I watched two films from IFFR’s 2025 festival: one was The Last Dance, the smash hit Hong Kong family melodrama set in the world of…
The premise for Forbidden Fruits hints at escalating acts of witchcraft driven by an all-female coven, while marketing materials are quick to push the involvement…
If one recently saw Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, which featured Satanic cult members out to murder a young woman who was trying…
As of this writing, filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay turned 21 less than a week ago. She has also just premiered her sixth feature length film…
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the directing duo that calls itself Radio Silence, have kept busy since the release of 2019’s Ready or Not, making…
While most of the films produced during the heyday of Hong Kong action cinema took place either in Hong Kong or in historical China, some…
Writer-director-actress Grace Glowicki hasn’t yet ascended to the same level of indie prestige as Kate Lyn Sheil, Deragh Campbell, or (now mainstream power player) Greta…
Honest question: do we live in a post-cinematic world? Equally honest answer: no, of course not, cinema can absolutely meet the moment. The tools afforded…
Dolly lays its porcelain head at the altar of Leatherface. Rod Blackhurst’s bootstraps indie horror is unabashedly pious toward The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the seminal…
It’s been a long and winding to get Psycho Killer to the big screen. The film is the brainchild of screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, who…
Isaac Florentine is still considered one of the old-school best of the DTV action directors. He’s credited with helping to popularize the format with his…
The increasingly familiar annual Chinese New Year release slate tends now to arrive with two separate guarantees: the first, assured box office success; and the…
In Kevin and Matthew McManus’ Redux Redux, Irene Kelly (Michaela McManus) vaults through an endless sequence of parallel realities, searching for a universe where her…
It’s no secret that adapting video games into movies has a shockingly low success rate; adapting any medium to another has its own unique difficulties,…
It’s been a while since we last saw Gore Verbinski. Definitely an idiosyncratic stylist, he found himself a real niche in the early 2000s with…
Luc Besson, famed French director of Léon: The Professional and The Fifth Element, returns from making the relatively obscure June and John (2025) to release…
Picking up where Chapters 1 and 2 left off, The Strangers: Chapter 3, the final entry Renny Harlin’s ultimately limp reboot trilogy, has arrived for…
Some might find this fact difficult to stomach, but there was a fairly recent time in horror movie history where the Saw franchise reigned supreme…
As the Hong Kong film industry has been devoured by Mainland China, drawing its stars and directors away with the promise of big budgets and…
Film adaptations of video games can be a dicey proposition. Part of the issue lies in the elements getting lost in translation: the inherently immersive…
We don’t have many stars like Jason Statham left. If the ‘80s gave us a plethora of iconic tough guys, the ensuing decades have whittled…