ScreenAnarchy: Reviews

KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS Review: One of 2026's Best Films Was Released 55 Years Ago

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:32:04 -0500

[Uncensored, restored, and rereleased, Ken Russell’s The Devils, a controversy-courting masterpiece of religious horror, repression, and persecution, returns for a limited theatrical run under the auspices of Warner Bros. and its Clockwork specialty film division.] Condemned in 1971 for its supposed blasphemous themes, prolonged onscreen nudity, and depictions of sadomasochistic torture, The Devils was — and remains — far more than mere provocation aimed at offending reactionary moviegoers or right-wing cultural critics. Even now, conservative-leaning Catholics will take offense at the themes, ideas, and messages embedded in Russell's (Altered States, Tommy, Women in Love) film. That alone makes The Devils essential viewing for contemporary audiences, as vital today as it was 55 years ago. For Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed), a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest, celibacy,...

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A TALENT FOR MURDER Review: Mirren and Ehrenreich Elevate an Otherwise Middling Psychological Thriller

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Over five decades, Patricia Highsmith wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories. Of those singular works, seven stand out in the popular imagination: the five Ripley-centered novels, Strangers on a Train (published in 1950 and adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951 into a noir classic co-starring Farley Granger and Robert Walker), and The Price of Salt (aka Carol), written under a pseudonym and published in 1952. Despite other work and additional successes, longtime Highsmith fans and, thus, publishers, hoped Ripley would return for a sixth, final novel. She never did. Highsmith passed away in 1995 after a lengthy battle with cancer and other chronic ailments. While Highsmith’s history as a racist, antisemite, and all-around misanthrope has been well documented, she remains among the...

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Chicago 2026 Review: NO REST FOR THE WICKED, Beautiful Genre Mashup Queer Romance

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:02:10 -0500

For almost the first half of No Rest for the Wicked, the only thing marking it as a genre movie is its score, full of ominous electronic drones and sharp strings. The look, with foreboding aerial shots of the Faroe islands' craggy mountains and almost only natural lighting for night scenes, is also a hint; it just seems rude to think that non-genre films aren't capable of this level of literal darkness. Suffice to say that it looks and sounds like a genre film. But the content of its early scenes undercuts the sense of dread its aural and visual world conjures. Perhaps more than dread, the literal and metaphorical darkness are meant to clue us into how stuck protagonist Baldur (Egor Venned) feels on...

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THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 4K Review: Nerve Jangling, To Say the Least

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:35:06 -0500

Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins star in Jonathan Demme's chilling adaptation of Thomas Harris' novel.

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WILDWOOD Review: Often Breathless, Usually Reckless, Always Enchanting

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, and Cary Mulligan star in the animated action-adventure from director Travis Knight and LAIKA Studios.

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CLAYFACE Review: Newly Revived DCU Saves Its Best for Third

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Ranked by one supposedly well-respected site as only the 73rd “best” Batman villain, Clayface’s journey from the comic book panel to the big screen has taken a long, not quite circuitous route. Thanks to horror auteur Mike Flanagan (The Fall of the House of Usher, Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Hill House), a longtime fan of the DC character and his multiple iterations, including the two-part “Feat of Clay” origin story featured on Batman: The Animated Series, James Gunn, the current co-lead of DC’s film division, became intrigued by Flanagan’s unexpected pitch for a standalone live-action film for the DC character. Unfortunately, Flanagan’s numerous commitments, including the recent Carrie series for Amazon's Prime Video and next year’s The Exorcist: Martyrs, removed him from consideration as...

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KLARA AND THE SUN Review: Uneven, Unwieldy Adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Bestselling Novel

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Taika Waititi's new film stars Jenna Ortega, with Amy Adams and Natasha Lyonne.

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Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: POSTHUMOUS, Tapes from the Darkside

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:02:10 -0500

Throughout the years, such films as Wolf Creek, The Babadook, The Loved Ones, Lake Mungo, Talk to Me, and many others collectively contributed to turning the audience into a proverbial Pavlov’s dog: A new Australian horror movie is always a reason to get immediately excited. This year, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival features two such films in the program. One is the festival’s Closing Night Film, Kick On, which has already received its share of much-deserved praise since premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival. The other one is Posthumous, Josh Tanner's debut feature, which also helps to uphold the reputation of Australian horror canon. Zoe (Sophie Lowe) comes back to her childhood home in hopes of dealing with some personal stuff. This journey is stalled...

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Chicago 2026 Review: THE SPIRAL Turns a Family Story Into a Faustian Nightmare

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:02:09 -0500

In the Italian Oscar entry, the family that makes a deal with the devil stays together.

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London 2026 Review: CLUB KID, Jordan Firstman's Warm and Tragic Bad Dad Dramedy

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:02:07 -0500

A stealth rebuild of a middling Adam Sandler film proves to be one of the year's best and most affecting films.

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Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: ERIE, Debut Found Footage Horror Overcomplicates Its Own Style

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:02:01 -0500

In the late 1990s, the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, experiences an epidemic of inexplicable deaths. One of the victims is Iris Scott (Aimee Paxton), whose strange death in the woods is eventually ruled a suicide, like most of the other cases. Her sister, Stella (Carly Stewart), isn’t content with the explanation and, having discovered that Iris isn’t the only one, wants to dig deeper, roping their brother Oscar (Grant Crater) into her investigation. An aspiring journalist, Stella plans to tape the process and all potential findings in hopes that it might advance her career. As the title card at the start of the film informs us, these tapes will be later found in the possession of one of the deceased. Erie, which premiered at Beyond...

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Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: SLAY, Witty Tribute to Classic Slashers

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:02:12 -0500

While AI obviously (and rightfully) suppressed pretty much all other dangers to humanity as the villain of our times, the rabbit hole that is social media and influencer culture is still too great a fodder for filmmakers to pass up. The paradoxical nature of this bubble, inhabited by people whom we call “content creators”, but who mostly produce something entirely ephemeral, is great material to have all kinds of fun with. Which is exactly what Kyra Elise Gardner’s second feature, Slay, is doing, mixing the digs at the Gen Z-brand of pop culture with classic tropes of the good, old “slice and dice” subgenre. At the center of it all is our influencer final girl – Chloe Cruze (Zoey Luna, who also co-wrote the story...

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WICKER Review: Witty Modern Fairy Tale Hits the Spot

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:00:00 -0500

Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki, and Peter Dinklage star in prickly yet delightful film.

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Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: PATHETIC FALLACY, True Big Bold Beautiful Journey

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Every film festival program, no matter how expansive and diverse, usually has a bunch of movies that objectively aren’t bad, but aren’t particularly great either. When thinking about such films and what might be weighing them down, the conclusion you come to most of the time is that, while often adequately executed, they are simply not original enough to evoke any true feeling. From scene to scene, or sometimes, from frame to frame, you more or less know what to expect next, which traditionally makes it harder to be really excited about anything that happens on screen. Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Pathetic Fallacy, which premiered at Fantastic Fest and was recently shown at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival at one of their secret screenings, doesn’t have...

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VIRGINA Review: Boys Do Cry

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:00:00 -0500

While not in every culture in human history has elevated male children to the point of all but killing (or even that) their female children, too many have long-held beliefs that boys bring luck and prosperity, whereas girls (despite doing at least half if not more of the work to maintain a society) are a burden. But gender is a social construct, we can't control the weather, and if you decide girls are as important as boys, you might find your society better for it. But this was not the way in some regions of the Balkans, even as recently as the late 19th century, and a disturbing custom is the focus of Virgina, written and directed by Serbian filmmaker Srđan Karanović (Something in Between, A Film Without...

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Toronto After Dark 2026 Short Film Short Review: MOIRA, An Ambiguous European Arthouse Gem

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:02:10 -0500

A patient shot of a damp London metro platform opens Anastasia Mischenko's superlative short film Moira. It's a shot that instantly evokes the static-adroit Euro-cinema of early 2000s Bruno Dumont, and the more recent work of Milagros Mumenthaler (The Currents). A woman leaves the platform and returns home to discover her partner in the middle of vocal sex. She stands in the threshold of the doorway, not entirely in the house, while the camera holds on her face as she processes the sounds coming from the bedroom upstairs. She leaves and makes her way across London on transit, through bleak, partially-desaturated autumn fields, bricked alleyways, and at one point through the Greenwich foot-tunnel (under the Thames) in all its curved walls and fluorescent lit glory. The...

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Toronto After Dark 2026 Review: MY LOVE FOR YOU IS DEEP, BUT THE DEVIL LOVES ME DEEPER

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:02:02 -0500

Alice is a dreamer. She wants true love, intense love, and reciprocated love. She is not finding it in the clubs with her girlfriend, though, and her current boyfriend is clearly not into her. You can hear it in his voice on the phone before he brutally dumps her in person. But she is young, and attractive, and willing to do anything, including a pact with the Devil, a glowing-eyed man who prefers the booth in the back of the local dive bar, to make this happen with the next fellow who comes along. That would the be tall, dark and slightly dim Luke, a goth-adjacent photographer with a slow manner of speaking and a voice that is a dead ringer for Ryan Gosling. Pacts...

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CHRISTIANE F. 4K Review: Under the Influence

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:02:01 -0500

"We could be heroes," sings David Bowie, if only these kids could get off the heroin just for one day.

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Chicago 2026 Review: A CITY IN THE FOREST, Rallying Cry for the American Left

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Throughout A City in the Forest, which tracks various forms of opposition to Atlanta's "Cop City" from 2020 to 2023, the filmmakers shout that they are press to ensure that they are not attacked by police who are violently arresting and assaulting protesters. In two scenes, people being arrested cry out to the filmmakers for help, but they do not engage; remaining as close as they can to capture the cops' violence while doing their best to avoid it themselves. The inclusion of these moments forces us to consider the many forms combatting state violence (against people and the environment) can take, and either question or affirm the importance of documentation as a form of protest in itself. The choice to include what some on...

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Camera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: CHIMNEY TOWN: FROZEN IN TIME

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:05 -0500

Six years ago, CGI-special effects specialist Hirota Yuusuke directed his first feature film, the anime Poupelle of Chimney Town, which I happened to like a lot. He just released his second feature, and it is... a sequel to Poupelle of Chimney Town. That first film was based on a series of children's books written by Japanese comedian Nishino Akihiro, and apparently there is plenty more where that came from. Nishino wrote the script for this sequel and helped produce it. The new film is called Chimney Town: Frozen in Time and played at the Camera Japan Festival in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, where I caught up with it. Chimney Town: Frozen in Time takes place some time after the events in Poupelle of Chimney Town. In...

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ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM Review: Mesmerizing Blast from the Past

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:02:02 -0500

In 1972, director, editor, producer, and actor William Greaves, whose body of work includes Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) and Nationtime (1972), gathered the remaining luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance in Duke Ellington’s apartment on 157th. This meeting resulted in four hours of footage but didn’t become a movie – until now. Greaves’s son, David Greaves, was one of four cameramen who were involved in the original shoot. Decades after the fact and years after William Greaves’s passing in 2014, David edited the footage of that meeting, compressing it into an hour and forty minutes of the enthralling whirlwind that is Once Upon a Time in Harlem. Based upon a formal description, it might seem to the audience going in blindly into this film, which was...

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Camera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: RHAPSODY, RHAPSODY, A Rom-Com Which Keeps It Real

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:00:04 -0500

It's the question which pops up in any interview with a director: "What will your next film be?" It is so common a question that if the mood allows for it, I will add "A romantic comedy perhaps?" and that will normally get a laugh out of my subject. I mean, if there is ONE genre we all dread, deem stale, or has more idiotic tropes than horror, it's the romantic comedy. Yet, after a hiatus of over 12 years, this is exactly the genre that veteran director Rijū Gō chose to return to cinemas with, with his new film Rhapsody, Rhapsody. And it even opened the Camera Japan festival this year in Rotterdam? Sacrilege! What can this be about? When mild-mannered office worker Mikio...

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Sitges 2026 Review: KICK ON, Aussie Survival Thriller Asks, Et Tu, Brute?

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:45:02 -0500

Colourful, entertaining, and exuberantly violent, Nick Kozakis’s debut feature makes the most of the geography and the opportunities of its single location to squeeze maximum tension and maximum gore out of its ultra-lean scenario. After running out of coke and molly on their night of hard partying, Eden (Markella Kavenagh) and her friends decide to keep the night going, or "kick on," in Melbourne parlance, by scoring a fresh round of drugs from a local Russian drug lord. They do, sort of, suspect what they are getting into, but at 3am and heavily under the influence, the best decisions are generally avoided. Thus, they come into the orbit of Ray (Nikolai Nikolaeff), the son of said drug lord, who has a swanky penthouse on top of...

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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Review: Too Much Technique, Not Enough Passion

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esme Creed-Miles, Caitriona Balfe, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw star in a new adaptation, directed by Georgia Oakley.

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WHALEFALL Review: A Man Trapped Inside A Whale Confronts Mortality And Daddy Issues

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:20 -0500

There’s something invigorating about a film treating a boldly ridiculous premise with utterly intense sincerity. It’s really the only way to approach a film like Whalefall, which finds its young adult protagonist, Jay (Austin Abrams), trapped in the belly of a whale, with less than an hour to find his way to freedom before everything goes dark. A deep-sea dive intended to bring catharsis to Jay’s family after the sudden loss of his father, Mitt (Josh Brolin), turns into chaos when a simple recovery mission is interrupted by a battle of oceanic behemoths. In his attempt to escape the vicious battle between a Giant Squid and a Sperm Whale, Jay gets caught up and winds up trapped in the whale’s gullet alongside what is left...

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London 2026 Review: INK, Danny Boyle's Unruly and Troublesome Free Press Polemic

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:07:09 -0500

Who freed the press? It's been a democratic right that's built civilisations and chipped away at them when they've crumbled, but in today's age of near-limitless information at the palm of your hand, who were the people who gave it to us? Aaron Sorkin argues it's Mark Zuckerberg; Alex Gibney posits the theory that it's Elon Musk...but Danny Boyle? He points the finger a bit further back at the lesser-known Larry Lamb, the British news editor whose recruitment by now-notorious Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch saw the revitalisation of The Sun newspaper and (as stated in Boyle's new film, Ink) the subsequent unravelling of Western society as we know it. Is the sordid recent history of our world written less in ink and more in...

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STREET FIGHTER Review: This Is 1993, Baby. It Is What It Is.

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:37:07 -0500

Directed by Kitao Sakurai ('Twisted Metal'), the big-screen adaptation stars Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo, and Callina Liang.

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THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK Review: John Turturro Steals a Character Study That Doubles as a Crime Drama

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Directed by Noah Segan, the film stars John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Will Price, Tatiana Maslany, Victoria Moroles, and Steve Buscemi.

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New York 2026 Review: A MAN OF HIS TIME, Timely and Sad Tale of Moral Compromises and Banality of Evil

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:02:11 -0500

In September of 1940, Henri Marre (Swann Arlaud), a writer, engineer, and a man of great ambition, arrives in the Vichy France, controlled by the Nazi collaborator, Philippe Pétain. Even though Henri despises the current state of affairs, his aspirations, combined with pragmatism, win out, as he tries to publish his manuscript 'Notre Salut' (Our Salvation), where he pitches his ideas on the future of the country. His zeal ends up earning him a coveted governmental position at the Commission for the Fight against Unemployment. Henri quickly settles in, moves his estranged wife (Sandrine Blancke) and children into his new place, and sets out to do the best job possible within the collaborationist regime. It’s interesting that while the English title of Emmanuel Marre’s film...

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YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING Review: A Dizzying, Revolutionary Doc That Challenges The Integrity Of The Form

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:50 -0500

One of the first related searches that Google offers up when you type in the title of anarchist/documentarian/comedian Nathan Fielder’s latest project is, “Is You Can See Everything a real documentary?”. That is a question that will roll around in my head for the foreseeable future as I attempt to wrangle my understanding of this mind-bending experiment into any kind of neat little box. It’s a fool’s errand, and I suppose I am that fool. Thirty-four days before convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes was set to begin a 123-month long sentence in federal prison, she and her husband Billy Evans invited Fielder into their lives to document the real person behind the monster Holmes insists was created by the media coverage around her trial and conviction....

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New York 2026 Review: ARTIFICIAL Doesn't Make a Bigger Splash

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:02:02 -0500

The NYFF premiere of Luca Guadagnino ‘s Artificial, which is set for a theatrical release in December, comes one year after the NYFF premiere of the director’s previous live-action feature, After the Hunt. Unlike the previous film, which was highly criticized for its handling of its timely and sensitive subject matter, the new one seems to be predestined for almost universal praise based solely on the fact that this time the object of the author’s ire is something pretty much everyone agrees can easily destroy humanity in the near future. It probably won’t matter much that Artificial, while slightly more focused than its predecessor, still shares many of its flaws. Somewhere in the early aughts, Geoffrey Hinton (Mark Rylance), a brilliant computer scientist, is all...

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MUSK Review: Must-See Doc That Sadly Will Go Mostly Unseen

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:02:01 -0500

At 12:01 p.m. on January 20th, 2029, the 48th president of the United States will be sworn into office. His name — because more likely than not, the next president will be a “he” — will not be Donald J. Trump. Barred by the 22nd Amendment from running or holding public office again, Trump’s second and final term will end the same morning, but a key figure in his inner circle, Trump’s most fervent supporter, and his biggest benefactor, Elon Musk, the unelected tech trillionaire (give or take a few billion), will remain an ally to other tech oligarchs and amoral corporations who rule America, and a virulent opponent of multiculturalism, multi-ethnic democracy, and civil and/or criminal liability. A prolific documentarian (Steve...

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CRYSTAL LAKE Review: Prequel Series is a Slow-Burn Crime Drama That Doesn't Skimp on Slasher Violence

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:30:00 -0500

One year after her young son's tragic drowning, a grieving single mother's dark past is unearthed by two strangers, triggering a disturbing chain of events that reveals the terrifying origins of a horror legend.

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BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL Review: Riveting Reassessment of a Hysterically Hated Horror

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:02:09 -0500

David Kittredge's studious and fair cinematic essay on 'Exorcist II: The Heretic' is a witty raconteur of a documentary.

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OTHER MOMMY Review: Horror Version of SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE No One Really Wanted

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:32:10 -0500

Seven-year-old Bela (Arabella Olivia Clark) lives with her mother, Ursula (Jessica Chastain), and her father, Russell (Jay Duplass), who love each other very much. At least, that’s what the girl is planning to say in her introduction speech at her new school, but that, of course, wouldn’t make for a very good movie or a bestselling novel that could be turned into one. In reality, Ursula spends a lot of time at work and mostly seems annoyed with Russell; it’s also almost an open secret that she is cheating on him. Oh, and there’s one more thing: a mysterious entity, whom Bela calls Other Mommy, lives in her room. It looks just like Ursula, only its face sometimes does funny things, as if it were...

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London 2026 Review: MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE, The Godmother of the Making-Of Doc Bids a Moving Farewell

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Eleanor Coppola's kind-hearted chronicle of her daughter Sofia's epic is a delightful swansong.

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TENZING Review: Necessary, If Hagiographic, Corrective to Cultural History

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

When newspapers, radio stations, and television news programs reported the first successful summit of Mt. Everest on May 29th, 1953, Edmund “Ed” Hilary, a New Zealand member of a spring expedition organized by the British, received prime, sometimes sole credit for arguably one of the greatest accomplishments in recorded human history. A knighthood followed Hilary’s success. The truth, of course, was far more complicated than contemporary accounts showed. Hilary wasn’t alone. He was part of a well-funded, 400-member strong expedition. He wasn’t even a member of the first team attempting to summit Mt. Everest that spring. He was, along with Tenzing Norgay, a 20-year mountaineering veteran, one of two, not one of one. Western accounts, however, repeatedly emphasized Hilary’s feat at the...

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V/H/S/MIXTAPE Review: The Kills Keep on Coming

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Halloween is creeping up, which means a new V/H/S is landing on Shudder today, just in time for some post-trick-or-treat trauma. Since the series’ resurrection, V/H/S has largely traded its loose narrative throughline for an annual theme, and while the franchise has mostly played things pretty safe by horror-anthology standards, V/H/S/Mixtape finds a surprisingly fresh hook in that subtitle: Every found footage segment is built around sound or the concept of an old school mixtape. And, weirdly enough, that simple conceit gives the ninth entry an intriguing creative kickstart. Producers/stewards Brad Miska and Josh Goldbloom may be nine movies deep into this thing, but V/H/S/Mixtape suggests they’ve still got some gas left in the tank. Unlike previous entries, which typically stitch their individual stories together...

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New York 2026 Review: THE DREAMED ADVENTURE, Once Upon a Time in Bulgaria

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:17:11 -0500

A middle-aged man, Said (Syuleyman Alilov Letifov), comes back to his small Bulgarian hometown, situated not far from the borders of both Turkey and Greece. He is here to conduct some shady deal involving diesel fuel, but when his car is stolen, he conveniently bumps into an old friend, Veska (Yana Radeva), who is also back for the first time in years, overseeing a small archeological dig. When Said disappears, Veska, seemingly more out of boredom than worry, inserts herself into a web of local intrigues that also concern another old acquaintance from her past – a provincial kingpin (Stoicho Kostadinov). At the behest of the curators of both Cannes Film Festival and NYFF, The Dreamed Adventure, a new, long-awaited film by German director Valeska...

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New York 2026 Review: 9 TEMPLES TO HEAVEN, Obtaining Merits

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:32:11 -0500

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's long time assistant director, Sompot Chidgasornpongse, makes a directorial debut.

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New York 2026 Review: AT NIGHT, The Great Equalizer

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Beatrice Gibson's feature debut is a beauty to behold.

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New York 2026 Review: A STATEMENT, One of the Timeliest Films You'll See This Season

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Tom McCarthy directs Paul Rudd, Amy Ryan, Paul Giametti, and more.

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TIGER ON THE BEAT Delivers Chainsaw-Revving Thrills on 4K from Imprint Films

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:02:11 -0500

An underseen Chow Yun-fat classic gets a slick 4K release!

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New York 2026 Review: THE DAY SHE RETURNS, Hong Sang-soo's Multi-Take Continues

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:32:10 -0500

Hong Sang-soo can find inspirations for his films anywhere.

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New York 2026 Review: BITTER CHRISTMAS, Weird Act of Artistic Self-Deprecation

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:32:07 -0500

Pedro Almodóvar's latest feature film.

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THE ISLAND, TERROR TRAIN, and More Classic Horrors New to 4K from KL Studio Classics

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:02:11 -0500

KL Studio Classics, the main sub-label under the Kino Lorber home video brand, doesn't get the praise the "cooler" boutique labels garner, but it's every bit as deserving. Their 4K scans and remasters maintain a high level of quality and consistency these days, and their titles run the gamut from beloved classics and past hits to hidden gems and obscure examples of cinematic weirdness. We're heading into the spooky season, so I wanted to highlight some of their recent horror-centric offerings. Some of these have gotten the 4K treatment, often with HDR and Dolby Vision, while others are just new to home video, but all of them have something to offer fans. Ships and people continue to disappear while sailing through the Bermuda Triangle, and...

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New York 2026 Review: DOUBLE FREEDOM Asks If We Were Ever Truly Free

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:15:11 -0500

Argentine director Lisandro Alonso makes a sequel to his debut film, a quarter century later.

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Home Video Roundup: SUZZANNA: EMPRESS OF DARKNESS, SANGSTER DIRECTS HAMMER, More From Severin Films, Titan Books

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:02:02 -0500

More about Indonesian horror Suzzanna: Empress of Darkness below. But first ... In preparation for my recent Jimmy Sangster retrospective interview with Severin’s David Gregory and noted Hammer expert Marcus Hearn, Severin was kind enough to pass along links for their new Sangster Directs Hammer 4K box set. I was very impressed, but even then I had no idea how gorgeous this thing would be. The day it arrived was a happy one indeed. The hardshell clam box features gorgeous art, and each of the three films in the set gets a unique slipcover and another unique sleeve. That is a lot of art. Those looking for original poster art packaging might be a little disappointed, but I doubt it. Another major plus here is Horror!...

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New York 2026 Review: BEHEMOTH!, Total Ungrip of the Heart

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Pedro Pascal stars in director Tony Gilroy's new film.

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MOUSE Review: Unassuming Crime Story Quietly Steals Your Heart

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Kenny Riches writes, directs and stars in this pre-Recession tale of wanting a better life.

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