The satirical horror anthology Grind just had its world premiere at the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival (where I reviewed it). From directors Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty, and Chelsea Stardust, the movie follows an unlucky cast of characters as […]
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“I’m not sure if we have truly hit rock bottom, but I hope if it’s not now, then it will come soon, because I’m not sure how it can get any worse than this.” – Julia Ducournau It appears to […]
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Writer/director/actress Emily Robinson just premiered her debut feature, Ugly Cry, at the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival (where I reviewed it). In the film, Robinson plays Delaney James, a 24-year-old struggling actor in Hollywood who faces additional challenges once […]
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In 2022, a then-16-year-old Kane Parsons (aka Kane Pixels) introduced the world to his creepypasta, found-footage web series Backrooms, which drew tens of millions of viewers and followers on YouTube over the next few years. Now, the 20-year-old director has […]
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This year’s edition of CPH:DOX (March 11–22) was as usual jam-packed with exciting discoveries. And unlike the Oscars, which aired the first weekend of the fest, many of the eventual doc award winners, competing in six categories, were well-deserving of […]
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Following his breakout hit Sorry To Bother You and his much underrated miniseries I’m A Virgo, Boots Riley is back and ready to once again flip the middle finger to American capitalism. With I Love Boosters, he assembles a kick-ass […]
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Last Fall, the Indie Film Site Network (IFSN) awarded the annual IFSN Advocate Award to Julia Loktev’s 5+ hour documentary, My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air In Moscow. Set during the fall and winter of 2021-2022, the documentary […]
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First They Came for My College is the latest documentary from director Patrick Bresnan (Naked Gardens) and it follows the takeover and transformation of the New College of Florida by the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, and his conservative cronies. Deeply […]
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(Check out Jessica Baxter’s Forbidden Fruits movie review. It hits theaters Friday, March 27. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The newest addition to the toxic female friendship cinema pantheon is here and it’s called Forbidden Fruits. The […]
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The documentary Black Zombie (which I also reviewed) marks director Maya Annik Bedward’s feature debut. In the film, Bedward examines how the cinematic zombie has its roots in the Haitian Vodou faith, even though the original term refers to a live person […]
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