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INFILTRATE Review: Generic Actioner Elevated by Superior Stunt Work

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:02:09 -0500

James Mark directed the action thriller, starring Orphée Ladouceur-Nguyen, Tim Rozon, Mitra Suri, Alain Moussi, and Lisa Berry.

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THE LAST ANNIVERSARY: Canadian Horror Thriller Announces Theatrical Release Dates

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:00:00 -0500

A couple reunites their wedding party at the abandoned hotel where they were married, seeking closure over a bridesmaid's mysterious disappearance--but as old secrets resurface and the world teeters on collapse, the night spirals into a reckoning with devastating consequences.

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TRAUMA OR, MONSTERS ALL Exclusive Clip: Kicking a Hornet's Nest

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:00:00 -0500

A new film by horror indie auteur Larry Fessenden is always cause for celebration, and for those lucky enough to be attending the Overlook Film Festival, they have the chance to attend the world premiere of his new film Trauma or, Monsters All, tonight. And we have an exclusive clip! An aspiring author gets more than she bargained for when she writes an article for the local paper about her small town’s dark history, prompting unwanted speculation on what monsters may lie within. Overlook mainstay Larry Fessenden returns with the thrilling conclusion to his quadrilogy, a thoughtful and fiercely independent monster mash that can be enjoyed on its own or marathoned with his three origin stories – Habit, Depraved, and Blackout. Laëtitia Hollard, the big breakout...

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THE VOICES OF OUR MOTHER: Shudder Acquires New Canadian Horror Flick by Mark O'Brien

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:30:00 -0500

When a family matriarch falls seriously ill, relatives gather and discover their shared ancestral ties bind them in unexpected ways.

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PH-1 Exclusive Clip: Mark Kassen's Been Locked in, in Political Thriller

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:00:00 -0500

A promising politician is held hostage in his luxurious penthouse by a remote captor, forced to watch his life destroyed by social and conventional media as he tries to figure out who is behind it and why.

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Now Playing: FACES OF DEATH, EXIT 8, CHAO, and More

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Also: 'The Christophers,' ''The Travel Companion,' 'Mermaid,' 'Hamlet,' 'The Yeti,' 'Infiltrate.'

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Now Streaming: THE TESTAMENTS Rekindles Teen Fires, THE BOYS Remains Outrageously Bloody

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Plus more new series: 'Dangerous Touch' and 'The Miniature Wife.'

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Friday One Sheet: IL DIO DELLAMORE

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:00:05 -0500

Francesco Lagi's Il Dio Dell'amore weaves together the lives of several characters dealing with complicated relationships, hidden desires, and fragile emotional balances, in the fashion of Short Cuts or Magnolia. The film gets a classical, handsome piece of key art from Italian design-house, Twinpix. A distressed five colour design, with a Polaroid-style matte-ing design. There is ample white space, and the edges of the wings bleeding out in complementary colours. All sorts of small details add up to a greater whole: the absolutely perfect placement of a studio laurel, the small bit of text of the distribution company at the top, and the above the line talent at the bottom. No credit block though. (boo-urns!) I love the lighting and the shadow of the hand touching the...

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THE CHRISTOPHERS Review: Art Forgery Comedy-Drama Excels On Every Level

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Steven Soderbergh's film stars Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel, with James Corden, Jessica Gunning.

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THE PUNISHER: ONE LAST KILL: New Trailer, Key Art And Stills For Upcoming Punisher Special

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:43:41 -0500

Frank searches for meaning beyond revenge, when an unexpected force pulls him back into the fight.

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FRANKIE, MANIAC WOMAN Official Trailer: Slasher Flick Available In Select Theaters on April 24th

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:22:28 -0500

An aspiring LA singer-songwriter confronts childhood trauma, internalized misogyny, and industry fat-shaming until she violently breaks.

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TALES FROM THE CRYPT: Shudder to Stream All Seven Season of 90s Horror Anthology Series

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:00:52 -0500

Shudder announced that it will exclusively debut all seven seasons of the '90s cult classic horror anthology series Tales From the Crypt.

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BUNNYLOVR Review: Opaque Character Study of a Cam-Girl

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Katarina Zhu stars in and directs a striking drama, co-starring Austin Amelio, Perry Yung, and Rachel Sennott.

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THE TRAVEL COMPANION Review: Friendship and Filmmaking Commingle in Deadpan, Bittersweet Comedy

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Directed by Travis Wood & Alex Mallis, the film stars Tristan Turner, Anthony Oberbeck, and Naomi Asa.

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Diagonale 2026 Review: MOTHER'S BABY Masks a Paranoid Thriller Within an Ambiguous Psychological Portrait

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:32:03 -0500

Marie Leuenberger and Claes Bang star. Austrian filmmaker Johanna Moder tackles post-partum depression and potential psychosis as a slow-burning paranoid thriller, where maternal anxiety is filtered through an unreliable perspective and edged with traces of dark humour.

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EXTRACTION 3: Sequel Greenlit by Netflix. Hemsworth, Elba, Farahani & Director Sam Hargrave Will Return

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:00:00 -0500

Huzzah! We are getting another Extraction movie, and Hemsworth, Elba, Farahani & director Sam Hargrave are returning!

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CHAO Review: Joyful and Hilarious Comic Adventure

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Director Yasuhiro Aoki's stellar debut feature explodes on the screen with controlled chaos.

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Shudder Announces Acquisition of Three Titles Ahead of Overlook Screenings: PARASOMNIA, GOODY GOODY And NEW GROUP

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:00:00 -0500

Shudder announces three new acquisitions, three films that are screening at the Overlook Film Festival this coming weekend.

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EXIT 8 Review: Purposely Repetitive, Yet Never Dull Horror Thriller

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Genki Kawamura directed; Kazunari Ninomiya and Yamato Kochi star.

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GILDA Blu-ray Review: The Atypical Noir Gets a Fresh Restoration

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:00:00 -0500

Probably like many people of my and slightly older generations, I was first introduced to Gilda from a scene in The Shawshank Redemption, during which the prisoners are watching the film and one insists that his friend pause in asking a request until the titular character is introduced via a famous hair flip and verbal quip. I had already seen some Rita Hayworth films, and yet it took me years to see the film that introduced, or re-introduced her, to a wider public. Criterion Collection have reissued Spine #795 with a new 4K restoration, Blu-ray (there is still the DVD for those who prefer that version), and while Gilda, directed by Charles Vidor, is something of an atypical film noir, it is worth both this restoration and its place...

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GEMS Vancouver Announces 2026 Genre Film Lab Teams

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:30:00 -0500

GEMS (Gender Equity in Media Society) has announced the five feature film projects from female and gender-diverse filmmakers from across Canada that will participate in this year's The Genre Film Lab 2026.

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ALIEN: EARTH's Noah Hawley to Direct Remake of Demián Rugna's TERRIFIED

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:00:00 -0500

Reportedly, Noah Hawley is set to remake Atterados (Terrified) the Argentine supernatural spectacular that introduced the world to writer-director Demián Rugna. Rugna will help develop the project.

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Diagonale 2026 Review: WHITE SNAIL Subverts Girl-Meets-Boy Into Anti-Romance

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:02:02 -0500

Austrian-German filmmakers Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter's fiction debut reworks social drama conventions into a psychologically driven, docu-fiction hybrid centred on an unstable relationship shaped by loneliness, death and an implied autocratic backdrop.

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Unnamed Footage 2026: Micro Review Roundup

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:00:00 -0500

Due to unexpected technical issues and an equally frustrating amount of time resolving those issues we found ourselves crunched for time to get full coverage of the Unnamed Footage Film Festival. No thanks to these time constraints and other obligations that have to be fulfilled we offer up a taster’s menu of reviews of the five films we managed to fit in once the technology gods became bored of playing havoc with our digital infrastructure at home. Back on track we focused on which world premieres were available to us from the festival. We also wanted to see one particular film that was having its U.S. premiere because it was an award winner at a festival that we have had very close ties...

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HAMLET Review: Thrillingly Cinematic Internal Journey Into Personal Hell

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Riz Ahmed, Morfydd Clark, and Joe Alwyn star in director Aneil Karia's modern-day adaptation.

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Director in Focus: Steven Soderbergh's Silky Smooth Charms, From BUBBLE to THE CHRISTOPHERS

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

The director continues to assert his stylish independence with deceptively mainstream films and television series.

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Now on Digital: THE BRIDE! Comes Home

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:32:11 -0500

Maggie Gyllenhaal's divisive horror-romance stars Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, and Annette Bening.

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THE YETI Review: Chilling Premise Undone by Lukewarm Craft

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Brittany Allen and Jim Cummings star in this lackluster old-school creature feature.

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THE INVITE Trailer: Invite The Neighbors Over For Dinner, They Said. It'll be Fun, They Said.

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:15:00 -0500

Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?

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Frontières 2026: Frontières Platform in Cannes Announced

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:30:00 -0500

Our friends at Frontières have announced the thirteen projects participating in this year's Frontières Platform in Cannes.

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MERMAID Review: Curious Mix of Crime Thriller and Theatre of the Absurd

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Tyler Cornack's action-comedy-horror stars Johnny Pemberton, Avery Potemri, Kevin Nealon, Kirk Fox, Julia Larson, Devyn McDowell, Tom Arnold with Robert Patrick and Kevin Dunn.

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THE BEARDED GIRL: Watch The Trailer Premiere For Jody Wilson's Drama Fantasy

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0500

The story of a bearded girl who is tired of being a freak.

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BUFFET INFINITY: Arrives in Cinemas April 24th, Watch The Trailer, Now!

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:30:00 -0500

Echoing the Canadian comedy classic SCTV, crosscutting between original, low-budget TV ads to tell the sinister tale of two restaurants battling it out in the fictional town of Westridge County.

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FIND YOUR FRIENDS: Shudder Acquires Izabel Pakzad's Feature Debut Thriller

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:27:39 -0500

Amber and her friends visit Joshua Tree for a fun girls' trip but face hostility from locals. As tensions escalate and Amber's dark past surfaces, their rebellion ignites - turning their desert getaway into a jaw-dropping game of revenge.

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Echoes: Why Are AI-Driven Films Being Proposed as Any Kind of Solution in Pakistan?

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:02:12 -0500

Facing a lack of funding and infrastructure, why has the Pakistani entertainment industry turned to AI?

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THE LAND OF SOMETIMES Review: Careful What You Wish For

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:02:04 -0500

Ewan McGregor, Alisha Weir, Andrei Shen, Asa Butterfield, Helena Bonham Carter, and Mel Brooks star in the British animated musical adventure.

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New Directors/New Films 2026 Preview: STRANGE RIVER, TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS, and More

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Presented by Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, the 55th edition of New Directors/New Films takes place from April 8 through April 19, 2026, with filmmakers scheduled to attend in person. With a focus on innovative cinema that sets the stage for the future of film, the festival champions filmmakers with distinctive visions and bold new ideas that push the art form into new terrain. This year’s selection will introduce 24 features and 10 shorts, including festival winners and favorites from Cannes, Sundance, Locarno, Venice, Berlinale, Rotterdam, Toronto, San Sebastián, and more. Screenings take place at FLC’s Walter Reade Theater and MoMA’s Titus theaters. Below are some of the films I had a privilege to preview:...

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Opening This Week: FACES OF DEATH Goes Digital, THE CHRISTOPHERS Confronts Art, CHAO Gets Romantic

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Mermaid,' 'Hamlet,' 'The Yeti,' 'Infiltrate.'

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STAR WARS: MAUL - SHADOW LORD Review: The Galaxy's Most Dangerous Survivor Returns

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:01:00 -0500

After the Clone Wars, Maul plots to rebuild his criminal syndicate on a planet untouched by the Empire.

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Diagonale 2026 Review: PORTRAIT OF NOWNESS Assembles a Fragmented Mosaic

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:02:07 -0500

Co-created by Juri Rechinsky and Mario Hainzl, the film constructs a first-person docu-experiment in which body-camera footage across multiple continents reframes notions of everyday life through contrasting conditions of normalcy.

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Diagonale 2026 Review: THE STORIES Turns Familiar Tragicomic Family Saga Tropes into Finetuned Crowd-pleaser

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:02:06 -0500

Abu Bakr Shawky's film unfolds as a multi-generational family saga that situates an intimate love story within the shifting social and political landscape of Egypt from the 1960s to the 1990s.

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Diagonale 2026 Review: WAX & GOLD Probes Memory and Myth of Ethiopia's Beloved Autocrat

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:26:04 -0500

Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann uses the spatial and historical layers of the Hilton Addis Ababa to examine how the legacy of Haile Selassie is constructed, negotiated and contested through personal memory, archival material and competing narratives.

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FACES OF DEATH Interview: Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei on IP, Censorship, and Horror History

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Turning a maybe not quite beloved but certainly important cult object like 1978's faux-snuff/faux-documentary Faces of Death into a multiplex-friendly narrative film with aspirations of taking on major social media companies is no small endeavor, creatively or culturally. That's part of why it's taken director/co-writer Daniel Goldhaber and co-writer/producer Isa Mazzei's new Faces of Death almost two full years to make its way to public screens after being completed in early 2024. So when I had the chance to sit down with the creatives, there was a lot I was curious about. With Faces of Death in particular, and within the context of their other films, another of which similarly brought a more obscure source to larger audiences, and all of which seek to say...

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YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS S2 Review: Lifestyles of the Rich and Criminal

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, and Olivia Munn return in the ensemble dramatic series, with James Marsden joining as a mysterious new, ultra-wealthy neighbor.

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Diagonale 2026 Review: ROSE, Sandra Hüller Excels in Period Drama Examining Pursuit of Freedom Through Cross-dressing

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Austrian filmmaker Markus Schleinzer's third feature casts Sandra Hüller as a woman who adopts a male identity within a Protestant farming community during the Thirty Years' War in order to secure property, labour autonomy and social legitimacy otherwise inaccessible to her.

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Friday One Sheet: BACKROOMS

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:02:10 -0500

One of a pair of character posters for Kane Parson's upcoming, creepy-pasta meets liminal terror horror film, Backrooms, that places Academy Award-nominated actors into some unorthodox and tight framing. The original poster for the big-screen blow up of the YouTube series of mystery-box meets by way of found footage viral videos with a dedicated cult following, perhaps leaned too far and too clean into negative space, to the point of being novel, but rather boring. This one, which has more texture, more grain, and a distressed Renate Reinsve, with unkempt hair, fingernails of unequal length, pushed into the sickly yellow wallpaper that is the hallmark of the series, is a far better use of said negative space, and you feel the negative here more fulsome, more...

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Udine 2026: Far East Film Festival Continues to Celebrate Asian Cinema in its 28th Year

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:02:09 -0500

World-renowned stars Fan Bingbing and Yakusho Koji will be honoured with Lifetime Achievement Awards in Udine.

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THE DRAMA Review: Viscerally Affecting Comedy?

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:22:04 -0500

Kristoffer Borgli's The Drama sits somewhere between much of Lars von Trier's output and Sean Price Williams's The Sweet East on the artful edgelord spectrum; albeit closer to the latter's live action South Park than the sometimes incisive work of the former. The Drama is a fantastically constructed film that, for the most part, threads a delicate needle of unnerving and broadly funny; largely sidestepping cringe comedy to create something more unique, and certainly more affecting. While the opening scenes almost lull viewers into a state of knowing comfort with the trappings of a romantic comedy (Nancy Meyers interiors and cultural, high-paying jobs included), surprisingly sharp editing, Daniel Pemberton's prickly woodwind score, and some bold sound design choices hint at something darker looming. During a...

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OVER YOUR DEAD BODY: Watch The Red Band Trailer For Jorma Taccone's Black Action Comedy

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0500

Watch the red band trailer for the Audience Award Winner from the headliners at SXSW206

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Home Video Roundup: DEATHSTALKER and More New Releases From Kino, The Criterion Collection, Warner and Made By Mutant

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Dave Canfield aka The Creature Feature Preacher here to opine on all things physical media. I’ve got titles from The Criterion Collection, Warner Brothers and Kino and a very special vinyl release from Made By Mutant. It’s a rich mix of the new, the retro and the arthouse. I’ve been waiting for Dante’s Peak to hit 4K for awhile. It has the perfect blend of kitschy earnestness and spectacular disaster effects as well as a first rate cast featuring Pierce Brosnan as the hunky volcano expert and Linda Hamilton as the hot single mom. The secondary cast isn’t bad either, featuring John Carpenter regulars Charles Callahan and Peter Jason. This has a lengthy 'making of' documentary and an audio commentary featuring director Roger Donaldson. ...

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