Weird Reviews
Spotlight on Severin: EXORCISMO, Christopher Lee Eurocrypt Box Sets
Plus: 4K upgrades of 'The Ghost,' 'The Final Programme,' 'The Devil's Rain,' and 'Retribution.'
SXSW 2026 Review: MIKE & NICK & NICK & ALICE, A Sci-Fi Action Gangster Hybrid With Heart
Mike (James Marsden) is done with the gangster life. He’s found a girl, he wants to settle down, and he’s ready to leave it all behind. There are a couple of problems, though. Number one, the girl, Alice (Eiza González),...
SXSW 2026 Review: THEY WILL KILL YOU, Zazie Beetz Slashes Her Way Through A Killer Cult In This Blast Of Bloody Energy
A woman seeking to rescue her little sister takes a job at an ultra-exclusive hotel only to find that the residents have a nasty, violent, murderous secret in director Kirill Sokolov’s Hollywood debut, They Will Kill You. Asia Reaves (Zazie...
GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE Review: Sam Rockwell Dominates In Gore Verbinski's Anti-AI Screed
Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chaudhry, Tom Taylor, and Juno Temple also star.
Available Light 2026 Review: BEYOND THE LEFT HAND PATH, Or, A Temple of Set Guide on How to Live a Full Life
James C. Kirby was an intense man. He lived not one life, but several: A priest of the Temple of Set, a hotel chef, a social worker for traumatized men, a craft jeweller, and the former owner of Canada’s...
RETURN TO SILENT HILL Review: A Major Disappointment
There's a moment in the game, Silent Hill 2, when the player, as protagonist James, is alone exploring an abandoned apartment building and sees an unmoving creature on the opposite side of steel bars that divide a hallway. The creature...
100 NIGHTS OF HERO Review: Storytelling as a Spell of Resistance
Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine, and Maika Monroe star in Julia Jackman's romantic, queer fantasy film.
RETURN TO REASON Blu-ray Review: The Dizzying Avant Garde of Man Ray
The first years of cinema, the seventh art was treated more as a technological marvel than a device with which to tell stories. Even when the technology progressed and storytelling took over, artists still found ways to explore the...
Toronto After Dark 2025 Review: THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM, Chills and Melancholy in The Swiss Alps
Seen wandering through the grim fog and pale moonlit wilderness of the Swiss Alps as a tiny speck among the trees and rocks, a man (Don McKellar) reaches his isolated hotel destination only to find there are no rooms available...
San Sebastian 2025 Review: REDOUBT, Measured, Poetic Study of Obsession, Isolation in Rural Sweden
Swedish filmmaker John Skoog reconstructs the true story of Karl-Göran Persson, a Cold War-era farm laborer who turned his home into a private fortress.
TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME 4K Review
Directed by the recently departed, beloved David Lynch, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is the 1991 prequel to his popular television show of the same name. It’s out now in a 4K and Blu-ray combo package with deluxe booklet...
EYES WITHOUT A FACE Blu-ray Review: When Guilt and Love Make You Do Terrible Things
Sometimes a film is so enshrined in a canon, taken for granted as representative of either a genre (or subgenre), a national cinema, a director or actor's career, that it risks being a film talked about, but perhaps not watched,...
Busan 2025 Review: Hypnotic Meta-Mystery BLACK RABBIT, WHITE RABBIT Bends Time, Space and Genres in Quantum Storytelling
Black Rabbit, White Rabbit, Tajikistan's official submission for the 2025 Academy Awards, marks the Iranian filmmaker's first international production and an ambitious continuation of his narrative recursion, cinematic illusion.
MotelX 2025 Review: THE LAST SACRIFICE Has A Few Aces Up Its Sleeve
On Valentine's Day 1945, on a hill in the Cotswolds, England, the 74-year old farmer Charles Walton is found dead. You suspect that a documentary with this premise might be just a true crime doc, but The Last Sacrifice...
MotelX 2025 Review: THE RUN Is Another Stab At The Interactive Movie
The interactive movie has had a history since Bob Gale's Mr. Payback and games like Dragon's Lair and probably even way before that. But it never exceeded beyond a gimmick. That is until the game industry found ways to make...
MotelX 2025 Review: ALMA VIVA Is Another Winning Coming-Of-Age-Horror
Young Salomé has a great bond with her grandmother. She helps her grandmother out with seances, as her grandmother blends her Catholic religion with the older, more paganistic roots of the Portuguese countryside, and provides her services as someone who...
Fantastic Fest 2025 Review: THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR
The Restoration at Grayson Manor is the brand-new film directed by the multi-talented Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead). It just had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest, and ever since I saw the pitch at Frontieres forever ago, I’ve...
Toronto 2025 Review: COPPER, The Driest Slacker-Comedy Ever Made
The latest film from particular and peculiar Canadian-Mexican auteur Nicolás Pereda might flirt at times with a plot, but to view it this way is actually fool's gold. It is much more, specifically, a study of character in a...
Toronto 2025 Review: ADULTHOOD, Dark Comedy Tests the Sibling Bond
It's not easy watching one's parents get old, and having to care for them, mostly because we don't like to be reminded of how we're all end up with the problems of aging. The task of looking after aging parents...
Toronto 2025 Review: JUNK WORLD, A Dizzying Tale Told With Incredible Animation
Stalk-like creatures wriggling out of walls. Endless trenches that hide dangers. Half-men, half-robots in fetish wear. Removable eyes. These are just some of the wonders and weirdos that await in Takahide Hori's latest animated film, Junk World. Bizarre, funny, sometimes confusing,...
