In what is somehow 19-year-old filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay’s fifth feature, Carnage for Christmas, genres abound. Though a slasher makes up the bones of…
Skye Riley is in trouble. One year after a near-fatal car crash, which exposed her mental health and substance abuse issues for all to…
A home invasion is a terrifying prospect, though it’s even more blood-curdling, especially from a third-party vantage, if the occupants are unaware of the…
After Guillermo del Toro’s well-liked and richly imagined Hellboy films, as well as 2019’s misbegotten David Harbour-led attempted reboot, it may have seemed like…
While it’s undoubtedly true that every era of cinema likely produced more mediocrities than masterpieces, the dirty little secret of our streaming era is…
In 2016, there was Terrifier. Written and directed by Damien Leone, the film was produced for peanuts and offered little more than some decent practical…
As a filmmaking duo, directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have left a lasting impression in carving out their own little niche of low-fi…
Director Alexandre Aja’s latest film, Never Let Go, occupies a deliberately liminal space. Its threadbare plot suggests a post-apocalyptic near future, but its central…
After several festival dates in 2023, Simon Barrett and E.L. Katz’s Azrael seemed to fall off the face of the Earth. Given the current…
“Someone’s inside.” These two words, uttered with ominous clarity, spur Jason Yu’s invigorating debut, Sleep, into malevolent and mysterious somnolence; for in the world…
Zoya Lowe (Mary-Louise Parker) has a problem, but it might be sort of a familiar one, which is a little symptomatic of just what’s…
Don’t look now, but there’s a new action comedy about a hitman! No one should be surprised, as it one of them seems to…
Tamil star Dhanush has worked with a bounty of the industry’s most daring artists: Vetrimaaran, Karthik Subbaraj, not to mention his brother Selvaraghavan, always…
At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Studio Ghibli was presented with an Honorary Palme d’Or — the very first time in the festival’s history…
Botox is everywhere, and Ozempic will follow. To voluntarily place a needle in one’s skin is no longer an image of deviancy, but one…
Not very long ago, robots and AIs, automatons and droids — either as friendly or malignant entities — belonged to a far unknown future…
Grief is a challenging experience to depict in any medium due to its deeply subjective nature and the presentational challenges this presents. Whether it’s…
For people of a certain age, author Joe R. Lansdale will likely always be best known as the writer of some of the best…