The “Resident Evil” video game franchise went through a renaissance of sorts in 2017 with “Biohazard” — the scariest installment in its turbulent run. Sequels “Village” and this year’s “Requiem” carri...

Zombies have evolved from slow-moving, brain-hungry corpses to fast-moving sprinters with the ferocity of a starving animal and beyond. Just when you thought you’d seen every type of zombie imaginable, Yeon Sang-ho’s “Colony” arrives on the scene. These zombies are connected by a hivemind that gets smarter and more efficient at hunting human victims. Think

While I do admire Jane Schoenbrun as a distinct artistic voice, “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and “I Saw the TV Glow” are movies I admire more than I like. She finds compelling ways to transla...

The Fantasia International Film Festival certainly doesn’t neglect the international part of its title. Every year’s program has a global presence, with each culture tackling genre storytelling in its...

Genre filmmaking comes in all different flavors and textures, even when we’re talking about similar creatures of the night. Vampires, vengeful undead spirits, and other supernatural encounters are all...

Discovery is the best part of any film festival, but that’s particularly true about the Fantasia Film Festival. Of course, there are always a couple of buzzy titles that crowds flock to, but there’s s...

Christopher Nolan will go down in history for redefining the modern blockbuster as we know it. All eyes are on him after he finally won two Oscars for 2023’s “Oppenheimer,” and he shot for the ancient...

I must admit that I have never seen any of documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee’s prior works. But from “Remake,” it’s clear that the camera is a member of his family, if not possessing an even closer p...

Perspective is what keeps Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead universe alive. A different director has taken the helm of every new installment since 1993’s “Army of Darkness,” allowing them to infuse their storytel...

In an age where Pixar is cutting queer themes from its movies, such as “Elio,” our stories are especially important to keep in the art landscape. It reminds people that it’s okay to be different, and ...

The childhood memories that stick with us into adulthood tend to be the ones that are the happiest and most painful. They inform the way that we see the world; they shape us. Stories that tap into thi...

Olivia Wilde’s “The Invite” starts with the Oscar Wilde quote: “One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.” The movie plays like a cautionary marriage tale that burns wit...

Some realities are more terrifying than any fictional ghosts or demons a storyteller could ever hope to come up with. This is the case for Adrian Chiarella’s Aussie horror romance “Leviticus,” which p...

The martial arts cinema landscape is frequently defined by one-upmanship, each film trying to outdo its predecessors in terms of beat ‘em up action. Park Chan-wook’s “Oldboy,” Gareth Evans’s “The Raid...

West Hollywood has a rich history as a safe haven for the LGBTQ+ community, drawing people from all around the world seeking a place where they can live as their true, authentic selves. Nicholas Freem...

The YouTube-creator-turned-filmmaker pipeline strikes gold once again. Between Curry Barker’s “Obsession” and Kane Parsons’s “Backrooms,” we’re seeing a whole new generation of filmmakers take the man...

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The “be careful what you wish for” folklore motif is an ancient storytelling message that transcends genre, and we’ve seen it bent in every which direction. Even so, director Curry Barker realizes it ...

There’s a stage-like quality to Elliot Tuttle’s “Blue Film,” but unlike many other movies in that category, it still very much embraces its medium. This philosophical character study muses on sexual s...

While “Hokum” doesn’t reinvent the genre wheel, Damian McCarthy has finally found his footing. He once again dips the tip of his pen in Irish folklore, unleashing both its lessons and horrors upon con...

Reaching for the low-hanging storytelling fruit that predictably tugs on the heartstrings is far easier than asking the audience to do the unpacking themselves. In a similar vein to Charlotte Wells’s ...

Shô Miyake’s “Two Seasons, Two Strangers” is an arthouse of mirrors and parallels. Its musings on loneliness are “feeling-forward,” more intent on creating surges of emotions than telling a convention...

Despite its explosive title, Peter Ohs’s “Erupcja” is a gentle whisper of a film that washes over you with major bisexual energy. He blends subtle comedy and relationship drama to address millennial romance in an age when nothing feels guaranteed, least of all our futures. British tourists Bethany (Charli XCX) and Rob (Will Madden) travel

Directors Neil Ely and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan’s “Departures” begins with the producer’s note that the story was inspired by those who screwed them over. Heartbreak is nothing new in LGBTQ-themed cinema, no...

Video game movies got off on the wrong foot in 2026 with the horrendous “Return to Silent Hill.” Fortunately, “Exit 8” fares far better, exploring a new path without completely excavating the roots of the source material that made the horror walking simulator such a success. The story follows a nameless man (Kazunari Ninomiya), credited