Weird Features
Sound And Vision: Timur Bekmambetov
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a look at several music videos directed by Timur Bekmambetov. I rarely discuss tie-in music videos, music videos...
Sound And Vision: Gus van Sant
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at selected music videos by Gus van Sant. Gus van Sant is a weird director, but you wouldn't...
Pretty Packaging: ARCANE Season Two Is Loaded
During Christmas, things got rather busy in my household and as the International Film Festival Rotterdam was right after, I totally forgot to show you all the pretty fantastic-looking Blu-ray boxset of the second season of Arcane, the pretty fantastic...
Pretty Packaging: The SHAWSCOPE VOLUME 4 Boxset Kicks Crazy Shins
Distributor Arrow has released its fourth boxset of Shaw Brothers films. The previous three were mentioned here in the Pretty Packaging articles, and this one looks very, VERY similar to them. So I wondered: should I put up an article...
Sound And Vision: Cory McAbee
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at selected music videos by Cory McAbee. Cory McAbee is a conundrum, both as an artist and as...
Sound and Vision: Edgar Wright
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at selected music videos by Edgar Wright. Somehow it is a wonder that Edgar Wright has never done a...
Friday One Sheet: BACKROOMS
One of a pair of character posters for Kane Parson's upcoming, creepy-pasta meets liminal terror horror film, Backrooms, that places Academy Award-nominated actors into some unorthodox and tight framing. The original poster for the big-screen blow up of the YouTube...
Sound And Vision: Corin Hardy
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at selected music videos by Corin Hardy. Corin Hardy is best known as the director of The Nun, part...
Sound And Vision: Aidan Zamiri
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at selected music videos by Aidan Zamiri. Aidan Zamiri named his first feature film The Moment. In this mockumentary,...
Friday One Sheet: FACES OF DEATH
Exploiting on the one of the odder alleys of nostalgia, a modern remake of the American Mondo cult classic Faces of Death gets its turn in the meat grinder of capitalism.
Opening This Week: READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME, PROJECT HAIL MARY
Plus: 'Do Not Enter,' 'Miroirs No. 3,' 'Tow,' 'Two Prosecutors,' 'Late Shift,' and more.
Sound And Vision: Slava Tsukerman
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at two different videos by Slava Tsukerman. Slava Tsukerman passed away recently at the age of 86. He left...
Friday One Sheet: PHENOMENA
"A psychedelic odyssey into the fabric of the universe." The poster for Josef Gatti's visual science documentary, Phenomena (not to be confused with the Dario Argento's insect telekinesis movie) is busy and strange. Just like the universe, which if you expand your...
Friday One Sheet: ROSE OF NEVADA
Featuring neither flowers nor the desert state of America, Rose of Nevada is a deeply authentic, and thoroughly strange time-travel fishing movie that is mainly drama, but, as the red typesetting suggests, with elements of dread and horror. The credits...
Friday One Sheet: Calgary Underground Film Festival 2026
Western Canada's ever-expanding genre extravaganza, the Calgary Underground Film Festival (or CUFF for short) has put out its key art in anticipation of its April 16th launch. In keeping with its maximalist underground comix design ethos, and always using a...
Sound And Vision: Justin Kurzel
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at two surprising music videos from Justin Kurzel. When you think of Justin Kurzel you immediately will be reminded...
Now Playing: DOOBA DOOBA, THE WELL, HARD BOILED
Let's start with spoilers: two new, wide-release genre films proved to be disappointments, as the reviews linked below reveal. Bummer! So, let's first focus on two new releases of festival films that we truly enjoyed, as well as a Hong...
Friday One Sheet: FIUME O MORTE!
In his review from Rotterdam (where the film won the FIPRESCI Prize & Tiger Award), our own Martin Kudlac described Fiume O Morte! as, "A playful, warning look at history [...] an exploration of collective memory and the reconstruction of historical narratives at...
Sound And Vision: Pascal Laugier
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Mylène Farmer's City of Love, directed by Pascal Laugier. If one thing connects the horror works of...
Ard's Dozen Of Musings About 2025
Every January I give an overview of what the previous year meant for me, film-wise, and because I cannot cull to ten properly I have always settled on twelve items. There's something special this year about my dozen of musings...
