Category: Film Fests

Over the past few years coming-of-age films have thankfully moved away from typical male-centric stories about teen boys getting drunk and […]

The plucky, rough-around-the-edges Canadian thriller Level 16 is a Black Mirror-lite story about teenage girls being trained in a creepy, militaristic sort […]

In the loudly menacing The Hole in the Ground, a solid debut from Irish director Lee Cronin, young mother Sarah (Seána […]

Despite its happy, Irish-sounding title, Donnybrook is bleak misery porn about meth and meth-adjacent Midwesterners scrambling to survive and/or kill each other. […]

(Now in theaters and VOD.) We in the Northern Hemisphere have this image of New Zealand as Australia’s sillier, goofier neighbor. […]

(On HBO.) Mandy, the high school basketball player at the center of Share, starts the film by waking up on her […]

(Screened at the Sundance Film Festival; U.S. release date TBD) Dirty God is in the tradition of English “kitchen sink dramas” and […]

Although it caters to a large community of retirees, the Palm Springs International Film Festival still features its share of daring […]

(Streaming on Netflix.) Most of us don’t have the exact problems that Alice in Cam has because most of us aren’t webcam […]

Lee Israel was a journalist who made a living writing well-regarded biographies before falling on hard times after the failure of […]

The 2018 Halloween is a direct sequel to the 1978 Halloween, and it exists in a timeline where there were never any […]