From The Editors
Karlovy Vary 2026 Interview: A HAPPY FAMILY Director Jan-Eric Mack and Star Anna Schinz on Poverty, Motherhood, Breaking the Rules of Social Drama
Swiss director Jan-Eric Mack and actress Anna Schinz discuss how they shaped the film as a socially engaged thriller, approached its moral ambiguities, and worked with two first-time child actors.
FID Marseille 2026 Review: MOTHER, YOU HAVE NOT DIED YET. BUT YOU WILL. AND WHEN YOU DO, YOU WILL FINALLY BE ALIVE AGAIN, Impressionistic Take on Grief and History
Directed by Advik Beni. Merging past and present, personal and historical, the film has a quality of a lucid dream.
Karlovy Vary 2026 Interview: THE GUEST Director Mads Mengel on Family Trauma and Finding Humor in Pain
Danish director Mads Mengel discusses his feature debut, Denmark's tradition of family dramas, the film's restrained microaggressions, and creating the conditions for productive chaos on set.
Fantasia 2026: FERINE, Check Out The Teaser Trailer And International Poster
A tragic event shatters a rich art collector's life, awakening her primal nature. She destroys her privileged existence to build a new concept of family, leading her on a path of destruction and animalistic transformation.
Karlovy Vary 2026 Interview: THE GUEST Star Trine Dyrholm on Playing Beyond Diagnosis and Embracing Creative Risk
The acclaimed Danish actor discusses embracing first-time filmmakers, finding the human being behind mental illness, improvising within a rigorously conceived script and refusing to pass judgment on the volatile mother at the center of Mads Mengel's family drama.
SUNDOWN: First Look Images From Rebekah McKendry's New Monster Movie
Three generations of women reunite in a remote cabin to avenge a loved one's death, only to discover their captive isn't who he seems to be and his family is closing in, waiting for sundown.
Echoes: TAXALI GATE, When Pakistani Cinema Chose Courage
Two years ago, a Pakistani film was released despite heavy restrictions from the censorship board, as well as several flaws that made it stand out from the pack. I'm talking about Taxali Gate (2024), written and directed by Abu Aleeha,...
Karlovy Vary 2026 Interview: RAIN CATCHER Filmmaker Michele Fiascaris on Voyeurism and Building a Neo-Noir on a Limited Budget
The Italian-born, London-based filmmaker discusses casting Dudley O'Shaughnessy, drawing on David Fincher and Brian De Palma, and transforming the Barbican into a psychological maze.
Opening This Week: THE ODYSSEY, STEAL AWAY, TAKE CARE OF MY CAT
Plus: 'The Kidnapping of Arabella' and '40 Watts From Nowhere.'
Karlovy Vary 2026 Interview: MY FRIEND THE PORN STAR Filmmaker Rosa Friedrich on Deepfake and Intimacy
Austrian filmmaker Rosa Friedrich discusses the making of the unconventional documentary.
Sound And Vision: Nicolas Winding Refn
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we discuss two distinct music videos by Nicolas Winding Refn. Nicolas Winding Refn has evolved a lot as a director since...
Neuchatel 2026 Daily: From THE BIRTHDAY to TUMBBAD to SACHARINE to COLONY
Plus: Swiss shorts and 'Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant.'
New York Asian 2026 Review: COLONY Puts Yeon Song-ho Back In The Undead Driver's Seat
Zombies in a mall, you say? It’s been done before but leave it to Korean genre master Yeon Song-ho to take everything you think you know about the living dead and crank it up to eleven and you’ve got another...
GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS Review: One Of The Year's Funniest Films Is Here
When her fiancé Tom (Michael Cassidy) cashes in his celebrity hall pass in the back room of a local bookstore, poor Gail Daughtry (Zoey Deutch) is heartbroken. What was once a whimsical thought exercise has now become very real. The...
CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN Video Interview: Dominic Hardy Sheds Further Light
Some films never die. They just keep demanding sacrifices. In the case of The Wicker Man (1973), those sacrifices have been many and varied: Those made in the service of shooting and releasing the film, and dealing with financial fallout....
WELCOME II THE TERRORDOME: Poster & Trailer Premiere For Ngozi Onwurah's Afrofuturist Drama, New 2K Restoration to Screen in New York Later This Month
Ngozi Onwurah's radical Afrofuturist vision from 1995 got a new 2K Restoration and will start screening in New York on July 31st before a national rollout.
Now Playing: EVIL DEAD BURN, WESTHAMPTON, THE ISOLATE THIEF
Plus: 'Moana,' 'Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass,' 'Mockbuster,' 'Reading Lolita in Tehran,' 'Black Chariot,' 'Crossing.'
Friday One Sheet: WOMAN, DYING
This is the third time that Spanish art director and designer Octavio Terol Bernabé has been featured in this column. Previous designs both made the Top 10 posters of 2025. It is safe to say that we are fans of...
Neuchatel 2026 Daily: From MATAPANKI to GHOST IN THE CELL to BREEDER to GAUA to MULHOLLAND DRIVE
We arrive at the penultimate day of the 2026 Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival, located in the heart of Switzerland, where the only Swiss festival dedicated to genre films has held sway for the past week. Overlooking a beautiful lake,...
MOANA (2026) Review: Bland, Dull, Lifeless Live-Action Remake
Unnecessary. Redundant. Superfluous. Three English-language words that describe the same or similar experience in life or fiction. Any one of those words, alone or collectively, can also describe Moana, the less-than-anticipated live-action remake of the 10-year-old animated hit that...
