From The Editors
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: PATHETIC FALLACY, True Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Every film festival program, no matter how expansive and diverse, usually has a bunch of movies that objectively aren’t bad, but aren’t particularly great either. When thinking about such films and what might be weighing them down, the conclusion you...
SLAYGROUND Official Teaser: Jeremy Saulnier Invites You to The Slayground in New Teaser
Scare-actor "Metal Mike" Graves wakes up in a haunted attraction surrounded by the dead bodies of his co-workers with no memory of how they got there. As a state-wide manhunt closes in, he races to uncover the truth - even if the trail leads straight back to him.
VIRGINA Review: Boys Do Cry
While not in every culture in human history has elevated male children to the point of all but killing (or even that) their female children, too many have long-held beliefs that boys bring luck and prosperity, whereas girls (despite doing...
Toronto After Dark 2026 Short Film Short Review: MOIRA, An Ambiguous European Arthouse Gem
A patient shot of a damp London metro platform opens Anastasia Mischenko's superlative short film Moira. It's a shot that instantly evokes the static-adroit Euro-cinema of early 2000s Bruno Dumont, and the more recent work of Milagros Mumenthaler (The Currents). A...
Toronto After Dark 2026 Review: MY LOVE FOR YOU IS DEEP, BUT THE DEVIL LOVES ME DEEPER
Alice is a dreamer. She wants true love, intense love, and reciprocated love. She is not finding it in the clubs with her girlfriend, though, and her current boyfriend is clearly not into her. You can hear it in his...
CHRISTIANE F. 4K Review: Under the Influence
"We could be heroes," sings David Bowie, if only these kids could get off the heroin just for one day.
Opening This Week: WICKER Man, WILDWOOD Rescue, CLAYFACE Horror
Plus: 'A Talent for Murder,' 'Klara and the Sun,' 'Possible Love.'
Chicago 2026 Review: A CITY IN THE FOREST, Rallying Cry for the American Left
Throughout A City in the Forest, which tracks various forms of opposition to Atlanta's "Cop City" from 2020 to 2023, the filmmakers shout that they are press to ensure that they are not attacked by police who are violently arresting...
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: CHIMNEY TOWN: FROZEN IN TIME
Six years ago, CGI-special effects specialist Hirota Yuusuke directed his first feature film, the anime Poupelle of Chimney Town, which I happened to like a lot. He just released his second feature, and it is... a sequel to Poupelle of...
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM Review: Mesmerizing Blast from the Past
In 1972, director, editor, producer, and actor William Greaves, whose body of work includes Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) and Nationtime (1972), gathered the remaining luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance in Duke Ellington’s apartment on 157th. This meeting resulted in four...
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: RHAPSODY, RHAPSODY, A Rom-Com Which Keeps It Real
It's the question which pops up in any interview with a director: "What will your next film be?" It is so common a question that if the mood allows for it, I will add "A romantic comedy perhaps?" and that...
Sitges 2026 Review: KICK ON, Aussie Survival Thriller Asks, Et Tu, Brute?
Colourful, entertaining, and exuberantly violent, Nick Kozakis’s debut feature makes the most of the geography and the opportunities of its single location to squeeze maximum tension and maximum gore out of its ultra-lean scenario. After running out of coke and...
Criterion in January 2027: DELIVERANCE, MIDNIGHT COWBOY, PARASITE
In the new calendar year, the Criterion Collection will take an unforgettable trip down a river. John Boorman directed Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox, and Ned Beatty in Deliverance, a harrowing thriller, and one of the best. It's heading...
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TRAUMA, OR MONSTERS ALL: Dark Sky Films Announces Release Date For... Larry Fessenden's Rumored Last Film? The Hell!?!
When a visiting writer publishes an article exposing a quiet upstate town's unsettling past, she accidentally unleashes a werewolf, a vampire, and a Frankenstein monster from the shadows, forcing the community to confront generations of suppressed trauma.
DEADBOLT: Saban Films Drops Trailer for Home-Invasion Thriller Ahead of November 13 Release
Saban Films just dropped the trailer for Deadbolt, a home-invasion thriller directed by Zac Coleman. The 76-minute film hits VOD and Digital on November 13, 2026. The story follows Anne Harrington (played by Callie Deering), who is weighing a...
BRUTE 1986: Cinephobia Releasing Acquires Marcel Walz's '80s Slasher Sequel
A glam metal band's music video shoot in an abandoned Western town devolves into a blood-soaked night of terror when they cross paths with a nearby family of ultra-violent lunatics.
Now Playing: WHALEFALL, STREET FIGHTER, MUSK, YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING
Plus: 'Ken Russell's The Devils,' 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,' 'Sense and Sensibility,' 'Once Upon a Time in Harlem,' 'La Bola Negra,' 'Crawlers.'
Friday One Sheet: HURRICANNA
Francesca Gregorini's look at the final days of model, actress, billionaires wife, and eventual celebrity punchline, Anna Nicole Smith, gets the arthouse marketing treatment with this 'slide puzzle' style key art. It features an out-of-focus Sylvia Hoeks as Smith in...
HIGH GROUND: Sometimes The Only Way to Get High is to go Higher - Yosemite's Legendary 1976 Drug Plane Mystery
Here is a good one to keep an eye out for, Daniel Sharp’s documentary High Ground. In December 1976, a plane packed with tons of marijuana crashed into a frozen lake in Yosemite National Park. Park rangers left the wreckage for the...
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Review: Too Much Technique, Not Enough Passion
Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esme Creed-Miles, Caitriona Balfe, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw star in a new adaptation, directed by Georgia Oakley.
