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Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Laura Luchetti’s Italian Coming-of-Age Tale The Beautiful Summer
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A favorite at Locarno Film Festival last summer, Laura Luchetti’s pre-WWII coming-of-age drama The Beautiful Summer will now be arriving in the ideal season. Set in 1938 in Turin, Luchetti adapted the script with Cesare Pavese based on his novel,...
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First Trailer for Edward Berger’s Conclave Starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rossellini & More
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After surprising with a quartet of Oscar wins for his remake All Quiet on the Western Front, Edward Berger stepped up his star power for his next project, Conclave. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Lucian Msamati, Brían F....
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Great Absence Review: Kei Chika-ura’s Drama is a Triumph of Structure
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It could be argued that the closest relative to films about dementia is the murder mystery. There are certainly many common features: a victim and an enigmatic killer; false memories and red herrings; clues from which an identity must be...
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Fantasia 2024: Let Us Raise the Curtain on North America’s Largest Genre Festival
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The 28th Fantasia International Film Festival runs from July 18 to August 4 in a hot hot hot Montreal. For those of us located in North America, it is one of our favourite times of the year. Due to its generous...
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All About Suspense: Damian McCarthy on Oddity
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With “Oddity,” Damian McCarthy has crafted one of the year’s most delightfully spine-tingling horror films, an supernatural whodunit that’s equal parts EC Comics and Edgar Allan Poe in its high-speed collision of cursed curios, haunted houses, restless spirits, and murder...
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My Spy: The Eternal City
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The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with a sly, subversive streak that set it apart from the usual family-friendly, action-comedy fare. Dave Bautista and Chloe Coleman had solid chemistry, with Kristen Schaal serving as a wonderfully...
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Levan Akin on Making Films His Way, the Queer Art That Shaped Him, and His Touching New Drama Crossing
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In the deeply felt new drama “Crossing,” a retired Georgian teacher named Lia (Mzia Arabuli) is on a mission. Her sister passed away recently, and at her deathbed, Lia promised that she would find the sister’s estranged daughter Tekla, a...
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Red Rooms Trailer: A Serial Killer Case Unfolds Acclaimed Psychological Cyber-Thriller
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An acclaimed thriller that’s played at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Fantasia International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Overlook Film Festival, and beyond, Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms is now arriving this...
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Crossing Review: Levan Akin’s Drama Finds Authenticity Within Formulaic Queer Narrative
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There’s no description of Levan Akin’s Crossing that won’t make it sound like the kind of feel-good dramedy which would have taken Sundance by storm in 2006. It has all the key ingredients: an inter-generational friendship forged between a curmudgeonly...
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MEANWHILE ON EARTH Trailer: French Sci-fi Drama in Theaters This September
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Metrograph Pictures is releasing Jérémy Clapin's sci-fi drama, Meanwhile on Earth, in cinemas on September 13th.    A 23 year-old girl is contacted by an unknown life form claiming to be able to bring her older brother safely back to...
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