Aleshea Harris’ Is God Is opens like a revenge movie and slowly reveals itself to be something thornier, sadder, stranger, and ultimately far more profound. On paper, the film sounds almost gleefully pulp: twin sisters set out across America to murder the father who burned their family alive years earlier. But Harris’ astonishing debut feature is not interested in the clean catharsis of revenge cinema so much as the rot that necessitates it in the first place. What begins as

For a franchise built on spinal extractions, acid vomit, and the phrase “Finish Him,” the most surprising thing about Mortal Kombat II is how desperately it wants to entertain you. Not impress you. Not elevate itself above its origins. Not apologize for being based on a game where a four-armed monster punches ninjas into skeletons. Simon McQuoid’s sequel understands that the appeal of Mortal Kombat has always lived somewhere between adolescent power fantasy and grindhouse abs

There’s something inherently promising about a filmmaker who understands that a setting can do as much storytelling as any line of dialogue. Damian McCarthy, coming off the slow-burn unease of Caveat and Oddity, clearly gets that. With Hokum, he trades in those tighter, more controlled chambers of dread for something a bit grander, a creaky, half-forgotten Irish hotel that feels less like a location and more like a living accusation. For long stretches, it’s enough to carry t

There’s a version of Over Your Dead Body that exists entirely in its first 30 minutes; a nasty, tightly coiled two-hander about a marriage so thoroughly rotted that murder feels less like escalation and more like administrative cleanup. It’s a film that understands, with uncomfortable precision, how resentment calcifies over time, how love curdles into something performative, transactional, and quietly venomous. In those early stretches, Jorma Taccone’s film isn’t just funny

There’s a version of I Swear that plays like a crowd-pleasing triumph, a handsomely mounted, deeply felt biopic about adversity, empathy, and the slow churn of social understanding. And for long stretches, that’s exactly the film Kirk Jones delivers. But what lingers isn’t just the uplift, it’s the abrasion underneath it. It's the sense that every small victory has been hard-won against a world that doesn’t merely misunderstand John Davidson, but actively resists accommodati

The International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival, held in conjunction with the Phoenix Film Festival, will once again deliver a thrilling lineup of bold, unforgettable genre storytelling. This year’s program features a dynamic mix of action, suspense, psychological terror, social satire, and body horror from exciting filmmakers around the world. Among the standout selections this year are: THE FURIOUS (Photo courtesy of Lionsgate Premiere Releasing) Screening: Thursday, A