Tag: drama
Fantasia 2024 Review: CARNAGE FOR CHRISTMAS, A Plucky Podcaster Hunts A Serial Killer In Her Hometown
A true crime podcaster heading home for Christmas finds herself in the middle of a murder spree that she has to solve before she becomes the next victim in Alice Maio Mackay’s Carnage for Christmas. Mackay’s latest feature marks her...
Fantasia 2024 Review: GHOST CAT ANZU, Farts in the General Direction of Studio Ghibli
To the sounds of cicadas during a Tokyo summer, 11-year-old Karin and her father Tetsuya leave the city by train to visit a countryside temple where the caretaker is the grandfather she has never met. It is a grand old...
ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS Review: Finding Acceptable Truth
Directed by Wei Shujun, the Chinese murder mystery questions what is considered truth in our complicated modern society.
MotelX 2024: SASQUATCH SUNSET, IN A VIOLENT NATURE And ODDITY Lead First Wave
Our friends at MotelX, the excellent genre film festival in Lisbon, Portugal, have annonced the first wave of titles for this year's festival, coming up this September. Festival standouts Sasquatch Sunset, In A Violent Naure, Oddity, Cuckoo, Humanist Vampire Seeking...
GANYMEDE: LGBTQ Thriller Debuts on VOD in August From VMI Releasing
When a small town wrestling star develops a crush on an openly gay classmate, he begins to be stalked by a grotesque creature that invades his thoughts, all the while struggling to live up to the standard set by his legacy-obsessed dad.
Fantasia 2024 Review: TATSUMI, A Gritty Yakuza Street Drama With A Broken Heart
I am happy that these kinds of gritty, but emotionally tragic crime films are still being made. Hiroshi Shôji’s Tatsumi is one of those skuzzy neighborhood dramas, the kind soaked in poverty, spit, blood, and tears. Where the crime feels...
Karlovy Vary 2024 Review: GRAND TOUR, A Cinematic Travelogue Blending Past and Present
The Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes merges genres, time periods, and cinematic techniques to create a post-modern exploration of cinema's fluid nature, offering a sophisticated and reflective homage to the art form that challenges conventional narrative boundaries.
Karlovy Vary 2024 Review: PARTHENOPE, Fantasy of Womanhood Through Male Gaze
Paolo Sorrentino, the Oscar-winning Italian director, returns with 'Parthenope,' a visually opulent film that serves as both a love letter to Naples and a very male exploration of womanhood through the intertwining lenses of myth and modernity.
LADY IN THE LAKE Review: Out of the Water, Into Your Nightmares
Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram star in Alma Har'el's enthralling adaptation of Laura Lippman's mystery novel, debuting on Apple TV+.
MEANWHILE ON EARTH Trailer: French Sci-fi Drama in Theaters This September
Metrograph Pictures is releasing Jérémy Clapin's sci-fi drama, Meanwhile on Earth, in cinemas on September 13th. A 23 year-old girl is contacted by an unknown life form claiming to be able to bring her older brother safely back to...
Mediterrane 2024 Review: VIET AND NAM, Mesmerizing Slow Drama Explores Personal and National Histories
Vietnamese filmmaker Truong Minh Quy has crafted one of 2024's most intriguing films, using contemplative visuals exploring personal and national histories against the backdrop of a romance of two young queer Vietnamese miners.
THE SUBSTANCE Teaser: Canadian Theatrical Date Announced!
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
CHRONICLES OF A WANDERING SAINT Review: High Concept, Gentle Humor, Constant Surprises
Tomás Gómez Bustillo directed, Monica Villa and Horacio Anibal Marassi star in a magical realist triumph from Argentina.
ANIMALIA Exclusive Clips: Moroccan Sci-fi Thriller Available Now on Digital And On Demand
Watch two exclusive clips from Sofia Alaoui's Sundance award winning sci-fi thriller, Animalia, out now on Digital and On Demand.
EVIL DEAD RISE Director Lee Cronin Prepping New Movie With Atomic Monster, Blumhouse And New Line
Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin has set their new horror flick with Atomic Robot, Blumhouse and New Line.
HANDLING THE UNDEAD Interview: Director Thea Hvistendahl
The dramatic horror film Handling The Undead goes into a wider release this coming Friday. We had the opportunity to speak with the director and co-writer, Norwegian filmmaker Thea Hvistendahl about their debut feature film. We talk about themes...
THE VOURDALAK: Trailer And Poster For Adaptation of 18th Century Vampire Tale
When the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in the remote countryside, he finds refuge at an eerie, isolated manor. The resident family, reluctant to take him in, exhibits strange behavior as...
IN A VIOLENT NATURE Posts Biggest Opening For IFC Films Since LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL
Here's one for the little guys, or, it's the little things that matter the most, or ... ... Deadline has reported this weekend that the Canadian slasher flick, In A Violent Nature, gave IFC Films it's latest, biggest opening...
IN A VIOLENT NATURE: Open This Friday in These Cinemas Across Canada
Here is the confirmed list of cinemas across the country that are showing Chris Nash's terrific slasher flick In A Violent Nature this weekend.
COMA Review: Dealing with Lockdown, An Isolated Fever Dream
Bertrand Bonello wrote and directed; Louise Labeque and Julia Faure star.
