Another R-rated superhero parody that critiques its own genre, 2010’s Kick-Ass, should be equally recognized for its starkly different approach to superheroes.
That’s right, rom coms are back at the cinema. You, Me & Tuscany features a plot similar to While You Were Sleeping, minus the stress of a train track coma. It’s a destination love story resulting from a fortuitous misunderstanding.
The 28th RiverRun International Film Festival returns to Winston-Salem, NC, on April 17 through April 25, 2026. The festival presents 14 world premieres and 14 US premieres, and boasts films from 47 countries.
Pete Ohs works as a director, producer, writer, editor, and cinematographer. He has produced and directed five feature films in the past five years. In 2025, he was at Sundance with OBEX, a fantasy adventure feature he produced, co-wrote and shot. This was followed by The True Beauty of Being Bitten By a Tick, a genre-bending horror […]
A long time ago on a podcast far far away… Welcome to a brand new season of RETRO//RANKED, The Rolling Tape seasonal series in which we discuss various franchises and filmographies that we love and rank their individual entries leading up to some of the biggest new releases. Today, we lift off with Season 6 to […]
The Cannes Film Festival, one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, is just a month away, running May 12–24. This past Thursday, Artistic Director Thierry Frémaux and President Iris Knobloch announced the official selections, including In Competition, Out of Competition, Un Certain Regard, and more. For those following awards season, Cannes has increasingly become an unofficial kickoff. As the […]
A new trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping has been released, giving fans a brand new look at the long-awaited prequel, which opens in theaters on November 20, 2026. The trailer promises a larger scale and higher stakes, and a cast packed with both exciting new talent and longtime screen veterans.
What stands out the most is Karia and Ahmed’s passion for this story. Hamlet will appeal to those intimately familiar with the original play as well as those going in with zero prior context.
The rest of the ideas in Outcome — being a good person, obsessing over public opinion, the frailty of cancel culture, and humanity’s willingness to treat those with money and fame obtusely — are found washed out to sea.
WAHOO!!! We’re off to the outer galaxy, not alongside the Artemis II astronauts but rather with two Italian plumbers in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and written by Matthew Fogel, it is the sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie from 2023, which we previously reviewed on the podcast in Episode 034. […]
A reimagining of the 1978 viral snuff film of the same name, Daniel Goldhaber’s Faces of Death communes with the detrimental effects the Internet has on its users through a serial killer recreating the deaths from the original film.
Adrian Chiarella’s Leviticus is an inspired debut for an innovative queer horror filmmaker.
Irati Gorostidi Agirretxe’s Aro Berria provokes and seduces in a visually captivating freshman effort.
Oscar Trinick sat down with Cristian Petzold to discuss Miroirs No. 3, the implications it has for his wider filmography, and how he navigates German history, whether that be new or old.
So, let’s take a look at these ten films focusing on Black women’s stories for Black Women’s History Month.
