From The Editors
New Directors/New Films 2026 Preview: STRANGE RIVER, TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS, and More
Presented by Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, the 55th edition of New Directors/New Films takes place from April 8 through April 19, 2026, with filmmakers scheduled to attend in person. With a focus on innovative...
Opening This Week: FACES OF DEATH Goes Digital, THE CHRISTOPHERS Confronts Art, CHAO Gets Romantic
Plus: 'Mermaid,' 'Hamlet,' 'The Yeti,' 'Infiltrate.'
STAR WARS: MAUL - SHADOW LORD Review: The Galaxy's Most Dangerous Survivor Returns
After the Clone Wars, Maul plots to rebuild his criminal syndicate on a planet untouched by the Empire.
Diagonale 2026 Review: PORTRAIT OF NOWNESS Assembles a Fragmented Mosaic
Co-created by Juri Rechinsky and Mario Hainzl, the film constructs a first-person docu-experiment in which body-camera footage across multiple continents reframes notions of everyday life through contrasting conditions of normalcy.
Diagonale 2026 Review: THE STORIES Turns Familiar Tragicomic Family Saga Tropes into Finetuned Crowd-pleaser
Abu Bakr Shawky's film unfolds as a multi-generational family saga that situates an intimate love story within the shifting social and political landscape of Egypt from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Diagonale 2026 Review: WAX & GOLD Probes Memory and Myth of Ethiopia's Beloved Autocrat
Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann uses the spatial and historical layers of the Hilton Addis Ababa to examine how the legacy of Haile Selassie is constructed, negotiated and contested through personal memory, archival material and competing narratives.
FACES OF DEATH Interview: Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei on IP, Censorship, and Horror History
Turning a maybe not quite beloved but certainly important cult object like 1978's faux-snuff/faux-documentary Faces of Death into a multiplex-friendly narrative film with aspirations of taking on major social media companies is no small endeavor, creatively or culturally. That's part...
YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS S2 Review: Lifestyles of the Rich and Criminal
Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, and Olivia Munn return in the ensemble dramatic series, with James Marsden joining as a mysterious new, ultra-wealthy neighbor.
Diagonale 2026 Review: ROSE, Sandra Hüller Excels in Period Drama Examining Pursuit of Freedom Through Cross-dressing
Austrian filmmaker Markus Schleinzer's third feature casts Sandra Hüller as a woman who adopts a male identity within a Protestant farming community during the Thirty Years' War in order to secure property, labour autonomy and social legitimacy otherwise inaccessible to her.
Friday One Sheet: BACKROOMS
One of a pair of character posters for Kane Parson's upcoming, creepy-pasta meets liminal terror horror film, Backrooms, that places Academy Award-nominated actors into some unorthodox and tight framing. The original poster for the big-screen blow up of the YouTube...
Udine 2026: Far East Film Festival Continues to Celebrate Asian Cinema in its 28th Year
World-renowned stars Fan Bingbing and Yakusho Koji will be honoured with Lifetime Achievement Awards in Udine.
THE DRAMA Review: Viscerally Affecting Comedy?
Kristoffer Borgli's The Drama sits somewhere between much of Lars von Trier's output and Sean Price Williams's The Sweet East on the artful edgelord spectrum; albeit closer to the latter's live action South Park than the sometimes incisive work of...
OVER YOUR DEAD BODY: Watch The Red Band Trailer For Jorma Taccone's Black Action Comedy
Watch the red band trailer for the Audience Award Winner from the headliners at SXSW206
Home Video Roundup: DEATHSTALKER and More New Releases From Kino, The Criterion Collection, Warner and Made By Mutant
Dave Canfield aka The Creature Feature Preacher here to opine on all things physical media. I’ve got titles from The Criterion Collection, Warner Brothers and Kino and a very special vinyl release from Made By Mutant. It’s a rich mix...
Fantasia 2026: Poster Art Revealed For 30th Anniversary Edition
Fantasia is celebrating its 30th anniversary this Summer and have unvealed the poster art for this year's edition.
BEN-HUR 4K UHD Review: Battles Between Good and Evil Look More Spectacular Than Ever
William Wyler's 1959 classic stars Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd. Features on the new 4K edition showcase more details of vivid filmmaking and cinematography.
THE STRANGER Review: Senseless Actions, Racist History
François Ozon adapts Albert Camus' classic novel, giving a deeper context of understanding the protagonist's senseless actions, based on France's racist colonial history.
HUNTING MATTHEW NICHOLS: Canadian Supernatural Thriller Sets Wide North American Theatrical Release
Two decades after her brother mysteriously disappeared on Vancouver Island, a documentary filmmaker sets out to solve his missing person's case. When a disturbing piece of evidence is revealed, she comes to believe he might still be alive.
FACES OF DEATH: New Key Set Available
At this point we are fully committed to seeing this promotion blitz for Faces of Death through to the end. We are not in it to win it, but, if we do not see this all the way through we...
THE KILLER Review: John Woo's Achingly Romantic Bloodbath Returns to Cinemas
The power of the gun is terrible and beautiful in equal measure in the work of John Woo, the inarguable alpha dog of the Hong Kong heroic bloodshed genre, whose unrelentingly and entertainingly violent streak in the late 80s and...
