Sustained domestic abuse makes for a cruel and exhausting Evil Dead franchise entry
There’s something fundamentally grotesque about Vaniček’s vision that is obnoxious rather than menacing.…
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Sophia Wright-Mendelsohn on sharpening her claws in Penny Lane is Dead
We've all seen, or we've all met, a Kat.…
Kristen Stewart and Imogen Poots on The Chronology of Water and embodied memories
Lidia does describe immediately that this experience that we're about to receive is a gift from her. It feels literary right off the bat and it's chaotic and nonlinear and fractured.…
Bill Skarsgård on Building a Live Wire Performance in Dead Man’s Wire
I could speak fluent Tony when we were shooting so things would just come and a lot of stuff was improvised, and I always love to sort of surprise myself when I’m filming.…
Fantasia 30 showcases some Australian bangers and much more
The 30th Edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is set for July 16 — August 2 in Montreal. This year sees some extremely exciting world premieres plus a solid contingent of Australian features and shorts.…
Visar Morina on his devastating Kosovar drama Shame and Money
My biggest challenge was to create a shift. To start with a social environment, and basically to examine what it does to the people offering themselves every day and being treated like they are treated.…
Adrian Chiarella on the real-world horrors that inspired Leviticus
The film was made because I feel like a lot of the progress we have made in the last couple of decades has really regressed lately…
Tony Kaye’s documentary on his legendary battle with Hollywood is wildly engrossing
Tony Kaye’s documentary is a vivid portrait of a man so over his head that he’s become more than a little mad.…
Disclosure Day is pure Spielberg humanism
Spectacular and radically sentimental in a cynical world Disclosure Day is everything Steven Spielberg represents as a storyteller.…
Leo Woodall earns his leading man credentials in Daniel Roher’s engrossing Tuner
The highly enjoyable and entertaining Tuner upends a lot of expectations and zigs where many other films would zag, keeping the momentum from sagging.…
Recluse is an unsettling and uneasy journey into the modern uncanny
A contemporary Gothic horror where the aspect of dread permeates both the house and the people who spend time there.…
Astonishing Grace: James J. Robinson on his stunning debut film First Light
It is a really personal story, because every single character within the film is like a part of myself that is kind of in constant argument with itself.…