The “Banned” Film Coming Soon To a Theater Near You
Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker, one year later. by Lindsay Lee Wallace “The movie was never banned,” director, writer, editor, and actor Vera Drew explains patiently, emphatically, and for what seems like the hundredth time. “We were able to have our world
An AI Couldn’t Write This: A Late-Cyberpunk Manifesto
In 2016, the Dallas Police Department killed Micah Xavier Johnson using a bomb disposal robot and a block of C-4. He was the first—but almost certainly not the last—person to be killed by a police r
REVIEW: ‘The Beast’ Weds Arthouse Aesthetics to Epic Sci-fi Horror
Director Bertrand Bonello brings stylistic flare and formal experimentation to an ambitious, genre-defying melodrama by Josh Lewis Part of Blood Knife's TIFF 2023 coverage (Note: Spoilers in the last 2 paragraphs. You've been warned!) In a letter to fellow writer Morton
REVIEW: ‘When Evil Lurks’ Is A Gruesome Shot in the Arm for Possession Horror
Argentine filmmaker Demián Rugna's combines gruesome, Fulci-esque visuals and fine-tuned bleakness by Josh Lewis Part of Blood Knife's TIFF 2023 coverage (NOTE: Spoilers at the end. You've been warned!) The churches have long been dead and there’s a rotten infestation at
Santa Sangre: Finding Salvation in Sacrilege
The surreal horror masterpiece finds religious ecstasy in the profane by Cian Tsang When we first lay our eyes on Fenix (Axel Jodorowsky), he almost seems more bestial than human, as if he’s some organism that’s only just managed to drag himself