Plus: ‘Musk,’ ”You Can See Everything,’ ‘Crawlers,’ ‘Sense and Sensibility,’ ‘La Bola Negra,’ ‘Once Upon a Time in Harlem,’ ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.’
David Kittredge’s studious and fair cinematic essay on ‘Exorcist II: The Heretic’ is a witty raconteur of a documentary.
Following its world premiere as the first secret midnight screening at Fantastic Fest on September 18th, 2026, IFC Films and Shudder announced this weekend that In a Violent Nature: Part 2 will open in theatres nationwide on February 12, 2027. Festival attendees in Austin viewed a picture-locked work-in-progress cut of the horror sequel, which remained anonymous until the screening began. Co-directed by Nate Wilson and Chris Nash, the film follows the slasher format established in the original production. INDEPENDENT FILM COMPANY AND SHUDDER TO RELEASE “IN A VIOLENT NATURE: PART 2” IN THEATERS ON FEBRUARY 12, 2027 IN A VIOLENT NATURE: PART 2, the highly anticipated follow-up to the breakout horror hit IN A VIOLENT NATURE, will arrive exclusively in…
I normally don’t review Dutch movies aimed at children, but there is a first time for everything and last year that was what happened with Hallowiebe, a fun family film with a Halloween theme. I am a big fan of its directors Jasper ten Hoor and Ivan Hidayat, who made many funny and scary shorts, often both at the same time. But were their talents applicable for a feature-length film for children? Yes. Hallowiebe turned out to be a success, with 90,000 sold tickets (which is a lot in the Netherlands) and currently its IMDb rating is 7.7. Not bad for a debut! Hey, I liked it a lot as well. The investors of the film were happy enough to allow a sequel, and it…
Seven-year-old Bela (Arabella Olivia Clark) lives with her mother, Ursula (Jessica Chastain), and her father, Russell (Jay Duplass), who love each other very much. At least, that’s what the girl is planning to say in her introduction speech at her new school, but that, of course, wouldn’t make for a very good movie or a bestselling novel that could be turned into one. In reality, Ursula spends a lot of time at work and mostly seems annoyed with Russell; it’s also almost an open secret that she is cheating on him. Oh, and there’s one more thing: a mysterious entity, whom Bela calls Other Mommy, lives in her room. It looks just like Ursula, only its face sometimes does funny things, as if it were…
Plus: ‘Once Upon a Time in the Middle East,’ ‘The Beast,’ ‘The Social Reckoning.’
Eleanor Coppola’s kind-hearted chronicle of her daughter Sofia’s epic is a delightful swansong.
It has been 20 years since Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette was booed at its Cannes debut, before becoming an instant cult classic in its commercial release. I remember the splashy marketing, the contrast of a lavishly produced period picture with contemporary indie rock soundtrack, and an absolutely alive camera capturing the immaturity and glee of the young future Queen of France. It was as if the pitch for the film was Barry Lyndon by way of Jim Jarmusch. Little did we know that Sofia’s mother, Eleanor, would give the film the Hearts of Darkness prestige-boutique behind-the-scenes documentary two decades later. But here we are, and the key-art marketing for the documentary is perfect. Using the jaunty stencil typography from the film, along with one of…
When newspapers, radio stations, and television news programs reported the first successful summit of Mt. Everest on May 29th, 1953, Edmund “Ed” Hilary, a New Zealand member of a spring expedition organized by the British, received prime, sometimes sole credit for arguably one of the greatest accomplishments in recorded human history. A knighthood followed Hilary’s success. The truth, of course, was far more complicated than contemporary accounts showed. Hilary wasn’t alone. He was part of a well-funded, 400-member strong expedition. He wasn’t even a member of the first team attempting to summit Mt. Everest that spring. He was, along with Tenzing Norgay, a 20-year mountaineering veteran, one of two, not one of one. Western accounts, however, repeatedly emphasized Hilary’s feat at the…
Halloween is creeping up, which means a new V/H/S is landing on Shudder today, just in time for some post-trick-or-treat trauma. Since the series’ resurrection, V/H/S has largely traded its loose narrative throughline for an annual theme, and while the franchise has mostly played things pretty safe by horror-anthology standards, V/H/S/Mixtape finds a surprisingly fresh hook in that subtitle: Every found footage segment is built around sound or the concept of an old school mixtape. And, weirdly enough, that simple conceit gives the ninth entry an intriguing creative kickstart. Producers/stewards Brad Miska and Josh Goldbloom may be nine movies deep into this thing, but V/H/S/Mixtape suggests they’ve still got some gas left in the tank. Unlike previous entries, which typically stitch their individual stories together…