“This is my heart, it’s yours… forever.” Filmmaker Alexis Langlois, known back in his native France for his extravagant music videos, makes his feature debut with Queens of Drama. Premiering at last year’s Cannes Critics Week, the film charts the […]

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My name is Rendy Jones (they/he) and I am / we are an independent film critic from Brooklyn, New York. My experience at this year’s SXSW was vastly different from my other years in attendance. This year I got that […]

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AJ’s life is so perfect – buttered toast breakfasts, low stress job, regular meals with his dad and his friends, and regular trips to the dog park for his two puppies – that even his boss understands why he won’t […]

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File this one under books that kill [see The Babadook, the tome in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, or certain limited editions of Stephen King’s Firestarter apparently bound in asbestos (went down a rabbit hole this morning)].  Danny […]

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Hammer to Nail loves us some Zach Clark weirdness! The writer-director, known for Little Sister and White Reindeer, returns with a new visually striking spin on Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The Becomers follows two body-snatching aliens, arriving separately on […]

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Sebastien Vaniček hails from the suburbs of Paris and is an up and coming horror filmmaker with a unique style and tons of passion. He started making short films in 2015, getting around 3 under his belt before making his […]

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One film that has certainly made waves over the past few years is writer/director/actor Vera Drew’s superhero parody, The People’s Joker. Despite a world premiere screening at TIFF 2022, Drew had to pull it due to copyright issues. However, there […]

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“I’m gonna get you kids!” The classic story of adventurous children getting up to no good gets a 16mm revamp in writer-director Weston Razooli’s Riddle of Fire. Razooli’s directorial debut premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and closed TIFF’s […]

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Demián Rugna is an Argentinian filmmaker. He has been making horror films since his 2007 feature debut The Last Gateway. Since then, Rugna has established himself a singular and brutal style. His film from 2017 titled, Terrified, has achieved cult […]

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(The always fantastic Fantastic Fest runs September 21-28 in Austin, Texas. Check out Bears Rebecca Fonté’s movie review of Project Silence which played at the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page. ) A group of victims comes […]

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