From The Editors

The Calgary Underground Film Festival Announces Full Lineup for 23rd Edition

Western Canada's largest genre film festival, The Calgary Underground Film Festival (or CUFF), just dropped its entire lineup for the 23rd edition. Existing in a kind of liminal season where the city could be the piled under snow, or T-shirt...

A MAGNIFICENT LIFE Review: It Shows One, Animated

Biopics aren't my favorite kind of film. The things a person has done are often more interesting than the person himself, and it is not often that you need to know the background story of the person, what motivated him....

MĀRAMA: Release Date And Trailer/Poster Premiere for Maori Gothic-Horror

Marama, the Maori gothic-horror from writer-director Taratoa Stappard, will arrive in theaters on April 17th. Distributed by Dark Sky FIlms and Watermelon Pictures, Marama is wrapping up its festival run in the coming weeks at festivals across the U.S. The...

Overlook 2026: Second Wave Includes OVER YOUR DEAD BODY, NORMAL, And THE FURIOUS

The second wave of titles in this year's Overlook Film Festival were announced today, now completing the full lineup.    An all new section has been added to the festival program, Side Shows. Highlighting films that are not neccessarily horror...

BUNNY!!, Vietnamese Hit Heads for Worldwide Release

The newest film from director Tran Thanh, who helmed last year's comedy of errors The 4 Rascals, is heading for release in North America, Europe, and Asia tomorrow (Thursday, March 26). Bunny!! (orig. Tho Oi) is described as "a dramatic...

FACES OF DEATH Red Band Trailer: Plus The Theatrical And Character Posters

For the first time we get a sense of how director Daniel Goldhaber and their co-writer, Isa Mazzei, mixed the mondo horror of the original flick into a narrative structure.

OUR HERO, BALTHAZAR Review: Disturbing and Devilishly Hilarious

Director Oscar Boyson's dark comedy stars Jaeden Martell, Asa Butterfield, Noah Centineo, Chris Bauer, Jennifer Ehle, Anna Baryshnikov and Avan Jogia.

KONTINENTAL '25 Review: Escalating Into Crisis, Guilt, and Complicity

Eszter Tompa stars in Radu Jude's provocative drama.

Stephen Colbert Set to Write Next LORD OF THE RINGS Movie

The biggest Lord of the Rings fan on the planet, Stephen Colbert, will write the next Lord of the Rings movie.

Visegrad Film Forum 2026 Interview: Alexander Nanau on Shooting Without a Script, Building Trust, Discovering the Story in the Edit

Romanian filmmaker Alexander Nanau examines the working methodology behind his observational documentaries, from character discovery and long-term filming to editing as the primary stage of narrative construction.

Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival 2026: Swiss Genre Fest Celebrates Twenty-Five Years With Poster Reveal

The twenty-five edition of the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival takes place in early July and the fine folks that run it have just revealed this year's visual.

Visegrad Film Forum 2026 Interview: Shane Mahan on In-Camera Creatures, Director-Driven Design, Workshop Craft

Shane Mahan, creature designer, practical effects supervisor and co-founder of Legacy Effects, offers a rare inside view of contemporary creature effects practice.

Canadian Screen Awards 2026: 40 ACRES, HONEY BUNCH, MILE END KICKS And NIRVANA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE Lead Nominees

The Canadian Academy has announced the nominees for the 2026 Canadian Screen Awards and Canadian genre cinema is represented very well in this year's awards.

DAREDEVIL BORN AGAIN Season Two Review: A Steady But Unsurprising Continuation

Picking up where season one had left off, Wilson Fisk is the mayor of New York. After weeding out any dissenters he established his own army of goons, the Anti-Vigilante Task Force (abbreviated as AVTF), who now help Fisk rule...

THE BLADE 4K Review: Tsui Hark's Dark, Grimy, Kinetic, Chaotic Classic

Wither wuxia? Tsui Hark's martial arts action-adventure thrills and chills.

YES Review: Singing Bootlicker Blues

Nadav Lapid's searing satire stars Ariel Bronz and Efrat Dor. It's obnoxiously pointy and honest, yet sad.

THE FURIOUS Official Trailer: They Will Fight Everyone

A father fights fiercely against ruthless kidnappers to save his abducted daughter.

Echoes: Why THE GLASSWORKER, Pakistan's Official Academy Award 2025 Submission, Matters

How the animated film continues to ripple and has pushed investors, studios, and young artists to seriously consider animation's future in the region.

Opening This Week: THEY WILL KILL YOU Threatens, FORBIDDEN FRUITS Beckons, OUR HERO, BALTHAZAR Promises

Plus: 'Yes,' 'A Magnificent Life,' 'John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office,' 'Kontinental '25,' 'The A.I. Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist.'

SXSW 2026 Wrap: All Our Reviews

The 33rd edition of the SXSW Film and Television Festival announced their Audience Award winners, led by Jorma Taccone's Over Your Dead Body in the Headliner section, Robb Boardman's Plantman & Blondie: A Dress Up Gang Film in the Narrative...