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…
Julian of Norwich was a religious mystic and anchoress in the Middle Ages. After a grave illness during which she experienced visions of Christ on…
Balthazar — or Balthy, as he would be to his friends, if he had any — is a bright kid. But when your family’s rich…
The time travel mob comedy Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice opens with the actor Ben Schwartz singing a foul-mouthed rendition of the Billy…
As loglines go, a Chloë Sevigny-narrated, archive-heavy documentary about an infamous, largely discredited dolphin scientist has a kind of whimsical ring to it. And indeed,…
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…
One would be hard-pressed to identify a film director on the world stage who has done a better job of articulating our historical moment than…
In the face of ongoing, ever-intensifying genocide, nuance is arguably out of order, and so agit-prop wisdom becomes a creative’s necessary juice. But for Israeli…
An 11-minute standing ovation at Cannes can’t be called a total disaster. Nevertheless, Alpha arrived at the 2025 London Film Festival trailing a, shall we…