Sham If anyone can make a great Cancel Culture movie, it would have to be Takashi Miike, right? Sham is based on a true story,…
If anyone can make a great Cancel Culture movie, it would have to be Takashi Miike, right? Sham is based on a true story, a…
Brock Bodell’s directorial debut, Hellcat, begins with a wounded and frantic woman, Lena (Dakota Gorman), waking up in a moving camper trailer. A drawling voice…
In a world completely in thrall to corporate IP and mega-budget computerized imperialist fantasies, we should be eternally grateful to festivals like Fantasia for platforming…
The shadow of Alex Honnold looms large. As the most famous rock climber in the world, and the undeniable face of the sport to those…
It feels like many horror films in recent years begin and end in the pitch meeting. A kooky premise is introduced, funding is secured, and…
On paper, July was — and is usually — a month earmarked for studios to make their mint, with blockbusters of varying quality demanding half…
Ask any loving parent what lengths they’d go to protect their own child, and the response of “kill for them” might not sound completely unreasonable…
There’s a heavy, somber pallor that hangs over To Kill a Wolf, writer/director Kelsey Taylor’s debut feature. Working with cinematographer Adam Lee, Taylor films the…
Queen of Bones opens with text evoking silent movie title cards: “folk tales of the great depression.” Whether or not this succeeds in setting us…
Abortion Party Aside from the infamous “Barry Lyndon x ‘a lot’ by 21 Savage” edit that has been circulating on X since last year, the…
The confluence of factors that led to the production of Targets encapsulate the idiosyncratic period in film history it was born into: in 1968, when…
You’re probably familiar. But in case you’re not, back in 1982, relatively fresh off the success of Airplane!, creators Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, and Jim…
It all begins as a ghost story in Portuguese filmmaker João Rosas’ feature debut The Luminous Life. Said ghost is a nameless woman who, as…
For a particular contingent of American moviegoer — one born in the mid-to-late 1980s, say — Happy Gilmore is something of a sacred cow. Its…
“You can’t be a spectator. You gotta take these dreams and make them whole.” After over a decade of releasing music, Pulp’s Different Class album…
The thing about I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) — itself an adaptation of Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel — is that it already…
Together In Michael Shanks’ body-horror-comedy Together, the recently-engaged but longtime-dating couple of Millie and Tim (played by real-life spouses and frequent creative collaborators Alison Brie…
As Terrestrial opens, we meet Allen (Jermaine Fowler), a successful sci-fi writer who is of late enjoying a massive career upswing as his work has…
Attention: this one’s for all the Obayashi heads out there. Daigo Matsui’s Rewrite begins in a place we know well: a high school girl named…
It’s not surprising that Fantasia organizers for the festival’s 2025 edition couldn’t help but highlight how Dog of God follows last year’s triumph of Flow,…