drama

The Reign of Queen Ginnarra

By Kent Hill | February 2026

Wow! An adjective, an adjective, my kingdom for an adjective to describe the cinema of Lawrie Brewster. With The Slave and the…

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Wow! An adjective, an adjective, my kingdom for an adjective to describe the cinema of Lawrie Brewster. With The Slave and the Sorcerer, he leaned into the...

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Co-directed by Ammie Masterson and Kevin Machate, and written by Machate and Todd Rodgers, Worst Enemy is a tight, semi-autobiographical short that stares...

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Gregg Araki is an independent filmmaker who has made a slew of cult films centered on members of the LGBTQIA+ community since the 1990s. Heck, his Teenage...

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Jack Bayless takes his experience as a special effects artist to new heights in My Only Friend's A Corpse. The 70-minute horror film is Bayless's writing...

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Writer/director Huseyn Mehrzad's The Reptile is a harrowing examination of the bitterness of a broken marriage laid bare. The short drama begins with Leila...

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SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Makato Nagahisa writes and directs Burn. The dramatic feature follows Ju-Ju (Nana Mori), a teenage girl in Tokyo with a...

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The 1974 classic Conversation Piece (Gruppo di famiglia in un interno), written by Enrico Medioli, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, and director Luchino Visconti,...

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The opening shot of Hideo Gosha’s Tokyo Bordello is of young boys molesting a syphilitic prostitute as she fights her way to the gynaecologist’s...

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NOW IN THEATERS! In her sixth feature film, Paying for It, director/co-writer Sook-Yin Lee brings to life provocative cartoonist Chester Brown's 2011...

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SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Writer-director Paloma Schneideman is a graduate of Academy Award-winning Jane Campion's "A Wave In the Ocean" film...

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