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Opening This Week: RESIDENT EVIL, BAD APPLES, SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'The History of Concrete' and 'The Weight.'

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THE SECRET AGENT 4K Review: A Masterpiece of Memory and Resistance

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:00:00 -0500

It's hard to fathom, even in hindsight, how a film about a dictatorship, its long reach into the lives of seemingly ordinary people, a love of old movie houses and carnivals, and something of an experimental narrative structure, could translate into one of the most critically and commercially successful films of recent times. But sometimes the film goddesses smile upon a filmmaker and his audience, and we get a masterpiece like The Secret Agent, that finds universal appeal in its specific story. Criterion has assembles a wonderful 3-disc edition of the film for its collection. Kleber Mendonça Filho's cinema has always combined the personal and the political; memory and erasure; the ordinary person versus the tyrant and the evil. The Secret Agent is his most ambitious film to...

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Toronto 2026 Review: MINOTAUR, Russia As A Psychological-Visual Labyrinth

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0500

Andrey Zvyagintsev interrogates Russia in the same way 1990s era Zhang Yimou interrogated China: Methodically, metaphorically, and with an astutely savage eye for beautiful visuals to mask the criticism. There is a scene in his latest film, Minotaur, where the narrative briefly leaves the main characters and drama of the infidelity story, to follow some municipal workers refreshing a propaganda Special Military Operation recruitment poster. It has the purpose of driving Russia’s indifference towards honour and service, while also offering a bit of exposition in the form of a perfect ‘show don’t tell’ visual. Unlike Yimou’s post-Hero nationalistic reinvention as China’s top patriotic filmmaker (and Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies director), I do not suspect Zvyagintsev is going to be welcomed back into the fold any...

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WHEN EMMA CAME HOME: Filming Wraps on Upcoming Psychological Horror Film From Viral Filmmaker Spencer Keller

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0500

Filming has wrapped on an upcoming psychological horror flick When Emma Came Home, the feature debut from viral filmmaker Spencer Keller. ... an ambitious documentary filmmaker (...) sets out to discover what happened twenty years ago when a girl went missing and subsequently murdered a family upon her return. The deeper she digs into the case and the isolated community impacted by the crime, the more her sense of self becomes increasingly fractured and the mystery behind the girl’s violent act is revealed. As is the growing trend these days, Spencer cut his teeth online creating a number of viral horror shorts over the years. They look to add their names to the rising numbers of filmmakers making the transition from online to...

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Vlissingen 2026 Review: YOURI, A Great Film About A Great Friendship

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:00:06 -0500

The Film by the Sea festival in Vlissingen (a.k.a. Flushing) started this year on a high note with its opening film Youri, by Sander Burger. The festival always has a large section dedicated to literary adaptations, and its main theme this year is "Moed", the Dutch word for courage. Youri fits the section, as it is an adaptation of Jan Brokken's biographical novel "In the House of the Poet" about his friendship with superstar pianist Youri Egorov. It also fits the theme of "Courage", in several parts of the story, some of which are obvious, but some of which I will not spoil. The film starts in Amsterdam in the 1980s, a few years after the famous Russian pianist Youri Egorov has fled to the...

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Celluloid Screams 2026: Sheffield Horror Film Festival Announces Lineup

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:55:36 -0500

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 festival based in Sheffield, UK, to see what they have in store for their patrons next month. Onslaught, the latest from Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett will open this year's festival. The darkly comedic rural fantasy film The Fox will close this year's festival. Cult filmmaker Larry Fessenden will cross the pond to host screenings of his monster quadrilogy: Habit, Depraved, Blackout and Trauma or, Monsters All. Fellow New York staters, The Adams Family, will be present for a screening of their darkly...

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MOTELX 2026 Award Winners: NO REST FOR THE WICKED And MANCAVE win Best European films, IT'S CHICO TIME! wins Best Portuguese Short

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:00:11 -0500

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 short film and feature film went to Fredrik S. Hana's Mancave and Kasper Kalie's No Rest For The Wicked respectively. Locally, It's Chico Time!, by João Severo and Rafael Sá Carneiro, won the MOTELX Award for Best Portuguese Horror Short Film. The audice award went to Argentine thriller Gunman, from Cris Tapia Marchiori. Congrats to all the winners. They are featured in the gallery below. MOTELX 20 Years | (20th Edition) Winners of MOTELX 2026 | Awards “It's Chico Time!”, by João Severo...

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SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM Review: It's All About Growth

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:00:00 -0500

It's the latest sly, LOL comic adventure from Aardman Animation -- need we say more?

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Toronto 2026 Review: RIVER, Survival Slasher Has an Experimental Streak

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:34:02 -0500

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 Camp Miasma, now comes the experimental formula remixing slash reaffirming of River. The prologue here separates the violence of audio and image in a way that is slickly disorienting, and feels as fresh as blasting Bach out of the stereo of a muscle car; not your typical needle drop for a wildness survival horror. The film settles into a slow, and long character-driven start with three estranged siblings meeting at their neglectful, now deceased, father’s cottage to scatter his ashes. There is a spectacular transition...

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Toronto 2026 Review: THE REMOTES, The Voices that Haunt the Night

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0500

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 take us where we need to go, without paying attention to how we got there. We hear the voice say 'turn right' or 'go straight' and we absorb that. But that calming, assured voice could viewed as something deeper, and darker, if we don't understand where it comes from or how, and where, it is literally or metaphorically guiding us. Perhaps I'm getting too philosophical, but that seems to be much of the intention behind Filipino filmmaker John Torres's latest feature, The Remotes. This is not...

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Toronto 2026 Review: Singaporean Drama AH GIRL Elevated by Assured New Director and Astonishing Young Lead

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:35:00 -0500

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 the future will hold for both herself and her younger sister, Ah Girl lilts gently from moments of drama and sadness to others of playfulness and joyful innocence. Shot in 4:3 ratio and anchored by an astonishing central performance from first time actress Ong Xuan Jing, Ah Girl announces the debut of an impressively assured new voice in Asian cinema. Since bowing at the International Film Festival Rotterdam last January, where Ang was awarded the Youth Jury Award, the film has received further recognition...

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Toronto 2026 Review: HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY!, Beautiful, Vibrant Portrait of Loss and Romance

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:02:04 -0500

Rinko Kikuchi stars in filmmaker Josef Kubota Wladyka's beautiful, vibrant, quirky, weird, imaginative, and genuinely moving portrait of moving on from devastating loss.

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Now Playing: HOPE Rises, BLACK ZOMBIE Illuminates, ON A STRING Amuses

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Don't Play With Fire,' 'The Uprising,' 'Practical Magic 2,' and 'The Fix.'

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DISCO ITALIANA Interview: Alan Jones Talks Severin's Box Set

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:02:11 -0500

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, no matter how hard we work at the serious and important business of film criticism, theory and history, we are confronted with a simple truth time and again: The films that survive the longest, often do so because they are so much fun. Such films can humble the haughty, comfort the masses and serve as a reminder that no matter what critics think of any film or genre, it may very well take on an important place in the hearts of people and history...

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Toronto 2026 Review: FJORD, Palme D'Or Winner Finds Many Arthouse Audience Buttons to Push

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

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 (and polarized) world, the opportunities for mis-communication, mis-understanding and social dogmas have never been more ripe for abuse. Fjord quietly, practically inevitably, goes for the jugular of the very arthouse audience that would be his core audience. This is Micheal Haneke kind of stuff, but filtered through the ‘eat the elite’ sensibilities of Ruben Östlund, with all the language barriers and procedural nightmares of Justine Triet’s Anatomy of A Fall. As all of these directors, including Mungiu (both for Fjord and 4 Months, 3...

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PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 Review: Second Time Isn't a Charm

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:12:10 -0500

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 that’s always fun, unless you’re a woman in the 17th century Massachusetts. The real, practical magic was the fact that, in a pretty male-centered movie era, out came the film about sisterhood, where a romantic storyline was almost an afterthought, Sally and Gillian Owens were each other’s person years before Meredith Grey and Cristina Yang graced our screens, and there was an impressive message about reclaiming your “otherness” and going along with it inside it all. So, there was never a chance that, in the...

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THE UPRISING Review: Brooding Andrew Garfield Leads a Semi-Enthralling Medieval Epic

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:42:09 -0500

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 the Terminally Online. They claimed, not without justification or cause, that the Robin Hood mythos had been adapted and re-adapted so many times in every possible medium as to lose all relevance or, at a minimum, any possible novelty or freshness. Luckily for them and for any moviegoers venturing out of the oppressive heat into their local multiplex to see The Uprising, Greengrass’ film doesn’t retell the overly-familiar Robin Hood’s story for the 357th time, but instead focuses on a well-documented period in...

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12 ANGRY MEN 4K Review: Crackling Legal Thriller, Trapped in a Single Room

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:32:06 -0500

Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, and Martin Balsam star in Sidney Lumet's feature film debut, now in 4K from The Criterion Collection.

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PRACTICAL MAGIC 4K UHD: More Magical Treasures with Special Features

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:02:11 -0500

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 wonders in 4K UHD. Sisters and family curses have meaning, which is why it’s essential to revisit this movie before the release of Practical Magic 2, which opens in cinemas on September 11. Audiences are in for a treat of nostalgia with the 4K UHD edition of the 1998 classic. I appreciate the previous bonus features on the 4K UHD because they take viewers back in time. There is a sense of how the sisterhood came together in the special bonus feature titled Casting the...

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BLACK ZOMBIE Review: Engaging, Insightful Work of Cultural Criticism

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:02:01 -0500

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 you consider going to grad school for this stuff. The film begins, as many of these documentaries about film do, with a montage of moments (spanning the 1920s to the 2020s) that attempt to convince you why you should care about this particular cultural history and its place in the pop culture landscape today. Interspersed with these clips are several talking heads that give previews of the ideas the rest of the movie will delve into: Zombies raise "questions about autonomy and agency," zombies are...

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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

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:00:00 -0500

Those fine folks at Beyond Fest have announced the full line-up of features, reperatory, anniversary and 4K screenings at this year's festival.

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Toronto 2026 Curtain Raiser: Discover With Us What TIFF Is Offering Audiences This Year

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:02:12 -0500

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 perhaps most pleasurably, a discovery year. This is not a silver lining, this is a feature. North America's biggest film festival, by both media profile and international visitors, has always served many functions. It courts Hollywood, being the first stepping stone on the road to the Oscars. It offers a sampling of the titles and awards winners of other festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, Locarno, and Venice, the latter of which tiff overlaps with for a few days, where filmmakers and actors often board a...

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ON A STRING Review: A Comedy Where Everyone Is a Judge and No One Is Very Happy

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:02:11 -0500

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.

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Toronto After Dark 2026: First Wave of Titles Announced, Featuring I LOVE PARIS, FROGMAN RETURNS, And 5 MORE MINUTES

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0500

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 mockumentary I Love Paris (pictured above), and the closing night film, Frogman Returns, sequel to the cult hit, Frogman. New this year is TADFF's Late Night Programme which will kick off with the World Premiere of My Love For You is Deep But The Devil Loves me Deeper. This will be one of three feature films screening at Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)’s CineCycle (129 Spadina Avenue), a venue which holds a special place in the hearts of Toronto-base Anarchists and the rest of our genre...

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HOPE Review: Pure Entertainment, Yet Little Beyond That

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Na Hong-jin directed; Hwang Jung-min, Hoyeon, and Zo In-sung star, with Taylor Russell, Cameron Britton, Alicia Vikander, and Michael Fassbender.

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DON'T PLAY WITH FIRE Review: Good for Nothing Punks

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Tsui Hark's remarkable third feature stars Lo Lieh, Lin Chen-chi, Albert Au, Che Biu-law, and Lung Tin-sang.

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Echoes: 10 Pakistani Performances That Deserved Far More Attention

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 01:02:01 -0500

Despite financial and infrastructural challenges, Pakistani industry has produced some truly extraordinary performances, both in film and TV. Some of the actors deserved far more appreciation than they received when they first went on air or hit the big screens. And that is why these 10 Pakistani performances have stolen the show and left a lasting impression even after years. Zahid Ahmed as Sameer in Ishq Zahe Naseeb (TV, 2019) Zahid Ahmed's Sameer was one of the most demanding performances ever in TV and film combined. Not only because the role was never played before, but it was a double character played by a single person whose alternate personalities affected others. He played a successful businessman, Sameer, living with dissociative identity disorder and transformed into...

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FrightFest 2026 Review: ODDITIES, Adrienne Barbeau Gets the Wicked, Substantial Horror Role She Deserves

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:00:07 -0500

When two self-destructive best friends accidentally kill their drug dealer, they have to flee town. Stopping at a roadside antique shop, they quickly discover that the older woman running the place isn't as sweet as she seems.

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FrightFest 2026 Review: HOME BODIES, Sibling Tension Rises in a Smart Home Trap

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:00:00 -0500

Two children, raised in total isolation by an automated house, begin to confront the mysteries of their existence after an enigmatic stranger arrives from outside.

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RAISE THE TITANIC Review: Solid Adventure Film Now Has a Worthy Home Video Release

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Also from Imprint Films: Joe Don Baker in 'Framed' on Blu-ray.

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Opening This Week: HOPE, THE UPRISING, PRACTICAL MAGIC 2

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Black Zombie,' 'On a String,' 'The Fix.'

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Venice 2026: Exclusive UNTIL THE DAY ENDS Poster Premiere

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:00:11 -0500

Jelena Maksimović's fiction-feature debut, set to world premiere in the 83rd Venice International Film Festival's Orizzonti competition, follows two young people divided by politics but united by a desire for freedom.

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Sound And Vision: Mascha Halberstad

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:00:08 -0500

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at The Prodigy's Wild Frontier, directed by Mascha Halberstad. If you aren't Dutch Mascha Halberstad might need an introduction, even though she deserves to be a household name worldwide. Mostly because Mascha Halberstad put stop-motion on the map in a big way in what is a country with a small (but fruitful) animation industry but with not a lot of big stop-motion works. Rising to fame in The Netherlands with the short Munya in Mij (Munya in Me) she did her first music video before she did any feature work, for The Prodigy's Wild Frontier. But her two features to date Knor (Oink) and...

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DEAR YOU Review: Chinese Box Office Dark Horse, Built on Sincerity

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:02:10 -0500

For the Chinese film market, this year seems to be a great year for low-budget films. Unlike the recent low-budget box-office hit and "global sensation" Niu Lai, which has been compared to the Chinese version of The Room, Dear You is a strong low-budget film that wins over audiences through sincere storytelling. Released in China in April this year, Dear You is a dialect film spoken mainly in Teochew. It was initially released only in the Guangdong region, where Teoswa people live, but its strong word of mouth quickly attracted audiences from across the country. It is now the second highest-grossing film in the Chinese market in 2026, and has also made its way overseas, with its official North American release on September 4. Dear...

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BY ANY MEANS Review: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Commands an Entertaining, Yet Derivative Civil Rights Thriller

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II star in Elegance Bratton's civil rights historical crime thriller.

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Vancouver Horror Show 2026: First Wave Announced, Michael Dougherty in Attendance to Present Anniversary Screening of TRICK 'R TREAT (Exclusive)

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:00:00 -0500

Here is your first look at the first wave of titles and special guests attending this year's edition of the Vancouver Horror Show.

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Now Playing: ONSLAUGHT, BY ANY MEANS, FALL 2: DEADPOINT

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Chronovisor,' 'Cocoon: One Summer of Girlhood,' 'Ever After,' 'Dear You.'

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Now Streaming: PARASOMNIA, TEENAGE WASTELAND, THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU, SCARY MOVIE 6

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Plus: 'The Gentlemen' and 'Chad Powers' both return for some reason, along with the genteel 'American Classic.'

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Friday One Sheet: HOMBRE AL AGUA

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:02:10 -0500

The poster for Gael Garcia Bernal's latest film, Hombre Al Agua (aka Man Overboard!) has a retro vibe not seen too much these days. It was designed by the iconic Edel Rodríguez Mola (or simply Mola), who is known for offering striking, surreal, exaggerated, and politically-charged editorial illustrations. Long painterly strokes form a border, and a crude face with life-preservers as eyes, while the fat hand-drawn title and credits occupy the top, and the credit block is subtly embedded in blue wavy water at the bottom. The power here is both its simplicity, as well as the fact that it is different from just about everything out there at the moment. It evokes the imagery and style of Polish designer Barbara “Bacha” Baranowska, specifically her work...

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ONSLAUGHT Review: Much Ado About Murder

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:00:28 -0500

A former soldier scarred by battlefield trauma fights to protect her home and her young daughter when three genetically enhanced killing machines escape from a lab and descend upon her remote desert trailer park in Adam Wingard’s semi-slasher, Onslaught. Celeste (Adria Arjona) is not doing great. Her time in the trenches really did a number on her psyche, breaking up her marriage and leading her to hide away in the nowheresville that is a Moriarty, New Mexico mobile home park where she splits her time between target practice and harassing the residents over their late rent payments. Meanwhile, a nearby secret research facility houses mad scientist, Dr. Hans Kammler (Dan Stevens), conducting human experiments designed to create the perfect soldier, an unstoppable killing machine with...

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IGNORE IT: Sam Evenson's Viral Short to be Adapted With SMILE Producers

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:25:43 -0500

Their one rule for survival: ignore it.

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ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM: New Trailer and Poster

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:12 -0500

Proudly touting its distinction as "the only film this year to screen at Sundance, Cannes, Telluride, TIFF, NYFF and London," Neon has unveiled a new trailer and poster for Once Upon a Time in Harlem. Conceived and filmed by William Greaves, a Black actor who became disgruntled with the roles that were available for him to portray in the film industry in the late 40s and early 50s, moved to Canada, received training at the National Film Board of Canada -- yay Canada! -- and became a documentary director, coming to wide notice with 1968's Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (see our own Jim Tudor's review), Once Upon a Time in Harlem is a truly unique film. The official verbiage explains why: "A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker...

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BEYOND FEST 2026: Night Visions: The Shock and Awe of M. Night Shyamalan, a Retrospective of The Filmmaker's Work

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:58:25 -0500

With the arrival of September our attention turns to one of the big genre events happening this month in the U.S. - Beyond Fest. The first big announcement is this year's retrospective program. Last year the festival celebrated the works of Guillermo Del Toro. This year they are turning our focus on the works of M. Night Shyamalan. Eleven of the filmmaker's movies will be screened during the festival with the director in attendance for at least four of them at the time of this announcement. Tickets will be on sale on the American Cinematheque website Thursday, September 3rd at 12:00 pm PST. Visit beyondfest.com and americancinematheque.com for details BEYOND FEST PRESENTS NIGHT VISIONS: THE SHOCK AND AWE OF M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN...

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Hey NYC! Don't Play With Fire: The Films of Tsui Hark

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Opening tomorrow at Metrograph NYC, the series celebrates the films of Chinese filmmaker Tsui Hark, from Hong Kong to Hollywood and back again.

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FALL 2: DEADPOINT Review: Oops!...They Did It Again

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:32:08 -0500

Harriet Slater, Arsema Thomas, Tom Brittney, Virginia Gardner, and Grace Caroline Currey star. The Spierig Brothers directed.

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THE PAPER S2 Review: Inappropriate Workplace Relationships Made Funny

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:32:04 -0500

Domhnall Gleeson, Sabrina Impacciatore, Chelsea Frei, Tim Key, and Oscar Nuñez reprise their roles in the faux-doc comedy series, debuting on Peacock TV.

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MAYDAY Review: Behind Enemy Lines, Beyond Rescue, Can't We All Just Get Along?

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:12 -0500

Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh star as a downed U.S. pilot and an ex-KGB agent, respectively, in a hapless Apple TV comic adventure.

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FORTITUDE Trailer Premiere: The WWII Story That Was so Crazy, It's True

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:00:00 -0500

If you know your World War II history you will know about Operation Fortitude and the deception plan to convince Germany that the Allied invasion was going to happen in one place in France when it was really going to happen at Normandy. The Allies did this through the use of fake equipment, false radio traffic and false information fed through double agents. This new movie from director Simon West, is the dramatization of that remarkable story. The director is backed up by a heck of a cast as well. Fortitude stars Matthew Goode, Ed Skrein, Jordi Mollà, Alice Eve, Art Malik, Lukas Haas, Adrian Topol, Emilio Sakraya, Maeve Courtier-Lilley, Paul Anderson, with Ben Kingsley, with Michael Sheen and Nicolas Cage. FORTITUDE is based...

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Now Streaming: RESIDENT EVIL Reanimates

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

Just can't get enough? Where to watch (nearly) all of them -- with trailers!

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Echoes: The Pakistani Films We Need But That Haven't Been Made Yet

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Not every Pakistani film needs a larger-than-life hero or a damsel in distress to be successful. Pakistan is culturally diverse, and a plethora of films still have not been able to see the light of day. A wish list of stories, genres, and ideas that could broaden the horizons of Pakistani cinema is long overdue. What do I mean by "films we need"? These stories could include overlooked Pakistani communities, addressing social issues without becoming preachy, revisiting history from fresh perspectives, showcasing different regions of Pakistan, experimenting with genres, telling ordinary stories, giving new filmmakers and actors opportunities, and moving beyond predictable romance, comedy, action, or family drama. Hundan-An Echo of a Dirge (2025) is the first-ever feature film in the endangered Burushaski language, focusing...

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