IFC has announced they picked up the North American rights to Dave Franco‘s directorial debut, The Rental, a thriller starring Alison Brie, Dan Stevens, Jeremy Allen White, and Sheila Vand. Co-written by Franco and Joe Swanberg, the film involves two couples
If you’re starting to go mad while in isolation, consider flexing your creative muscles by making a short film and entering it into the upcoming Lockdown Film Festival. Lockdown TV has launched a new short film competition that anyone can enter
Indie filmmakers Zach Weintraub and Nandan Rao have made (just about) all their films available for free on their website, Newhard Entertainment, via Vimeo. These films comprise all the movies made by Rao and
Amazon has released the trailer for Tayarisha Poe‘s Selah and the Spades, which tells the story of an upscale boarding school run by five factions of students. The film stars Lovie Simone, Celeste O’Connor, Jharrel Jerome, Jesse Williams, and Gina Torres.
In some very exciting news for those (such as myself) who were bummed about the cancellation of this year’s SXSW, Amazon has teamed up with the folks at SXSW to present an online film festival featuring the titles originally planned to
Well Go USA has released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming Train To Busan sequel, titled Peninsula, which takes place four years after the horrific events of the original. Sang-ho Yeon returns to direct, with Dong-won Gang and Jung-hyun Lee starring.
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has announced in the wake of mass theater closures they have officially launched Alamo-At-Home, a service that will bring as much of the joy of the theater experience to your home as possible, now if only they could
IFC Midnight has released the trailer and poster for the upcoming horror film The Wretched, in which a teenager believes a witch may be living next door to him. The film is directed by Brett and Drew Pierce and stars John-Paul Howard
Hulu has released the trailer for its upcoming April edition of Into The Dark, which sees the return of Pooka, the demonic mascot from the first season. Pooka Lives is directed by Alejandro Brugués and stars Felicia Day, Wil Wheaton, Malcolm Barrett,
In a recent piece for Talkhouse, I discuss the ways in which older cinema, which has been folded into the very essence of our lives, was going to be integral in allowing us to weather the current global
Arrow Video has announced their U.S. Blu-ray lineup for April 2020, including new releases of Ovidio G. Assonitis‘ Beyond the Door, John Hughes‘ Sixteen Candles, Kirill Sokolov‘s Why Don’t You Just Die!, James Signorelli‘s Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, and Nico
Oscilloscope and Mailchimp have teamed up to present the short films of SXSW 2020, streaming now for free. This is fantastic news both for cinema fans who missed out on this year’s festival and the talented filmmakers who worked tirelessly to
IFC Midnight has released a new clip for the upcoming horror film The Other Lamb, which involves a young woman in a cult who, after seeing a series of horrific visions, begins questioning her way of life. The film is directed by
Even though the 2020 SXSW Film Festival has been cancelled, all the incredible films that were slated to screen were not forgotten and today the award winners for the festival have been announced. Cooper Raiff’s Shithouse won the Narrative Feature Competition
Kick-ass streaming service MUBI has announced some highlights for its upcoming slate of programming for April 2020, which includes Jodie Mack‘s The Grand Bizarre, Denis Côté’s Ghost Town Anthology, and a celebration of Canadian cinema, just to name a few.
Amazon has released a new clip for Selah and the Spades from writer-director Tayarisha Poe. The film takes place in a Pennsylvania boarding school where the student body is broken up into factions, the most dominant of which are the Spades run
