Don't be fooled by the meandering and atmospheric feel of Haya Waseem's debut feature, Quickening. This film teeters close to noir — in the...
Fabrice Du Welz's Inexorable is messed up in that deeply Catholic way that will make you feel guilty for even watching it. This slow-burning...
Kate Dolan's You Are Not My Mother is grounded in the rich soil of Irish folklore, and what emerges is a viscerally terrifying and enervatin...
Jagged seeps into your veins, and as it courses through you gaining speed, it enlivens your spirit — much in the way that "You Oughta Know"...
Blaine Thurier's Kicking Blood works on so many levels, audiences will keep on wishing for a sense of irony or a subtle one-liner until the...
It's a futile thing to do, scream at the sea. We're too small in the face of its breaking waves, in the face of its seismic surge and unrepe...
The first ten minutes of Huda's Salon are a revelation. This movie works through a simultaneously sympathetic and satirical lens to subtly s...
It's impossible not to compare Candyman to its source material — Bernard Rose's 1992 film of the same name — especially since it's a sequel...
The Megan Fox-starring survival thriller Till Death starts off with the kind of campy melodrama that makes one wonder whether they will be a...
The Protégé could have worked: the Martin Campbell-directed (Casino Royale, Goldeneye) film has got the trappings of a modern, trenchant act...
The triptych poster for Borat co-creator Dan Mazer's The Exchange is a bit confusing. Looking at it after seeing the movie, you feel jolted,...
In Arabic mythology, jinn have as much being as humans do, though they are a separate entity: they are created of fire, while we mere mortal...
Deep within his novel In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje writes: "The first sentence of every novel should be: 'Trust me, this will tak...
Here's the thing about the Conjuring Universe: it's damn good at giving us terrifying monsters. A haunted doll, a burnt-out husk of a nun, a...
Toronto-based musician Nadjiwan's latest album, Star Nation, tells a mighty tale of a journey from Earth to distant planets and back. It ope...
Japanese Breakfast's third studio album, Jubilee, is a paradox: simultaneously strong and delicate. It satisfies like a Shakespearean comedy...
Japanese Breakfast leader Michelle Zauner grew up stuck between two worlds. The only child of a Jewish-American father and Korean mother, he...
There is no genre better suited to making explicit all the ways in which we destroy teenage girls than horror. And when you add some religio...
If you're going into Those Who Wish Me Dead thinking it will be another Angelina Jolie action flick à la Salt, then you're in for a delightf...
Calling Amanda Seyfried's character in Things Heard & Seen a "nervous-wife" type would be to misread this multifaceted character. Nothing li...
