Film Festivals Articles

Spoiler-Free Film Reviews: LEAD BELLY and THE LOST EPISODE (A Night of Horror Film Festival)

LEAD BELLY (U.S., 2025) Writer/director Stephen King Simmons’ sophomore fright-fare feature Lead Belly finds young teen Kyle (Bastian Carrasco Betemps) and his older teen brother Marcus (Liam Foehl) spending summer vacation 1997 at their father...

The Fearsome Fivesome: A Quintet of Recommended Slamdance 2025 Films

The Slamdance film festival is renowned for presenting cutting edge feature films and shorts, and chillers and thrillers are definitely on the menu. Slamdance's 31st edition will take place in Los Angeles from February 20-26, 2025. I’ve had an...

IT TAKES: Golden State Film Festival World Premiere Preview

Film festival season 2025 is officially underway, which means brand-new fright-fare features and shorts galore in our future! One of the intriguing-looking independent chillers on this year’s fest circuit is writer/director David Melendez’s It...

NEON Snags Horror Movie ‘Together’ Starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco

Fresh off its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, the buzzworthy horror movie Together has been acquired by NEON. According to Variety, this is a significant deal and the first major acquisition of this year's festival. The film stars real-life...