From The Editors
Echoes: Why Did It Take So Long For Lollywood to Make Its First Zombie Movie?
The Pakistani filmmaking industry has a long-held tendency to make safe, risk-free, family-oriented commercial films. Romantic comedies and social dramas are a more favored formula that filmmakers are inclined to opt for rather than taking an experimental route for zombie...
BLOOD SECRET: The Horror Collective Acquires Supernatural Horror Ahead of FrightFest Premiere
When a reconciliation dinner with her best friend turns into a nightmare of inexplicable, terrifying events, an isolated woman must fight to survive the night in a house she suspects is genuinely haunted or hostile.
TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE: Ron Perlman Returns to Acclaimed Audio Drama
I hope I'm not the only one out there who loves radio dramas and podcasts. It's a lo-fi way hear all kinds of spooky tales, and often more accessible (and cheaper) that film and television (which I still love, of...
COYOTE VS. ACME Review: Retribution for a Long-delayed Comedy
What rescues 'Coyote vs. Acme' is the filmmakers' respect and appreciation for the Warners heritage.
Opening This Week: IT ENDS, HOT SPOT, INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER, MUTINY
Plus: 'Franz,' 'Tony, 'The Magic Faraway Tree,' 'Blood Shine,' 'How to Divorce During the War,' 'The Legend of Juan Jose Mundo.'
SAFE 4K Review: Making Ourselves Sick
Directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, it's an extremely good movie I'd like to never watch again.
MANHUNTER: THE FINAL CUT Review: Michael Mann's Masterpiece Receives a Much Anticipated 4k Upgrade
[For now, at least, a lucky, privileged few can catch Manhunter: The Final Cut, StudioCanal’s 4k restoration of filmmaker Michael Mann’s masterpiece, as it tours arthouses, rep houses, and other assorted houses around the country.] Released in the summer...
Locarno 2026 Industry: Marco Perego on Killing the Producer's Ego
Plus: Turning small budgets into freedom, and using AI as a tool, not an auteur.
Locarno 2026: Olivia Wilde on Why Streamers "Bribe" Films Away From Theaters
Plus: Shooting comedy on 35mm, and refusing to "be less."
Locarno 2026: James Gray on Why Every Director "Steals Like Crazy"
Plus: The trap of chasing "fresh" and why AI can't replace human cinema.
Interview: Michel Bonset Wants You To Watch Dutch With Him
Like many other countries, the Netherlands have their own film industry with its own knacks, weirdness, rumors and history. Award-winning Dutch scriptwriter (and sometimes actor) Michel Bonset started a channel on Instagram in which he discusses four Dutch films every...
Locarno 2026: Zoe Saldaña on Making Gatekeepers Answer for Exclusion
Plus: The liberating power of sci-fi and why she's ready to say: "Give me that camera."
AHSOKA: Season Two Teaser Trailer Promises Jedi Mystery, Clone Wars, Space Battles And More
You go to sleep at a decent hour so you are ready to tackle the day then Lucasfilm drops the teaser trailer for season two of Ahsoka overnight. It is a heck of a way to wake up in the morning.
GOODY GOODY: Horror Thriller to Stream on Shudder Friday, September 18th
Lulled into a necessary sense of comfort during a long home birth process, expecting parents and their midwife begin to realize something may be horribly wrong. A blizzard rages outside, trapping the family in their home as increasingly sinister complications arise.
Toronto 2026: Frontières And TIFF: The Genre Co-production Market Announces Seven Projects For Inaugural Showcase
Our friends at Frontières have announced the seven projects the will present during their inaugrual showcase at TIFF: The Market.
Now Playing: THE END OF OAK STREET, THE WRONG GIRLS, THE RIVALS OF AMZIAH KING
Plus: 'Kung Fu Soccer,' 'The Birthday Party,' 'Feed,' 'Train to Busan' 10th Anniversary.
Locarno 2026: Virginie Efira on Her Crooked Path From TV, a 20-Minute Japanese Take in Heels, and Why Acting Begins With Listening
After receiving the Leopard Club Award, the Belgian-born star talks comedy, Gena Rowlands, post-#MeToo sets and learning Japanese for Ryūsuke Hamaguchi's All of Sudden.
Friday One Sheet: THE DEVILS, 2026 and 1971
As you can tell, in these parts we are super excited for the October re-release of Ken Russell's 1971 masterpiece, The Devils. The aptly named Sister Hyde Design (who we have featured in these parts in the past for the Faces of...
Sylvester Stallone's DAYLIGHT Finally Sees the Light of Day on 4K UHD
Plus more action releases on 4K from Kino Lorber: 'K2,' 'Enter the Ninja,' 'Revenge of the Ninja,' 'Ninja III: The Domination,' 'Runaway Train.'
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY Review: Willem Dafoe Cuts Imposing Figure as Tyrannical Greek Oligarch
When Patrikios (Christos Stergioglou), onetime/longtime physician to Marcos Timoleon (Willem Dafoe), an Aristotle Onassis-inspired Greek titan of industry and all-around oligarch, casually suggests the latter’s resemblance behavior-wise to Marlon Brando’s title character in The Godfather, Marcos laughs, instead suggesting the...
