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Fantasia 2025 Review: THE BEARDED GIRL, A Young Girl Confronts Tradition In An Idyllic Country Circus
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Teenage rebellion threatens centuries of tradition when young Cleo questions her place in a long line of powerful circus performers in Jody Wilson’s feature directing debut, The Bearded Girl, celebrating its world premiere at Fantasia 2025. In an idyllic rural...
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Now Streaming: UNTAMED Uncoils Steadily, Then Recoils, Haunted By Memory
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Eric Bana, Lily Santiago, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Sam Neill star in the Netflix murder mystery series. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Fantasia 2025 Review: NOISE, Kim Soo-jin’s Genre-Hopping Horror/Thriller Shreds Nerves and Eardrums
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When her sister goes missing, Ju-young (Lee Sun-bin) leaps in to investigate, but what she discovers is an apartment complex with a sinister history of death and disappearance, and it all seems connected to the mysterious noises that are driving...
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Fantasia 2025 Review: HOLD THE FORT, A Suburban HOA Hilariously Fends Off Demons From Hell
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The 2025 edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival got off to a hell of a start with the opening day world premiere of William Bagley’s suburbanites vs. monsters from hell horror comedy, Hold the Fort. Freshly christened homeowners, Lucas...
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EL LAZO DE PETRA: Watch The New Short From Gigi Saul Guerrera (Ahora con subtítulos en inglés)
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If you're a fan of Mexican filmmaker Gigi Saul Guerrero like we are, then you will already know that the other week they launched their latest short film, El lazo de Petra, back home in Mexico. You will also know...
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I LIVE HERE NOW: Fantasia Festival Poster Now Available for Julie Pacino’s Psychodrama
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With the Fantasia Int'l Film Festival in full swing the promotion of titles picks up. Today, the festival poster for Julie Pacino's psychodrama, I LIve Here Now, has arrived.    Our own Kurt included I Like Here Now in our...
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NO SLEEP TILL Review: The Acute Pleasures of a Tone Poem
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Opening with the most tranquil of public swimming pools, a few swimmers go about their routine under the blazing hot sun in stark contrast to the attention-grabbing, but mechanically disjointed, text-to-speech of the National Weather Service warning broadcast blaring from...
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Everywhere You Go Has Valet: “Clueless” at 30 (Or Whatever)
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On the classic teen comedy, that's still leaving us totally buggin' three decades on.
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Lee Kang-sheng Observes in U.S. Trailer for Yeo Siew Hua’s Stranger Eyes
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After landing on our radar with his Golden Leopard-winning feature A Land Imagined, Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua returned to the festival circuit last fall with his Venice premiere Stranger Eyes. The mysterious drama, starring Tsai Ming-liang regular Lee Kang-sheng,...
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New to Streaming: Apocalypse in the Tropics, No Sleep Till, Queens of Drama & More
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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Apocalypse in the Tropics (Petra Costa) Five years, the closest presidential election in Brazilian...
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