Julie Pacino’s debut feature, I Live Here Now, follows actress Rose (Lucy Fry), who spends her time auditioning for roles and hanging out with her TikToker boyfriend, Travis (Matt Rife). As she hasn’t been bookable for years, Rose is happy when she lands the opportunity to meet top agent Cindy Abrams (Cara Seymour), who abrasively…
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Review: Cold Storage
Cold Storage begins with a prologue introducing us to Skylab, a space station which fell out of orbit in 1979. “Pay attention,” a title card reads. “This shit is real.” And it is. Host to countless scientific experiments, it was important to recover all the pieces that weren’t destroyed during atmospheric reentry—but an oxygen tank…
Review: “Wuthering Heights”
Since Emerald Fennell announced her latest project, an adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, it has attracted the harshest of criticism—especially from the book’s most devoted fans. Set in the 18th century, the story follows the intense and destructive love between Catherine “Cathy” Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and the consequences it has on not just themselves,…
Review: Blood Barn
Set in the summer of 1985, Blood Barn follows Josie (Lena Redford), a camp counsellor who gathers her friends (played by Chloe Cherry, Andrea Bambina, Simon Paris, Samuel Lanier, Felipe Di Poi, and Pierce Campion) for a final weekend at her family’s secluded barn before they part ways for college. However, their fun and nostalgic…
Review: Rental Family Offers Insight into Japanese Culture
*Contains story spoilers* Rental Family follows Phillip Vanderploeg (Brendan Fraser), an unemployed American actor who is still living in Tokyo after finding success in a wacky Japanese toothpaste commercial seven years prior. Things start to change for Phillip when he lands the unusual gig of working for a company which provides actors to play stand-in…
Book Review: Trying by Chloé Caldwell
During the years that Chloé Caldwell had been married and hoping to conceive a child, she’d read everything she could find on infertility — or, in her case, “unexplained” infertility. But no memoir or message board reflected her experience, especially as most stories ended with success: vitro fertilisation or, you know, an actual baby. Writing…
Review: Forgive Us All
Set in a post-apocalyptic world where a biotech virus has transformed humans into violent cannibals, Rory (Lily Sullivan, Evil Dead Rise) hides in an isolated cabin in the New Zealand wilderness with her father-in-law, Otto (Richard Roxburgh, Van Helsing). Two years earlier, Rory lost her husband and daughter to the virus, moments that still haunt…
Fantastic Fest 2025 Review: Coyotes
Set against the backdrop of the Palisades wildfires, Scott (Justin Long), his wife Liv (Kate Bosworth), and their daughter Chloe (Mila Harris) become stranded in their Hollywood Hills home when a windstorm knocks out their power and destroys their SUV. Driven towards the neighbourhoods by the fires, a pack of savage coyotes has been picking…
Review: American Sweatshop
If you’ve been on the internet long enough, it’s likely that you’ve had the misfortune of coming across some disturbing content—even if you only caught a quick glimpse before hastily scrolling away. You can usually report such content with the swift click of a button, but it’s rare we think about what actually happens next:…
Review: Freakier Friday
Freakier Friday, the sequel to 2003’s Freaky Friday, reintroduces us to mother-daughter Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan). Having left her band Pink Slip when her daughter Harper (Julia Butters) was born, Anna is now a single-mother working as a music producer and manager to pop star Ella (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan). Tess, who…