Wednesday, an Addams Family spin-off, is a smash hit, breaking all kinds of streaming records for Netflix, including the record for the most hours viewed in a week for an English-language series. The show stars Jenna Ortega as the pig-tailed, darkly sarcastic Wednesday Addams. It also features Catherine Zeta-Jones as Wednesday’s mother, Morticia, Luis [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival (FIFF) - It's best to state this upfront. Megalomaniac is a tough watch, a dark tale about the children of the Butcher of Mons, a notorious and unidentified Belgian serial killer from the 1990s. This is very much a film about abuse, power, and generational trauma. Its scenes are graphic, [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival -All Jacked Up and Full of Worms is a head trip alright. Think Street Trash combined with Frank Henenlotter’s films. Oh, and throw in lots of worms that cause the characters to have hallucinogenic, terrifying visions. The film recently premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival, and Cinedigm just announced [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival (FIFF) - Something sinister's afoot in Lone Crow, after a canoe washes downstream, delivering a mangled body ashore. The Breach, based on Canadian author Nick Cutter's novel, is a slow-burn, featuring characters in a small town where everyone knows each other. While the film requires patience, it does contain some [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival (FIFF) - If there was an Oscar category specifically for best voice acting, J.K. Simmons would deserve a nomination for playing a Lovecraftian demi-god in director Rebekah McKendry's wildly inventive morality tale Glorious. Simmons, however, is only one highlight. This is a film that oozes creativity, humor, horror, and heart. [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival (FIFF) - Will AI ever evolve to feel emotion? Should AI  be given the freedom to choose its own objectives?  What ultimately will be the legacy of the human race? These are just some of the philosophical questions raised in writer/director Franklin Ritch's very weighty The Artifice Girl, a movie that [...]

Tribeca Film Festival - With the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, Triggered will undoubtedly be a tough short for some viewers. It's a home invasion thriller centered around gun violence, and it manages to speak to our collective rage and sorrow. Two parents, whose children were victims of shootings, [...]