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Due to kick off next Friday, 3 July, the Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival announced its program a couple days ago, and it is very, very good. In their own words, they are “the only Swiss festival dedicated to genre films. … The event is mainly devoted to a specific film genre: fantasy. This main theme is complemented by two others: digital creation and Asian cinema.” Opening night will feature Yuen Woo-ping’s truly awesome action-adventure Blades of the Guardians — see our review by Rino Li, alongside Emin Alper’s Salvation, described thusly: “When two clans dispute the same land, old resentments resurface. In Anatolia, rising tensions push the protagonists into irrationality. Between dreamlike episodes and religious sermons, strong winds disrupt a fragile balance. From isolation…

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Olivia Wilde directed and stars, alongside Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz, and Edward Norton.

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Avalon Fast wrote and directed the ethereal horror film.

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This year’s Tribeca Festival ran from June 3-14. Four of our writers focused on the film element: Dustin Chang, Olga Artemyeva, Daniel Eagan, and Martin Tsai. Here are links to all our reviews: Reviews by Dustin Chang Caity Summer War Reviews by Olga Artemyeva Cotton Fever Turn It Up! The Revisionist Breeder The Haunting of Pennhurst Ponderosa The Leader Iconoclast Hallowarrior Killing Castro Mutter: The Diary of a Mother In the Hand of Dante Only What We Carry Skateboarding Is Not for Girls Labrador – Autopsy of Silence Hollywood Does Abortion Memorizu Reviews by Daniel Eagan Colors of White Rock Crooks Reviews by Martin Tsai Death Boom Dante…

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Tartakovsky announced, via a video message at Annecy, that he will executive produce and be the showrunner on his long-gestating pitch to make a Conan the Barbarian animated series.

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The vertical format. It goes against everything we have stood for by way of how we watch and consume horror and other genres. Then again, we recognize that we are not the format’s target audience – Gen Z and Millenials – the two groups having grown up with phones in their hands, watching and recording while holding their phone upright.    The ratio is here to stay and remains virtually untapped within the genre-sphere, though awareness of it’s potential is growing. Horror streamer BloodStream has announced more details about their upcoming vertical horror series, Nightmarish, which debuts on the streamer on June 28th. Find out more about the folks behind the new series below.   Horror Streamer BloodStream Takes the Vertical Boom Into the Dark…

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In Carla Simón’s autobiographical film, visual beauty undercuts its serious subjects.

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Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston, and Richard Gere star in the spy series, now streaming on Paramount Plus.

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It’s been just over one year since one of Netflix’s crowning masterpieces came out on June 20, 2025. I’m talking about KPop Demon Hunters, whose head-banging songs and powerful storyline gripped audiences of all ages and all regions of the world alike. The creator, Maggie Kang, wanted to stay true to her roots, and this is the reason Shamanism, one of the oldest Korean cultural and spiritual traditions, is spotted everywhere in the film. Rumi’s the Great Four Together sword, Mira’s curved sword called Gok-Do, Zoey’s snazzy set of knives, even Derpie the Tiger and Magpie all have symbolic interpretations of their own. Setting the background in the prologue immediately takes viewers into the fantastical premise and couldn’t have been better paired with the infectious…

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Directed by Tina Grapenthin, Katie Green, and Carlye Rubin, the documentary follows a unique filmmaking family.

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