Maxine Peake leads Thomas Clay's refreshing genre film, Fanny Lye Deliver'd (The Delivered in the US), about a woman's emancipation. We named Fanny Lye …
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Genre Films
Explore films that leverage — and problematize — the definitions of a given genre, from horror films to the Western.
Found footage gets a showcase at the Unnamed Footage Film Festival
This year's Unnamed Footage Film Festival was a 24-hour livestream that illuminated the best and worst traits of the found footage genre. At 6am GMT, …
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Highlights from the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2021
Lindsay Pugh runs down the best of Final Girls Berlin 2021, from Your Monster to Time of Moulting to The Returned. While I wouldn’t exactly call myself a …
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The Night Review: A low-budget chiller starring Shahab Hosseini
Kourosh Ahari’s The Night, a rare American-Iranian co-production, is a disappointedly cliched horror offering. The Night will be released virtually in the US …
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Indie Memphis 2020: From Cane Fire to Smooth Talk
Indie Memphis Film Festival 2020 showcased genre films (I Blame Society, Freeland), documentaries (Cane Fire), and restorations (Smooth Talk). Over the …
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TIFF Review: Shadow in the Cloud is a film of two halves
Shadow in the Cloud is a strange Frankenstein of director Roseanne Liang’s feminist perspective and the ludicrous sensibilities of screenwriter Max Landis, who …
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