Fantasia International Film Festival is one of the premier genre film festivals in the country, with over 100 new sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and cult cinema movies debuting every year. While it didn’t debut at Fantasia Fest (that honor belongs to SXSW this year), A Safe Distance reigned as one of the best movies at the festival.
You know what’s more romantic than living under an authoritarian government where you can only have sex for one night of the year? Finding your true love for life. Time to nut up for Will Gluck’s One Night Only, starring Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner. Written by Travis Braun and based on his Black List script. […]
‘Tony’ is Matt Johnson’s follow-up to ‘Nirvanna,’ a touching, nuanced coming-of-age story with another satisfying performance from Dominic Sessa.
Javier Bardem and Amy Adams lead Apple TV’s ‘Cape Fear,’ a retelling of a Martin Scorsese classic that fails to live up to its predecessor.
It’s the opening weekend of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but I don’t think we can conclusively say it’ll be part of this upcoming awards conversation—outside of a potential Best Visual Effects nomination. So instead of focusing on that amid the hundreds of millions of dollars being made by The Odyssey and Spider-Man, there’s a much smaller film quietly holding […]
‘Hadestown: The Musical’ brings Anaïs Mitchell’s Broadway hit to the big screen, a captivating watch with powerhouse performances all around.
Tom Holland’s friendly neighborhood Spider-Man teams up with Jon Bernthal, Zendaya, and Mark Ruffalo in ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day.’
It’s episode 200 of our weekly Monday show, and what better way to celebrate than with the 38th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the fourth film in the MCU Spider-Man film series. It’s also National Spider-Man Day which is celebrated annually on August 1st. The date marks the anniversary of the character’s first comic […]
Spider-Man meets anti-capitalist punk in ‘Matapanki,’ a bold and brazen film from Diego Fuentes out of this year’s Fantasia Festival.
Cooper Hoffman and Olivia Wilde star in Gregg Araki’s provocative yet underbaked ‘I Want Your Sex.’
We celebrate the 20th anniversary of She’s The Man by breaking down the film and “women in sports” movies. We also give some of our favorite recs from the genre and look at the progression of sports films over the past two decades. She’s The Man, loosely based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, stars Amanda Bynes as Viola […]
‘Attack on Paradise’ is an action-packed way to spend an afternoon and a nice addition to Bob Colaers’s filmography.
In a barren post-apocalyptic world with no humans, a barter system of sunflowers for scrap parts, and robots, Zap is very lonely. In his scavenging one day, he finds the broken body of another robot. His curiosity gets the better of him, and he takes this robot home, in hopes of reviving it. As we […]
The lineup for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival was announced on Thursday, July 23, coming on the heels of the first wave of announcements from the Toronto International Film Festival. That means we’re officially entering fall festival season, the multi-week stretch in late August and September where many of the biggest contenders for the 99th Academy […]
We’re going channel surfing for round 2! If you missed our last Channel Surfing episode, instead of spending an hour diving deep into a single series, we bounce around the television landscape and talk about the shows we haven’t had a chance to cover on the main show, along with the hidden gems we think deserve a […]
