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Screambox in May: Featuring LIFE OF BELLE, MEXICO BARBARO II, And DEATH 4 TOLD
A new month bring new titles for streaming service Screambox. Mexican horror anthology Mexico Barbaro II, found footage horror Life of Belle and another horror anthology, Death 4 Told, starring Margo Kidder and Tom Savini lead the pack this month....
SILENCE OF THE PREY Trailer: Indie Horror Coming This May
Karyna Kudzina's directorial debut, Silence of the Prey, is coming to video-on-demand and digital platforms in the United States, the UK/Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand on May 17th. In a desperate bid to secure a future for her child,...
Trieste Science+Fiction Festival Wants Your Weird & Wonderful Films
Spring may have barely begun (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), but that means filmmakers are turning their thoughts to fall festivals. The autumn brings a deluge of genre festivals, but one of the standouts is Trieste Science+Fiction Festival. I...
Brussels 2024 Interview: 4PM Stars Oh Dal-su, Jang Young-nam and Director Jay Song Discuss New Korean Thriller
Last week, the 42nd Brussels International Film Festival played host to the world premiere of The Nightmare director Jay Song’s new South Korean thriller, 4PM. Inspired by the Belgian novel “Les Catilinaires”, from celebrated author Amélie Nothomb, which was published...
BRING HER BACK: A24, Danny And Michael Philippou Reteam For Their New Horror, With Actress Sally Hawkins
Great news for fans of the horror flick Talk To Me. The film's creators Danny and Michael Philippou, one-time YouTube sensations now horror sensations, are working again with A24 on a new horror flick called Bring Her Back. Even sweeter...
DAGR Clip. UK Horror Comedy Out Now on Digital
Here's one that's been out for a while now but may have flown under your radar, especially if you're keen on found footage horror flicks and watching influencer's die. Matthew Butler-Hart's horror flick Dagr is out now and we've been...
DANCING VILLAGE: THE CURSE BEGINS Review: A Spooky Supernatural Chiller
After Mila’s mother falls deathly ill, a shaman tells her she must return a bracelet to the “Dancing Village,” a remote community on the easternmost tip of Java Island. She travels to the island with her cousin, Yuda, and his...
Udine 2024 Review: 12.12: THE DAY, Riveting Drama Brings Dark Episode of Korean History Into the Light
One of the final dark closets of modern Korean history gets thrown wide open in Kim Sung-soo's riveting historical drama 12.12: The Day. The film dramatises the coup d'état that took place in the wake of the assassination of President...
Udine 2024 Review: THEIR LAST LOVE AFFAIR, Lee Myung-se's Daring and Dazzling Tale of Illicit Romance
This year's Far East Film Festival is screening a large number of South Korean classics, including a full program dedicated to the country's fascinating 1950s output, such as Park Nam-ok's progressive drama The Widow, the first Korean film ever directed...
Udine 2024 Review: THE ROUNDUP: PUNISHMENT Wins One More Round in a Franchise Clinging to the Ropes
It’s Beast Cop vs Bitcoin in the fourth instalment of Ma Dong-seok’s enduringly popular Roundup action franchise, as his hulking detective goes toe-to-toe with a tech-savvy crime syndicate looking to expand into crypto. Helmed by action director Heo Myeong-haeng, Ma’s...
THE FURIOUS: Legendary Producer Bill Kong Hires Big Guns to Make a Big Action Movie!
Yesterday Variety broke news that legendary Hong Kong producer Bill Kong (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, Fearless) has started production on a new action film called The Furious in Bangkok, Thailand, and he's enlisted the help of...
THE EXORCISM Trailer: Russell Crowe Stars in Possession Horror
Exorcism runs in the family on and off screen as Russell Crowe becomes the ultimate method actor, albeit unwillingly, in Joshua John Miller's upcoming possession horror flick, The Exorcism. Carrying on a tradition left to him by his father,...
THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED Review: Comedic Discomfort in Millenial Ennui
While ennui and angst are common to many generations, I can imagine it could be much more accute among millenials - anything that might have been considered a 'normal' life gave up the ghost before they came of age. They're...
Udine 2024 Review: CITIZEN OF A KIND, A New Kind of Hero Rises in Delightful Female-Centric Vigilante Drama
If its films and dramas are to be believed, South Korea is a land teeming with vigilantes. They are typically brooding, sharply dressed and very attractive characters with dark pasts who mete out justice with brute strength or elaborate schemes,...
DANCING VILLAGE: THE CURSE BEGINS Interview: Kimo Stamboel And Their New Supernatural Thriller
Kimo Stamboel's latest supernatural chiller, Dancing Village: The Curse Begins, opens in U.S. cinemas tomorrow, April 26th, from Lionsgate Pictures. Despite having written about and supported Stamboel throughout their career, ever since their debut feature film Macabre, I've never truly...
Fantaspoa 2024 Review: THE COMPLEX FORMS, How Classic Auteur Cinema Would Be If It Had More Monsters
Strange things are happening at an ancient villa in the literal middle of nowhere. A bunch of men are gathered here, all of them with a peculiar contract. A middle-aged man named Christian (David White) is in the process of...
Calgary Underground 2024: HUMANE Review, The Family That Slays Together Stays Together
Apocalypses in Canadian cinema tend to occur in slow motion, and have a subversive touch of quiet absurdity. The two undisputed classics of the genre are Don McKellar’s Last Night, and Bruce McDonald’s Pontypool. Caitlin Cronenberg aims for that lofty...
THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE Review: Real-Life WWII Superspies Get the Guy Ritchie Treatment
With three films in four years, Guy Ritchie (Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, The Wrath of Man) has proven himself nothing if not prolific, specifically of broadly appealing, easily digestible, ultimately forgettable entertainments. As surface-deep as...
Shudder in May: NIGHTWATCH: DEMONS ARE FOREVER, STOPMOTION And a Lot of TOXIC AVENGER Movies
We believe it is safe to say that Spring is finally here in North America. Relatively safe. Pretty sure it is safe. Not only will April showers bring May flowers but May also sees the arrival of the new...
Calgary Underground 2024: Curtain Raiser
The Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) opens its 21st edition today, and runs until April 28th. Western Canada's largest showcase of genre film, offbeat documentaries, and industry events is housed in the two-screen (stacked on top of one another) Globe Cinema in the...
THE GREATEST HITS Interview: Ned Benson, Lucy Boynton, Justin H. Min on Los Angeles and Everchanging Relationships with Music
In my review of The Greatest Hits, the new sci-fi romance from The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby writer/director Ned Benson, I mention that it opens with a montage of two young lovers “generally doing things that young, hip couples do...