All-too-often people seem to believe there were no, or at least vanishingly few female filmmakers throughout the history of the medium. If Z...

To get close to a crush, seniors Alex (Nico Carney) and Ethan (Misha Osherovich) pretend to be trans, a dicey proposition for sure. Here’s t...

The Brothers Quay return with their first feature in 20 years, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass . The haunting stop-motion offerin...

Music video and TV veteran R.T. Thorne directs his feature debut, 40 Acres . In the apocalyptic wake of a fungal pandemic, new civil war, an...

Documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe has delved into Alien , the shower scene in Psycho , David Lynch, and more. In Chain Reactions , he focu...

Much of Cambodian import Tenement , making its North American debut at the Seattle International Film Festival, will be familiar to those re...

In 1951’s The Lavender Hill Mob , Alec Guinness plays Holland, a milquetoast bank clerk. He routinely supervises the delivery of hundreds of...

Sucks to be Helen (Louise Brealey). She works nights at the chicken-packing plant, lives with her dirtbag ex and his idiot 20-year-old baby ...

In Eternal , a rift on the ocean floor threatens to destroy not only Earth’s climate but the burgeoning relationship between a young submari...

From the 1970s to the ‘90s, London’s Scala theater was a haven for cinemaniacs. From arthouse to exploitation and everything in between, the...

12 years after skipping town, career thief Trojan (Misel Maticevic) returns to Berlin, desperate and looking for work. What he finds is a wo...

As the protagonist of The Night of the 12th says, every investigator has one case that haunts them, that they never solved and can’t let go...

What if Romeo and Juliet but with warring small town Italian farm mob families? That’s the basic conceit of Pippo Mezzapesa’s Burning Hearts...

When a pair of criminal brothers on the run attempt to find shelter from a storm in an isolated farmhouse inhabited by a reclusive family, ...

Nowadays we think of the Satanic Panic of the 1980s as almost quaint, forgetting how it decimated countless lives and gripped the country in...

Well, Egghead & Twinkie is freaking adorable. In Sarah Kambe Holland’s twee, lo-fi indie comedy, when trans-racial adoptee Twinkie come...

When a young orphan nurse takes a job caring for an ailing baroness at a remote estate, you know spookiness is about to happen. And filmmake...

Among fans, the Star Wars Holiday Special is a kind of myth, an artifact some have seen but that’s spoken of as a fable. In reality, it’s an...

To viewers of a certain age, the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow holds an infamous spot in our collective memory. For many ‘90s kids, it was our in...

In certain circles, experimental metal band Earth is revered with a sense of mythic awe. Heavily influential, especially to the early grunge...