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3 days ago

Films to See This April

Emma drops an absolute bombshell in the midst of a game where they're asked to reveal the worst thing they've ever done. Soon everyone around her starts to question how well they really know her.
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Arts
fromArtnet News
6 days ago

Labubu Gets a Star Turn on the Big Screen-Plus a Rundown of the Latest in Asia's Art World | Artnet News

Asia's art markets are experiencing significant developments with major sales and new art fairs emerging amidst cautious buyer sentiment.
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fromWIRED
3 days ago

Watching a 7.5-Hour Movie in Theaters Made Me More Hopeful About Our Collective Brain Rot

A seven-and-a-half-hour film screening challenges modern attention spans, highlighting a cultural shift in viewing habits and the struggle for sustained focus.
Independent films
fromEsquire
4 days ago

Andrew Scott Knows the Next Stephen Spielberg Is Out There. But How Do We Find Them?

We Were Here is a humorous mockumentary about Indian retirees resisting AI by taking over machine jobs.
fromArtnet News
1 week ago

Guillermo Del Toro Scored a Different Prize at the Oscars: A Rare Frankenstein Painting

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein earned nine nominations ahead of the 98th Academy Awards, but he did not win the Best Picture award despite the film's success in other categories.
Arts
fromVulture
4 days ago

How Much Is Kristoffer Borgli Trolling Us?

The Drama is a more localized version of the same thing: If you do something bad (or almost do something bad, or do something bad out of your own control), how mad should people be at you - really?
Film
Marketing tech
fromVariety
2 weeks ago

Directable AI Set to Disrupt Film and TV Biz: 'It's Going to Help Small Film Industries in Asia Compete'

Generative AI tools with advanced directability are transforming film and TV production workflows, enabling filmmakers to achieve results three to four times faster than traditional methods.
Independent films
fromInverse
1 week ago

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Just Released An Eerie Psychological Thriller Like No Other

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Chime explores modern terrors through a ringing sound that incites violence, reflecting societal issues and psychological pressures.
#horror
fromInverse
1 week ago
Independent films

'Hokum' Is A Terrifying Contender For The Best Horror Movie Of The Year

Hokum effectively uses jump scares to enhance its chilling narrative, making it a standout horror film at SXSW.
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 weeks ago
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undertone, 2026's Scariest Movie So Far, Conjures Filmmaker Ian Tuason's Real-life Demons

A demonic found audio film combines immersive sound with a narrative about a podcast host encountering paranormal phenomena.
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fromPaste Magazine
5 days ago

Dario Argento's Inferno traps you in New York's most evil building

They Will Kill You combines horror and comedy in a unique setting, reminiscent of classic genre films featuring evil buildings and dark themes.
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fromInverse
1 week ago

How The Bloodiest Demonic Thriller Of The Year Beat The Horror Sequel Curse

Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett prefer standalone films but are now embracing a sequel to Ready or Not.
Independent films
fromInverse
1 week ago

'Hokum' Is A Terrifying Contender For The Best Horror Movie Of The Year

Hokum effectively uses jump scares to enhance its chilling narrative, making it a standout horror film at SXSW.
Film
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 weeks ago

undertone, 2026's Scariest Movie So Far, Conjures Filmmaker Ian Tuason's Real-life Demons

A demonic found audio film combines immersive sound with a narrative about a podcast host encountering paranormal phenomena.
#julia-ducournau
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fromInverse
1 week ago

Why The Most Baffling Body Horror Movie Of The Year Is Not What You Think It Is

Julia Ducournau's film Alpha uses an imaginary disease as a metaphor for paranoia during the AIDS pandemic, focusing on family trauma and coming-of-age.
Independent films
fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 week ago

"Absolutely Not a Genre Film": Julia Ducournau in Conversation with Robert Eggers on Alpha

Julia Ducournau's latest film is a grounded family drama exploring themes of transformation and stigma during a viral outbreak reminiscent of the AIDS epidemic.
Independent films
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Dodging the wrinkle wagon': why a Brazilian film about ageing is inspiring older women

The film 'The Blue Trail' addresses ageism and the resilience of older women in Brazil through its protagonist's journey of self-discovery.
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fromVulture
1 week ago

The Haunting Depths of Saleh Bakri's Eyes

Saleh Bakri's performances evoke deep emotional responses, showcasing the complexities of hope and reality in Palestinian life.
#documentary
fromIndieWire
1 month ago
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Inside Micha Marczak's Cinematic Return 11 Years After 'All These Sleepless Nights' with Sundance's 'Closure'

Independent films
fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 week ago

From Fables to Forensics: Five Documentaries from CPH:DOX 2026

CPH:DOX's 2025 edition features impactful documentaries addressing the Russo-Ukrainian war, emphasizing the balance between art and urgent political themes.
fromIndieWire
1 month ago
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Inside Micha Marczak's Cinematic Return 11 Years After 'All These Sleepless Nights' with Sundance's 'Closure'

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fromOpen Culture
2 weeks ago

How Quentin Tarantino's One-Night "Detest Fest" Changed His Life & Set Him on the Path to Pulp Fiction

Retro Rewind allows players to manage a video store in the 90s, evoking nostalgia for the era of video rentals.
#jim-jarmusch
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fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 weeks ago

"Questions of the Soul": Director Brian Tetsuro Ivie and Star Sydney Chandler on Anima

A lo-fi sci-fi road trip explores consciousness uploading and redemption, emphasizing presence in current life over digital immortality through two characters finding harmony.
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fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Paul Thomas Anderson Explains Himself (Kind Of)

Paul Thomas Anderson wrote One Battle After Another for his children to explore how his generation left the world for theirs, addressing complex character portrayals and generational themes.
#brazilian-cinema
Independent films
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

Brazilian cinema has high hopes of making Oscar history

Brazil seeks a second consecutive Oscar for Best Picture with The Secret Agent, potentially winning three awards across categories, marking unprecedented success for Brazilian cinema.
Independent films
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

Brazilian cinema has high hopes of making Oscar history

Brazil seeks a second consecutive Oscar for Best Picture with The Secret Agent, potentially winning three awards across categories, marking unprecedented success for Brazilian cinema.
fromInverse
3 weeks ago

'Undertone' Is Scariest With What It Doesn't Show

The first thing you notice about undertone is how quiet it is; not just in its audio mix, but in how it's shot - primarily steady wide shots that slowly pan across empty rooms, allowing your eyes to frantically scan for something amiss. It's an understated form of filmmaking that allows for the movie's scares to hit all that much harder.
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fromEsquire
3 weeks ago

Do Original Movies Have Any Hope Left? I Went on a Journey to Find Out.

Theaters must create unique event experiences to compete with home entertainment, driving elaborate marketing stunts and premium screen innovations.
#oslo
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fromIndieWire
3 weeks ago

'Undertone' Star Nina Kiri Wants You to See This Homespun Haunted House Horror Film Any Way You Can

Undertone is a spooky isolation film about a podcaster navigating her mother's death while investigating mysterious recordings that pull her into supernatural terror.
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fromEntrepreneur
3 weeks ago

This Cult Filmmaker Learned Something About Audiences Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know'Make Them Feel Something'

Kevin Smith built a personal brand by connecting directly with fans, which created lasting career opportunities beyond individual film projects in an unpredictable industry.
Independent films
from48 hills
1 month ago

Screen Grabs: Iranian films bring fable, black comedy, and social indictment - 48 hills

Iranian cinema demonstrates artistic resistance against censorship while offering humanizing perspectives on a nation facing military conflict.
Film
fromEsquire
3 weeks ago

The Best Documentaries of 2026 (So Far)

A 1985 fan-made Star Trek film starring George Takei, lost for 40 years, has resurfaced, documenting early fandom culture before it became a mainstream commercial force.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky's AI revolutionary war series is a horror

An AI-generated short series about the American Revolutionary War attempts photorealism but results in unsettling, low-quality, uncanny visuals that harm the dramatic intent.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

A brutal and hilarious murder thriller from South Korea's master of shock review

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.
US politics
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fromThe Atlantic
3 weeks ago

Six Bizarre Movies That Are Actually Fun to Watch

Atlantic writers recommend bizarre films that balance weirdness with entertainment value, including Iron Sky about Nazis on the moon and Jupiter Ascending.
#bela-tarr
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fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

The Future of Horror Movies Is on YouTube

YouTube has become a primary platform for discovering emerging horror filmmakers who transition from short-form content to feature films with studio backing.
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fromBerlin Art Link
1 month ago

Review of Joko Anwar's 'Ghost in the Cell' | Berlin Art Link

Indonesian director Joko Anwar's 'Ghost in the Cell' blends horror, slapstick comedy, and political commentary in a genre-bending film set in a corrupt prison system.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Sirat:' is not the movie you think it is it's better

Sirat is a sensory-driven film that transcends conventional thriller storytelling through hypnotic sound design, unexpected plot developments, and exploration of universal themes like faith, death, and redemption.
fromThe Independent
1 month ago

17 great movies ruined by terrible endings

10 Cloverfield Lane Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman and John Gallagher Jr are locked in an underground bunker for the majority of this left-field sequel to Cloverfield, with thrilling results. In the film's final throes, Winstead's character exits the bunker, and finds that her captor was telling the truth about an alien invasion above - a twist that completely and ruinously dissipates the hard-earned tension that came before.
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fromInverse
1 month ago

10 Years, A Cult Director Kickstarted Their Career With A Terrifying Folk Horror

The Witch's success revitalized mainstream interest in folk horror, inspiring Hollywood, indie, and international films while highlighting pagan iconography and rural dread.
Film
fromwww.esquire.com
2 months ago

8 Most Anticipated Horror Movies of 2026

This year's horror slate mixes high-profile auteurs, revived franchises, and critically acclaimed originals promising mainstream box-office success and intense, socially minded scares.
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fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

The Best Films of 2025 As Chosen By Some of Its Key Directors

Cinema persists as a collective, embodied form of resistance and memory against normalized violence and the outsourcing of recollection to algorithms.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

I haven't mellowed my violence': Park Chan-wook on cultural dominance, the capitalist endgame and why we can't beat AI

No Other Choice satirizes capitalism, portraying modern South Korea as industrially declining—downsizing, unemployment and male fragility—exacerbated by AI and precarious entertainment industries.
fromOpen Culture
2 months ago

How the "Netflix Movie" Turns Cinema into "Visual Muzak"

A quarter-century later, it's safe to say that those days have come to an end. Not only does the streaming-only Netflix of the twenty-twenties no longer transmit movies on DVD through the mail (a service its younger users have trouble even imagining), it ranks approximately nowhere as a preferred cinephile destination. That has to do with a selection much diminished since the DVD days
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fromIndieWire
2 months ago

Festival Programmers Pick Their Favorite 2025 Films Without Wide Release

The Popcorn List highlights 25 festival-acclaimed independent feature films without wide release to increase visibility and track their distribution progress.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

It's already yesterday again: the 20 best time-loop movies ranked!

Time-loop films recycle the reset premise while varying stakes and constraints, with urgency or exposition determining whether repetition enhances drama or undermines suspense.
Film
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

The Real Secret to a Filmmaker's Success

Coppola, Lucas, and Spielberg in the 1970s combined artistic daring with commercial ambition, reshaping Hollywood through auteurism and blockbuster filmmaking.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The rise and rise of Australia's cinematheques: There's just a particular magic'

Cinematheques attract diverse, intergenerational audiences by programming curated archival and underseen films as an alternative to multiplex and streaming offerings.
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fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Iron Lung's path to theaters was unique, even if the movie isn't

Iron Lung is a small-budget horror film that leveraged Markiplier's YouTube audience to gross over $20 million without major studio backing.
fromAnOther
2 months ago

A Guide to the Searching Cinema of Richard Linklater

It's been 40 years since Richard Linklater founded the Austin Film Society, beginning his crusade to make scrappy, personal, romantic and boisterous cinema. It's fitting for a director who first broke out in the 1990s "Indiewood" boom that his latest film, Nouvelle Vague, is an origin story of cinema's enfant terrible par excellence, Jean-Luc Godard, mounting his iconic debut film Breathless. As Linklater's first non-English film, Nouvelle Vague feels like a film fanatic has staged and animated decades' worth of behind-the-scenes anecdotes - genuine and apocryphal alike - to show a turning point for cinema as the Texan director imagines it: lively and collaborative, tetchy and confounding, an amusing slew of rules broken and manifesto points declared.
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fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Zombie Movies Should Always Be This Hopeful

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple presents a hopeful vision of postapocalyptic humanity, subverting the genre's expectation of survivors preying on one another.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

In 'No Other Choice,' Park Chan-wook takes desperation for a job to the extreme

An unemployed former factory worker creates a fake hiring company to eliminate job competitors and regains masculine self-worth by committing murder.
fromAnOther
2 months ago

Park Chan-wook on His "Bitter" Black Comedy, No Other Choice

At the narrative midpoint, pathetic protagonist Yoo Man-su ( Lee Byung-hun) - also a hobbying horticulturist with a bonsai mag subscription - arrives at the home of a man he deems a rival for one of the only paper jobs on the market. He wields a pistol concealed inside several oven gloves, intending to kill vinyl enthusiast Goo Beom-mo (Lee Sung-min) as a means of levelling the playing field.
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fromIndieWire
2 months ago

Critics, Filmmakers, and Why the Future of Movies Belongs to the People Who Give a Sh*t About Them

At the New York Film Critics Circle awards dinner, a lengthy speech about critics' relationship with filmmakers prompted playful roasts from presenters.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

V/H/S/Halloween review plenty of grisly invention in latest helping of engaging horror anthology

V/H/S/Halloween is an uneven, Halloween-themed horror anthology with standout shorts like Fun Size and Kidprint, plus an absurdly funny wrap-around, Diet Phantasma.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

Saw Creator Reveals How To Fix The Franchise's Biggest Flaw

James Wan and Leigh Whannell will return to Saw to refocus the franchise on Jigsaw's original philosophy of targeting those who don't appreciate their lives.
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fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Pijama wants to bring more indie films to a global audience

Pijama enables independent filmmakers to host, encode, and sell films on VOD for a flat $100 fee with flexible rental pricing and extended viewing windows.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

The Weirdest Existential Thriller Of The 2000s Just Got A Huge Upgrade

Birth portrays a widow's unresolved grief and rising doubt when a child claims to be her late husband's reincarnation, unsettling her attempt to move on.
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fromIndieWire
2 months ago

Bob Berney on Five Wild Decades at Sundance, and Chasing Movies No One Else Wanted Like 'Memento' and 'Donnie Darko'

Bob Berney identifies promising films at Sundance, secures financing and distribution, and mounts release and awards campaigns that bring them to wide audiences.
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fromIndieWire
2 months ago

Lav Diaz on 'Magellan,' His NYFF Joke About Casting Gael Garcia Bernal During Sex, and Bela Tarr's Stubborn Nature

Lav Diaz directed a more accessible biopic, Magellan, starring Gael García Bernal, filmed in the Philippines and foregrounding Magellan's abusive treatment of indigenous peoples.
fromInverse
1 month ago

85 Years Ago, A Horror Icon Revolutionized A Sci-Fi Thriller Trope

Boris Karloff stands tall as one of film history's most iconic performers, particularly within the horror genre. Foremost known for portraying some of the most iconic monsters in film history, from his work as Frankenstein's Monster in Frankenstein, Imhotep in The Mummy, or voicing The Grinch himself, Karloff had a few distinctive attributes that made him one of the most memorable stars of the era.
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fromwww.esquire.com
2 months ago

The 45 Most Anticipated Movies of 2026

In recent years, there's one word you hear again and again from movie distributors and pundits: event. Making a great movie is nice. But creating a culture-shaking event is what's required in the current boom-bust film landscape. It's something everyone has known for a long time, but in 2026 it seems like studios are really beginning to grasp what it actually means. From Tom Cruise in an auteur-driven comedy to the sequels to Devil Wears Prada and The Social Network
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fromInverse
1 month ago

19 Years Later, A Perfect Stephen King Thriller Is Getting A Surprising Remake

Mike Flanagan will write and adapt a new film version of Stephen King's novella The Mist, joining his roster of King adaptations.
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