Interviews

Apocalypse Now is coming back to theaters for its 40th anniversary—and you’ve never seen or heard it quite this way before. Starting today, event cinema distributor myCinema is re-releasing Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War classic in select theaters nationally in...

Director of 'Woman in Gold' and 'Goodbye Christopher Robin' spoke about his new film, in theaters August 9.

“Horror” isn’t a one-size-fits-all label at the Fantasia International Film Festival, wrapping up today. The fest⁠—North America’s largest devoted to genre film⁠—gives viewers bloody horror, action horror, psychological horror, horror comedy, slow-burn horror, musical horror… and, in the case of...

Carolyn Harper (Raven Whitley) is dead. Her small town reels. Her mother grieves. The boy responsible for her death—who left her stranded in a remote area when she refused to have sex with him—grapples with his guilt. Yet no detective...

“Ozark” star Bethany Anne Lind turns in one of the standout performances at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival in Blood on Her Name, helmed by debut feature director Matthew Pope and written by Pope and Don Thompson. Blood On...

It’s shocking but true: In central Naples, recent crime activities—extortion, drug-dealing, blood vendettas—have been ruled not by veteran mafiosi but by an ambitious band of teenage boys. That brazen young gang’s rise inspired Piranhas, the first novel by Roberto Saviano,...

Star athlete and brilliant debate-team captain at his Virginia high school, 17-year-old Luce is accomplished by any measure. His American success story is particularly amazing, however, because he’s a former child soldier from Eritrea, whose life took a positive path...

Los Angeles and cults. They go together like… well, Los Angeles and sunshine? Los Angeles and shattered dreams? Los Angeles and lost souls looking for a sense of community? Cinematically speaking, cults have come to the City of Angels in...

Having its Canadian premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival, director/co-writer Yi Ok-seop’s Maggie starts with a Seoul hospital engulfed in scandal, as photographic evidence is discovered of two people having sex in the X-ray machine. The next day, just...

If the movies—or, y’know, basic common sense—have taught us anything, it’s that being lost at sea isn’t fun. In Life of Pi, the poor castaway at least gets to hang out with a rad-as-heck tiger. In Rob Grant’s Harpoon, screening...

One of the more business-oriented announcements to come out of last year’s Fantasia Film Festival’s Frontières Market weekend was the creation of Yellow Veil Pictures, a sales film company focused on the arthouse genre fare that this Montreal-based festival does so,...

Nested in a hot pink and yellow room decorated with abstract yet cozy design, the Robot Remix Immersive XR transports viewers into cutting-edge cinematic and experiential worlds of virtual reality. The exhibition premiered on Saturday 6th at the sp[a]ce gallery...