, Lo-Fi Cosmic Horror
Two paramedics stumble upon treasure in an old basement. They accidentally open a dimensional portal, unleashing a cosmic horror-a creature determined to reclaim its gold at any cost.
ONE SPOON OF CHOCOLATE Review: A Knight of Righteous Vengeance. Eventually.
The RZA's new film stars Shameik Moore.
ODYSSEY Review: Rare Thriller That Never Gives Away More Than It Can Afford
Natasha Flynn (Polly Maberly) is a hustler. She runs an estate agency, selling and leasing properties all over London. Working from a flashy office with a cadre of hungry employees, on the verge of a profitable merger with a bigger...
BUFFET INFINITY Review: They've Got The Sauce
Simon Glassman’s Buffet Infinity is one of those movies that defies categorization and can’t be easily pigeonholed. Technically, it’s a found-footage movie; but it’s also, in a way, a screenlife movie. But then again, it’s gloriously retro and ignores...
OMAHA Review: Grounded, Intimate, Ominous Family Drama
John Magaro, Molly Belle Wright, and Wyatt Solis star in director Cole Webley's coming-of-age drama.
MOTHER MARY Review: Neither Ghost Story Nor Love Story, Nor Much Else
Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel star in David Lowery's psychological thriller.
Calgary Underground 2026 Review: BAGWORM, Visually Excoriates Modern Masculine Isolation
A man should have his house in order. Carroll’s house is most definitely not in order. He appears to be living in a burned out shell of a structure with the roof about to fall down on him. Seeing...
Calgary Underground 2026 Review: HANGASHORE, An Oblique Foggy Nightmare
When sailors or fishermen head out to sea, they do not wish to hear their family say goodbye out of a fear of not coming home. There is no whistling at sea, for fear of conjuring up a storm. Having...
Calgary Underground 2026 Review: LITTLE DOORS, A Tentative Dance Around Trust
“Things never got so bleak that I took up a hobby.” This sums up the world of Little Doors. The country is in a kind of ‘soft apocalypse’ where the big city may be on fire, and things are...
THE FORBIDDEN CITY's Wildly Entertaining and Affecting Thrills Come Home on 4K UHD
Well Go USA brings three new genre films to home video.
BALLISTIC Review: Mother Undone by Her Son's Battlefield Death
Lena Headey stars in director Chad Faust's unexpectedly nuanced and consistently engrossing drama.
CITY WIDE FEVER Review: Not Really a Giallo Homage, And That's Ok
Josh Heaps’ City Wide Fever is a real oddity. On the surface, it’s a small DIY thriller that looks shot on the cheap, which already narrows down its appeal. But if you get on its wavelength over the course of its very brief...
ERUPCJA Review: Of Turning Points and Volcanoes
Charli XCX, Lena Góra, Will Madden, and Jeremy O. Harris star in Pete Ohs' effervescent, gracefully-wrought film.
REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE Review: Earnest, If Stagey, Tale of Unwavering Faith
Acts. Questions. Steps. Leaps. All words with which 'of faith' can be easily and appropriately clipped on, and applied especially to Caroline Golum's Revelations of Divine Love, a micro-budget marvel of faith-based cinema that dramatises (and implicitly modernises) the writings...
Overlook 2026 Review: TRAUMA, OR MONSTERS ALL Brings A Thirty Year Project Full Circle
It's been a little over thirty years since indie horror godfather Larry Fessenden burst into the consciousness of the underground with his sideways vampire epic, Habit. In the decades since then, he and his Glass Eye Pix production house have...
INFILTRATE Review: Generic Actioner Elevated by Superior Stunt Work
James Mark directed the action thriller, starring Orphée Ladouceur-Nguyen, Tim Rozon, Mitra Suri, Alain Moussi, and Lisa Berry.
THE CHRISTOPHERS Review: Art Forgery Comedy-Drama Excels On Every Level
Steven Soderbergh's film stars Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel, with James Corden, Jessica Gunning.
BUNNYLOVR Review: Opaque Character Study of a Cam-Girl
Katarina Zhu stars in and directs a striking drama, co-starring Austin Amelio, Perry Yung, and Rachel Sennott.
THE TRAVEL COMPANION Review: Friendship and Filmmaking Commingle in Deadpan, Bittersweet Comedy
Directed by Travis Wood & Alex Mallis, the film stars Tristan Turner, Anthony Oberbeck, and Naomi Asa.
Diagonale 2026 Review: MOTHER'S BABY Masks a Paranoid Thriller Within an Ambiguous Psychological Portrait
Marie Leuenberger and Claes Bang star. Austrian filmmaker Johanna Moder tackles post-partum depression and potential psychosis as a slow-burning paranoid thriller, where maternal anxiety is filtered through an unreliable perspective and edged with traces of dark humour.
