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Anime was well represented at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this year. The selection included Hosoda Mamoru’s Scarlet (reviewed here), Aoki Yasuhiro’s ChaO (reviewed here), and this peculiar one: Kuji Gorō’s war drama Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise. Based on a manga by Takeda Kazuyoshi, it shows the experiences of Japanese soldiers stranded on an island at the end of World War Two, hiding and fighting while being unaware that the war has already ended. We follow Tamaru, a shy Japanese soldier who wants to be a manga artist and spends any free time making drawings. In 1944 Tamaru and his comrades are sent to defend a small island in the Pacific, while the American army is steamrolling its way towards Japan. After an incredibly brutal…

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Metrograph, New York’s Lower Eastside repertory/arthouse film institution, is surveying the works of Thai filmmaker, Anocha Suwichakornpong, starting February 21st through two consecutive weekend screening of her feature-length and short films, as well as streaming of her work for home viewing. Producer, teacher, and writer-director Anocha Suwichakornpong, a native of Pattaya, Thailand, has, since her Columbia thesis film Graceland premiered at the 59th Cannes Film Festival, regularly ranked among the most unpredictable of contemporary filmmakers. While consistent in her preoccupations, chief among these the social and political history of her homeland, she employs an eclectic array of formal and narrative devices in her work that frustrate any attempt at passive viewing. I’ve been following her career path ever since watching her first feature, Mundane History….

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When two police officers show up to investigate a domestic dispute, a startling escalation leads to a tragic accident. Not wanting to be crucified by the public, the officers attempt to cover it up – only to reveal that their body cameras aren’t the only things watching them.

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Written and directed by brothers Kevin McManus and Matthew McManus, the sci-fi thriller stars Michaela McManus, alongside Jim Cummings and newcomer Stella Marcus.

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A group of friends travel for a weekend away to an isolated cabin in the woods to shoot an experimental horror movie. Slowly the film begins to unravel, and we see the true monster appear from the shadows.

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Bob Odenkirk will attend a post-screening Q&A at the opening night screening of NORMAL at The Boston Underground Film Festival.

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The folks at The Unnamed Footage Festival have announced the first wave of titles for this year’s event.    The festival will feature the best that the circuit has to offer, in regards to found footage flicks currently on tour. They’re also hoping that films premiering at their festival will find firm footing on the circuit throughout the rest of the year.    Below is a quick announcement from the festival and the first wave of titles are in the gallery below.    The Found Footage Horror and In-World-Camera Film Festival returns to San Francisco March 24-29, 2026, with an extended schedule, new events and a collection of films that are guaranteed to terrify and delight.    The Unnamed Footage Festival (UFF) team is excited…

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The foundations of Grayson Manor are shaken when an accident leaves Boyd Grayson handless and his mother invests in radical new technology to help him.

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Sophie Turner, Kit Harington, and Marcia Gay Harden star in director Natasha Kermani’s action adventure.

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Wick Is Pain is a 2025 documentary that chronicles the making of all four John Wick films. The journey from an independent film to a billion-dollar franchise is directed by Jeffrey Doe. It details the struggles the independent production endured, and the story of pushing through those setbacks has become widely celebrated among fans. I am not going to explain what is included in the documentary, but how different the journey of cost-bearing is from other similar action films. We have seen punches and kicks, gun fights, and high building falls in other films as well, especially if you are familiar with the Mission: Impossible franchise, where Tom Cruise has performed death-defying stunts himself. Why do the John Wick films stand apart?​ Firstly, I observed…

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