The law is intended to maintain order and protect civil liberties. It may not always work out that way, but...
Have you ever watched a Godzilla movie and wondered what he would taste like? Probably very gamey and radiated. But...
Death as a career makes for an interesting life. It’s like holding the great beyond with oven mitts, the corners and edges dulled by daily exposure. The fear, the grief, the terror of it all dulled by to-do lists. Argentinian Horror The Undertaker’s Home (La Funeraria) embodies that earthly purgatory....
The late-night shift becomes a living nightmare in Brea Grant’s 12 Hour Shift, a comedic one-night disaster that sends a...
The Brothers Grimm and the like laid the groundwork for modern storytelling. From damsels in distress to wicked parental figures...
I’m a huge advocate of watching movies while under the influence. I believe occasionally taking psychedelic drugs before a viewing heightens the experience, depending on the film of course. However, drugs may not be required when viewing Ryan Kruger’s debut feature Fried Barry. The act of watching the South African...
Special Actors, Shinichiro Ueda’s follow-up to the break-away hit One Cut of The Dead, is a feel-good comedy involving cults, ghosts,...
In Aaron B. Koontz’s The Pale Door, a gang of outlaws bite off more than they can chew after a simple...
The subject of an instructional video cassette becomes aware of his own existence in Quinn Armstrong’s debut feature Survival Skills. It’s a delightfully dark oddity that plays like ASMR for VHS collectors and audiovisual club nerds. If you’ve ever sat threw an employee training video from 1985, for a job...
There is a helluva lot of art out there that wants to interrogate society’s relationship with violence. It’s as if...
Justin McConnell’s Clapboard Jungle documents five years in the life of an indie filmmaker. The documentary is not only a must-see...
Two men go into space but three come back in Egor Abramenko’s atmospheric sci-fi horror Sputnik. It’s an alien invasion film of a different variety, opting to infiltrate Earth by hiding inside one man rather than sending an army of spaceships to decimate our planet one monument at a time....