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Fantasia Review: Jérémy Clapin’s Meanwhile on Earth is a Dark Alien Tale About Loneliness
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“They’ve gone into their dream.” That’s what the non-corporeal extraterrestrial entity (voiced by Dimitri Doré) says through a highly malleable seed that Elsa Martens (Megan Northam) places in her ear. The words are meant to comfort her when the first...
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FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE 4K Review: The Personal Is Political
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Crushing almost sixty years of twentieth-century turmoil into less run time than the equally decade-skippy first season of HBO's House of the Dragon, Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine joins the Criterion Collection this week in a new 4K transfer. The...
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‘Only the River Flows’ Review: Wei Shujun’s Murky to a Fault Serial Killer Procedural
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Wei has crafted a noir that rejects the more dramatic trappings of such stories. The post ‘Only the River Flows’ Review: Wei Shujun’s Murky to a Fault Serial Killer Procedural appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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CURSED IN BAJA: Anchor Bay Entertainment Acquires New Horror Flick From Jeff Daniel Phillips
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Pirelli, an ex-lawman, travels to Mexico searching for the heir to a Los Angeles fortune, while confronting his own complicated past. But what he finds in Baja challenges him to the core. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Fantasia Review: Bookworm is an All-Ages Adventure That Feels a Bit Stale
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After the dark comedy Come to Daddy, New Zealand director Ant Timpson travels back to his home country with lead actor Elijah Wood for Bookworm, an adventure designed for all ages. In his introduction at the opening of Montreal’s Fantasia...
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ROUND THE DECAY Trailer: Monster Movie Coming This Halloween Season
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Adam Newman's monster movie Round The Decay is coming during spooky season.   A young woman returns to the site of her broken engagement, Newport's Valley, a sleepy tourist town with an all-consuming secret.   To help drum up some...
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MUMMY SHARK Official Trailer: Because at This Point, Why Not?
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Wild Eye Releasing is putting Mark Polonia's micro (what's below micro?) indie horror flick Mummy Shark out on VOD and DVD on October 8th.    You folks know the drill with movies like these. They're done fast, cheap and keep the...
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BRING THEM DOWN: First Look at Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan in Irish Thriller Bound For TIFF
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Michael, the last son of a shepherding family, lives with his ailing father, Ray. Burdened by guilt over the death of his mother, Michael has isolated himself from the world. When a conflict with rival farmer Gary and his son...
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MotelX 2024: SASQUATCH SUNSET, IN A VIOLENT NATURE And ODDITY Lead First Wave
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Our friends at MotelX, the excellent genre film festival in Lisbon, Portugal, have annonced the first wave of titles for this year's festival, coming up this September.    Festival standouts Sasquatch Sunset, In A Violent Naure, Oddity, Cuckoo, Humanist Vampire Seeking...
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Claire Denis’ No Fear, No Die Gets 4K Restoration In Exclusive Trailer
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Understanding and appreciation of Claire Denis has long faced the vacancy of No Fear, No Die, her 1992 feature pitting Alex Descas and Isaach de Bankolé in the world of cockfighting. Whether you’ve watched the fuzzy DVD rip that’s satiated...
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