From The Editors
Sundance 2026 Review: I WANT YOUR SEX, Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman Headline Gregg Araki's Welcome Return to Filmmaking
Between 1987 (Three Bewildered People in the Night) and 2010 (Kaboom), queer filmmaker Gregg Araki wrote and directed 10 films, solidifying his status as a New Queer Cinema visionary with few, if any, peers (only arthouse favorites Derek Jarman and...
Sundance 2026 Review: THE INVITE, Who's Afraid of Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogen?
When we first meet Joe (Seth Rogen), a failed musician turned conservatory music instructor, in director Olivia Wilde’s (Don’t Worry Darling, Booksmart) superbly engaging third film, The Invite, he’s mired in a miasma of self-doubt, disappointment, and frustration. Indifferently...
Rotterdam 2026 Review: MI AMOR
The International Film Festival Rotterdam is host to many beginning directors, but that doesn't mean there are no regular returning guests. Writer, director and actor Guillaume Nicloux has visited the festival several times in the past 30 years, and for...
Sundance 2026 Review: NIGHT NURSE, Promising Psychosexual Thriller Dissipates Into Abstraction
Filmmaker David Lynch (Lost Highway, Wild At Heart, Blue Velvet) may have left this mortal plane for the next, but his influence — not to mention his filmography — survives in the work of filmmakers who found a kindred spirit...
Available Light 2026 Review: TRACY & MARTINA GOIN' OUT WEST Lovingly Mocks A Refined Flavour of Canadian Delusion
Canada is far from the only country that has a tradition of lovingly mocking some of its stranger, often poor and delusional, white-trash subcultures (I am looking at you Australia, New Zealand and Britain). However, the Canadian flavour often takes...
Now Playing: THE INFINITE HUSK, PILLION, JIMPA, More
Plus: Luc Besson's 'Dracula' and Renny Harlin's 'The Strangers: Chapter 3.'
Sundance 2026 Review: EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET, Collective Presence Stalls the System
Director Felipe Bustos Sierra documents a spontaneous act of civic resistance in Glasgow, examining how collective presence can momentarily disrupt the mechanisms of state authority.
Rotterdam 2026 Review: ROID, An Ode to the Bengali Landscape and Its Cinema
Director Mejbaur Rahman Sumon's evocative tale from the Bengali countryside about love and fate, echoing the freshness of Satyajit Ray's cinema.
THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 3 Review: It Ends with a Woodchipper and No Bang
Director Renny Harlin's "new and hopefully final installment."
THE 'BURBS (2026) Review: Welcome to the Neighborhood
Keke Palmer stars, along with Jack Whitehall, Julia Duffy, Paula Pell, Mark Proksch, and Kapil Talwalkar. Celeste Hughey created the mystery-comedy series.
Animation First 2026 Review: HEART OF DARKNESS, More Fascinating Than Compelling
Directed by Rogerio Nunes, the new animated adaptation of Joseph Conrad's book launches into the future.
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...
Sundance 2026 Review: BIRDS OF WAR, War Reporting and Love Collide
Directors Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak are also the film's protagonists, following a 13-year collaboration that unfolds from professional exchange into personal involvement amid the realities of reporting on the Syrian war.
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.
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DOCTOR CALIGARI'S CABINET OF WONDERS: Michael Shannon to Take Lead in Contemporary Take on The Classic, First-Ever Horror Feature Film
Michael Shannon is set to star in a new horror film, DOCTOR CALIGARI'S CABINET OF WONDERS, a contemporary take on the original German film, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, by Robert Weine from 1920.
Now Streaming: SEASONS, Kicking, Screaming, and Accepting
Lukasz Simlat and Agnieszka Duleba-Kasza star in director Michał Grzybowski's rousing, piercing drama (with shots of comedy).
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...
Sundance 2026 Review: SOFT BOIL, Anxiety and Cringe Collide in an Acid Quarter-Life Crisis Rom-Com
In the pilot of Soft Boil, director Alec Goldberg and lead actress and co-writer Camille Wormser sketch a tightly observed portrait of early adulthood that channels contemporary American indie comedy through anxiety, volatility, and low-stakes personal collapse.
TONY ODYSSEY Teaser Exclusive: Surreal Brazilian Trip to Premiere at Slamdance
Thales Banzai's feature-length debut, TONY ODYSSEY, is an ode to the "more provocative Brazilian films of the '60s and '70s". Its world premiere is happening at Slamdance, and we have an exclusive look at the trailer.
Sundance 2026 Review: EXTRA GEOGRAPHY, Idiosyncratic, Brit-Set Coming-of-Age Story Elevated By Duel Leads
When ultra-posh, Brit high-schoolers Flic (Marni Duggan) and Minna (Galaxie Clear), supposed best friends (forever) at the center of Extra Geography, BAFTA Award-winning director Molly Manners’s (One Day, Lazy Susan, In My Skin) splendid feature-length debut, decide to undetake a...
