You can always count on Tribeca Film Festival to feature a few true weirdos. Movies that challenge, expand, or downright destroy the ideas we have of genre conventions. This year, one of those films is Ultrasound. The feature directorial debut of Rob Schroeder, Ultrasound pushes storytelling to its limits, culminating in a slow-burn psychological...
Anything for Jackson is one of those films that calmly takes the tried and true exorcism and possession sub-genres and reinvents them in the most terrifyingly beautiful way. Equally saturated in love and grief as it is satanic rituals and ghosts, the film balances horror and heart with ease. Directed...
Found footage films have always had an interesting relationship with film scores. Due to their inherent nature, it often makes narrative sense to have a very minimal score or in some cases, no score at all. Followed is not one of those found footage films. In the new film from...
I was talking with a fellow member of the press the other day on what qualifies as an opening movie for the Fantasia Film Festival. Based on last year’s opening film, The Villainess, my guess is that it would have to be both high-adrenaline and visually stunning. In that sense,...