International: Europe
New York 2024 Review: WHO BY FIRE (COMME LE FEU), Bad Times at the Cabin in the Woods
Does anything good ever come out of vacationing in the woods? In genre cinema, going away for a weekend to a remote location is a recipe for all kinds of unpleasantness to happen. In festival dramas – eh, it usually...
STOCKHOLM BLOODBATH: Action-Adventure Comedy in Theaters and On Demand on November 8th
A ruthless political struggle between Sweden and Denmark turns bloody under the tyranny of the mad King Christian II. Caught up in this deadly war, two sisters seek revenge on the men who brutally murdered their family. This looks like...
New York 2024 Review: TRANSAMAZONIA, Uneven But Poignant Coming-of-Age Story
A plane crashes in the Amazon jungle leaving a sole survivor, a five-year-old child named Rebecca, who is then saved just in time by an Indigenous Iruaté man. Nine years pass, and Rebecca (Helena Zengel) is now widely known as...
BEYOND THE WASTELAND Trailer Exclusive: Sci-fi Horror Thriller on Digital November 5th
The world has been ravaged by a pandemic. Alone and outside the safety of the forest, Marko faces a shattered world shrouded in silence and danger.
Montreal Nouveau 2024 Review: THE HUMAN HIBERNATION, Under a Cow's Eye
Like many Canadians (and others who live in a colder climate), I often dream - at least fleetingly - about hibernating for the winter, like our bear brethren. Sleeping away those colder months, and reawakening with the earth as it...
Lausanne 2024 Preview: CALIGULA, FLESH GORDON and Other Subversions
The Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (LUFF) returns for its 23rd edition, presenting a program that blends experimental cinema and innovative music performances, continuing its tradition of showcasing avant-garde and subversive works that challenge conventional boundaries.
BeyondFest 2024 Review: SHADOWLAND, Compelling, Infuriating, And Sobering
In 2021 Finnish filmmaker and documentarian Otso Tiainen, together with their co-writer Kalle Kinnunen, set out to Montségur, France, a commune nestled in the French Pyreneese mountains and a homestead for practitioners of the occult. Initially filming started out as...
New York 2024 Review: THE DAMNED (IL DANNATI), Neorealist Anti-Western About the Senselessness of War
Roberto Minervini’s new film, which premiered earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival, is the second feature in this festival round to be titled The Damned. Another movie with the same English-language title, directed by Thordur Palsson and featured...
New York 2024 Review: LITTLE, BIG, AND FAR Conjures Up Celestial Music
Jem Cohen makes a gentle inquiry to human connections while presenting it within the bigger picture; in this case, the universe.
BeyondFest 2024 Review: ABOVE THE KNEE Attempts a Different Take on The Domestic Thriller
Amir has a dark secret that he’s keeping from everyone close to him. He wants to get rid of one of his legs. The left one specifically. Amir has body dysmorphic disorder, a disorder that leaves him convinced that one...
PSYCHONAUT Has a Poster, A Trailer, And A World Première At The Brooklyn Horror Festival
Seven years ago, Dutch filmmaker Thijs Meuwese co-directed the science fiction film Molly, a film overflowing with ingenuity, a no-budget post-apocalyptic superhero epic. You can read my review here... That film had an incredibly impressive finale, and it marked its...
TERRIFIER 3 Banned to Minors Under 18 in France
If you're under the age of 18 in France and you were itching to see Terrifier 3 in the cinemateques, looks like you're shit outta luck. The Classification Committee over in France has recommended a ban on the film...
New York 2024 Review: APRIL, A Strange Manifestation
Dea Kulumbegashvili's second feature is a challenging, feminist work, to say the least.
Friday One Sheet: ENTELEQUIAS
With a tagline of "Imagination is not always perfect," Darío Autrán's Entelequias, if judged by its desaturated, asymmetrical, vertically distorted key art, looks to be playing in the narrow liminal space between Solaris and eXistenZ. This poster eschews a standard credit...
New York 2024 Review: THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG, Striking Tale of Violence and Moral Compromises
Iman (Misagh Zare) has just gotten the much-desired promotion, but asks his family to keep quiet about his new job: he is now an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. So, while the very real protests against the...
DAAAAAAL! Review: Dancing Between the Real and the Imagined
Quentin Dupieux directed. Anaïs Demoustier, Edouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Gilles Lellouche, Pio Marmaï, Didier Flamand, and Romain Duris star.
MADS Trailer Debut: French Single Take Outbreak Horror Coming to Shudder Soon
Eighteen year old Romain has just graduated and makes a stop at his dealer’s place to try a new pill. As he heads off to a party, he sees an injured woman on the side of the road and decides...
New York 2024 Review: AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE, A Cock and Bull Story
Albert Serra's aim is capturing the purity.
THE WAIT (La Espera) Exclusive Clip: Their First Kill
Deep in the Andalusian countryside, Eladio has been hired to watch over the hunting grounds of Don Francisco’s estate, somewhere in rural Spain. The estate is divided into ten hunting stands, spaced far enough apart to avoid incidents. After three...
New York 2024 Review: SCENARIOS, Adieu Cinema, Adieu Godard
End of Godard, End of Cinema
