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Argento Movie Reviews
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Interviews
Cinema is My Calling Again: Nicolas Winding Refn on “Her Private Hell”
Features
It’s Just You and Me Now, Sport: On “Manhunter: The Final Cut”
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026: Low Expectations, Death Has No Master, The Station
Festivals & Awards
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: “Demon Pond” and Japanese Yokai Culture
Festivals & Awards
Fantastic Fest 2025: Mārama, Mother of Flies, Bulk
Festivals & Awards
Our 10 Most Anticipated Films of the 2025 Fantasia Film Festival
Tributes
American Badass: Michael Madsen (1957-2025)
Interviews
The Dream Within the Fairy Tale: Emilie Blichfeldt on “The Ugly Stepsister”
Tributes
Everything Is Fate: Julian Sands (1958-2023)
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2023 Line-up Includes Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, and Many More
Festivals & Awards
10 Films We Can’t Wait to See at the 2022 Fantasia Festival
Interviews
Of the Same Matter: Gaspar Noé on Vortex and Lux Aeterna
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: December 2021, Special Editions
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: November 2021
MZS
The Unloved, Part 94: The Phantom of the Opera
Festivals & Awards
KVIFF 2021: Award Winners, Highlights, and a Video Diary
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: August 2021
Interviews
It’s Not My Swan Song: Udo Kier on His Latest Drama and How Much He Has Left to Give
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2021: Vortex, In Front of Your Face, Blue Bayou
Features
Send It Back: How Roadrunner Fails Anthony Bourdain
Festivals & Awards
A Look Back at Tribeca 2021: The Documentary Features
Video Games
Head Into the Darkness of Resident Evil Village
Tributes
Giuseppe Rotunno: 1923-2021
Tributes
Ennio Morricone: 1928-2020
Features
Mysterious Traveller: Rutger Hauer, 1944-2019
TV/Streaming
The Monster of Florence: Ridley Scott’s Hannibal on 4K Blu-ray
Interviews
Gaspar Noe on Climax, Accidental Allegories, Catastrophe Movies and More
Features
A Japanese Cousin to the Giallo Movie: Nicolas Pesce on Piercing
Features
Christy Lemire’s Top Ten Films of 2018
Features
Video Interview: Tilda Swinton, Luca Guadagnino, and Dakota Johnson on Suspiria
Features
25 Underrated Horror Films For Halloween
Interviews
The Legendary Tom Savini on a Career of Special Effects Wizardy and Unforgettable Horror
Festivals & Awards
The Horror and Heroines at Fantastic Fest 2018
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2018: The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, Climax, In Fabric, Freaks
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2018: Maya, Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy, Skin
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2018: Suspiria, Peterloo, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Non-Fiction
Festivals & Awards
The 20 Most Exciting World Premieres of TIFF 2018
Interviews
Hug Your Family: Ben Foster on Leave No Trace
Features
Thumbnails Special Edition: Cannes 2018
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2018 Video #6: Shoplifters, BlacKkKlansman Earn Top Prizes
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2018: Hirokazu Kore-Eda wins Palme d’Or; Gilliam’s Man Who Killed Don Quixote Film Closes the Fest
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2018: Ayka, Knife + Heart
TV/Streaming
The Savage Truth within The Handmaid’s Tale
Festivals & Awards
SXSW Film Festival 2018: Elizabeth Harvest, Don’t Leave Home
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2018: Hereditary
Features
“Do You Know Anything About Witches?”: “Suspiria” at 40
Features
Dark Fairytales: How Even Well-Intentioned Media Normalizes Gendered Violence
Features
Thumbnails 10/13/17
Features
Much More than “Star Wars”: The Cinema of ’77 Strikes Back at Film Society of Lincoln Center
Features
George Romero: 1940-2017
Features
Viva Bava, Celebrating a Master Craftsman
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: June 22, 2017
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2017: “A Prayer Before Dawn,” “The Merciless”
Features
A Different Rail: The Artists of “Author” and “Catfish”
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2016: Venice Classics Program Includes Restorations of “Stalker,” “Manhattan”
Festivals & Awards
Chicago Critics Film Festival 2016 Preview
Features
Dario Argento’s “Deep Red” and “Tenebrae” Get Massive Blu-ray Re-releases
Chaz's Journal
My Favorite Roger: Scout Tafoya
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2016: “Audrie & Daisy,” “Author: The JT LeRoy Story,” “Holy Hell”
Features
Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg: Like Mother, Like Daughter
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2015: Midnight Madness and Other Horror Highlights
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2015: Palme de Whiskers
Festivals & Awards
Return to the Riviera: Our 2015 Cannes Coverage
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: February 4, 2014
Features
We Exist: The Female Horror Directors of 2014
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2014: Midnight Madness Bleeds Into Rest of Fest
Festivals & Awards
Cannes: The 2014 Palme de Whiskers
Festivals & Awards
Cannes, Day Nine: “Leviathan,” “Misunderstood”
Features
An Appreciation of “La Reine Margot” on its 20th Anniversary
Features
Blu-ray Consumer Guide: November 2013
Interviews
Dario Argento on “Dracula” and Horror
Features
Thumbnails 7/29/2013
Features
Happy birthday, “Blood Feast”: digging into the guts of the very first “splatter” film
Festivals & Awards
Awards Show Wrap-up: Cannes Report, May 26
Roger Ebert
Did I know “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” was an exploitation film?
Roger Ebert
The year’s best foreign films (I hope they play in your state)
Festivals & Awards
5/14: Swanky 3-D goggles for the chic cineaste
Scanners
Re-imagining the fate of the Holy Grail of cinephilia
Scanners
Hurt Locker: Georges Bataille and the visceral cinema of Kathryn Bigelow
Scanners
The color of blood: A study in scarlet
Scanners
Opening Shots: ‘Deep Red’
Scanners
Gans: Seven Best Modern Horror Movies
Far Flungers
He’s his mother’s right arm. And her left.
Festivals & Awards
CIFF #3: Playing Monday
Festivals & Awards
CIFF: All our capsule reviews
Festivals & Awards
Toronto #1: 2nd city for film festivals
Festivals & Awards
