Katheryn Bigelow’s latest is an exploration of when you do everything right and everything still goes wrong. I was born in 1984. This means all of my active memories, especially of anything in a sociopolitical sense, were after the Cold War. It was after America’s pre-occupation and paranoia over nuclear war. I grew up in […] The post A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE Stares Down the Worst Case Scenario first appeared on Cinapse.

Paul W.S. Anderson’s reboot of the Corman classic ditches pretty much everything from the original, but still ends up being a perfectly fun car carnage action programmer Welcome to Reb00t! A series where I dig deep through the 2000’s to find all the horror remakes that we were inundated with over that weirdly bleak decade. […] The post Reb00t: DEATH RACE – A Remake in Name Only, But Still a Lot of Dumb Fun first appeared on Cinapse.

With festival season now in full swing, its almost time for my hometown fest – the Philadelphia Film Festival now in its 34th year. Running October 16th thru the 26th, the fest spans 11 days, and because of its positioned strategically at the near the end of the festival season, they are able to seek […] The post Fall Means it’s Time for the Philadelphia Film Fest! first appeared on Cinapse.

Recently, Tarantino announced that on December 5th he would finally be releasing Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, the mythic original cut of his two part kung-fu, samurai, western, revenge epic in theaters, in 35mm and 70mm flavors. This new release would include a “new” anime sequence that wasn’t finished in time for the film’s […] The post KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR on 70mm?!? “You Didn’t Think It Was Gonna Be That Easy, Did You?” first appeared on Cinapse.

Back on Blu in a new collection: Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, THEM, and World Without End Lately Warner Archive has been collecting may of its Blu-ray catalogue releases into 4-film and 6-film collections, grouped by actors and themes. Some of these have centered on themes like Hitchcock favorites […] The post The Archivist: Warner Archive’s 50s Sci-Fi Collection Brings Together Four Highly Influential Classics on Blu-ray first appeared on Cinapse.

One of the time honored traditions of Fantastic Fest is the secret screening. This is basically dealer’s choice in a festival setting - where you book tickets and pray for the best. Now I’ve done more...

Bone Lake, thankfully, is a film that’s more than simply the blood, guts and boobs the marketing would lead you to believe. I caught that first kill scene like most horror fans online, and was admitte...

A roundup of the Cinapse team’s breakout faves from this year’s festival Fantastic Fest’s 20th year had plenty of surprises for fest-goers looking to catch the latest in genre cinema from around the globe. With 45 World Premieres, 15 International and North American Premieres, and 13 U.S. Premieres across this year’s lineup, this year’s attendees […] The post Fantastic Fest 2025: The Cinapse Team’s Favorite Films! first appeared on Cinapse.

Is Anemone good? Maybe. Maybe not. There were moments throughout the film, like a lengthy monologue about pooping on someone, where I was gob smacked (derogatory). I felt taxed numerous times. Not because the film was challenging me with its themes, wounded characters, or difficult conversations, but because it all felt tiresome. Still, there are […] The post Daniel Day-Lewis Returns in the Frustrating, Peculiar ANEMONE first appeared on Cinapse.

Bone Lake, thankfully, is a film that’s more than simply the blood, guts and boobs the marketing would lead you to believe. I caught that first kill scene like most horror fans online, and was admittedly curious – due to both its gratuitous violence and explicit nudity, which has all but quietly disappeared in horror. […] The post BONE LAKE Resurrects the Erotic Thriller first appeared on Cinapse.

Lately Arrow has been on a roll – with their releases of older blockbusters on 4K UHD. Their latest release of 2006’s Poseidon was a film I originally missed on its original theatrical release and used this as an opportunity to finally check this third reimagining of Paul Gallico’s 1969 novel The Poseidon Adventure out. […] The post POSEIDON a Forgotten Blockbuster Resurfaces in 4K UHD thanks to Arrow first appeared on Cinapse.

I told myself I wasn’t going to watch In Whose Name? when I first heard about it a few weeks ago. What would be the point? When Kanye West first broke out, I was one of the legion of fans touting his musical genius. The temperamental outbursts were part of the package if you were […] The post IN WHOSE NAME? Gives Viewers an Intimate Look at Ye’s Public Struggles first appeared on Cinapse.

If you’re a fan of batshit crazy Hong Kong fare, get ready, because you’re about to hear about your next must see.  1991/92’s bizarro horror/sci-fi masterwork The Cat which just hit Blu-ray thanks to 88 Films was a Chinese/Japanese coproduction based on the novel Old Cat, by Ni Kuang – who is oddly enough a […] The post THE CAT: A Dose of Hong Kong Insanity Hits Blu-ray thanks to 88 Films first appeared on Cinapse.

New on M.O.D. Blu-ray from Well Go USA One of last year’s biggest surprises was the incredible supernatural horror film Exhuma, written and directed by Jang Jae-Hyun, which married an action-packed ghost story to localized spiritual themes. The film is distinctly South Korean in its analysis of religious practices, ritual traditions, and age-old superstitions: a […] The post THE PRIESTS – Before EXHUMA, Jang Jae-Hyun Directed this Korean Exorcism Thriller first appeared on Cinapse.

Social acceptance clashes with moral code in this perturbing pre-teen genre affair from Charlie Polinger In The Plague, filmmaker Charlie Polinger delivers a tense and haunting debut that blends coming-of-age drama with the creeping dread of psychological horror. Taking place in the summer of ’03 at a boys’ water polo camp, where adolescence collides with […] The post Fantastic Fest 2025: THE PLAGUE Charts the Perils of Breaking from the Pack first appeared on Cinapse.

Many, if not most, have experienced some level of the dreaded ‘friendzone”; an emotional dead end of yearning for someone who will never reciprocate those feelings, while you continue to be present and engaging in a friendship, hoping against all hope that the perfect circumstances will play out so you can finally be together. It’s […] The post Fantastic Fest 2025: OBSESSION Is One Of The Best Horror Debuts Of The Last Decade first appeared on Cinapse.

Paolo Strippoli’s supernatural drama is a moving, mortifying portrait of a village that sacrifices humanity for happiness In The Holy Boy, washed-up and grieving judo prodigy Sergio (Michele Riondino) takes a substitute PE teacher post in the Italian mountain village of Remis, located in what locals call the “valley of smiles.” Sergio’s disarmed by the […] The post Fantastic Fest 2025: THE HOLY BOY Exposes the Horror of Escaping Pain first appeared on Cinapse.

One of the time honored traditions of Fantastic Fest is the secret screening. This is basically dealer’s choice in a festival setting – where you book tickets and pray for the best. Now I’ve done more than a few of these over the years and sometimes you’ll catch a film that was never on your […] The post Fantastic Fest 2025: GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE is the New Cyberpunk  first appeared on Cinapse.

You don’t come into a film titled Fuck My Son! unaware of what insanity could possibly lay waiting once the lights go out, and honestly that promise AND the film being at Fantastic Fest is what got me in the door. But before I go any further what are your thoughts on tentacle porn? And […] The post FUCK MY SON! is the Cinematic Edgelord of Fantastic Fest 2025 first appeared on Cinapse.