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WILLIAM TELL Exclusive Clip: Arrows a Plenty in Historical Action Flick
We have an exclusive clip from Nich Hamm's historical action flick, William Tell. The flick is releasing on digital this Friday, April 25th, following last month’s theatrical. It has been a while since we have shared a clip from an...
Calgary Underground 2025 Review: EEPHUS, Where Baseball Contains Multitudes
Eephus, Carson Lund’s wonderful ode to small stakes baseball and gruff Americana, needs its odd title explained: The Eephus pitch is a throw that is so unnaturally slow that it confuses the batter. It makes him swing too early, or...
Shudder Acquires Historical Horror ORANG IKAN (MONSTER ISLAND)
Deadline has the scoop this acquisition by Shudder this morning. They have acquired Mike Wiluan’s historical horror film Orang Ikan (also known as Monster Island) for North America, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand release. A co-production between Singapore,...
Calgary Underground 2025 Review: REVERIES: THE MIND PRISON, One Story Ends, Another Story Must Begin
You know that dream where you are running, to nowhere in particular, for no reason, and you trip, fall, and wake up? Reveries: The Mind Prison is the movie version of that dream. Only here, you are walking, and thus...
SINNERS Review: Ryan Coogler Proves Once Again That He Does Not Miss
When pop-culture historians write the final chapter on the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) in the not-so-distant future, filmmaker Ryan Coogler’s (Creed, Fruitvale Station) contribution, Black Panther, to said universe will stand head-and-shoulders above the rest. Black Panther both confirmed...
Friday One Sheet: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Your mother wears combat boots in this high-grain poster for the forthcoming Paul Thomas Anderson film, One Battle After Another. Here it is less about the framing, credit-filling negative space, or the blocky stencil-ish typography, or anything else. The central...
Calgary Underground 2025: Curtain Raiser
Part fan-festival, with quietly subversive programming, and a gateway to oddness and offbeat cinema for Canada’s mid-west, the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) showcases a sampler of the highlights of indie, documentary and genre cinema from the festival circuit that...
INVENTION Interview: Filmmakers Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez on Their Multifaceted New Film
In his review of Invention, the new film from writer/director Courtney Stephens and actor/writer Callie Hernandez, Martin Kudlac discusses the many ways it explores the lines between reality and fantasy, and how those lines are oddly similar in grief and...
SHARP CORNER Trailer: Ben Foster Loses His Mind and His Family
Happy National Canadian Film Day! Evolution Pictures dropped the trailer for Sharp Corner, a film that takes a deeply psychological page out of the early 1990s kind of Canadian filmmaking. Ben Foster and Cobie Smulders buy their dream home, only...
STRANGE HARVEST: Saban Acquires North American Rights For Stuart Ortiz Horror Flick
Saban Films has acquired the North American rights for Stuart Ortiz's horror flick, Strange Harvest. The faux-doc had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest last September and had a decent festival run, making stops at Beyond Fest, Fright Night Film Fest,...
THE LAST SPARK OF HOPE Exclusive Clip: Polish Sci-fi on VOD & Digital April 29th
We have an exclusive clip to share with you from a Polish sci-fi called The Last Spark of Hope. Written and directed by Piotr Biedron the production stars Magdalena Wieczorek and a robot that will curiously remind Xers of...
THE HEDONIST Interview: Nick Funess, Izzi Rojas, Jordan Somani on Flat Affect, Parents, and Stylized Editing
In my review of The Hedonist, I wrote about the often hilarious flat affect line deliveries, its stylized editing, and the frankly beautiful use of Robocop references. So when I got the chance to sit down with writer/director/star Nick Funess,...
Friday One Sheet: EDDINGTON
Disturbing imagery is carrying much of the load for Ari Aster's latest film, a neo-western called Eddington. This grey-ish design from LA outfit, grandson, is a festival teaser poster for its upcoming Cannes bow. The black buffalo charging off a cliff (the odd...
THANKS FOR THE ROOM Trailer Exclusive: New Psychological Drama From The Butler Brothers Premieres in May
We have your first look at the trailer for Jason and Brett Butler's psychological drama, Thanks For The Room. The Canadian film is going to have its world premiere at the Ridgefield Independent Film Festival in Conneticut, USA, next month. ...
FEAR BELOW Trailer Exclusive: Horror Thriller in Select Theaters, Digital And VOD on May 2nd
When a gang of ruthless criminals loses their stolen gold in a river, they turn to a team of desperate, down-on-their-luck divers to retrieve it. What begins as a high-stakes recovery mission quickly spirals when the divers soon find themselves...
THE BIG BEND Exclusive Clip: Award-Winning Drama Available Now on Digital And On-Demand
Two families, the Prices and the Talbotts, meet for a long overdue reunion in the remote West Texas desert — where events quickly don’t go as planned. Harboring secrets and facing private crises, they explore one of the wildest places...
4K Review: Kenji Mizoguchi's Masterpiece, UGETSU
Our friends at the Criterion Collection continue to be champions of world cinema and film preservation. They recently released the new 4K/Blu-ray combo pack for Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 masterpiece, Ugetsu. I reviewed Ugetsu the last time around in 2017, back...
Fantasia 2025: This Year's Poster Revealed, Submission Deadline Approaches
Yes, we suppose we do have to start thinking about Fantasia now. Truthfully, we have already begun talking amongst ourselves, vying for dates during the festival's run from July 17th to August 3rd. To get the ball rolling, the...
RED NIGHT AT SKYE'S Exclusive Clip: Indie Horror Starring Bill Moseley Out Now on Digital
We have an exclusive clip to share with you, from Chris Grega's indie horror thriller, Red Night at Skye's. An ex-Army family man is convinced to rob a pawn shop—secretly a front for a meth lab. But as the heist...