This documentary about Raël, the leader of a UFO new religious movement, is a quirky character study, but falls short of any major new revelations on the role of religion.…
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45 years on, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is still a thrilling blast.…
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Yosuke Fujita’s comedy about a painter’s romantic gaffes and the goofs he hangs out with is endlessly endearing.…
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This slasher-horror film directed by Jay Baruchel is vibrant, violent, and unrelenting in its depiction of artistic creations and killings.…
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From Fantasia Festival 2020, this bizarre tale of substance abuse is chock-full of sex, drugs, and extraterrestrial weirdness.…
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From Fantasia Fest 2020, this wacky VHS parody signals that debut writer/director Quinn Armstrong is one to watch.…
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This eerie tale of a Soviet cosmonaut draws heavily on sci-fi tropes and genre influences, but debut director Egor Abramenko offers a Russian twist to the typical space story.…
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The minimalist visuals and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s otherworldly score make this adaptation of a Haruki Murakami short story create music even in the echoing emptiness.…
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Wes Craven's debut exploitation horror shocked audiences with the intensity of brutality befalling a typical American family, and it continues to remind us how violence and terror are never far from home.…
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In isolation, home might feel like the last safe place there is — yet home invasion stories still have a strange appeal.…
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