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Camera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: RHAPSODY, RHAPSODY, A Rom-Com Which Keeps It Real

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:00:04 -0500

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 will normally get a laugh out of my subject. I mean, if there is ONE genre we all dread, deem stale, or has more idiotic tropes than horror, it's the romantic comedy. Yet, after a hiatus of over 12 years, this is exactly the genre that veteran director Rijū Gō chose to return to cinemas with, with his new film Rhapsody, Rhapsody. And it even opened the Camera Japan festival this year in Rotterdam? Sacrilege! What can this be about? When mild-mannered office worker Mikio...

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TRAUMA, OR MONSTERS ALL: Dark Sky Films Announces Release Date For... Larry Fessenden's Rumored Last Film? The Hell!?!

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:30:00 -0500

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.

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DEADBOLT: Saban Films Drops Trailer for Home-Invasion Thriller Ahead of November 13 Release

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:15:00 -0500

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 run for Congress. She comes home and notices a door is cracked open—one she is certain she locked. Within minutes, she realizes she is trapped in the dark with two violent predators and has to outsmart them to survive the night. You can look for it on on-demand platforms starting Friday, November 13....

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BRUTE 1986: Cinephobia Releasing Acquires Marcel Walz's '80s Slasher Sequel

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:45:00 -0500

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.

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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Review: Too Much Technique, Not Enough Passion

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esme Creed-Miles, Caitriona Balfe, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw star in a new adaptation, directed by Georgia Oakley.

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London 2026 Review: INK, Danny Boyle's Unruly and Troublesome Free Press Polemic

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:07:09 -0500

Who freed the press? It's been a democratic right that's built civilisations and chipped away at them when they've crumbled, but in today's age of near-limitless information at the palm of your hand, who were the people who gave it to us? Aaron Sorkin argues it's Mark Zuckerberg; Alex Gibney posits the theory that it's Elon Musk...but Danny Boyle? He points the finger a bit further back at the lesser-known Larry Lamb, the British news editor whose recruitment by now-notorious Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch saw the revitalisation of The Sun newspaper and (as stated in Boyle's new film, Ink) the subsequent unravelling of Western society as we know it. Is the sordid recent history of our world written less in ink and more in...

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STREET FIGHTER Review: This Is 1993, Baby. It Is What It Is.

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:37:07 -0500

Directed by Kitao Sakurai ('Twisted Metal'), the big-screen adaptation stars Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo, and Callina Liang.

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THE BEEKEEPER 2 Official Trailer (Red Band Edition): Jason Statham Teams up With Action Master Timo Tjahjanto For Ultra-Violent Sequel

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:30:00 -0500

Adam Clay is back and he must fight the group that made him the deadly killer that he is, the Beekeepers. Jason Statham returns in the sequel to the 2024 hit, this time with one of our favorite intenational masters of mayhem, Timo Tjahjanto, at the helm. Jason Statham is back as Adam Clay in The Beekeeper 2. Pulled back into the fight when the Beekeeper organization goes rogue and sets its sights on controlling the government, Clay must take on the very group that made him. A red band version of the trailer came out today. Check it out below. It is the exact amount of pospostorous action that we'd expect from a Statham led movie, with the flourishes of ultra-violence that...

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A LONG WINTER Trailer: Andrew Haigh's Fest Favorite Sets Winter Release Date

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:15:00 -0500

Andrew Haigh’s new movie A Long Winter is hitting theaters soon after hitting the festival circuit at Telluride, Toronto, and NYFF. In 1951, high in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, Mike’s (Hechinger) world is thrown into uncertainty when his mother vanishes into the wilderness. Alongside his complicated father, and with their small mountain community rallying together against the unforgiving winter, Mike embarks on a search that leads him toward an unexpected journey of self-discovery, belonging and the quiet strength required to carry on. MUBI just dropped the trailer for the drama, which stars Fred Hechinger, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Caitríona Balfe, Kit Connor, and D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai. New York is getting some early screenings starting December 4, 2026, before it hits select US theaters on January 22, 2027. ...

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CYBER PROTOCOL Trailer: Short-Form Emmy Contender 'RZR' Reborn as Feature Film This November

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:30:00 -0500

The fine folks at Studio Dome have announced the release of Cyber Protocol this November. The movie, a feature film adaptation of a short form series, stars David Bianchi and Mena Suvari. Cyber Protocol is a sci-fi thriller set in a grim, future Los Angeles that is completely overrun by black market criminals, artificial intelligence, and shady cryptocurrency networks. The story follows a talented hacker who invents a powerful neural implant capable of tearing through the dark web's heaviest criminal security systems. However, his creation quickly unleashes absolute chaos across the city. As everything spirals out of control, he has to fight just to stay alive while a determined detective hot on his trail tries to hunt him down. Cyber Protocol was directed by...

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THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK Review: John Turturro Steals a Character Study That Doubles as a Crime Drama

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Directed by Noah Segan, the film stars John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Will Price, Tatiana Maslany, Victoria Moroles, and Steve Buscemi.

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New York 2026 Review: ARTIFICIAL Doesn't Make a Bigger Splash

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:02:02 -0500

The NYFF premiere of Luca Guadagnino ‘s Artificial, which is set for a theatrical release in December, comes one year after the NYFF premiere of the director’s previous live-action feature, After the Hunt. Unlike the previous film, which was highly criticized for its handling of its timely and sensitive subject matter, the new one seems to be predestined for almost universal praise based solely on the fact that this time the object of the author’s ire is something pretty much everyone agrees can easily destroy humanity in the near future. It probably won’t matter much that Artificial, while slightly more focused than its predecessor, still shares many of its flaws. Somewhere in the early aughts, Geoffrey Hinton (Mark Rylance), a brilliant computer scientist, is all...

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MUSK Review: Must-See Doc That Sadly Will Go Mostly Unseen

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:02:01 -0500

At 12:01 p.m. on January 20th, 2029, the 48th president of the United States will be sworn into office. His name — because more likely than not, the next president will be a “he” — will not be Donald J. Trump. Barred by the 22nd Amendment from running or holding public office again, Trump’s second and final term will end the same morning, but a key figure in his inner circle, Trump’s most fervent supporter, and his biggest benefactor, Elon Musk, the unelected tech trillionaire (give or take a few billion), will remain an ally to other tech oligarchs and amoral corporations who rule America, and a virulent opponent of multiculturalism, multi-ethnic democracy, and civil and/or criminal liability. A prolific documentarian (Steve...

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Echoes: Do Pakistani Films Need International Recognition to Prove Their Worth?

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:17:12 -0500

Iram Parveen Bilal's Wakhri (2024) won the Best Director Feature Film award at the 5th Yellowstone International Film Festival (YIFF) in New Delhi, India. Co-produced and directed by Iram Parveen, the drama film is inspired by the life of late Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch. Now, the film is getting special treatment again by landing distribution in several international territories. Variety reports the film is rolling across France, Brazil, Australia, the UK, and Ireland. Channel 4's 2026 South Asian Film Season is backing the film's distribution in the UK. Wakhri was released by Mandviwalla Entertainment on January 5, 2024. The film got a mainstream theatrical release, but due to the lack of a centralized and transparent box office tracking system like Box Office Mojo,...

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CRYSTAL LAKE Review: Prequel Series is a Slow-Burn Crime Drama That Doesn't Skimp on Slasher Violence

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:30:00 -0500

One year after her young son's tragic drowning, a grieving single mother's dark past is unearthed by two strangers, triggering a disturbing chain of events that reveals the terrifying origins of a horror legend.

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BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL Review: Riveting Reassessment of a Hysterically Hated Horror

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:02:09 -0500

David Kittredge's studious and fair cinematic essay on 'Exorcist II: The Heretic' is a witty raconteur of a documentary.

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HALLOWIEBE OVERDRIVE: This Is NOT A Review...

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:00:09 -0500

I normally don't review Dutch movies aimed at children, but there is a first time for everything and last year that was what happened with Hallowiebe, a fun family film with a Halloween theme. I am a big fan of its directors Jasper ten Hoor and Ivan Hidayat, who made many funny and scary shorts, often both at the same time. But were their talents applicable for a feature-length film for children? Yes. Hallowiebe turned out to be a success, with 90,000 sold tickets (which is a lot in the Netherlands) and currently its IMDb rating is 7.7. Not bad for a debut! Hey, I liked it a lot as well. The investors of the film were happy enough to allow a sequel, and it...

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OTHER MOMMY Review: Horror Version of SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE No One Really Wanted

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:32:10 -0500

Seven-year-old Bela (Arabella Olivia Clark) lives with her mother, Ursula (Jessica Chastain), and her father, Russell (Jay Duplass), who love each other very much. At least, that’s what the girl is planning to say in her introduction speech at her new school, but that, of course, wouldn’t make for a very good movie or a bestselling novel that could be turned into one. In reality, Ursula spends a lot of time at work and mostly seems annoyed with Russell; it’s also almost an open secret that she is cheating on him. Oh, and there’s one more thing: a mysterious entity, whom Bela calls Other Mommy, lives in her room. It looks just like Ursula, only its face sometimes does funny things, as if it were...

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London 2026 Review: MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE, The Godmother of the Making-Of Doc Bids a Moving Farewell

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Eleanor Coppola's kind-hearted chronicle of her daughter Sofia's epic is a delightful swansong.

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TENZING Review: Necessary, If Hagiographic, Corrective to Cultural History

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:02:10 -0500

When newspapers, radio stations, and television news programs reported the first successful summit of Mt. Everest on May 29th, 1953, Edmund “Ed” Hilary, a New Zealand member of a spring expedition organized by the British, received prime, sometimes sole credit for arguably one of the greatest accomplishments in recorded human history. A knighthood followed Hilary’s success. The truth, of course, was far more complicated than contemporary accounts showed. Hilary wasn’t alone. He was part of a well-funded, 400-member strong expedition. He wasn’t even a member of the first team attempting to summit Mt. Everest that spring. He was, along with Tenzing Norgay, a 20-year mountaineering veteran, one of two, not one of one. Western accounts, however, repeatedly emphasized Hilary’s feat at the...

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V/H/S/MIXTAPE Review: The Kills Keep on Coming

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Halloween is creeping up, which means a new V/H/S is landing on Shudder today, just in time for some post-trick-or-treat trauma. Since the series’ resurrection, V/H/S has largely traded its loose narrative throughline for an annual theme, and while the franchise has mostly played things pretty safe by horror-anthology standards, V/H/S/Mixtape finds a surprisingly fresh hook in that subtitle: Every found footage segment is built around sound or the concept of an old school mixtape. And, weirdly enough, that simple conceit gives the ninth entry an intriguing creative kickstart. Producers/stewards Brad Miska and Josh Goldbloom may be nine movies deep into this thing, but V/H/S/Mixtape suggests they’ve still got some gas left in the tank. Unlike previous entries, which typically stitch their individual stories together...

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New York 2026 Review: THE DREAMED ADVENTURE, Once Upon a Time in Bulgaria

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:17:11 -0500

A middle-aged man, Said (Syuleyman Alilov Letifov), comes back to his small Bulgarian hometown, situated not far from the borders of both Turkey and Greece. He is here to conduct some shady deal involving diesel fuel, but when his car is stolen, he conveniently bumps into an old friend, Veska (Yana Radeva), who is also back for the first time in years, overseeing a small archeological dig. When Said disappears, Veska, seemingly more out of boredom than worry, inserts herself into a web of local intrigues that also concern another old acquaintance from her past – a provincial kingpin (Stoicho Kostadinov). At the behest of the curators of both Cannes Film Festival and NYFF, The Dreamed Adventure, a new, long-awaited film by German director Valeska...

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New York 2026 Review: BITTER CHRISTMAS, Weird Act of Artistic Self-Deprecation

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:32:07 -0500

Pedro Almodóvar's latest feature film.

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Echoes: HANGING BY A WIRE, Pakistan's First Academy Award Documentary Entry, Was Shot Entirely on a Phone

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:02:12 -0500

On the morning of August 22, 2023, people in the Allai Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, looked up. No one could believe their eyes when they saw a cable car hanging hundreds of feet above, suspended by the last cable that was supporting it. People were terrified that, at any minute, the cable car, containing eight people, including six children on their way to school, would come smashing down. It was obvious that media outlets were recording the entire incident, which was being reported live on all television screens across Pakistan. It was the same impossible image that showed people wailing from inside, asking for help, desperate to do something that would save their lives. Something else happened on the ground, however. Someone reached for their phone,...

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BUDDY: Digital And Home Video Release Dates Announced

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:45:00 -0500

Buddy will eventually wind down its theatrical run (Unless they find another version to release -- I'd vote for some kind of Gallagher splatter version but then who'd clean up afterwards?) and that means it is time to share with the movie's fans the dates when they can watch it at home, buy it on DVD and Blu-ray, AND (dah dadda daaaaah) VHS! Read below. WATCH IT AT HOME On Digital: October 13, 2026 On DVD and Blu-ray: December 8, 2026 And there’s more! Pre-Sale for the VHS edition will be available via Witter Entertainment starting on November 24 so that it can ship just in time for the holiday season! This summer, BUDDY, America’s favorite orange unicorn, emerged as...

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New York 2026 Review: BEHEMOTH!, Total Ungrip of the Heart

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Pedro Pascal stars in director Tony Gilroy's new film.

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MOUSE Review: Unassuming Crime Story Quietly Steals Your Heart

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Kenny Riches writes, directs and stars in this pre-Recession tale of wanting a better life.

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Vlissingen 2026 Review: ISABEL Shows Mid-Life And Hangovers

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:00:01 -0500

Ten years ago, filmmaker Gabe Klinger released his debut feature with Porto (reviewed here by Shelagh), and in that film he put some serious question marks at the popular cinematic trope of people being destined for each other after having one fantastic night together. In his second narrative feature Isabel, Klinger does the same thing with another such trope: people following their dreams and reinventing themselves. Let's just say Klinger likes to "keep it real". In Isabel we follow the titular main character, a wine expert in her early fifties who works at a Michelin-starred restaurant as the sommelier. A dream job for a connoisseur, but she feels frustrated and constricted because the restaurant's chef does not share her love of Brazilian natural wines and...

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THE HOLIDAY HITMAN Official Trailer: He's Making a List, A Hit List. Ho, Ho, H- ... I'll See Myself Out

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:45:00 -0500

Hitman Hank Carter is trying to save his marriage with the perfect family Christmas, unfortunately for him, a hit has been put on his head, and a gang of festive bounty hunters will stop at nothing to collect the payday.

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The Asylum's STREET FIGHTERS, Out Today on Digital

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:15:00 -0500

The Asylum's Street Fighters is releasing today on digital! Just thought we would share that with you fans of the tongue-in-cheek low-fi mockbusters. The world’s best martial artists fight in a world championship put on by a mysterious organization. As alliances forge and enemies emerge, they realize it’s not only the grand prize on the line, but their lives. The trailer and some stills are below. We honestly do not recall ever seeing any of the original studio films so cannot say with any authority that there was a fight with a three-story tall demon. But you have to appreciate the big swing The Asylum took with this one. Street Fighters was directed by Brian Nowak. It stars Yomade Adefeso, Diamond Marie...

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THE LAST TEMPTATION OF BECKY: Check Out These Two New Teasers

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:30:00 -0500

Now working as a field agent for the CIA, Becky (Lulu Wilson) is sent undercover to Poland to infiltrate a family of innkeepers who are running a tourist venture at The Wolf’s Lair, Hitler’s WWII bunker. After learning that the father, Wilhelm Reuss (Neil Patrick Harris), is on a mission to bring about the Fourth Reich, Becky takes matters into her own hands. Jenn Wexler's contribution to the Becky franchise, The Last Temptation of Becky, is coming to cinemas on November 4th. Two teasers were released this week. Meant to be watch in tandem they serve as a quick re-introduction to our heroine, Becky, and this film's advisary, Reuss, played by Neal Patrick Harris. Our own Josh caught the threequel when it premiered...

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BEWARE BOIÚNA Review: This Giant Snake Movie Needs Way More Giant Snake

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:06 -0500

It doesn’t take much for me to completely buy into your giant snake movie. Number one, show me the snake; number two, make the snake exciting; and number three, make the movie fun. Somehow, Mike P. Nelson’s Beware Boiúna comes up short on all three counts, delivering a turgid, overly serious eco-fable about a monster boa with very little action, and even less payoff. Alli (Jessica Rothe) is an American do-gooder on a humanitarian medical trip deep into the Amazon. She’s just a trainee, but thankfully she has a team of medical professionals and a seasoned boat hands as they wind their way deep into the mysterious – and dangerous – jungle. When their boat breaks down leading to a tense showdown with a motley...

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VERITY Review: Erotic Thriller Pays Lots of Attention to Teeth, but Forgoes Having Its Own

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:17:17 -0500

Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett star.

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Tokyo 2026 Exclusive: SISTER BROTHER MANHOLE COVER Poster Premiere

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Milcho Manchevski returns to Tokyo with an offbeat social comedy about survival, solidarity, and the families people create for themselves.

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THE DARK GETS IN Teaser: Mock-True Crime Documentary to Premiere at Beyond Fest

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:45:00 -0500

When a documentary team set out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young girl, events soon take an unexpected turn, leading the filmmakers down an increasingly dark and horrifying path.

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THE CYCLE Official Trailer: Deborah Ann Woll Stars in Horror Flick, Streaming on Shudder Next Month

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:15:00 -0500

When the body of a man missing for thirty-six years is discovered at the scene of a horrific crime, it's up to his estranged daughter to unravel his dark past.

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New York 2026 Review: POSSIBLE LOVE Examines Class Divide

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:30:08 -0500

It's surely one of the finest films of the year, and yet another masterpiece by Lee Chang-dong.

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Toronto 2026 Review: THE SMELL OF APPLES, Subtle, Unsettling Coming-of-Age Drama Under Apartheid

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:12:07 -0500

John Trengove adapts Mark Behr's novel into a restrained, disquieting coming-of-age drama that filters apartheid-era privilege, racial hierarchy and paternal idealization through a child's limited understanding.

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Toronto 2026 Review: TEHRAN, UNDER THE SKIN Reveals the Politics Beneath the Promise of Transformation

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Afsaneh Salari's formally controlled documentary examines cosmetic surgery in Iran as an unstable expression of conformity, resistance, consumer desire, and bodily autonomy.

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New York 2026 Review: PAPER TIGER, No Crime, Yet Punishment

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:07:11 -0500

Adam Driver, Miles Teller, and Scarlett Johansson star in director James Gray's crime thriller.

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Vlissingen 2026 Review: WHISPERS IN THE WOODS Stuns With Visual Poetry

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:00:04 -0500

During the opening titles of Vincent Munier's new documentary, you watch a forest, for minutes, with trees slowly emerging from the fog, while Hildur Guðnadóttir's Fólk Fær Andlit music plays. Seen on the big screen it's a jawdropper of a shot, and a meditative moment which is a feast for your senses. Many will follow. Vincent Munier is an award-winning nature photographer and filmmaker, and for this title he spent a winter in the French Vosges mountain forests. Not alone, mind you: he brought his father (also a renowned nature photographer) and his 13-year-old son with him. The end result is this film, Whispers in the Woods, which is about love of nature, of patience, of incredible dedication for getting the right shot. In a...

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ARCTIC ANNIHILATION: Trailer, Art and Images For The Asylum's 'Chilly' Sci-fi Disaster Flick

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:00:00 -0500

As glaciers advance and cities freeze, a team of scientists races against time to build a colossal thermal shield to protect Earth from an encroaching ice age that will plunge the planet into extinction.

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YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER Review: Singularly Engaging, Singularly Provocative Religious-Themed Action-Thriller

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:42:06 -0500

The title of the Mahershala Ali-led, Bassam Tariq-directed Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, an action-thriller with more than just action or thrills on its mind, derives from a well-known “Hadith,” a saying attributed to the Prophet Muhammad in Islam. Depending on the translation, the question differs slightly (e.g., “Whom should you honor foremost?”, “Who deserves your companionship and finest treatment?”), but the answer, repeated three times, remains the same: “Your mother.” "Your father" comes in fourth and last. Ali’s character, Latif, a Muslim hitman (“he only kills the undeserving and the unrighteous”), finds himself at a literal, metaphorical crossroads when his wife dies suddenly, not through random or intentional violence as a genre enthusiast might expect, but through natural causes. Her loss...

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ANGEL'S EGG 4K Review: Mamoru Oshii's Gorgeous and Distinctive Vision Comes Home

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:02:02 -0500

Mamoru Oshii ('Ghost in the Shell') tells a mysterious story in a mesmerizing fashion, now on 4K from GKids.

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V/H/S/MIXTAPE Trailer: It's Time to Press Play on Terror, Once Again

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:00:00 -0500

A new chapter in the V/H/S anthology horror series has become as much of a Halloween tradition as anything else you do to celebrate spooky season each year. Decorate your house. Buy or make your kid's costumes. Play spooky music on your smart speakers. Buy too much Halloween candy so you purposely have leftovers at the end of the night. Log into Shudder and watch the new chapter of V/H/S. See how natural that sounds? And so here we are, with the trailer for this year's contribution to the franchise that will never die, V/H/S/Mixtape. Featuring all-new segments from legendary filmmaker Ernest Dickerson, hip-hop icon RZA, visionary director David Moreau, and acclaimed filmmaker Renee Zhan, V/H/S/MIXTAPE cranks the franchise's signature found-footage horror...

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PRIMETIME Review: Form and Performances Shine Through Fairly Standard True Story Drama

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Matthew Maher and Bokeem Woodbine star in director Lance Oppenheimer's drama, inspired by true events.

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HEART OF THE BEAST Review: Brad Pitt and a Dog Named Odin Elevate Survival Thriller

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Only a year and a half ago, the Boy Scouts of America officially changed the name of the century-old youth organization to Scouting America, a move intended to be more inclusive than its gender-specific predecessor. (Currently, Scouting America includes roughly 200K female participants out of a total of 1 million.) Their motto, “Be Prepared!”, however, remains the same. While those two words encapsulate Scouting America’s wilderness-related goals, they're also applicable to everyday life, even in a survival thriller like Heart of the Beast, a Brad Pitt-led film helmed by David Ayer, Pitt's Fury collaborator (The Beekeeper, Suicide Squad, End of Watch), which can — and should — be amended to: “Be prepared and bring your closest canine companion on your wilderness adventures, planned or...

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HALLOWARRIOR Official Trailer: Shudder Original Starring Milly Shapiro Streaming This October

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:00:00 -0500

On the eve of Halloween, Pumpkin, the sole survivor of a humanity-ending plague, must use her candy, wit, and weapons to ferociously defend her wasteland home from a savage gang of raiders led by the fearsome Thalia.

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NEVER AFTER DARK Review: Genuinely Frightening, Not a Typical Ghost Story

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Moeka Hoshi, Kento Kaku, Kurumi Inagaki, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Bokuzo Masana, and Tae Kimura star in writer/director Dave Boyle's haunting thriller.

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