Author Alysha Prasad

This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Sion Sono’s Prisoners of the Ghostland stars Nicolas Cage as Hero, an infamous bank robber who is sprung...

This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Green and red. Leos Carax’s rock opera, Annette, features the self-proclaimed “Ape of God” Henry McHenry...

This film was previously reviewed in January 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. “Horror is already out there, in all of us” is the answer in Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor, which...

Ruth Platt’s Martyrs Lane centres around 10-year-old Leah (Kiera Thompson) who lives in a bustling vicarage with her family. One day, a spectral child (Sienna Sayer) with feathered wings on her back appears...

The idea of penance is covered in Mark O'Brien’s The Righteous after a former priest, Frederic (Henry Czerny) and his wife, Ethel Mason (Mimi Kuzyk), mourn the loss of their adopted child. When they’re...

From the minds of John Adams, Toby Poser, and their daughter Zelda Adams, comes Hellbender, a family-focused twist on the usual coming-of-age story, starring Zelda and her sister, Lulu Adams. Lonely,...

This dark tale starts with shots of beautiful countryside contrasted with haunting music that’s laced with echoing screams, indicative of what’s to come. Something awful has happened in What Josiah Saw,...

“I’m coming for all of them.” Neil Maskell takes on the character of Bull, a once feared enforcer, in Paul Andrew Williams’ newest revenge-thriller of the same name. After being absent for ten years,...

This film was previously reviewed in January 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. From writer-director Siân Heder comes CODA, an impactful story that focuses on 17-year-old Ruby Rossi...

Matthew Gray Gubler teams up with director Richard Bates Jr. for the fourth time in Bates’ newest witchy comedy, King Knight. Decorated with tattoos, Gubler plays Thorn, the High Priest of a modern day...

Seth A. Smith’s Tin Can transports viewers into an all too familiar reality where a fungal outbreak named Coral rages across the world. As Fret (Anna Hopkins), a leading parasitologist, is close to...

“Stick to the script,” says Father Donaghue (Ben Hall), holding up the Holy Bible perfectly in frame, as if a product placement. Mickey Reece’s newest horror, Agnes, focuses on the Catholic Church’s...

Mia Hansen-Løve’s newest film, Bergman Island, stars Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth as filmmakers Chris and Tony who have retreated to the island of Fårö for the summer. They travel to the island, known for...

Catherine Corsini’s The Divide (La Fracture) stars Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Marina Foïs as Raf and Julie, two women on the verge of a breakup, stuck in a hospital on the night of a major demonstration of...

Julia Ducournau, French director of the bloody 2016 masterpiece, Raw, graces Cannes Film Festival once more with her newest film, Titane. It turns out to be even more shocking and fearless than her debut,...