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Opening This Week: RESIDENT EVIL, BAD APPLES, SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM
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Plus: 'The History of Concrete' and 'The Weight.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Julia Loktev’s Landmark Documentary Continues In Trailer for My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile
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About as anticipated as a six-hour documentary on exiled Russian journalists gets, Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile—the follow-up to 2024’s Last Air in Moscow, the winner of our Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award—has seemingly proved...
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‘Bucking Fastard’ Review: The Mara Sisters Mesmerizingly Anchor Werner Herzog’s Fairy Tale
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Of course Herzog was inspired by the true story of Freda and Greta Chaplin. The post ‘Bucking Fastard’ Review: The Mara Sisters Mesmerizingly Anchor Werner Herzog’s Fairy Tale appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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“THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH”
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THE STORY – An ex-DEA operative must return to the mountains of South America in an effort to find his missing niece and nephew, following the brutal murders of their diplomat parents. Enlisting the help of a washed-up junkie war photographer,...
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THE SECRET AGENT 4K Review: A Masterpiece of Memory and Resistance
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It's hard to fathom, even in hindsight, how a film about a dictatorship, its long reach into the lives of seemingly ordinary people, a love of old movie houses and carnivals, and something of an experimental narrative structure, could translate...
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10 Queer Titles to Look Out For At the 2026 Reeling International Film Festival
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A preview of what's to come at the latest edition of Chicago's preeminent LGBTQIA+ film festival.
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“UNTIL THE DAY ENDS”
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THE STORY – Belgrade is a city split in two. In the occupied buildings and crowded streets, Lena fights for a world she believes can be changed. From the same neighbourhood, Stefan is torn between the life he wants and...
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Toronto 2026 Review: MINOTAUR, Russia As A Psychological-Visual Labyrinth
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Andrey Zvyagintsev interrogates Russia in the same way 1990s era Zhang Yimou interrogated China: Methodically, metaphorically, and with an astutely savage eye for beautiful visuals to mask the criticism. There is a scene in his latest film, Minotaur, where the...
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TIFF Review: Matthew Rankin’s Ladies and Gentleman, Brian Mulroney Succumbs to Smugness
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“Politics is show business for ugly people.” — Roger Stone Canada seems boring to most, but I was recently trying to make it sound more interesting to an American friend by explaining the nation’s current nepo-baby predicament. The respective sons...
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“BIG LITTLE THINGS”
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THE STORY – A seemingly perfect middle-class Chinese family faces an unprecedented situation when their daughter Lei brings a man home on New Year’s Eve to pretend to be her boyfriend. Her same-sex girlfriend’s unexpected visit intertwines her with a...
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