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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,...

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...

This film was previously reviewed in August 2020 as part of our Fantasia Festival coverage. Barry (Gary Green), an abusive drug-addict, is on yet another bender after an argument with his wife. After...

Stories are worth a thousand words. Isn’t that how the saying goes? The incredibly haunting score from Steph Copeland opens The Oak Room, a thriller from director Cody Calahan. As a snowstorm rages outside,...

Justin McConnell’s documentary, Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business, spans a five year period in McConnell’s life as an indie filmmaker. It not only follows his tumultuous journey...

“In Hindu custom, it is ritually prescribed that a son must perform his father’s last rites.” This sentence hangs on the screen, setting up for the rest of Sidharth Srinivasan’s Kriya, a film that...

“As long as someone’s alive, there is always hope.” During the Cold War in 1962, Taiwan was under martial law, where those who subverted the government by speaking out about freedom or reading banned...