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NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR Retains the Power to Chill Your Bones and Haunt Your Dreams
For a great many aspiring cinephiles, F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horror served as their entry point into both Silent Cinema and also German Expressionism. Perhaps because of the film's subject matter, rooted firmly in the horror genre, Murnau's...
ENDLESS SUMMER SYNDROME Interview: Kaveh Daneshmand, Gem Deger, and Sophie Colon Talk Creative Collaboration, Cinephilic Filmmaking, and National Morality
The team behind France's freshest incest drama discuss lockdown creativity, national morality, and embarking on a uniquely familial project without bumpers.
TWO CUCKOLDS GO SWIMMING, UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, and More at the Inaugural Edition of Montreal Critics Week
A new film festival is always cause for celebration, and in winter in Montreal, I and other cinephiles looking for a reason to get out of the house. It's long overdue that this city have a critics week, and we're...
Friday One Sheet: EYES WIDE SHUT @ 25
As is tradition for this column, the penultimate entry before the year's end is an alternate poster for Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut. I like this one for its simplicity of execution. Take a postcard for the famous...
VERMIGLIO Review: Spellbinding WWII Rural Family Saga
Directed by Maura Delpero, Italy's Academy Awards-shortlisted International Feature is restrained, yet intricate.
DFW Film Critics Choose ANORA as Best Film of 2024
Somehow, I remain a proud member of the Dallas-Forth Worth Film Critics Association here in Texas, and so I am pleased to pass along the news that our group has voted the comedy-drama Anora as the best film of 2024,...
Shudder in January: GET AWAY, GRAFTED, DARK MATCH And RED ROOMS Kick Off 2025
Alright, I'm sort of back in the news delivering saddle after a busy few weeks preparing my clients for the worst that Old Man Winter can deliver. With that out of the way I can now look forward to the...
EMILIA PÉREZ Review: A Pop Crime Musical Fantasia, Dominated by Women
French veteran helmer Jacques Audiard blends crime, telenovela, and musical into a genre-twisting fable about transformation led by Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, and Selena Gomez.
THE MARTIAL ARTIST: Shaz Khan's Directorial Debut, a Dramatic Action Film From Pakistan, Arrives Next Month
An MMA fighter destined for greatness must face his biggest rival yet: himself.
Criterion in March 2025: GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE, NIGHT MOVES, THIEF and More
Some months, it's very hard to choose which new delectable upcoming Criterion release to highlight, and March 2025 is just such a month. I must say: the king of monsters wins. Directed by Kazuki Omori, Godzilla Vs. Biollante (1989) kicked...
ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS VOL. 2 Interview: Kier-La Janisse Talks New Blu-ray Box Set
Any opportunity to talk to Kier-La Janisse makes me happy. The chance to help celebrate a new project of hers is a cause for celebration. I hereby nominate for Blu-ray box set of the year All the Haunts Be Ours...
8 1/2 Blu-ray Review: Return to a Work of Grand Wonder
That should probably read: one of Federico Fellini's masterpieces. The fact that he followed La Dolce Vita merely a year later with 8 1/2 puts the Italian auteur in a rarefied group of filmmakers who have pulled off a one-two...
INTO THE DEEP: Trailer And Poster Exclusive For Shark Action Flick
Okay, we have your first look at the bitey action movie, Into The Deep. We have the poster (which lifts its tagline from you should know where) and the first trailer, which you can watch down below. Modern day...
STALKER Exclusive: Check Out The Unrated Teaser For French Horror Short
We have got another exclusive from the David Cholewa camp to share with you this morning. Today, we have an unrated, second teaser trailer of their horror short film, Stalker. After a vicious assault at a party, a young...
Friday One Sheet: 28 YEARS LATER
As the long awaited third chapter in Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later franchise gears up its marketing machine (the superb teaser trailer dropped earlier this week), it is worth looking back at over 20 years since the birth of the...
EASTERN CONDORS Blu-ray Review: A Love Letter to Sammo Hung
Criterion's new 2K release serves as a delightful intro course to the stunt filmmaker's career.
THE HOLIDAY CLUB Interview: Alexandra Swarens Talks Seasonal Sapphic Storytelling, Respecting Romance, and Getting Her Hands Dirty
The queen of seasonal lesbian love discusses romantic cinema, screen chemistry, and hilarious, accidental euphemisms.
SEPTEMBER 5 Review: Narrow Focus Hobbles True-Life Suspense-Thriller
Peter Sarsgard and John Magaro lead the ensemble cast in a tense recreation of the terrorist attack during the Olympics in 1972, directed by Tim Fehlbaum.
Imagine 2024 Review: MI BESTIA
It's almost funny how well puberty and horror mix, especially for women. It's not just bodies and moods that change with hormones, but also the behavior of everyone else. Some see an innocent cherub changing into a possible sexual conquest,...
BLACK DOVES Review: Killers Like Us
Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw star in a Netflix spy thriller with similarities to Peacock's 'The Day of the Jackal' and Paramount Plus' 'Lioness.'
