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Bugonia finds Yorgos Lanthimos doubling down on composition and, in tandem with Director of Photography Robbie Ryan, breaks certain cinematic "rules" to help externalize psychic unease.
Modern Whore is an 80-minute hybrid documentary directed by Nicole Bazuin, which is the latest in a lengthy collaborative relationship with Andrea Werhun, including Modern Whore: A Memoir and two short films.
Rob Grant on This Too Shall Pass: ’80s Vibes, Narration, and Film Influences I sat down with Rob Grant to discuss his latest film, This Too Shall Pass. We chatted about the…
I sat down with Chris ahead of the theatrical release on October 24, 2025, to chat about NEON coming on board, reshoots, VFX, the importance of family, and how the film was shaped by his childhood as a Jehovah’s Witness.
It Was Just an Accident grew directly out of conversations Panahi had with fellow prisoners between 2022 and 2023, and as a result, the film is grounded in both his experience and that of many others held under the Iranian regime.
EXCLUSIVE: Director Annapurna Siram Shares Her Handmade Pitch Deck for F**Ktoys ahead of the Calgary International Film FestivalRecently, I sat down [virtually, over Zoom] with Annapurna Sriram, director of Fucktoys, who generously…
Top 25 Films Playing at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF 50) The 50th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF 2025), presented by Rogers, runs from September 4–14, 2025. This…
Kate Beecroft’s docu-fiction portrait of the “New West” resists tidy categorisation from its first minutes: we have country twang quickly matched with hip-hop beat. The film – like the Zimiga family at its centre – refuses to sit in a single box, and that’s the point.
Weapons is the follow-up feature from Barbarian director Zach Cregger, and it illustrates pretty clearly that he’s here to stay. To put it bluntly, Weapons is a fascinating film.
Touch Me is an unapologetically strange midnight horror that uses its offbeat premise to probe trauma, addiction, and the bonds of codependency. It’s a midnight-movie in every sense...