When orphaned Māori woman Mary (Ariāna Osborne) travels to Victorian England in the 1800s to uncover the identities of the parents she never knew, she instead unearths heinous secrets with far-reaching implications for her family tree. Mārama, the New Zealand gothic horror film from director Taratoa Stappard, folds cultural appropriation and colonial violence into a...
‘Obsession’ feels like a dark-magic witch’s brew of Together, Fede Álvarez’s 2013 Evil Dead, and Big: a horrifying black comedy that takes big swings and somehow pulls them off, masterfully…
'Is God Is' is a flawed but compelling debut, anchored by two magnetic lead performances and Harris's sharp ear for dialogue. The translation from stage to screen doesn't always land,…
The Friend’s House is Here, written, directed, and produced by Hossein Keshavarz and Maryam Ataei, is a slice-of-life Iranian drama following two close friends navigating Tehran’s underground art world, where they risk staging performances featuring women without hijabs or dancing ever-so-slightly provocatively on social media, in defiance of state censorship. The film is an intimate,...
Even the presence of James Cameron behind the camera and Billie Eilish belting her heart out cannot turn this filmed arena tour experience into anything more than blatant fan service…
Damian McCarthy returns to Irish folk horror for Hokum, recruiting Adam Scott for his first proper venture into the genre to tell a somewhat predictable little witches-and-ghosts tale that's rich…
David Lowery's hypnotic 'Mother Mary' is a breakup song filtered through the lens of a ghost story, mounted with spectacular production elements and stitched together with unreal performances from Michaela…