Thessa Meijer’s Heat (Hitte) is a charming little film about an ice cream vendor (Daniël Kolf) in the middle of a massive heatwave. But don’t let it fool you. Beneath its sunny disposition and bright color palette is a scoop of the uncanny. Pardon the pun. The film opens with the vendor arranging his ice [...]

Alice (Tallie Medel) is in too deep. Her girlfriend Bret (Lindsay Burdge) is becoming more and more distant and distracted by their dog, Harvie, and his illness. Medical bills for Harvie are piling up well beyond their means. Their sex life is completely nonexistant. Alice can’t sleep at night, and when she does sleep she [...]

Cranked Up Films, the genre-leaning arm of Good Deed Entertainment, announced that they have acquired North American distribution rights to the supernatural comedy, EXTRA ORDINARY from Epic Pictures. The Irish film follows Rose (Maeve Higgins), a sweet small-town Irish driving instructor, who is gifted with supernatural abilities. Rose tries to ignore the constant spirit-related requests, [...]

The need we have to connect, to belong, is something that can have some pretty negative effects. It can compromise our beliefs, our behaviors, and it can make us lose who we are. In the new short HOW TO BE ALONE, writer-director Kate Trefrydives deep into the psyche of one woman whose painful need for company [...]

After status-obsessed teen Sara has sex for the first time, she wakes up the next day nine months pregnant-with an alien. Snatchers will be screening March 10th, 12th, and 14th at SXSW Sex is dangerous. Well, unprotected sex is anyway. That is the big message that writers Stephen Cedars, Benji Kleiman, and Scott Yacyshyn are [...]

Rotten Tomatoes,a go-to resource for movie and TV show recommendations, announced the launch of RT21, a yearlong celebration of the best in movies and television since the popular site’s debut in 1998.  Serving Rotten Tomatoes loyalists and pop culture fans everywhere, RT21 will deliver original video, special-themed content, social media activations, and fan events across [...]

An isolated lodge somewhere in England. Five old university pals, now nudging 40, gather for a weekend to scatter the ashes of their friend, Jonesy, who drowned himself in the lake three years earlier. They settle in for a fun evening, entertaining each other with stories of murders, ghosts, zombies and possessions, but as day [...]