The folks at Panic Fest in Kansas City, MO, have shared the final handful of films for this year’s fourteenth edition of the festival.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has historically faced intense criticisms regarding a lack of diversity, declining viewership, elitist voting habits, and chaotic campaign tactics. To combat these issues, the Academy implemented several significant changes for the 2025-2026 awards cycle, aiming to implement transparency, improve viewer engagement, and address modern industry shifts. Hollywood has changed massively over the past few years, but the last year alone has redefined the Academy with a 180-degree turn. For example, the addition of 10,000 plus members in the Oscar voting body with diverse demographics, a mandatory prerequisite for the voting members to watch the film first, the introduction of a new category named “Best Casting,” and the formation of separate branches for animated features and short…
Director Nan Feix tells an irresistibly charming story of a cook and a waitress.
After the Clone Wars, Maul plots to rebuild his criminal syndicate on a planet untouched by the Empire.
Ora Duplass and Chosen Jacobs star, Katie Aselton directed, Mark Duplass wrote.
What a year it has been for first time feature filmmakers at SXSW. Back in 2019, Caleb J. Phillips took home the Midnight Shorts Jury Award for his horror film “Other Side of the Box”, he returns to the fest this time with a feature that stays with the near genre but this time plays more with the tools of science fiction in the twisty, unpredictable thriller Imposters. A young couple with a new baby has made the move out of the city to get a fresh start after husband Paul (Charlie Barnett) was shot in the line of duty as a NY police officer. His wife Marie (Jessica Rothe) wasn’t particularly enthusiastic about the decision, but she wanted to give them a fighting chance…
When easygoing Nick (Jai Courtney) encounters a talking fox who offers him a way to fix his ailing relationship with his fiancée, he takes a drastic step that will change everything about the world around him in The Fox, the debut feature film from Danger 5 co-creator Dario Russo. Nick’s life is a dream as far as he knows, he works for his father taking care of the family farm while his new fiancée Kori (Emily Browning) holds down a day job at a rural doctor’s office. Their lives in the Adelaide Hills seem to be as idyllic as they come, but Nick’s rose-colored glasses have hidden the cracks in his relationship that are obvious to everyone around him, including the local wildlife. When he…
Whoa! The Criterion Collection will unleash a raft of new releases in June 2026, led by two by John Waters — Desperate Living and Hairspray — along with Lisa Cholodenko’s 90s queer romance High Art. The lead title in Criterion’s official release is West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty, directed by Med Hondo, described as “one-of-a-kind musical spectacular–a collective effort of unprecedented scale and ambition that proved a watershed event in African cinema. “Aboard an enormous mock slave ship, Hondo stages a series of imaginative reenactments and intricately choreographed dance numbers that trace the devastating effects of French imperialism across centuries of enslavement and injustice. Beyond mere extravaganza, West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty is a stirring call to Pan-African independence and a…
Whoa! The Criterion Collection will unleash a raft of new releases in June 2026, led by two by John Waters — Desperate Living and Hairspray — along with Lisa Cholodenko’s 90s queer romance High Art. The lead title in Criterion’s official release is West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty, directed by Med Hondo, described as “one-of-a-kind musical spectacular–a collective effort of unprecedented scale and ambition that proved a watershed event in African cinema. “Aboard an enormous mock slave ship, Hondo stages a series of imaginative reenactments and intricately choreographed dance numbers that trace the devastating effects of French imperialism across centuries of enslavement and injustice. Beyond mere extravaganza, West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty is a stirring call to Pan-African independence and a…
Plus: ‘Do Not Enter,’ ‘Miroirs No. 3,’ ‘Tow,’ ‘Two Prosecutors,’ ‘Late Shift,’ and more.