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Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: FUCKTOYS Director Annapurna Sriram Talks Feminist Smut, Grindhouse Mythology
Annapurna Sriram discusses how her hallucinatory, sex-positive debut 'Fucktoys' reclaims grindhouse cinema through the female gaze, fusing occult symbolism, Southern grit, and unapologetic DIY energy into a radical vision of liberation.
HOLI WOMB: Mongrel Media Boards Anouk Whissell's Psychological Horror Project
News today from Variety is that Mongrel Media have boarded Anouk Whissell's psychological horror, Holi Womb, for Canadian distribution. The news comes ahead of the project’s bow at the opening pitch session at Frontières on July 23rd. Holi Womb...
BiFan 2025 Review: I KILL U, Yoo Ha's Action Melee High on Punchy Set Pieces, Low on Narrative Beats
In I KILL U, from director Yoo Ha, taekwondo athlete Kang Sun-woo (Kang Ji-young) reluctantly agrees to pose as the double for an heiress (also Kang) implicated in a hit-and-run scandal. The money is good and the task seems simple...
BiFan 2025 Review: SUN WUKONG, Dynamic Early Korean Animated Take on the Monkey King
Sun Wukong (aka 'The Monkey King'), the mischievous protagonist of the celebrated 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, has been a familiar figure in Far East media for decades. While most of the cinematic adaptations of his exploits have...
BiFan 2025 Review: MANOK, Yang Mal-bok Shines in Charming Queer Indie Drama
Yang Mal-bok, who delivered one of the most powerful Korean indie film performances of recent memory in The Apartment with Two Women, is back in the indie realm with the rural-set queer drama Manok, the Korean Fantastic Audience Award winner...
Neuchâtel 2025: THE ICE TOWER Wins Best Feature Film, THE UGLY STEPSISTER Wins The Silver Méliès
The fine folks the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival wrapped up the twenty-fourth edition of their festival this weekend. With the conclusion of the festival comes the awards Lucile Hadžihalilović's dark fantasy, The Ice Queen, won the jury prize for...
SOVEREIGN Review: Nick Offerman Delivers a Powerhouse Performance in Timely Tale of Far-Right Extremism
In writer-director Christian Swegal’s impressive feature debut, Sovereign, Emmy Award-winner Nick Offerman, best known for his long-running role on Parks & Recreation as Ron Swanson, a curmudgeonly libertarian with a heart of gold press latinum, delivers a powerhouse performance as...
THE BIG HEAT 4K Review: The Darkness Stuns
Directed by German Expressionist (technically, Austrian) master Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis), The Big Heat has been recently released in a 4K/Blu-ray combo pack by our friends at the Criterion Collection. Film noir is the successor to the creative tenets of...
SUPERMAN Review: James Gunn Ably Reboots the First Superhero for the 21st Century
After two mega-successful comic-book adaptations (Superman I and II), a steep, almost unimaginable, drop in quality (Superman III and IV), an ill-conceived, poorly received soft reset (Superman Returns), and three grim-dark Snyderverse entries (Man of Steel, Batman v. Superman, Justice...
Frontières 2025: Industry Seminars & Power Houses Announcement
As the best three weeks you could have in Summer in Montreal nears particular focus today centers on some of the final programming to be announced for this years Frontières Market. Aside from the general program and pitches other panels...
THE UNDERTONE: First Look at Canadian Horror, Premieres at Fantasia This Month!
The host of an 'all-things-creepy' podcast moves into her mother's house and begins to receive anonymous recordings of a couple spiraling into madness. As she plays them, she realizes the woman's story is a mirror of her own and each new recording scratches at her sanity, drawing her into a fate she cannot escape.
Popcorn Frights 2025: First Wave Opens with BODYCAM, NIGHT OF THE REAPER
Nothing beats the heat like a little horror. Or a lot. Or how about 11 nights of "pure unfiltered terror"? The 11th edition of the Popcorn Frights Film Festival will offer all that, in-person in South Florida from August 7-17,...
ROSA LA ROSE, FILLE PUBLIQUE Review: The Operatic Joie de Vivre of Love and Sex
There are many itterations of the prostitute shown on the silver screen: the woman forced into the profession because of poverty, the streetwalker who faces constant danger of violence, the high class call girl, the working girl, the 'hooker with...
BiFan 2025 Review: TEACHING PRACTICE: IDIOT GIRLS AND SCHOOL GHOST 2, Horror-Comedy Reaches Delightful New Heights
A year after their first outing, the "Idiot Girls and School Ghost" return to the Korean competition section of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) with Teaching Practice, a bigger and better sequel which builds on the ample passion...
SO UNREAL Trailer Premiere: Announcing The Blu-ray Release From Altered Innocence
Today our friends at Altered Innocence have announced their release of Amanda Kramer's film, So Unreal. We are pleased to premiere the trailer for the release, check it out below. The work is a visual essay that "... explores...