Film & TV

FANTASTIC FEST 2026 REVIEW: Victorian Psycho
Maika Monroe affirms her status as a modern day Scream Queen

TIFF 2026 ScreenRant REVIEW: La Bola Negra
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TIFF 2026 REVIEW: Carrie
Mike Flanagan cleverly reinvents Stephen King’s classic novel and effectively brings it into 2026.

FANTASTIC FEST 2026 REVIEW: The Glorious Dead
A Fargo-esque indie horror film from one of genre’s most prolific filmmaking collectives.

TIFF 2026 ScreenRant REVIEW: The Assassin(s)
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TIFF 2026 ScreenRant REVIEW: Half
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TIFF 2026 ScreenRant REVIEW: Atonement
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TIFF 2026 ScreenRant REVIEW: Ink
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FANTASTIC FEST 2026 REVIEW: Beware Boiúna
Mike P. Nelson directs a more serious giant snake movie.

Resident Evil Ending Explained: What Happens in Zach Cregger’s Movie?
Does Bryan live? Is there a post-credits scene? Do classic Resident Evil character show up?

TIFF 2026 REVIEW: Atonement
Just when you thought we’d had enough Iraq War movies, Atonement arrives to prove you wrong.

TIFF 2026 REVIEW: Wild Horse Nine
John Malkovich gives the finest performance of his career in Martin McDonagh’s latest thoughtful black comedy.

TIFF 2026 REVIEW: Phoolan
Phoolan is a tense yet uneven, but often compelling portrait of a young woman who became an symbol of resistance to gender discrimination.

TIFF 2026 ScreenRant REVIEW: Crystal Lake – Episodes 1 and 2
Check out my review of episodes 1-2 of Crystal Lake on ScreenRant.

TIFF 2026 ScreenRant REVIEW: Phoolan
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TIFF 2026 REVIEW: Crystal Lake
Linda Cardellini plays Pamela Voorhees in this Friday the 13th prequel series.

REVIEW: Resident Evil
Zach Cregger returns for a faithful Resident Evil adaptation that miscalculates its tone.

TIFF 2026 REVIEW: The Assassin(s)
By Josh Bate The attempted assassination of South Korean President Park Chung-hee is the kind of historical event that seems tailor-made for a conspiracy thriller. With The Assassin(s), director Hur Jin-ho turns this chilling chapter of South Korean history into

TIFF 2026 REVIEW: Tenzing
By Josh Bate Mount Everest has been conquered countless times since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached its summit, but the achievement remains one of the most extraordinary feats of the 20th century nonetheless. Unfortunately, Tenzing, a new Apple

TIFF 2026 REVIEW: La Bola Negra
A sweeping romantic epic that is perhaps the greatest queer movie of all time

TIFF 2026 ScreenRant REVIEW: Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo
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TIFF 2026 ScreenRant REVIEW: Bunker
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TIFF 2026 ScreenRant REVIEW: A Talent for Murder
By George Bate Check out my review of A Talent for Murder on ScreenRant here.

TIFF 2026 REVIEW: Ink
Danny Boyle’s dramatization of the origins of The Sun misses the mark.

TIFF 2026 ScreenRant REVIEW: God Bless You, Mr Kopu
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TIFF 2026 ScreenRant REVIEW: The Debut
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TIFF 2026 ScreenRant REVIEW: Prima Facie
By George Bate Check out my review of Prima Facie on ScreenRant here.

TIFF 2026 ScreenRant REVIEW: Hombre al agua
By George Bate Check out my review of Hombre al agua on ScreenRant here.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: ‘A Talent for Murder’ Stars Helen Mirren and Alden Ehrenreich, and Director Anton Corbijn Talk Tense Chamber Thriller
Helen Mirren and Alden Ehrenreich star in this new chamber thriller at TIFF.

TIFF 2026 REVIEW: God Bless You, Mr Kopu
Part crime thriller, part buddy comedy, part biting social satire.

TIFF 2026 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: ‘God Bless You, Mr Kopu’ Filmmaker and Cast On Their “Blunder Down Under”
Dimitrius Shuster-Koloamatangi and Simon Rex star in this new dark crime comedy premiering at TIFF

TIFF 2026 ScreenRant REVIEW: Babies
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TIFF 2026 ScreenRant REVIEW: Josephine
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TIFF 2026 ScreenRant REVIEW: The Julia Set
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TIFF 2026 REVIEW: Prima Facie
Cynthia Erivo is excellent in a momentous, yet flawed TIFF premiere.

TIFF 2026 REVIEW: Half
By George Bate The “curry western” emerged in the 1970s when Bollywood filmmakers like Ramesh Sippy drew inspiration from American and Italian spaghetti westerns to couple tropes like sun-baked badlands, Ennio Morricone-style scores, and brooding anti-heroes with traditional Indian dacoit