Foreign Articles

Movie Review: The Miracle Fighters (1982) – Eureka! Classics Blu-ray

Director Yuen Woo-Ping's (the man responsible for the furious (and gravity defying) fightin' in 1999's The Matrix) The Miracle Fighters contains a sequence where a flaming roast chicken, propelled by magic, sets a man's entire ass on fire. You know...
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Calgary Underground Film Festival 2025 Offers Exciting Genre CinemaFare

The Calgary Underground Film Festival has a distinguished reputation for annually presenting an incredible array of genre films among its program of narrative films and documentaries, and this year’s 22nd edition continues that trend. From...
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The Sinister Seven: A Septet of Short Films We Recommend for Panic Fest 2025

Kansas City’s Panic Fest 2025 opens March 27 with an in-person festival running through April 2 and a virtual version running through April 6. More than 130 films are on tap, and I’ve been fortunate to have a sneak peek at some of the selections....
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Spoiler-Free Reviews: THE HOUSE WAS NOT HUNGRY THEN and ONE LAST DANCE (Cinequest 2025) 

The House Was Not Hungry Then (U.K., 2025)  Official synopsis: An abandoned house in the Scottish countryside holds a terrible secret. Day after day, a man posing as a real estate agent lures visitors inside, and one by one they disappear. One...
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