Filmgoers, and genre fans more specifically, know that it’s hard to mess up those little two-handers about a killer in an isolated space cat-and-mousing…
Writer-director David Moreau has set himself a tall task with his new film MadS, namely how to rejuvenate the moribund zombie sub-genre while also…
The highlight of the 2024 Hot Docs Film Festival, and winner of the Roger’s Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary and the Hot Docs…
We truly are in a golden age of action cinema. From every corner of the globe, with budgets high, low, and in-between, remarkably fit…
On the Wikipedia page for the serial killer Rodney Alcala, there is a 145-word entry under the subheading “Dating Game appearance,” which recounts an…
In Caddo Lake’s hectic opening moments, Paris (Dylan O’Brien) fails to save his mother, trapped underwater in a car she has driven off a…
Anytime Park Chan-wook makes a movie, it’s an event. One of the most exciting and formally striking auteurs to hail from South Korea —…
There have been entire documentaries made about screen adaptations of Stephen King’s writing. We’re up to something like 80 or 90 individual movies and…
Coming 12 years after the first V/H/S, V/H/S/Beyond continues the well-established formula of the franchise: anthologized, supposedly found footage horror shorts, threaded together with…
Foodie television and film is having a bit of a moment, in no small part thanks to The Bear entering the zeitgeist surely, but…
The greatest sin a basketball film or TV series can commit is to enlist actors who can’t actually play basketball. More than any other…
In many ways, road trips are the perfect vehicle for self-discovery — both in life and in cinema. Removed from the distractions and routines…
One of the more amazing things about returning to Rosemary’s Baby after its release decades ago, or even watching it for the first time…
It can often be difficult to evaluate the work of a director who is branching out from their niche. With Jon Bois, he has…
Wolfs is so confident that it can entirely coast on the incredible chemistry between its two leads, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, that it…
Sometimes there’s pleasure to be taken in genre familiarity if the muscles are appropriately and well-flexed. An effectively written voiceover, haunted protagonist, seductive femme…
At the end of the very first (of many) verbal arguments in Azazel Jacobs’ His Three Daughters, an emotionally potent chamber drama about three…
A short 15 years ago, in a(n almost) post-Harry Potter world, it looked as if the young adult SFF wave was poised to be…