I was not fully prepared for the level of artistic talent that first-time feature writer-director Remi Weekes displayed in his new film His House. The story of a Sudanese couple that seeks asylum in England only to have matters get far worse, the film is shot beautifully and exhibits Weekes' command of cinematic craft to [...]

Reimagining the legend with a political bent, Guatemalan writer-director Jayro Bustamante has created a brilliant new political horror film with La Llorona. Recalling the work of Guillermo Del Toro in Devil's Backbone, Bustamante positions the legendary weeping woman as a bringer of justice for those lost to the savage consequences of war. A nearly silent [...]

Amulet from filmmaker Romola Garai is a haunting, if not entirely satisfying horror movie. Ruminating on the themes of sins and accountability, we follow a homeless soldier Tomaz (Alec Secareanu) living in London after an incident in his home country. With luck being a fleeting commodity, the tide seems to turn when a nun (Imelda [...]

Impetigore starts off with such great promise. The new Indonesian horror film from writer-director Joko Anwar begins with two friends working in toll booths late at night while chatting with each other over the phone. Maya (Tara Basro) tells her friend Dini (Marissa Anita) that a creepy guy keeps showing up every night to go [...]

The bleak, barren landscape of rural Oklahoma provides the perfect emotional backdrop for LITTLE CHIEF, a narrative turn for Documentary director and Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellow Erica Tremblay. A breathtakingly stark portrayal of the struggles of reservation schools, LITTLE CHIEF tells a story we rarely ever tell, and need to tell [...]

BLOCKS, written and directed by Bridget Moloney, is motherhood personified in bright colors and shapes. When a young mother of two starts vomiting up plastic interlocking bricks - you know the kind - her quirky journey to self discovery begins. BLOCKS asks the questions most young mothers ask - who am I now, with children? [...]

Edna (Robyn Nevin) has not been acting like herself lately. In the new Australian horror movie Relic, we open on Edna or Gran as her family calls her, standing nude in the living room in the middle of the night. Mesmerized by the twinkling Christmas lights on her tree, she has totally forgotten that the [...]