31 Days of Horror 2025: Izzy Lee’s ‘House of Ashes’ is a Gripping, Timely Nightmare

Izzy Lee’s feature debut ‘House of Ashes’ is a compelling treatise on bodily autonomy and grief while delivering some disturbing imagery that may be natural, supernatural, or some combination of the two.

31 Days of Horror 2025: Rod Blackhurst’s ‘Dolly’ and the Comfort of the Extreme (Fantastic Fest, 2025)

Rod Blackhurst’s ‘Dolly’ treads familiar French Extremity ground on the way to delivering a dark and depraved tale that’ll stick to your disembodied ribs.

Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’ Redefines the Master

Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’ is a funny, brilliant, surgical satire of authoritarian fascism and one of the year’s best.

Fantasia 2025: For the Love of Film in Kenichi Ugana’s ‘I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn’

A romantic comedy set against the backdrop of underground horror filmmaking, Kenichi Ugana’s  I Fell In Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn once again finds the heart underneath the blood and viscera.

Fantasia 2025: Mickey Reece’s ‘Every Heavy Thing’ is a Subversive Tech-Noir that Conceals a Dark Humour

Fantasia 2025: Mickey Reece’s ‘Every Heavy Thing” is a both a retro noir thriller and a prescient black comedy that feels extremely of the moment.

TIFF50: The 2025 Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness Lineup is Upon Us!

Sachin Hingoo runs down all the selections from the 2025 TIFF Midnight Madness Programme!

Fantasia 2025: Jody Wilson’s ‘The Bearded Girl’ Shaves Its Own Path

Jody Wilson’s debut feature ‘The Bearded Girl’ is a coming of age fable that’s both well -worn, tried and true, but with enough slightly shifted reality to feel fantastical.

Review: In Morihito Inoue’s ‘Onsen Shark/Hot Spring Shark Attack’ You Will Believe A Shark Can Squish

Morihito Inoue’s ‘Onsen Shark/Hot Spring Shark Attack’ is a gleeful, many-toothed tribute to ‘Jaws’

Saturday at the Movies: In Sean Byrne’s ‘Dangerous Animals’, The Sharks Are All Right

Sean Byrne’s ‘Dangerous Animals’ is a tense, harrowing shark tale that gives the sharks the reverence they deserve.

Saturday At The Movies: Danny and Michael Philippou’s ‘Bring Her Back’ Feels Like Dead Weight

Following up on their surprise hit ‘Talk To Me’, the Philippou brothers return with ‘Bring Her Back’, an exploration of extreme grief that often feels weighty in the wrong ways.

Review: ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Breathes Fresh Life (and Death) into the Franchise

“Final Destination: Bloodlines” provides a perfect entry point into the world that’s been built over the last quarter century while providing some interesting morsels for longtime fans.