Meet Tina Romero, the New Queen of the Dead

Queens of a Dead is a breath of fresh air that celebrates the girls, the gays, and the goreheads alike. 

SHANGHAI BLUES: Revisiting Tsui Hark’s Sparkling Screwball Comedy
SHANGHAI BLUES: Revisiting Tsui Hark’s Sparkling Screwball Comedy

Filled with nostalgia for the past as well as hope for the future, Shanghai Blues is a romp worth revisiting as it re-enters theaters.

Stolen Time review
STOLEN TIME: Elder Justice Doc Will Break Your Heart

One of life’s cruelest inevitabilities is that the people we love most grow old and…

Tribeca 2025: VIDEOHEAVEN
Tribeca 2025: VIDEOHEAVEN

Videohaven is equally cogent and compelling, evoking the kind of deep, amiable cinephilia that video store nostalgia is fueled by in the first place. 

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life review
JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE: A Perfectly Predictable Love Story

I’ll come clean right up front and say that this has never been my kind…

Tribeca 2025: DOG OF GOD 
Tribeca 2025: DOG OF GOD 

Fans of midnight madness should look no further than Dog of God, one of the most highly anticipated attractions for genre aficionados at Tribeca.

Prince of Broadway Sean Baker Criterion
PRINCE OF BROADWAY Criterion Review: Sean Baker’s NYC Drama Comes to Blu-Ray

Criterion has prepared a Blu-Ray edition of Sean Baker‘s Prince of Broadway for release, marking the first…

Leave One Day review
Cannes 2025: Leave One Day (Partir un Jour) and Enzo

In what feels like a very natural fit, I’ll be pairing together two of the…

Cannes 2025: Two Prosecutors and Eddington

In this Cannes Film Festival report we take a look at Eddington and Two Prosecutors.

Cannes 2025: The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo and Case 137
Cannes 2025: The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo and Case 137

Both filmmakers return to La Croisette with fictionalized stories about real life issues at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

THE SEALED SOIL: A Bold Feminist Feature from Pre-Revolutionary Iran
THE SEALED SOIL: A Bold Feminist Feature from Pre-Revolutionary Iran

A stunning snapshot of young womanhood in a very specific time and place, The Sealed Soil is a classic of world cinema that deserves to be discovered by new audiences.

Cannes 2025: Sound of Falling and A Pale View Of Hills
Cannes 2025: Sound of Falling and A Pale View Of Hills

From this Cannes Film Festival 2025, Film Inquiry screened Pale View of Hills and Sound of Falling.

Final Destination: Bloodlines review
FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES: A Delightfully Gory Return to the Series

Admittedly, I didn’t get into the Final Destination series until just recently, but of course I…

Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning review
Cannes 2025: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

When Tom Cruise asks you to trust him one last time, it’s hard to say…

PINK NARCISSUS: A Queer Underground Classic Resurfaces
PINK NARCISSUS: Wild Dreams Can Overcome Low Budgets

Pink Narcissus is a film that is of creative and inspirational importance, a literal relic of possibility in the realm of the visual image.