by Joseph Perry | May 27, 2024 | Events, Film Festivals, Movies, News
If you are a cinephile seeking the uncommon, the unexpected, and the out-there, you will be interested in Los Angeles’s Film Maudit 2.0 festival, taking place this June. Following is the official press announcement. The 5th edition of Film Maudit 2.0,...
by Joseph Perry | May 17, 2024 | Documentaries, Film Festivals, Foreign, Horror Comedy, Indie, Movies, News, Thriller
Canada’s Fantasia International Film Festival brings a drool-worthy feast of genre cinema to Montreal every year, and the first wave announcement for the fest’s 2024 edition — set for July 18 through August 4 — boasts a buffet of amazing...
by Joseph Perry | Apr 29, 2024 | Film Festivals, Paranormal, Reviews, TV
If you’re in the mood for a brisk supernatural comedy, you need look no further than the new Canadian six-part episodic short-form series Department of Paranormal Affairs. The series boasts highly likable characters in decidedly irregular situations. In the world of...
by Joseph Perry | Apr 29, 2024 | Foreign, Movies, Reviews
In Witch (U.K, 2024), codirectors Craig Hinde and Marc Zammit — who cowrote the screenplay with David Baboulene — have crafted a feature that combines gothic horror and folk horror with a science fiction element. In a small English town in 1575, young wife and mother...
by Joseph Perry | Apr 25, 2024 | Documentaries, Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Paranormal, Reviews
Director John MacLaverty’s terrific documentary Loch Ness: They Created a Monster looks at the personalities involved in the search for Nessie, the legendary monster of Scotland’s Loch Ness, during the heyday of that searching, the 1970s and early 1980s. It’s a...