Tag: romance
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.
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,...
LEVITICUS: Neon Announces Theatrical Date for Aussie Queer Horror
Here is NEON doing what NEON does best, as little as possible. It is only a theatrical date announcement for the Australian queer horror flick, Leviticus, and a teaser poster with just a lighter and the release date stamped into...
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2026: Preview
Mark your calendars! From March 5-15, at Film at Lincoln Center in New York, co-presented with Unifrance, the 31st edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema demonstrates that the landscape of French cinema is as fertile, inspiring, and distinct as ever....
Opening This Week: THE BRIDE! Goes Bold, DOLLY Fights Back, HEEL Rebels
Plus: 'Andre Is an Idiot' and 'Hoppers.'
MILE END KICKS: New BTS Gallery, Montreal Indie Music RomCom in Theaters This April
Chandler Levack's latest, the Canadian romcom Mile End Kicks, hit cinemas on April 17th. It will have its long awaited US premiere at SXSW before that. The film's distributor Sumerian Pictures has sent out a whopper of a gallery of...
PILLION Review: Unexpectedly Tender Romance Featuring Bikers, BDSM, and a Road to Self Discovery
Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling star in writer-director Harry Lighton's romantic drama.
THE FORBIDDEN CITY Trailer: Gabriele Mainetti's Martial Arts Epic Coming to Digital This March
Gabriele Mainetti's standout martial arts action epic, The Forbidden City, is coming to digital on March 17th. The release comes from the good folks at Well Go USA, and they put out the trailer today. You definitely want to check...
