film festival

Skull: The Mask is said to be based on pre-Colombian mythology, so let me make one thing clear: I don’t know a goddamn thing about pre-Colombian mythology. I know a …
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Earlier this week, Music Box Theater issued a press release announcing Katie Rife as the new Senior Programmer for Cinepocalypse 2020. Ostensibly the fourth year of this annual event, Rife’s …
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Babak Anvari’s Under the Shadow was one of my favorite movies of the year when it first came out. So when I found out his new feature, Wounds, would be …
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“You know those teen vampire movies that feel like the horny soap opera fever dreams of a horny eighth-grade diary…?”

So begins Bit, the second film from writer/director Brad Michael …
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Something Else begins with the slowly building sound of radio static, and the image of Abby (Brea Grant) walking through a field. She looks somewhat worried, but is soon joined …
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All hell breaks loose south of the border when a lovestruck fourteen year old joins a criminal syndicate to impress a girl. The Gasoline Thieves kicks off, expectedly, once the young Lalo, …
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Every now and then the famous Cannes Film Festival showcases some good old fashioned Horror. And it looks like this year is no exception.

Featured in the Un Certain Regard …
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After watching the dense, beautiful and horrific Horsehead, I felt compelled to learn more about the work that went into this artful exploration of our nightmares.  I sat down with co-writer and …
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