From The Editors
Celluloid Screams 2026: Sheffield Horror Film Festival Announces Lineup
With spooky season running head on like a psycho killer wielding a machete our attention turns to the regional genre festivals that happen around the UK. Every year we check in on our friends at Celluloid Screams, the horror film...
MOTELX 2026 Award Winners: NO REST FOR THE WICKED And MANCAVE win Best European films, IT'S CHICO TIME! wins Best Portuguese Short
The twentieth edition of this year's MOTELX film festival is drawing to a close today. The award winners were announced yesterday, so it is time for a bit of catch up. The Méliès d’argent Awards for the best European...
SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM Review: It's All About Growth
It's the latest sly, LOL comic adventure from Aardman Animation -- need we say more?
Toronto 2026 Review: RIVER, Survival Slasher Has an Experimental Streak
What is in the water in 2026 for the slasher horror subgenre? Between Avalon Fast flirting and subverting expectations in Camp, and Jane Schoenbrun's deep dive into eros and thanatos (and the pleasure principle) in Teenage Sex and Death at...
Toronto 2026 Review: THE REMOTES, The Voices that Haunt the Night
Many of us (myself included) have come to rely on our smartphone apps maybe a little too much, especially ones that tell us where to go. Even in our own hometowns, we can turn to google maps or Mapquest to...
Toronto 2026 Review: Singaporean Drama AH GIRL Elevated by Assured New Director and Astonishing Young Lead
The debut feature from Singaporean writer-director Ang Geck Geck Priscilla is a semi-autobiographical story of a family’s separation, as seen through the eyes of a seven year old girl. Struggling to fully understand the gravity of the situation, and what...
Toronto 2026 Review: HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY!, Beautiful, Vibrant Portrait of Loss and Romance
Rinko Kikuchi stars in filmmaker Josef Kubota Wladyka's beautiful, vibrant, quirky, weird, imaginative, and genuinely moving portrait of moving on from devastating loss.
Now Playing: HOPE Rises, BLACK ZOMBIE Illuminates, ON A STRING Amuses
Plus: 'Don't Play With Fire,' 'The Uprising,' 'Practical Magic 2,' and 'The Fix.'
DISCO ITALIANA Interview: Alan Jones Talks Severin's Box Set
Watching movies isn’t always fun if one is a critic but the idea that it should be is a nice one. No matter how seriously we approach the medium of film, no matter how many greatest-films-of-all-time lists are generated,...
Toronto 2026 Review: FJORD, Palme D'Or Winner Finds Many Arthouse Audience Buttons to Push
Roger Ebert once described film as a “machine that generates empathy.” For writer-director Christian Mugiu, this is very much true. But what if that empathy was slyly and sharply weaponized into a provocation? Enter Fjord. In our increasingly globalized...
PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 Review: Second Time Isn't a Charm
When Practical Magic was released in 1998, no one probably thought it would become a special movie for a whole slew of teenage girls and young women. And not just because of witchery, black cats, and pointy hats, even though...
THE UPRISING Review: Brooding Andrew Garfield Leads a Semi-Enthralling Medieval Epic
For a brief, not-quite-shining moment, Paul Greengrass’ (Captain Phillips, United 93, the Jason Bourne series) latest film, The Uprising, bore a subtitle added by studio marketers, “The Rise of Robin Hood,” only to remove it after howls of outrage from...
12 ANGRY MEN 4K Review: Crackling Legal Thriller, Trapped in a Single Room
Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, and Martin Balsam star in Sidney Lumet's feature film debut, now in 4K from The Criterion Collection.
PRACTICAL MAGIC 4K UHD: More Magical Treasures with Special Features
Directed by Griffin Dunne, and written by Robin Swicord, Akiva Goldsman, and Adam Brooks, the film is based on the bestselling novel written by Alice Hoffman. The book was published in 1995. Practical Magic is full of many wonderful witchcraft...
BLACK ZOMBIE Review: Engaging, Insightful Work of Cultural Criticism
If Xavier Burgin's Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror is the equivalent of a survey course you might take freshman year at college, Maya Annik Bedward's Black Zombie is the kind of class you take junior year that makes...
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Beyond Fest 2026: Announcing a Full Line-up, a Bevy of Premieres, Reperatory, Restoration and Anniversary Screenings to Delight Genre Fans
Those fine folks at Beyond Fest have announced the full line-up of features, reperatory, anniversary and 4K screenings at this year's festival.
Toronto 2026 Curtain Raiser: Discover With Us What TIFF Is Offering Audiences This Year
As the first year after the Toronto International Film Festival (colloquially known as tiff, in all lower case) turned 50, the 2026 edition feels like a more low-profile year for the festival. A back to basics, nuts & bolts, and...
ON A STRING Review: A Comedy Where Everyone Is a Judge and No One Is Very Happy
Isabel Hagen directs and stars in "a convincing picture of an unforgiving New York," also starring Dylan Baker, Eric Bogosian, Frederick Weller, and Jamie Lee.
Toronto After Dark 2026: First Wave of Titles Announced, Featuring I LOVE PARIS, FROGMAN RETURNS, And 5 MORE MINUTES
Our friends at Toronto After Dark have announced the first four titles for this year's 19th edition of the festival. This year's festival will feature the Canadian Premiere of timey wimey flick 5 More Minutes, the fabulously funnny vampire...
HOPE Review: Pure Entertainment, Yet Little Beyond That
Na Hong-jin directed; Hwang Jung-min, Hoyeon, and Zo In-sung star, with Taylor Russell, Cameron Britton, Alicia Vikander, and Michael Fassbender.
