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SXSW Review: I Will Make You Mine is a Dreamy Drama About Longing

There are some cinematic universes worth reentering and when they do, it feels like you’re reconnecting with an old friend. The Surrogate V...

Why Don’t You Just Die! Review: A High-Octane Single-Location Blood Bath

We Summon the Darkness Review: Satanic Panic Reaches a Fever Pitch

SXSW Review: The Dilemma of Desire Celebrates Pleasure and Liberation

SXSW Review: Make Up is a Cold, Haunting Coming Out Thriller

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SXSW Review: I Will Make You Mine is a Dreamy Drama About Longing

SXSW Review: The Dilemma of Desire Celebrates Pleasure and Liberation

SXSW Review: Make Up is a Cold, Haunting Coming Out Thriller

The Other Lamb Review: A Stomach-Churning, Brilliant Cult Drama

Chris Hemsworth is a Black Market Mercenary in First Trailer for Extraction

It's looking more and more likely we may be having a summer absent of blockbusters when it comes to the theatrical experience. However, the pandemic is not cau...

Why Don’t You Just Die! Review: A High-Octane Single-Location Blood Bath

Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) just wants to take his girlfriend Olya (Evgeniya Kregzhde) on a date. At least that's what he tells her father Andrey (Vitaliy Kha...

Luca Guadagnino Says the Cast of Call Me by Your Name Will Return for Sequel

While it seems like more has been discussed about the sequel to Call Me by Your Name than most independent films that have actually been made the last few year...

Richard Kelly Plans to Direct Southland Tales Prequel, Which Will Combine Animation & Live-Action

After breaking out with Donnie Darko, director Richard Kelly followed it up with the wildly ambitious and sprawling post-9/11 exploration of a Bush-led America...

We Summon the Darkness Review: Satanic Panic Reaches a Fever Pitch

A rash of 1980s-era satanic ritual killings puts Pastor John Henry Butler (Johnny Knoxville) front and center in rural America's consciousness because his chur...

Selah and the Spades Trailer: Enter an Elite Boarding School in Sundance Hit

Premiering last year at the Sundance Film Festival in the NEXT section, Tayarisha Poe's feature debut explores a group (aka the Spades) in an elite Pennsylvan...

New to Streaming: Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Free HBO, Maurice Pialat, The Tree of Life & More

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles ...

SXSW Review: The Dilemma of Desire Celebrates Pleasure and Liberation

The Dilemma of Desire is an engaging and informative documentary built around revolutionary work, large and small, that aims to shatter myths and lies that wom...

Posterized April 2020: The Other Lamb, Tigertail, To the Stars, and More

"Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover" is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column foc...

First Trailer for Train to Busan: Peninsula Introduces a Zombie-Filled World

For anyone going outside for a quick walk to get some fresh air in-between the days of isolation, it can feel like you are in some sort of strange zombie movie...

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