Publications

Reviews

August 17, 2026 · by Risa Bolash

Review: ‘One Night Only’ is a New York City Rom-Com Return to Form, With a Sexually Confusing Twist

In a world … where sex is outlawed for singles except for one day of the year … The genre could be action, horror, or anything in between wit...

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Reviews

August 12, 2026 · by Patrick J. Regal

'The Last House' Review: It's Raining, It's Pouring, Your Grandpa is Snoring

The Last House is the latest Netflix thriller, and it's the kind that makes you think, "Who is going to watch this?" Then you see that it was...

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Reviews

August 12, 2026 · by Jake Fittipaldi

Review: ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 Marks a Thrilling Return To Form for Westeros

*This review contains spoilers for Season 3 of House of the Dragon* House of the Dragon had something to prove when it returned for it...

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Essays

August 12, 2026 · by Amritpal Rai

Checking in on the Awards Race: Can Netflix Actually Seal the Deal, This Time?

As Fall film festivals (Venice, TIFF, Telluride, New York) begin, so does the Oscar journey for the 2027 Oscars. There’s more mystery than ce...

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Interviews

August 10, 2026 · by Ethan Simmie

The Cast of ‘A Safe Distance’ Talk About Finding Yourself, Ambiguous Movie Endings, and Society's Expectations of Women

Fantasia International Film Festival is one of the premier genre film festivals in the country, with over 100 new sci-fi, fantasy, horror, an...

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Reviews

August 6, 2026 · by Nadia Arain

‘Tony’ Review: Matt Johnson’s Bourdain Biopic is a Visual and Emotional Feast

Never would I have guessed that the first try at an Anthony Bourdain biopic would stray away from the all-too-common biopic formula. I also c...

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Interviews

August 6, 2026 · by Danny Jarabek

*FANTASIA 2026* Interview with 'A Safe Distance' (2026) Director, Gloria Mercer, Bethany Brown, and Tandia Mercedes

While it didn’t debut at Fantasia Fest (that honor belongs to SXSW this year), A Safe Distance also played at the Montreal-based festival. An ...

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Reviews

August 5, 2026 · by Madiha Ali

‘Cape Fear’ Season 1 Review: A Modern Retelling Marred by Uneven Execution

Everyone has a dark past; everyone has secrets. But does everyone have the courage to confront them? Cape Fear season 1 builds on this unsett...

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Reviews

August 3, 2026 · by Risa Bolash

‘Hadestown: The Musical’ Review: Powerhouse Performances of a Moving Modernized Greek Tragedy, Immortalized on Film

It’s a sad tale. It’s a tragedy. It’s an old tale from way back when. Messenger god Hermes (André De Shields) bookends the Broadway musi...

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Reviews

August 3, 2026 · by Matthew Allan

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Review: Destin Daniel Cretton Brings the Spectacular to the Friendly Neighborhood Webcrawler

Even though Doctor Strange’s (Benedict Cumberbatch) spell in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) has wiped everyone's memory of Peter Parker (Tom ...

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Reviews

July 31, 2026 · by Mariana Fabian

FANTASIA 2026: Diego Fuentes’s Debut Feature ‘Matapanki’ is a Disruptive, Bold, Punk-tastic Masterpiece 

VIVA EL MATAPANKI. It is not often that a film enthralls me from start to finish the way that Matapanki did. In its Canadian premiere at...

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Nadia Arain

July 31, 2026

‘I Want Your Sex’: Gregg Araki Returns With a Raunchy, Inconsistent Comedy

Gregg Araki has a long-standing reputation as a key filmmaker in the New Queer Cinema movement. His boundary-pushing narratives and visual st...

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