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The 10 Best Films of 2017 (Eric W.)

2017 has been a really great year for movies. I’m confident plenty of readers are scoffing right now, but I can tell you I was consistently surprised and pleased to find almost every month delivering a few stand-out offerings; even...
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Raw (Movie Review)

PLOT: A young vegetarian finds, in the middle of her first tumultuous week of hazing at a university, that she has acquired a disquieting hunger for raw meat. REVIEW: As far as movie universities go, the one in RAW must...

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Sundance Film Festival announces their 2017 Midnight line-up

Each year, the Sundance Film Festival selects a batch of intriguing genre films to fill out their Midnight movie line-up, and the 2017 edition of the festival will be no exception. In past years, films that have received a late-night...
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Stomach-churning festival hit Raw storms theaters this Spring

The French cannibal flick RAW is a lot of things. It's the feature debut of writer/director Julia Ducournau, for one. It's also this year's most notorious festival hit, with reports of audience members fainting at the film's TIFF screening. It's also...

Viewers faint during screening of French cannibal movie Raw

There seems to be something about film festival attendees that makes them prone to fainting during horror movies. This is an occurrence you hear about with some frequency, although in some venues – like Sundance – you can speculate that...

Blair Witch and Sadako vs. Kayako among TIFF Midnight Madness films

The 41st Toronto International Film Festival is scheduled to run from September 8th to 18th, and as part of that event comes the Cineplex Entertainment-sponsored Midnight Madness line-up of "excessive, unrelenting, weird, and wild films". Midnight Madness kicks off with...

Focus World acquires French cannibal film Raw

Focus Features' multiplatform distribution initiative Focus World has acquired the rights to release the French-language cannibal thriller RAW in multiple territories around the globe. Dates and details were not revealed, but Focus did announce that they're planning a spring 2017...