Fantasia International Film Festival - It's likely that we'll continue to see COVID-19 horror films for a while. What else has rattled the world as much as the pandemic recently? Writer/director Andy Mitton's follow-up to The Witch in the Window, The Harbinger, is set in NYC during lockdown. It drips with dread and anxiety [...]

Initially, Gone in the Night seems like a cabin invasion movie. However, within 90 minutes, the feature takes so many twists and turns, balancing flashbacks with a present narrative. It saves most of its answers for the final 15-20 minutes. The journey getting there unravels a sinister plot and the desire to delay the aging [...]

Murder at Yellowstone City is set in a declining Montana town where anything can happen. Within the first 20 minutes, a prospector who strikes gold and promises to spread the wealth is shot dead by an unknown assailant. The rest of the film plays out as a murder mystery of sorts that contains an impressive [...]

Tribeca Film Festival - Babysitter is a tough sort of film to pin down. It has really effective elements of slapstick comedy, surrealism, and a stunning set design that makes it look like a fairytale. This isn't the type of movie with a straightforward narrative in which everything is totally wrapped up by the credits. [...]

Tribeca Film Festival - In writer/director Robert Machoian's thriller The Integrity of Joseph Chambers, Joe (Clayne Crawford) is tired of just selling insurance. He ventures into the woods to learn some survival skills, or at the very least, how to hunt deer. While this film requires a lot of patience, Machoian excels at putting viewers [...]

Tribeca Film Festival - In writer/director Gabriel Bier Gislason's queer Danish horror romance Attachment, Josephine Park plays Maja, a has-been Danish actress. Maja desperately needs something new and exciting in her life. She finds it when she meets Leah (Ellie Kendrick), a young academic from London. The only problem is Leah's overbearing, superstitious mother, Chana [...]

Tribeca Film Festival- In Family Dinner, overweight teenager Simi (Nina Katlein) just wants to shed some pounds, so she stays at her Aunt Claudia's (Pia Hierzegger) farm in order to fast. However, things aren't quite what they seem. Writer/director Peter Hengl's film is a holiday dinner from hell, filled with its share of uncomfortable scenes. [...]