Tag: romance

Now Streaming: MY TWO CENTS, MURDER MINDFULLY, THE FOUR SEASONS Take Aim at Comedy Around the World

Quick thoughts on 3 new series -- animated Italian, and live-action German and U.S. -- all debuting on Netflix.

VAMPIRE CIRCUS and SPELLBINDER Get Slick New 4K Releases from Imprint Films

Some fools call them "lesser" films, but Imprint gives them all the love anyway.

SPEED RACER on 4K UHD Is Your New Favorite Home Video Reference Disc

Plus three new 4K releases from the Criterion Collection.

Now Playing: OBSESSION, IS GOD IS, IN THE GREY

Plus: 'Decorado,' 'LifeHack,' 'Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe,' 'Been Here Stay Here,' 'The Wizard of the Kremlin,' 'Magic Hour.'

MY DEAREST ASSASSIN Review: Blood, Romance, and Heroes

Taweewat Wantha's zesty new action thriller is heroic bloodshed through an abused Thai romantic lens.

LEVITICUS Official Trailer: Adrian Chiarella's Queer Horror Flick in Cinemas This June

Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most - each other.

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.

KINUYO TANAKA DIRECTS Blu-ray Review: A Beguiling 6-Film Career

The Japanese actress' transition behind the camera is explored in a new Eclipse series boxed set from The Criterion Collection.

Criterion in July 2026: CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH, THE CRYING GAME, Mike Mills Trilogy

Plus: 'The Elephant Man,' 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore,' 'Hud,' 'The Love That Remains.'

AMRUM Exclusive Clip: Coming-of-Age at The End of WWII in Nazi Germany

In 1945 Amrum Island, 12-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and farms to help feed his family. Life feels idyllic on this windswept isle until peace reveals an unexpected danger closer to home.

CHAO Review: Joyful and Hilarious Comic Adventure

Director Yasuhiro Aoki's stellar debut feature explodes on the screen with controlled chaos.

GILDA Blu-ray Review: The Atypical Noir Gets a Fresh Restoration

Probably like many people of my and slightly older generations, I was first introduced to Gilda from a scene in The Shawshank Redemption, during which the prisoners are watching the film and one insists that his friend pause in asking a request until...

Diagonale 2026 Review: WHITE SNAIL Subverts Girl-Meets-Boy Into Anti-Romance

Austrian-German filmmakers Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter's fiction debut reworks social drama conventions into a psychologically driven, docu-fiction hybrid centred on an unstable relationship shaped by loneliness, death and an implied autocratic backdrop.

Now on Digital: THE BRIDE! Comes Home

Maggie Gyllenhaal's divisive horror-romance stars Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, and Annette Bening.

THE DRAMA Review: Viscerally Affecting Comedy?

Kristoffer Borgli's The Drama sits somewhere between much of Lars von Trier's output and Sean Price Williams's The Sweet East on the artful edgelord spectrum; albeit closer to the latter's live action South Park than the sometimes incisive work of...

Opening This Week: THE DRAMA, Romantic Tension, THE STRANGER, Classic Updated

Plus: 'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.'

Panic Fest 2026: Final Wave Announced, Incl. a Maori Gothic Revenge Horror And a Survival Horror Starring Randy Couture

The folks at Panic Fest in Kansas City, MO, have shared the final handful of films for this year's fourteenth edition of the festival.

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...

Canadian Screen Awards 2026: Mike Myers And MILE END KICKS Among Special Award Honorees

With the heightened sense of patriotism that has arisen here in Canada since the early days of 2025, being a site with Canadian roots, we have been trying to do more to bring attention to Canadian cinema.    With that,...