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Director José María Cicala’s The Dollmaker comes to video on demand August 25th.  Advertised as “dripping with Lynchan style” the film follows a local vide0 store clerk and amateur dollmaker who is not what he seems.  The film stars Rodrigo Noya, Griselda Sanchez, Lejo Garcia Pintos, Alejandro Baldoni, Santiago Domongues, Eduardo Calvo, Guillermo Zapata, Silvia Petri, Mario Alarcon,  and Arturo…

  If you’ve ever been uncomfortable with dementia, Bury the Devil is not going to help.  Written by John Petrizzi and Brad Hodson, this new horror film follows a strangely behaving dementia patient and a nurse finding she might just be trapped with a demon.  Directed by Adam O’Brien, Bury the Devil stars Dawn Ford, Emmanuelle Lussier Martinez, and Bill Rowat.  The film comes to select theaters…

Coming September 1st, Vault’s Vampire: The Masquerade comic series is coming out in a new compact edition.  Based on the fan-favorite tabletop role-playing game, the complete compact edition contains: All three issues of World of Darkness: Crimson Thaw. Vampire: The Masquerade—Winter’s Teeth written by Tim Seeley and drawn by Dev Pramalnik Back-up stories written by Tini and Blake Howard and…

Bleecker Street has released a trailer for the upcoming film Victorian Psycho, coming to theaters September 25, 2026. Victorian Psycho stars Maika Monroe, Ruth Wilson, Thomasin McKenzie and Jason Isaacs and is based on the novel by Virginia Feito of the same name. Here is the official synopsis: In the Year of our Lord 1858, an unusual governess named Winifred Notty arrives at the gothic manor…

Celia struggles with being alone. After losing her child, she finds herself going to community grief groups and selling leggings for an MLM. Trapped and tired of aching with loneliness, Celia remembers a friend from her grief group and how she longingly spoke of her home in Kindred Cove.  Each year, Kindred Cove holds the Salt Festival. This celebration allows only a handful of vetted visitors…

  The new film Uprising, written and directed by Paul Greengrass, follows an unlikely leader forced into standing up to King Richard II.  Uprising stars Andrew Garfield, Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Tom Hollander, Cosmo Jarvis, Thomasin McKenzie, Jonny Lee Miller, Woody Norman, Katherine Waterston, and Sky Yang. Here’s the official synopsis: Andrew Garfield stars as the legendary leader of a…

Premiering at the LA Shorts International Film Festival on August 7th, the new short film Fortune House follows an immigrant delivery driver caught up in a mythic game of mahjong with three demons.  The film stars Forest Lin, Tony Kim, Alexandre Chen, Vivian Lee, and Joel Chang. It is directed by LA based filmmaker Yihoung Exa Huang.  Here’s the synopsis: Fortune House offers a magical realist…

One of the most influential horror movies of all time started because a group of young people, often secretly sleeping in their office, decided to make the movie they wanted to see.  In the new book Night of the Living Dead: The Official Story of the Film, writer Simon Braund takes readers through the initial idea of a small group of friends, their fundraising efforts through those closest to…

The new teaser trailer for SDCC 2026 has revealed that once again Interview with the Vampire is changing their name. This time AMC’s The Queen of the Damned takes center stage. There’s no official release date, but to be fair The Vampire Lestat did just finished their season. Hold tight and all hail your queen.

The Théâtre Saint–Siméon is not a place you can just walk into.  Unless you’re given a special black slip of paper, you will not be granted entry to this exclusive Paris theater. And what a wonder it is! There’s something unnaturally beautiful about the actors on the stage. They seem ageless, perform only at midnight, and seem to spin on point shoes faster than any simple performer.   Arnault,…

Papercutz has announced their special offerings at San Diego Comic Con 2026. Set up at Booth #2806, all signings at the booth are offered for free.   ​

Severed’s Zach Cherry and Maria Bakalova star in the new film All Night Wrong. Directed by Jason James and written by Jason Fllatrault, the film follows what is supposed to be a fun night hooking up but turns into a hilarious disaster. In addition to Cherry and Bakalova, the film stars Emily Hampshire and Tyler Labine. Here’s the official synopsis: Gary (Cherry) and Ell (Bakalova) expect a…

Coming to theaters this October, the new film Misty Green is being advertised as a “a razor-sharp and unflinching portrait of Hollywood.” The film is written and directed by Chris Rock, and stars  Rosalind Eleazar, Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, Topher Grace, and Chris Rock. Misty Green comes to theaters this October.

  Absolute legend Julie Andrews is the subject of a planned documentary on her life from director and producer R.J. Cutler. Still untitled, the film is set to stream on Disney+ 2027. Here’s the official synopsis: This definitive portrait offers an intimate and revealing look at Andrews’ extraordinary journey, from her early days in British vaudeville to her meteoric rise as a global superstar.…

The new film It Ends comes to theaters August 21st. Billed as modern existential horror, the film follows a group of post-college friends trapped on a road that never seems to end.

Oyster McLellen keeps his family afloat by running small-time scams on tourists in Hyde Park under the watchful eye of his fellow gang, controlled by crime boss Big Mickey. As long as they keep to their territory and avoid the cops, things seem to move as they should. Three years ago, Oyster’s father left for one last score and never came back. Torn between believing the man he idolized met a…

One of the strangest conversations I ever had in my teens with my mother was over Roman emperors. Having powered through Robert Graves’ I, Claudius (I was and continue to be a nerd, as you may have noticed), I mentioned how fascinated I was by the Emperor Caligula. Did he really start a war with Poseidon? Did accidentally consuming lead make him mad? My mom let me know that in the 1980s a rather…