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…
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Down on her luck Sarah (Hailley Laurén) has returned to her hometown to take possession of the decrepit family home left behind by her deceased mother. Meanwhile, her nosy, unstable neighbor Sandy (Kelsey Pribilski) is insistent that Sarah continue her mother’s holiday traditions, or else. So begins a psychotic duel between two women each dealing with their own pain in very different in director John Valley’s American Dollhouse. When Sarah arrives to meet her brother, Michael (Tinus Seaux), at the above-mentioned ramshackle abode in East Austin, he thinks that the best thing for the family is to sell it off and let some developer tear it down so they can walk away with a little bit of cash instead of a giant headache. Sarah, on…
Elsie Fisher leads a talented ensemble in writer/director Fergus Campbell’s charming adventure.
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at two different videos by Slava Tsukerman. Slava Tsukerman passed away recently at the age of 86. He left behind only a handful of features, half of them documentaries, some shorts and two music videos. The two music videos in question are stylistically immediately recognizable as his work, using a pop art sheen and deliberately flat-looking effects work to build a colorful, vibrant and joyful vision with a punk queer edge. Tsukerman’s most famous film is Liquid Sky, a film that uses eighties New Wave and Punk fashion to tell a gender blending and bending story about aliens and drugs in New York. In…
The final wave of film for this year’s Unnnamed Footage Festival were announced heading into the weekend. This wave includes a couple of folk horror tales from Thai and Ireland, a standout film from SXSW Sydney, and a long unseen faux-doc from celebrated writer and directer, Gary Sherman, which has been scheduled to close out this year’s festival. A selection of short films were announced as well. You will find those below this wave’s announcement. All the feature films can be found in the gallery below. UNNAMED FOOTAGE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FULL LINEUP OF FILMS INCLUDING WORLD PREMIERES OF THAI FOLK HORROR SAMING, IRISH FOLK HORROR DISTORT 2: DEAD AMONG THE TREES, MIDWEST NOIR ZEBRA HOOVES, AND BAY AREA SHOT THIS HOUSE IS…