Film Festivals Articles

A24 Adapting Hit Short Horror ‘The Looming’ For A Feature Film

Fresh off the success of Talk to Me, A24 is reuniting with Causeway Films and Square Peg (Hereditary) to bring Masha Ko's Sundance short film darling, The Looming, to the big screen as a feature film. Ko, an acclaimed director and artist known for...
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Spoiler-Free Review: “Department of Paranormal Affairs” (Calgary Underground Film Festival)

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...
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Spoiler-Free Review: “Loch Ness: They Created a Monster” (Calgary Underground Film Festival)

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...
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Spoiler-Free Review: “Dark My Light” (Fantaspoa 2024)

A serial killer who murders on the beach is running amok in an otherwise quiet coastal town, but that’s not the strangest thing going on in writer/director Neal Dhand’s science fiction thriller Dark My Light (2023). Detective Mitchell Morse (Albert...
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