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Kevin Van Stevenson’s Lady in the Urn combines some familiar ground with what you might call...

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Kat Crime: Tales of the Occult

Writer/director Jerry Artukovich's single-location frightener Kat Crime: Tales of the Occult...

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Sudden Light

Following his penchant for explorations in real-time, but not necessarily realistic adventure...

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Cuidadoras

TRUE/FALSE FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! A cinema verité slice of life documentary from Buenos...

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15 DAYS: The Real Story of America’s Pandemic School Closures

As a parent of a preteen during COVID, I definitely wanted to do my part to "stop the spread."...

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One Hour Girlfriend

In writer/director Gregory Hatanaka's One Hour Girlfriend, an isolated man named Richard...

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No Room For Love

CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Writer/director Maria Luna Kamradt makes her...

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Monument

In Bryan Singer's Monument, written by Alena Alova, the Israeli military launched Operation...

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The Last Act

In writer-director Zilong Zee's The Last Act, an actress who is pushed to the edge decides to...

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Mickey

SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! In Mickey, Dano Garcia chronicles the uphill battle avant-garde...

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Charliebird

Get your tissues ready, you're going to need them for Libby Ewing's brilliant directorial debut...

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Beyond the Border: Latino Representation in Hollywood

Near the beginning of Beyond the Border: Latino Representation in Hollywood, filmmaker Gregory...

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Wastelander

Writer/director Angelo Lopes strands us in a blasted apocalyptic hellscape in his dystopian...

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Time Hoppers: The Silk Road

Director Flordeliza Dayrit's Time Hoppers: The Silk Road, written by Dayrit and Sakina Fakhri,...

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I Got Bombed at Harvey’s

SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! The brilliant thing about co-writers/co-directorsAmy Bandlien...

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The Ascent

SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro is already the sort of challenge that most people file away in the mental...

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The Australian creative landscape is more vibrant than ever. According to recent data from the Office for the Arts, the cultural and creative sector...

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Movies will come and go, with so many of them airing all the time, but some lines stick around forever. A few seconds of dialogue can outlive an entire...

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Co-writers and co-directors Zoran Lisinac and Domagoj Mazuran's Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi action film, and the first...

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Some movie creatures show up, scare you for two hours, and fade from memory. Dune's sandworms are not those creatures. They've been burrowing through our...

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Grand Theft Auto V shouldn't work. Three protagonists, none particularly likable, operating in a world where moral clarity doesn't exist and redemption...

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Gambling captures people's attention because of the sheer excitement of the game. And the best movies exploited the tension of it into film. Today, we will...

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The Oscars ceremony is one of the most anticipated and watched cultural events of the year. With the rise of prediction market platforms, fans are more...

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A single establishing shot of the Las Vegas Strip does a lot of work. Neon, casinos, a chapel sign blinking somewhere off-frame, and the audience starts...

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We’ve already covered the favorites for this year’s Oscars; it’s an all-out fight between One Battle After Another and Sinners, while Timothée...

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SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! In Slts’lani Banchi Hanuse's documentary, Ceremony, the disappearance of the ooligan, a fish,...

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Floating above a room and viewing your body down below being worked on by hospital staff; feeling enshrouded by a warm, loving...

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